{"id":4678,"date":"2022-07-03T17:15:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=4678"},"modified":"2022-07-15T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:19:49","slug":"msr-takes-imsa-championship-lead-following-second-place-finish-at-ctmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/03\/msr-takes-imsa-championship-lead-following-second-place-finish-at-ctmp\/","title":{"rendered":"MSR Takes IMSA Championship Lead Following Second Place Finish at CTMP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blomqvist, Jarvis lead by 56 points with two rounds remaining<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Bowmanville, Canada (3 July 2022)<\/strong> \u2013 Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) finished second in Sunday\u2019s race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park after leading 60 laps, but took a major step towards winning the DPi title in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with only two races remaining.<\/p>\n

Oliver Jarvis and Tom Blomqvist took their fifth-consecutive runner-up finish in the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-05 DPi on Sunday.\u00a0The fourth conseuctive podium finish saw MSR\u00a0gain\u00a0ground in the overall championship to now lead\u00a0by 56-points.<\/p>\n

Blomqvist started on the pole after shattering the track record at CTMP, which was also\u00a0the fastest average lap speed in WeatherTech on Saturday. Blomqvist dominated the first stint of the grueling race until his second pit stop with one-hour, 38-minutes remaining to hand the Acura off to Jarvis.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jarvis led for 28-straight laps until a pit stop on lap 77 and just before the second full course caution of the race. MSR elected to pit Jarvis for a quick splash of fuel under yellow \u2013 a move that played a major role in the outcome.<\/p>\n

Racing resumed with Jarvis pitting with just 40-minutes left on the race clock. Needing a few seconds less of fuel than his competitors for fill up as a result of his previous strategic pit stop, Jarvis emerged with the lead.<\/p>\n

The team looked to be on target to score a secon\u00a0win of the season\u00a0until a late full course caution for the No. 10 Acura eliminated the advantage that Jarvis had built on the field. Once back to green, Jarvis gapped the pack until approaching lap traffic impeded Jarvis\u2019 charge, allowing the No. 01 to slip by and lead the pack to the checkered flag after a\u00a0tough two hours and 40-minutes of racing with Jarvis bringing the Acura home in second.<\/p>\n

\"\"Entering the weekend second in the championship and with a 17 points deficit, MSR now holds a 56-point lead (2,737-2,681) with only two rounds remaining \u2013 Road America on August 7 and Petit Le Mans on Oct. 1.
\nMSR CTMP Driver Quotes:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Oliver Jarvis:<\/strong>
\n“It was a tough way to end the race, but on the plus side we came away with the points lead in\u00a0the championship. Traffic was the difficult part about today and it was hard to get into a rhythm. At then end,\u00a0I didn’t know he [Van Der Zande] was there into two and into three and in hindsight if I would have known, I would have defended. So that\u2019s\u00a0on me. It’s not easy because every car does something different [when they use traffic to pass]. I’m gutted for the team to have not brought home the win, but\u00a0results like this all go towards the overall championship, and we are now leading so we really need to focus on the final two rounds to keep the lead.”<\/p>\n

Tom Blomqvist:<\/strong>
\n“It\u00a0was actually a tough race for us, our race car was really challenging to drive. Olly didn\u2019t find it that easy out there. Even in my first stint, it was okay when you were in the clear air, but in the traffic we really struggled.\u00a0We learned some lessons with a track like this, we can only work to achieve good performance over a lap. We can learn for the next two races, they are super important. The team\u00a0did a good job getting us back into the lead with the strategy call on the fuel. Then it was tough out there with the traffic. Olly\u00a0did his best, but I think it was hard to get the flow around there. I think everyone is heartbroken over today. We should have won that one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blomqvist, Jarvis lead by 56 points with two rounds remaining Bowmanville, Canada (3 July 2022) \u2013 Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) finished second in Sunday\u2019s race at [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meyer-shank-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}