{"id":634,"date":"2017-07-02T19:42:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2017-10-24T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:44:27","slug":"michael-shank-racing-with-curbagajanian-wins-the-sahlens-six-hours-of-the-glen-with-acura-nsx-gt3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/02\/michael-shank-racing-with-curbagajanian-wins-the-sahlens-six-hours-of-the-glen-with-acura-nsx-gt3\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Shank Racing with Curb\/Agajanian Wins the Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours of the Glen with Acura NSX GT3"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEDIA NOTES:<\/strong>
\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0First Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours of the Glen victory for Michael Shank Racing
\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Second consecutive win after breakthrough victory for Acura in Detroit Grand Prix
\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fourth Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours of the Glen win for Andy Lally, First for Katherine Legge
\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Michael Shank Racing led 147 of 187 laps between the two Acura NSX GT3 machines (No. 93 led 101 laps, No. 86 led 46 laps)
\n\u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Michael Shank Racing has won the Rolex 24, Petit Le Mans, and now the Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours of the Glen<\/p>\n

Watkins Glen, N.Y. (2 July 2017<\/span><\/span>) \u2013 Michael Shank Racing with Curb\/Agajanian continued the team\u2019s winning ways at Watkins Glen International\u00a0on Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0when the team delivered a second consecutive victory in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with a win in the Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours of the\u00a0Glen. The win follows up the team\u2019s breakthrough victory for the Acura NSX GT3 in the previous round at Detroit.<\/span><\/p>\n

The No. 93 Acura NSX GT3 of Andy Lally and Katherine Legge, which led 101 laps of the 187-lap race, took the victory to give Michael Shank Racing its first win in the endurance classic.<\/p>\n

The victory adds to Michael Shank Racing\u2019s list of wins in the crown jewel endurance events of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship \u2013 having already won the Rolex 24 (2012) and Petit Le Mans (2016).<\/p>\n

While the team celebrated the win for the No. 93, the squad was also left to rue what might have been for\u00a0the No. 86 Acura NSX GT3 of Ozz Negri and Jeff Segal.<\/p>\n

After strong practice sessions during the weekend, Negri led the morning warm up and the duo was hopeful to carry that positive momentum into the race. The pairing led laps and ran in podium contention throughout almost the entire six hours with flawless pit stops and strategy from the pit box.<\/p>\n

While running second with about a half an hour remaining in the race, the No. 86 stopped on track with Segal reporting a hub failure on the car.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never, ever won the Six Hours of the Glen, after 14 years and 20 entries,\u201d said Team Owner Mike Shank. \u201cWe are so happy and so proud for the No. 93 but also just gutted for the 86. That\u2019s my first\u00a0thought \u2013 they deserved to be on the podium today. It is a true team effort \u2013 I can\u2019t over emphasize how happy I am with this Acura NSX GT3 and where it\u2019s going right now. We\u2019ll hopefully keep it going at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Shank Racing returns right to IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition next weekend for Round 7 of the championship at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.<\/p>\n

DRIVER QUOTES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andy Lally, No. 93 Acura NSX GT3:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cMan, we\u2019re in victory lane in New York! To get my fourth victory here and my first since 2010 is awesome. Thanks to the whole Michael Shank Racing team, to Katherine (Legge), to Dale (Wise, engineer) on the box, Lee (Niffenegger, Program Senior Engineer at Honda Performance Development) and Art (St. Cyr, President at Honda Performance Development) and Steve (Eriksen, Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at Honda Performance Development) and also my teammates in the No. 86. They helped give us feedback to get our car where it was and they got some really unlucky breaks today or they would have been right there fighting us for the win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Katherine Legge, No. 93 Acura NSX GT3:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThis is a dream come true. To win two in a row is just awesome.\u00a0Obviously, a huge thanks to Andy (Lally) because he was a rock star! It was amazing. I\u2019m very proud of the entire team. It was down to their pit stops and the strategy that we got another one \u2013 two in a row! I can\u2019t hardly believe it.\u00a0I am just gutted for Ozz (Negri) and Jeff (Segal) \u2013 they were right there with us and it would have been great to be on the podium with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ozz Negri, No. 86 Acura NSX GT3:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe pushed really hard here and felt very comfortable. This weekend we worked on the car so that it suited us well. We definitely had the pace and I felt comfortable leading for quite a while. I am very happy for our sister car and for Andy and Katherine. But again, it could have been another double podium. Unfortunately, that\u2019s how things go sometimes but we are fighters and we will keep fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeff Segal, No. 86 Acura NSX GT3:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cFor us, we were running incredibly strong. We had a rough start to the weekend and were scratching our heads a little bit. The 93 car was strong all weekend so it was really nice to have them to rely on, to compare notes and setups and data. We turned it around this morning \u2013 Ozz (Negri) was P1 this morning in warmup and drove an awesome middle stint. We asked him to go fast and save fuel and that\u2019s not an easy thing so full credit to him. Andy (Lally, in the No. 93) had a little extra speed at the end so we let him go but on that last set of tires the tables kind of turned and we were right there in podium contention. We were biding our time in second place \u2013 I don\u2019t know if we had anything for the No. 93 but a one-two would have been nice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MEDIA NOTES: \u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0First Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours of the Glen victory for Michael Shank Racing \u2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Second consecutive win after breakthrough victory for Acura in Detroit Grand Prix [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-meyer-shank-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}