{"id":8294,"date":"2025-06-18T07:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:52:34","slug":"acura-meyer-shank-racing-ready-for-endurance-round-at-watkins-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/acura-meyer-shank-racing-ready-for-endurance-round-at-watkins-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"Acura Meyer Shank Racing Ready for Endurance Round at Watkins Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"

WATKINS GLEN, NY\u00a0(17\u00a0June 2025) — Acura Meyer Shank Racing (\u201cAcura MSR\u201d) has\u00a0winning momentum heading\u00a0to the Watkins Glen International this weekend. The historic track\u00a0hosts the Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours of The Glen, which is Round 6 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.<\/p>\n

Renger van der Zande and newly-crowned 24 Hours of Le Mans champion Nick Yelloly, drivers of the No. 93 Acura ARX-6, scored Acura MSR\u2019s first triumph of 2025 in the most recent Detroit event, a 100-minute sprint through the streets of Motor City where Yelloly first captured the pole and van der Zande secured the lead with less than four minutes remaining in the race.<\/p>\n

Kaku Ohta\u2014a Honda Racing Corporation development driver\u2014will be rejoining the #93 lineup for the WGI endurance event, having made his debut with the team in the Rolex 24 at Daytona back in January.<\/p>\n

Tom Blomqvist\u00a0and\u00a0Colin Braun, drivers of the No. 60, expect a\u00a0return\u00a0to\u00a0form that saw them finish third in the 2023 Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours, Acura MSR\u2019s most recent outing\u00a0at the circuit.<\/p>\n

In 2022, the Blomqvist captured the pole for MSR and the Braun-Blomqvist duo\u00a0led 78 laps and ran no lower than second en route to a runner-up finish.<\/p>\n

Braun himself has solid credentials at WGI. In nine WeatherTech Championship races at the circuit, he has five podiums and \u00a0won from the pole in 2014. His WGI credits also include a NASCAR Xfinity race and six Grand-Am races.<\/p>\n

For the #93, van der Zande scored back-to-back wins in 2015 and 2016, and has\u00a0three further podiums, while\u00a0Yelloly scored\u00a0a victory in 2023.\u00a0MSR also dominated the GTD class in the Acura NSX GT3 in 2017 and 2019 class victories.<\/p>\n

The Glen event is also the third round of the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup, following the two Florida endurance classics at Daytona and Sebring. Braun and Blomqvist are second in the standings with 23 points \u2013 eight points behind the leaders \u2013 while van der Zande and Yelloly are fifth, another seven points behind.<\/p>\n

Practice for the Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours begins with a 90-minute session on Friday at 11:25 a.m. (all times ET). GTP qualifying is set for Saturday at 3:35 p.m with live coverage on Peacock starting at 2:15pm.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s race broadcast starts at 12:00 p.m. on NBC,\u00a0as well as\u00a0IMSA TV Live<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0IMSA YouTube<\/a>\u00a0outside the U.S.\u00a0The opening three hours of the race will be covered live on NBC, and the entirety of the six hours\u00a0streamed flag-to-flag on Peacock.<\/p>\n

All live IMSA radio coverage can also be accessed on SiriusXM channel 206.<\/p>\n

Meyer Shank Racing Team Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nick Yelloly: “<\/strong>I\u2019ve got great Detroit memories and had quite a lot of victories on the Belle Isle circuit. Last year was the first time going through the city on this street track, which is really fun. I got a decent P3 result, but I remember the Acura seemed quite fast as I was driving behind it. Of course, I am happy to be in the Acura this year and see what we can do. We\u2019ve had lot of preparation again from the team and I think we will be more competitive than we\u2019ve been the last couple of races. Bring it on!”<\/p>\n

Colin Braun: “<\/strong>Really looking forward to the weekend! We had a great test at Watkins Glen and I think this track will really suit our car. Tom and I had a great result in 2023 when we were right in the mix for the win, so confidence is high! Personally it\u2019s one of my favorite tracks on the schedule. The race length is long enough to get some good pit strategy options, but short enough to be in full attack mode. I know our Acura MSR has been working super hard and we want to keep the momentum rolling from Detroit.\u00a0“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WATKINS GLEN, NY\u00a0(17\u00a0June 2025) — Acura Meyer Shank Racing (\u201cAcura MSR\u201d) has\u00a0winning momentum heading\u00a0to the Watkins Glen International this weekend. The historic track\u00a0hosts the Sahlen\u2019s Six [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8294","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\/8294","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=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8296,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions\/8296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}