| July 6, 2019 Staff Report IMSA Wire Service BOWMANVILLE, Ontario, Canada – The live telecast of Sunday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix presented by Acura has been moved to CNBC beginning at 1 p.m. ET. The race also will be available on the NBC Sports App and NBCSports.com. The two-hour, 40-minute race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park was moved from its originally scheduled slot on the NBC network following the postponement of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway to Sunday due to heavy rains Saturday evening. Helio Castroneves will start the race from the pole position in the No. 7 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 Daytona Prototype international (DPi) car. Castroneves claimed the No. 1 starting position after original pole-winning No. 54 CORE autosport Nissan DPi qualified by Colin Braun was moved to the rear of the DPi grid after the team elected to change tires and its starting driver to Jon Bennett. Braun and Bennett are the defending winners of the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix presented by Acura. IMSA TWITTER, INSTAGRAM and FACEBOOK Follow on Twitter @imsa, use the hashtag #IMSA, follow on Instagram @imsa_racing and ‘like’ IMSA on Facebook –www.facebook.com/imsa. For further information logon to www.imsa.com. |
