| Cadillac 1-2 Overall While TDS, Ford and Inception Secure WeatherTech Championship Class Wins September 21, 2025By Mark RobinsonIMSA Wire Service |
| Unofficial Race Results INDIANAPOLIS – Cadillac claimed its first victory of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season Sunday, with Jack Aitken surviving a late frantic restart to win the TireRack.com Battle On The Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Aitken, driving the pole-sitting No. 31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R in the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class, held off Ricky Taylor in the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R by 0.988 of a second at the conclusion of the six-hour race on the historic speedway’s 2.439-mile road course. With the win, Cadillac became the 17th of IMSA’s 18 automotive manufacturers to win a race in an IMSA-sanctioned series in 2025. A full-course caution for a collision of Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) cars with nine minutes left bunched the field for a two-lap dash to the checkered flag. Aitken, who shared the No. 31 with co-drivers Earl Bamber and Frederik Vesti, got the jump on Taylor when the green flag waved and was never headed in delivering the first win of the season for his team and manufacturer. It was the 30th IMSA class win for Action Express Racing, which fields the No. 31 Cadillac. Bamber collected his ninth series win, Aitken his second and Vesti his first. Taylor and co-driver Filipe Albuquerque equaled their best result of 2025 with the second-place finish in the No. 10 WTR Cadillac (also second on the streets of Detroit). Tom Blomqvist and Colin Braun finished third in the No. 60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb Agajanian Acura ARX-06. Other class winners in the race were: Steven Thomas, Mikkel Jensen and Hunter McElrea in LMP2, driving the No. 11 TDS Racing ORECA LMP2 07 (the third straight Indianapolis win for Thomas, Jensen and TDS and second for McElrea); Mike Rockenfeller and Sebastian Priaulx driving the No. 64 Ford Multimatic Motorsports Ford Mustang GT3 in Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO); and Brendan Iribe, Frederik Schandorff and Ollie Millroy driving the No. 70 Inception Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 in Grand Touring Daytona (GTD). The Inception crew won its first WeatherTech Championship race. The class winners were also the unofficial winners of the fourth Michelin Endurance Cup round as well, the championship-within-a-championship that has five rounds. The TireRack.com Battle On The Bricks is the penultimate race of the 2025 season. With a seventh-place GTP finish Sunday, Matt Campbell, Mathieu Jaminet and the No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 take an unofficial 131-point lead over No. 7 Porsche Penske teammates Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy heading to the season finale, the Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta on October 11. In LMP2, Dane Cameron, PJ Hyett and the No. 99 AO Racing ORECA LMP2 07 lead Daniel Goldburg and the No. 22 United Autosports USA ORECA by 85 points. In GTD PRO, class leaders Alexander Sims, Antonio Garcia and the No. 3 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R are 18 points ahead of Albert Costa and the No. 81 DragonSpeed Ferrari 296 GT3. And in GTD, Russell Ward, Philip Ellis and the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 have a 224-point lead over Casper Stevenson and the No. 27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo. |
