Nick Tandy led home Felipe Nasr to score a 1-2 for Porsche Penske Motorsport in the long-awaited return of the IMSA SportsCar Championship at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway\u2019s Road Course.
) made slight contact with the #93 Acura NSX GT3 in the GTD class coming out of the last corner of the 14-turn, 2.439-mile circuit. Merriman was sent into a spin in front of the field, with several near misses until the yellow came out.swapped with Campbell. At this time, Blomqvist remained in, but was serviced with a nose change from the earlier contact.
Nasr jumped ahead of Tandy on the restart going into Turn 1 on the restart with 1h35m to go, while Derani sped off in the lead.Photo by: Jake Galstad /It took 25 minutes for Nasr to close on Derani, who overshot the Turn 1 corner after struggling with lapped traffic. As a result, Nasr grabbed the lead and brought Tandy through, as well. Derani fell to third and immediately began to plummet time to the Porsches.
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