🗣 'We prefer to win on the track and celebrate on the podium' 🏆 BMW's Nick Yelloly opens up on the mixed emotions of having IMSA GTP victory snatched away but then handed back 👇
BMW Motorsport’s Nick Yelloly admits that inheriting victory from Porsche in the Six Hours of The Glen IMSA SportsCar Championship round “wasn’t the way we wanted to win”.lost the lead in the final six minutes of the six-hour race at the iconic Watkins Glen track in upstate New York to the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963./Mathieu Jaminet-crewed Porsche was stripped of victory when its underfloor skid block measured less than the permitted minimum thickness.
“However, we gladly accept the victory nonetheless – after all, it is the first for the BMW M Hybrid V8 and also my first in the IMSA series.It was BMW’s first GTP success since 1986, when John Andretti and Davy Jones triumphed – also at Watkins Glen – in the mighty McLaren NA-run, F1-engined March 86G. The last time a BMW prototype won a race in North America was in 1999 at Sebring with the V12 LMR.
Before the news of the Porsche’s demotion from first to last place in the GTP rankings, De Phillippi – who was behind the wheel when Jaminet passed him in traffic – rued what he thought was a missed opportunity to win.
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