Turner Motorsport’s Robby Foley highlighted how the team will continue a straightforward approach to retaining their second place in the IMSA GTD points standings despite being 268 points behind the leader.
The #96 BMW M4 GT3 driver explained the team’s mentality about retaining their second position in the GTD standings whilst being 268 points away from Winward Racing who leads in their #57 Mercedes-AMG GT3.
Speaking to selected media ahead of the final sprint race of the 2024 season at the Virginia International Raceway, he said:
“I think for us, we’ll just keep it simple and keep kind of operating like we have been.
“Definitely you don’t want to get desperate, especially as we head into obviously VIR being the last sprint of the year, but when we get to the endurance races, the car counts are always a bit higher, [so] an average day or a bad day ends up being a little bit worse.
“So I think for us, I read a stat the other day that we essentially scored the same points as the 57 in the last five races, I think one less point.
“So Daytona and Sebring left us a bit of a deficit, but I think as a team we’ll just continue to execute well and not try to do anything too fancy to kind-of hinder our chances.
“I think as we all know, Petit Le Mans is a crazy race.
“You know anything can happen there when the sun goes down so we just want to get in there with a shot and we’ll keep trying to haul back some points of the #57.”
Previously at Road America, Turner Motorsport marked the end of an 812-day winless drought yet continued a consecutive streak of five top-five finishes in the GTD category.
The 2024 season began with the traditional two endurance races, the 24 Hours of Daytona followed by the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Whilst Winward Racing claimed victory during the two gruelling events, Turner Motorsport scored P14 and P6 in comparison.
As a result of their four race victories, Winward Racing and their full-season drivers Phillip Ellis and Russell Ward have dominated the GTD standings with 2396 points prior to the 2-hour and 40-minute sprint at VIR.
Behind the second-placed Turner Motorsport duo of Patrick Gallagher and Robby Foley, a larger 332-point gap continues to the #32 Team Korthoff/Preston Motorsports Mercedes-AMG car.
After the GT-only VIR round, two endurance races will conclude the season with a six-hour event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course and the 10-hour Petit Le Mans finale at Road Atlanta.
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