Iron Lynx reached the checkered flag at the FIA World Endurance Championship’s 6 Hours of Imola despite finishing outside of the points.
The second round of the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship was Iron Lynx’s second race with the Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 Evo.
Iron Lynx are the only LMGT3 team so far to have scored nil points against eight other teams, 16 other LMGT3s, after they finished in 13th and 15th positions.
Imola signified their first race finish/classification with the new package following their misfortunate Qatar debut.
Team principal Andrea Piccini said: “I’m quite satisfied with how the race went today and I think the team did a solid job.
“We brought two cars to the finish and even showed positive flashes of pace despite some tricky situations.
“I think we maximised what we had, and we look forward to continuing the work for the next round at Spa-Francorchamps.”
An untimely safety car (SC) deployment after 1-hour and 33-minutes of racing burdened the #60 Mercedes-AMG team’s track position at the time, forcing an additional pit stop.
Although the SC was due to the incident involving Ian James (#27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage LMGT3 Evo) and Yasser Shahin (#31 WRT BMW M4 LMGT3 Evo).
In the #61 Iron Lynx Mercedes-AMG, Imola was challenging for Lin Hodenius who incurred a track limits penalty during his maiden WEC race stint, having been denied the chance at Qatar.
“It was an eventful race and it was nice to have this first experience in FIA WEC,” he said.
“I’m rather happy with it overall even though it was quite tough to manage with the track limits, but it’s something to learn moving forward.
“I think we will have a good one in Spa.”
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