Frederik Vesti leads at Indianapolis with half the race gone in the IMSA Sportscar Championship’s Battle on the Bricks, after a race which has seen five cautions so far.
Second is Kaku Ohta in the #93 Meyer Shank Acura, with his Acura teammate, Colin Braun, third in the sister #60 car.
Vesti’s teammate Jack Aitken started the race from pole. The two, in the #31 Action Express Cadillac, have led much of the race between them, apart from a short period early on when the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac of Ricky Taylor led.
Aitken relinquished the lead when he pitted his Cadillac under an early yellow, with R. Taylor not choosing to pit and assuming the lead. Aitken would later pass the American and then handed over to Vesti, who has been in the lead since.
Ohta is second in the #93 Acura, just a second back from Vesti and keeping the Dane honest out front. Ohta’s teammate Yelloly took second at the start of the race, and the two have been around that point all race .
Braun sits third behind his Acura teammate, just a few seconds off Vesti. His co-driver Tom Blomqvist started the car last of the GTP field after a technical infraction saw him lose his provisional pole position. But the two have worked their way back up the order and now sit third.
McElrea, Verhagen, Calado leading other classes
In LMP2, Hunter McElrea leads in the #11 TDS Racing Oreca. Toby Sowery is second in the #04 Crowdstrike by APR Oreca, less than a second back. Jonny Edgar is third in the #99 AO Racing Oreca, a few more seconds adrift of McElrea.
Neil Verhagen is leading the GTD Pro class in the #1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3. His teammate, Max Hesse in the #48 sister car, is second. Dan Harper started that car on pole but lost the lead early on. The third-placed car, Klaus Bachler in the #77 AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3R, lead for a while in the hands of Laurin Heinrich, but an almighty multi-car tussle saw the BMWs emerge as the leaders.
Finally, in GTD, James Calado leads in the #021 Triarsi Competizione Ferrari 296 GT3. He is just a few tenths ahead of another Ferrari, the #34 Conquest Racing car of Ben Tuck. Third is Indy Dontje in the #57 Winward Mercedes-AMG GT3.
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