Acura, Legge, MSR Take GTD Title Fight To the Finish

Katherine Legge and her Meyer Shank Racing group battled the distance to the checkers Saturday at Road Atlanta, with a second-put complete in their #86 Acura NSX GT3, abandoning them second in the GTD title following the season-finishing Petit Le Mans continuance challenge.

In Prototype, the #7 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 of Helio Castroneves, Ricky Taylor and Graham Rahal battled for the general win for the initial 66% of the 10-hour race, at that point recuperated from a punishment for going under alert to complete fifth.

On Friday, Acura divulged an upgraded NSX GT3, assigned the NSX GT3 Evo, which will contend on circuits all through the world in 2019, including the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The Acura NSX GT3 Evo stayed in plain view in the Road Atlanta infield "Fan Zone" all through the race end of the week.

Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3

In a fight deserving of the season-long title contenders, Legge and co-drivers Alvaro Parente and Trent Hindman kept up their battle with opponent Paul Miller Racing and drivers Bryan Sellers, Madison Snow and Corey Lewis from beginning to end.

Legge and the MSR group came to Road Atlanta trailing Sellers and essential co-driver Snow by six points. To guarantee the title, the Acura group would need to complete at least two places in front of the Sellers/Snow/Lewis Lamborghini. With not as much as a hour remaining, that situation looked conceivable, as Parente drove in the #86 MSR Acura and Sellers ran fourth. Notwithstanding, Sellers could pick up a situation to third; and a "knock and run" move by the Ferrari of Daniel Serra dropped Parente to second. The trio completed in a specific order, giving Sellers and Snow the title by only four points.

Subsequent to beginning fourth, the #93 MSR Acura of Lawson Aschenbach, Justin Marks and Mario Farnbacher kept running as high as second in GTD, yet was constrained out of the race in the fifth hour because of a broke oil fitting and coming about break.

On Friday, Meyer Shank Racing declared an organization with Heinricher Racing and support Catepillar for a full-season 2019 Acura NSX GT3 exertion for Legge and co-driver Jackie Heinricher. Indianapolis 500 veterans Simona de Silvestro and Bea Figueiredo [Ana Beatriz] will finish the driver lineup in the season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway.