It’s a new twist on a classic tale in the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship: Porsche Penske Motorsport took a 1-2 finish at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, but this time, the No. 6 Porsche 963 of Mathieu Jaminet and Matt Campbell took the victory in Sunday’s Monterey SportsCar Championship.
The No. 6 crew came in for an early first stop and undercut both the polesitting No. 24 Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 and the No. 7 Penske Porsche who ran first and second during the opening stanza.
Once Jaminet relieved Campbell, he had a 7s advantage over his old co-driver Nick Tandy in the No. 7 Porsche, though the gap got much closer after the final round of pit stops. Tandy closed to within touching distance of the lead as the Porsches fought through traffic, and with Dries Vanthoor’s BMW approaching quickly from third place, the three leaders ran nose-to-tail on the final lap.
Jaminet held firm and took the win, while Tandy was held up by GT traffic and allowed Vanthoor to get a crack at a high-risk move into turn 11. They made contact and Vanthoor was sent off into the sand trap.
Although their winning streak came to an end, Tandy and Felipe Nasr’s second-place finish keeps them in the lead of the GTP Championship after four races, with the Detroit Grand Prix up next on May 31st.
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The No. 24 BMW of Vanthoor and Philipp Eng salvaged third despite the final lap incident. Vanthoor led the opening hour of the race until polesitter he got held up in traffic near the end of his first stint. Into Turn 5, the No. 7 Porsche of Nasr swooped around the outside of Vanthoor to drop the BMW down to second.
It was the No. 24 team’s second podium of the season, but another missed opportunity for BMW M Team RLL to claim victory in GTP.
The No. 25 RLL BMW of Marco Wittmann and Sheldon van der Linde finished a distant fourth behind them.
Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly put Acura in the top five, the No. 93 Meyer Shank Racing ARX-06 was fifth, just ahead of the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen V-Series.R of Jack Aitken and Frederik Vesti which fought hard to finish sixth.
Completing the top ten in GTP were the two Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillacs, the No. 40 ahead of the No. 10, then the No. 85 JDC-Miller MotorSports Porsche, and the No. 23 Aston Martin THOR Team Valkyrie.