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No. 65 Mustang dropped to back of Watkins Glen GTD PRO field after post-race penalty

The No. 65 Ford Multimatic Motorsports Mustang GT3 has been penalized after failing technical inspection following the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen on Sunday.

Drivers Christopher Mies and Frederic Vervisch, who originally finished third in GTD PRO, have been moved to the rear of the GTD PRO field: 10th in class, 51st overall, in the provisional results, which were published today.

The No. 81 DragonSpeed Ferrari 296 GT3 of Albert Costa and Davide Rigon is now classified third in GTD PRO, with the No. 4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Z06 GT3.R in fourth and the No. 77 AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R in fifth.

The No. 65 Ford was found to have negative camber angles and tire pressures beyond the permitted limits for GTD PRO and GTD cars on “high energy tracks” such as Watkins Glen. These limits prohibit camber angles above -4.0° and stabilized tire pressures below 1.8 bar or 26.1 PSI.

Following the penalty, there have been some minor changes in the GTD PRO championship standings: The No. 3 Corvette Racing Z06 GT3.R of Antonio Garcia and Alexander Sims still leads, now 52 points ahead of AO Racing’s Heinrich and Bachler (was 62 points).

Costa moves up to third in the drivers’ standings, while GTD PRO class winners Dan Harper and Max Hesse actually dropped from third to fifth in the table behind the No. 64 Ford of Mike Rockenfeller and Seb Priaulx.

Mies and Vervisch remain sixth in the standings despite the penalty, although they have lost 90 points and trail Garcia/Sims by 252 points (was 162 points).

Ford also dropped from second to fourth in the GTD PRO manufacturers’ standings behind new leader Chevrolet, BMW, and Porsche.

Results from all other categories remain the same.