The last couple of hours have been all about keeping away from drama, which hasn’t been the case for a number of the leading teams. There’s been drama in both GTP and GTD where battles continue to be tight and often precarious. There’s still battles for the Top 3 in both of these classes, even though the battles in LMP2 have been more spread out.
GTP
Williams Esports continue to lead overall, as they have done for pretty much the entire race. The true battle however is behind them, especially for P2 – 6. A mixture of some almost incidents for the #5 Williams Esports Fanatec at the West Horseshoe, the #92 VRS Coanda Esports of Charlie Collins at Turn 6 with the GTD leader, and multiple incidents for the #69 DRAGO racing team has bunched the remainder of the Top 5 all together, whilst not really losing time to the overall leader which remains at about 25 seconds.
Strategy remains mostly similar in this class, but the driver changes and number of stints in a row per driver will start to become more important as we are now into the night running of the event.
| # | NAME | CAR | Qual Position | H1 Position | H2 Position | H4 Position | H6 Position |
| 6 | Williams Esports Playseat | Acura ARX-06 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | BMW M Team Redline | BMW M Hybrid V8 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 5 | Williams Esports Fanatec | Acura ARX-06 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 69 | DRAGO RACING GTP | Acura ARX-06 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 89 | BMW M Team BS+COMPETITION | BMW M Hybrid V8 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 |
| 15 | Race Clutch Red | Acura ARX-06 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 6 |
| 92 | VRS Coanda | Porsche 963 GTP | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| 8 | VRS Coanda | Porsche 963 GTP | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| 98 | Apex Racing Team | Porsche 963 GTP | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| 21 | Team Redline | BMW M Hybrid V8 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 10 |
LMP2
WSR Esports Buttkicker continue to lead the way in the #23, but their teammate was involved in a tussle on the infield, thankfully remaining in the race. Behind, Calce Team have moved up to second place in class, on a similar strategy to MAG Performance who are down to third in class, and 6.6 seconds behind. P3 – 5 is tightening as VRS Coanda #12, SimRC #76 and Race Clutch White #16 are separated by just a few seconds.
| # | NAME | CAR | Qual Position | H1 Position | H2 Position | H4 Position | H6 Position |
| 16 | Race Clutch White | Dallara P217 LMP2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 23 | WSR Esports ButtKicker | Dallara P217 LMP2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 18 | Calce Team | Dallara P217 LMP2 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
| 120 | MAG Performance LMP | Dallara P217 LMP2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| 12 | VRS Coanda | Dallara P217 LMP2 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
| 003 | Grid-and-Go.com eSports | Dallara P217 LMP2 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 76 | SimRC | Dallara P217 LMP2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| 24 | Race Clutch Black | Dallara P217 LMP2 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 114 | Team PGZ | Dallara P217 LMP2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 9 |
| 119 | Team PGZ | Dallara P217 LMP2 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 10 |
GTD
If Apex Racing had any more bad luck in GTD, they may as well have no luck at all. Earlier their two cars came together whilst bump drafting at the front of the field, putting the #198 out of contention. The #199 then gets dumped into the wall as they were run into by Charlie Collins through the dogleg. This means that the #199 is now behind both Team Redline GTDs, who are bump drafting themselves the entire way around the racetrack. The #2 leads from the #4, the latter containing the 2 time Formula 1 ® World Champion in Max Verstappen.
| # | NAME | CAR | Qual Position | H1 Position | H2 Position | H4 Position | H6 Position |
| 2 | Team Redline | Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | Team Redline | Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 199 | Stormforce ART | Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | Williams Esports BenQ | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 001 | DeltaSimTech by GnG | Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| 14 | Simufy Esports GTD | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| 002 | Virtualcoach.gg by GnG | Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 |
| 44 | Falken Simracing Team | Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 |
| 198 | Apex Racing Team | Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 |
| 3 | Williams Esports Chillblast | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 |
Coverage continues all race long on RaceSpot TV and RaceSpot News, with full text updates here, and coverage on RaceSpot TV and iRacing’s YouTube channels.
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February 17, 2024 / at 5:32 pm
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