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Charles Bradley

Petit Le Mans IMSA: Porsche leads at one-quarter distance

Acura’s Louis Deletraz led the 54-car field to the green around the undulating 2.54-mile road course in Georgia but Sebastien Bourdais took little time in taking the lead, sweeping his Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac around the Wayne Taylor Racing ARX-06 outside at Turn 1 and quickly pulling clear.

But the race quickly went under caution as Ari Balogh crashed the #8 Tower Motorsports LMP2 car for the second time (having already spun on the straight on a warm-up lap), that he shares with IndyCar star Scott McLaughlin, in the third minute of the race. A second yellow was required soon after to retrieve a detached tire following a GTD clash.

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