Porsche Sprint Challenge North America 2025 Watkins Glen Race 3 Start Big Crash

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00:00Rumbling, ready to go as we wait for the call from the flag stand.

00:05And they're holding them just a little bit long here as they approach.

00:09There it is, green flag is out.

00:10It's a good jump from the 211 as Kleck tries to hold off that top position.

00:16Kelly is going to try and, excuse me, Metany is going to try and slot into that P2.

00:20But here comes Siegel around the outside.

00:22Couple cars making a little bit of contact in the back, but they'll get away with it.

00:25I think that's Danny Deschelski moving up from fourth all the way into second in that white and black car.

00:31He took advantage.

00:32He got on the racing line.

00:33We got an accident in turn number two.

00:35Gilliland is involved.

00:36Multiple cars end up on the driver's left side of the racetrack.

00:40I think I see the 288 involved in there.

00:42Three cars, and they are in a heap.

00:45So easily going to be a full course yellow here in a second.

00:49One of them is able to get moving, but those two other are stranded, and that is a narrow part.

00:53So they cannot leave them there.

00:55So, a bummer to start this one.

00:58We still are green flag.

00:59I'm sure we'll get the full course yellow once we kind of complete this lap and everything is settled down.

01:04Race control just wants to make sure everybody's kind of in their rhythm out there.

01:08Makes everything a whole lot easier when it comes to these restart procedures.

01:11Cole Kleck leading the way, but what a move from Danny Deschelski in turn number one.

01:15Yeah, you're right.

01:16It looks like as we now finally get the full course yellow, he's got the bit between his teeth this time.

01:22Deschelski does not want to be left behind.

01:25So, Kleck eases up as the safety car is going to just scoop him up once again.

01:31So, it looks like Gilliland, Gafferov, and Miller, I'm seeing, are the three that were involved in that opening incident.

01:38I said that we had a few little bumps through turn one, and it was still pretty three wide coming off there.

01:44It looks like they didn't get it sorted.

01:45And I see one of the injured cars right now limping its way around up the back straightaway with a significant amount of tire rub.

01:53Looks pretty cool as it's almost like a burnout going down there.

01:56But I want to talk about that start.

01:58So, Cole Kleck, I thought, was kind of crowding the inside of the racetrack coming down.

02:03And that's what he can do, right?

02:04He is the leader.

02:05He gets to pick where that inside lane is.

02:07However, everybody kind of followed him down there to the inside of the racetrack.

02:12And what did Danny Deschelski do?

02:13He said, all right, if you guys are going down there, I'll just go right back to the racing line,

02:17braked at his normal point, and carried so much momentum around the outside.

02:22That was a great racecraft move.

02:24To bring another world into it.

02:25What do they always say in dirt racing?

02:27Go where they're not.

02:27So, he just picked that up and said, all right, you guys leave an open bit of racetrack.

02:33I'm going to fill it.

02:34And that gave him a P2, as we see on board with Cole Kleck going past what I think is the last car remaining stationary at that spot.

02:43At least they didn't go completely full tilt down to the third part of the S's.

02:48That's where you can have some massive, massive accidents.

02:50But there definitely looked to be a good degree of damage on each of those cars.

02:55Yeah, and from that incident, it looks like it was Gilliland involved, Gafferov.

03:01I believe that Kesman was also involved, as well as Miller in that 224.

03:05So, it's looking like a four-car incident.

03:07And actually, there's a couple of the cars stranded on the top of the hill.

03:10Driver is right, actually, on the back straightaway.

03:13Man, not the start we were looking for, especially considering last time we went green.

03:19Lights the flag.

03:21They had a clean race out there and had no such luck.

03:24Let's hope that we're not in for the complete opposite.

03:27We get the rest of this one green.

03:29These GT3 Cup fields are large and they are feisty.

03:33We've definitely seen some good racing throughout the year.

03:36But we also have had our fair share of small incidents every now and then.

03:40So, I would say that these drivers are relatively familiar with these full course procedures.

03:45Especially Cole Kleck.

03:46Remember, all the way at the beginning of the season, Sonoma, he kind of had to sit down with race control after one of those initial starts.

03:52But he learned a ton.

03:53And ever since then, he's pretty much been on top of it.

03:57Yeah, look at the front of that car.

03:59That is real unfortunate.

04:01That's Miller there in the 224.

04:02So, they'll have some work to do until next round.

04:07The season closer over at Road Atlanta.

04:10So, they'll have some time to put the car back together.

04:12But not even really getting to finish a lap around here in the final race is a little bit disappointing.

04:19And as big of a deal as we made about Scott Blend being behind, he's up to eighth.

04:24So, he's made up one position.

04:25But interestingly, he only has two cars between himself and Kelly now.

04:29And that's Melito and Hinkle.

04:31So, I think he's sitting in a really good spot.

04:33Had a great start.

04:34Managed to move himself ahead of those on his class.

04:40It sounds like we might get to have a second look at what happened with that incident.

04:45I'd love to see this because I only saw kind of the end of it on our live screens.

04:49Oh, and see, it's already developed.

04:51That was a huge hit to the passenger door of Gilliland there.

04:55So, watch the cow car.

04:56He's off driver's left.

04:58He's in the middle of the racetrack.

05:00It develops in front of him.

05:02Oh, that's what it was.

05:04He gets loose.

05:05Well, yeah, he's too wide going in.

05:07And that is a big impact.

05:09Thankfully, it is the passenger side door, not the driver's side.

05:14These Porsches are made incredibly strong.

05:16So, you saw Gilliland be able to actually drive that car out of there, which was pretty impressive.

05:22But I actually think that Gilliland got loose because there might have been a little bit of contact going into turn number two.

05:28Well, and we've heard drivers talk about this week and about having tire pressures up going into that turn two.

05:35So, I'm sure that also played a part in that this is the start of the race.

05:40And it was really worst-case scenario because that car was literally perpendicular across the track as everybody's packed up.

05:47It's hard to tell where to go in the heat of the moment.

05:50And, of course, we wound up with at least a little bit of contact because of it.

05:53It's almost eerily similar to kind of what happened in one of the Carrera Cup races.

05:58Now, the Carrera Cup had an incident out of the exit of turn number one to kind of start one of their races.

06:03And this is just a couple hundred yards further down the road.

06:06But the same type of incident where everybody fans out in turn number one and kind of has to condense back into turn number two.

06:12And all of a sudden, you've got three, four, five cars trying to fit in the spot of one or two.

06:17All right.

06:17Let's see if we can actually spot contact here.

06:20Yeah, you're right, because he kind of veers off to the right-hand side.

06:24And I don't think he would be that loose on under-pressured tires.

06:29And the reason why I say that is because he's kind of in lane two.

06:34And I think that that far outside car is thinking they can go to lane two.

06:39And so it kind of turned down in, and all of a sudden, Gilliland was still there leaving space at the apex.

06:44And that's, I think, where the contact happened.

06:46Spotter did not give the clear signal, unfortunately.

06:49And that leaves us with some pretty damaged cars here at the start of this race.

06:55Looks like they do have it on the hooks now.

06:57So hopefully it should be pretty quick getting it out.

06:59I've been seeing a lot of pieces being collected by the team trying to make sure it's cleaned up there on the outside of that turn, too.

07:07I was trying to figure out which, it was about an orange and black car.

07:11It's obviously not...

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