2016 6 Hours of The Glen

The 2016 Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen was the sixth of twelve scheduled sports car races of 2016 by IMSA, and was the third round of the Patron North American Endurance Cup.

[1] The race was held at the eleven-turn 3.450 mi (5.552 km) Watkins Glen International circuit on July 3, 2016.

[3] In GTD, the Drivers' Championship was led by Alessandro Balzan and Christina Nielsen with 126 points; the duo held an eight-point advantage over Mario Farnbacher and Alex Riberas.

Panoz brought the DeltaWing car after skipping the previous round at Belle Isle.

[4] The Prototype Challenge (PC) class was composed of seven Oreca FLM09 cars: two from Starworks Motorsports.

8 car, driven by Renger van der Zande with a time of 1 minute, 38.582 seconds.

Cars in GTD were sent out first before those grouped in GTLM, PC, and Prototype had three separate identically timed sessions.

Regulations stipulated teams to nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each classes starting order.

IMSA would arranged the grid to put all Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM, and GTD cars.

With a total of 187 points, Barbosa and Fittipaldi's victory allowed them to retake the lead of the Prototype Drivers' Championship.

[3] The final results of PC allowed Popow and van der Zande to extend their advantage in the Drivers' Championship to 13 points over Alon and Kimber-Smith.

[3] Gavin and Milner's fourth-place finish kept them atop the GTLM Drivers' Championship, but their advantage was reduced to 8 points as race winners Briscoe and Westbrook jumped to second place.

[3] Balzan and Nielsen's victory allowed them to extend their advantage in the GTD Drivers' Championship to 13 points over Farnbacher and Riberas.

Starworks Motorsport, Corvette Racing, and Scuderia Corsa kept their respective advantages in their of Teams' Championships while Action Express Racing retook the lead of the Prototype Teams' Championship with six rounds left in the season.