2017 6 Hours of The Glen

The 2017 Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen was an endurance race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA).

The 2017 Sahlen's 6 Hours of the Glen was the sixth of twelve scheduled sports car races of 2017 by IMSA, and was the third round of the Patron North American Endurance Cup.

[4] With 144 points, was led by James French and Patricio O'Ward with a twenty six-point advantage over Don Yount.

In GTLM, Risi Competizione were forced to miss the event due to budgetary issues following the 24 Hours of Le Mans where the teams Ferrari 488 GTE was several damaged in an accident.

[15] The first practice session took place at 11:05 am ET on Friday and ended with Stephen Simpson topping the charts for JDC-Miller MotorSports, with a lap time of 1:35.491.

[16] The second practice session took place at 3:30 pm ET on Friday and ended with Pipo Derani topping the charts for Tequila Patrón ESM, with a lap time of 1:34.696.

[18] The third and final practice session took place at 8:00 am ET on Saturday and ended with Olivier Pla topping the charts for PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, with a lap time of 1:48.566.

Regulations stipulated that teams nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each class' starting order.

Andy Lally qualified on pole for the class driving the #93 Meyer-Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian, beating Lawson Aschenbach in the #57 Stevenson Motorsports entry.

[30] In the GTLM Drivers' Championship, Garcia and Magnussen further increased their gap to eighteen points ahead of Müller and Hand.