2019 Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix
The race was held at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, on July 7, 2019.
PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports secured their third consecutive victory in LMP2, while Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor topped the GTLM class.
[2] It was the sixth consecutive year the event was held as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
The 2019 Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix was the seventh of twelve sports car races of 2019 by IMSA, and it was the third of seven rounds held as part of the WeatherTech Sprint Cup.
[3] The race was held at the ten-turn 2.459 mi (3.957 km) Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada on July 7, 2019.
[4] On July 3, 2019, IMSA released their latest technical bulletin announcing BoP for the event.
The only other change was a four liter fuel capacity increase for the Lexus RC F. Colin Braun and Jon Bennett entered the race as defending winners.
[7] In LMP2, Cameron Cassels and Kyle Masson led the Drivers' Championship with 131 points, ahead of Matt McMurry.
[7] The GTLM Drivers' Championship was led by Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy with 151 points; the duo held a one-point advantage over Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor in second followed by Antonio García and Jan Magnussen in third with 151 points.
A similar change was noted in LMP2, as Dalton Kellett replaced Gabriel Aubry for PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports.
In GTLM, Tommy Milner was sidelined after suffering a hand injury at Watkins Glen, necessitating Marcel Fässler to step into the No.
GTD featured wholescale changes, with two cars dropping out after the preliminary entry list had been released.
The Audis of Moorespeed and Starworks Motorsport withdrew, with the former having suffered a shunt at Watkins Glen and the latter citing performance issues as the cause for withdrawal.
Bia Figueiredo also replaced Christina Nielsen in the Meyer Shank Racing No.
[9] The first practice session took place at 11:20 am ET on Friday and ended with Colin Braun topping the charts for CORE Autosport, with a lap time of 1:05.876.
[10] The second practice session took place at 4:10 PM ET on Friday and ended with Colin Braun topping the charts for CORE Autosport, with a lap time of 1:05.875.
[15][16] The third and final practice session took place at 8:00 am ET Saturday and ended with Hélio Castroneves topping the charts for Acura Team Penske, with a lap time of 1:05.632.
48 car because the team did not transport a spare chassis to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
[24] Saturday's late morning qualification session into was broken into three groups that lasted 15 minutes each.
All cars were required to be driven by one participant and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest lap.
[27] IMSA then arranged the grid so that the DPi, LMP2, and GTLM cars started in front of the GTD field.
24 car for BMW Team RLL, besting teammate Tom Blomqvist in the sister No.
[32] However, the car would be dropped to the rear of the DPi field because the team changed their starting driver.
[41] McMurry's victory allowed him to take the lead of the LMP2 Drivers' Championship with 165 points while Cassels and Masson dropped to second.
[41] Bamber and Vanthoor retook the lead of the GTLM Drivers' Championship with 186 points while Pilet and Tandy dropped to second.
De Phillippi jumped to fourth after being fifth coming into Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
[41] The final results of GTD meant Farnbacher and Hindman extended their advantage to 19 points while Montecalvo and Bell took over second position.
