2023 Michelin GT Challenge at VIR

[1] It was the tenth consecutive year the event will be held as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

The 2023 Michelin GT Challenge at VIR was the ninth of eleven scheduled sports car races of 2023 by IMSA, and it was the sixth round held as part of the WeatherTech Sprint Cup.

[2] The race was held at the seventeen-turn 3.270 mi (5.263 km) Virginia International Raceway on August 27, 2023.

[4] IMSA released two separate technical bulletins regarding the Balance of Performance for the event.

In this bulletin, the Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 received a 12-horsepower decrease, as well as a four-liter fuel capacity reduction.

[6] Before the race, Ben Barnicoat and Jack Hawksworth led the GTD Pro Drivers' Championship with 2810 points, ahead of Antonio García and Jordan Taylor in second with 2641 points, and Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella in third.

[9] There were two practice sessions preceding the race start on Sunday, one on Friday afternoon and one on Saturday morning.

79 WeatherTech Racing Mercedes of Daniel Juncadella caught fire in the pitlane in the closing minutes.

[15] Jack Hawksworth for VSR took his third pole position of the season, and the tenth of his career,[16] with a time of 1 minute, 44.780 seconds.

12 Lexus on grid's the front row with his best lap being 0.153 second slower, and Loris Spinelli drove the No.

[10] Antonio García led GTD Pro with a lap time of 1:46.295, 0.055 seconds ahead of Jules Gounon.

[21] The result kept Barnicoat and Hawksworth atop the GTD Pro Drivers' Championship.

[22] With 2996 points, Sellers and Snow's victory allowed them to increase their advantage over De Angelis and Sørensen in the GTD Drivers' Championship.

Foley and Gallagher advanced from seventh to fifth while Iribe and Schandorff dropped from third to fourth.