Porsche Carrera Cup North America 2025 Watkins Glen Race 2 Start Big Crash

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23/06/2025

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00:00Safety car, 40 minutos on the clock, let's get ready to race here at Watkins Glen.

00:07The safety car peels off right-handed and leaves the field in the hands of Riley Dickinson.

00:14It's the Searlands' six hours of the Glen week end and the second competition for Porsche Carrera Cup North America.

00:22It's a long hold as they come down to the green flag, which is in the air.

00:29And we are racing. Riley Dickinson pushed across to the inside wall, Ryan Yardley right on his tail.

00:35Might be bump drafting him down the front straight as Jimmy Lieber comes around the outside.

00:38He by far got the best start. There's a touch and there's four wide and Dickinson's in the wall.

00:44Dickinson in the wall on the right-hand side, the championship leader in trouble early on, but he's still moving.

00:49Maybe got away with that. Has he got a puncture? No, there's a huge accident behind.

00:54That will have been the knock on. This will be a red flag, I think.

00:57We can't drive through that. We've seen this before with the Porsches here at Watkins Glen International.

01:05They're funneled down. Someone will have gone wide going through turn one and got Squirrelly coming back on the kerbs.

01:12Facing the wrong direction. Cars all over the place.

01:14The green, number 12, turning around.

01:17Right in the middle of that as well is Jordy Miller in the silver, number 21.

01:22Scott Blind, championship leader in the Masters class as well.

01:27Todd Parriott, I think, got through.

01:30Second place driver in that championship.

01:33There's still a bit of Austin Powers back and forth going on to get the cars moving.

01:38It's Peter Atwater hoping to drive away.

01:41He may well have dodged yet another accident.

01:43He dodged one yesterday.

01:45Looks like he is going to be able to drive away from that accident.

01:49I think he may well have a front left tyre maybe going down.

01:53I thought that...

01:54So...

01:54We'll see.

01:55Riley defending with the green and white car.

01:58Round the outside, Jimmy Libra.

02:00And then we get three across the track.

02:02As I said, people coming back on.

02:04Riley Dickinson did brush the wall and the edge of the track.

02:07But it's behind him where it all goes on.

02:10My goodness me.

02:11We had a car up on its side for one moment or two.

02:18And that was Jordy Miller's number 21 car that took a wild ride.

02:24And James Sofronis as well.

02:27Getting into that as well, into the back of another car.

02:31Oh, it's all arms and elbows.

02:32Oh, dear.

02:32That was a very acute angle hit as well by a car further back down the field.

02:39I think that's the car at the back there.

02:41We've lost at least three cars in that, possibly even more.

02:46And Peter Atwater is going to have to put the lottery on this weekend if he has driven away from that.

02:52Two championship leaders.

02:53Two class championship leaders involved there in the pro class overall.

02:58And in the secondary class.

03:00One of the secondary classes as well.

03:02I also saw the number 54 going around there, which is Patrick Mulcahy.

03:05He was third in Pro-Arm.

03:06That was a car I didn't pick up beforehand.

03:08And there's another car further up the track as well, Peter.

03:11Which I think is Ashley Freiburg.

03:12Yes, it is.

03:13She's being helped away.

03:15She's had no luck in the last couple of races.

03:17No.

03:18Had a good run yesterday.

03:19But that's really unlucky.

03:22Yeah, Patrick Mulcahy lost it on the curb on the exit of turn one.

03:25It's quite quick through there.

03:26And when you've got a little bit of moisture in the air, it's easy to pitch the car around.

03:30And that's exactly what happened.

03:31And that was then what kind of kicked off the whole melee.

03:34That is such a...

03:35It is an accident we've seen several times at that section of the Watkins Glen circuit.

03:42We've had it in the sale in six hours of the Glen in the past where you just need one car to even...

03:46Not even crash.

03:47One car to even have a moment and it can trigger a big accident.

03:50That's why, you know, yesterday we mentioned that when all the field got through there without incident,

03:54it was a really good job by all the drivers.

03:57But it just takes one tiny incident, one tiny, tiny mistake,

04:01and then all of a sudden it triggers a big one like that.

04:04So Scott Blind involved there.

04:06It all started with the big defence from the front.

04:09Jimmy Libra hip-checks Riley Dickinson into the barriers.

04:14But Riley came back on without any problem.

04:16I thought something might have happened earlier or further back that he kicked that off.

04:22But that wasn't the case.

04:23Richard Edge was involved there as well.

04:25Going backwards into the arm core in the number 18.

04:29That's another car that's further up the track.

04:33Scott Blind and his car is stranded there.

04:37Well, picking their way through as the rescue continues.

04:40Dickinson drove away from the incident.

04:44But it looked like Libra, when he got onto the curb, he just had a little bit of a moment

04:47and that kicked him to the right slightly.

04:49And that was when he made contact with Dickinson,

04:51which then moved him across into the wall over on the right-hand side.

04:55But for Dickinson, he'll come in there.

04:59He's probably hoping it's going to be a red flag so he can come back to the pits and have a look at things.

05:03But, yeah, there's a huge amount of clean-up work to do.

05:07There's debris everywhere, all over the circuit.

05:10Peter Atwater, by the way, has been through the pits in his JTR Motorsport Engineering Porsche, the number 12.

05:16It wasn't a good day yesterday for JTR.

05:19Scott Blind in the ruckus racing, yellow and blue overalls, walking back,

05:24being checked over by our hard-working and excellent AMR safety crew.

05:31Walking past another one of the cars involved.

05:37That was the ACI car.

05:38I think that was Marco Cironi's car.

05:40No, Marco didn't start, did he?

05:41Excuse me.

05:41So that would have been Richard Edge's car, the number 18.

05:45Yes, it was.

05:46The AMR safety crew, they have an amazing set of skills in terms of how they deal with an incident.

05:52But also, they almost have to be a little bit of a shoulder to cry on as well.

05:56Because often they're escorting a driver or helping a driver back.

06:00And they might be physically fine, but they're obviously very angry that the race is over.

06:03And they've got to have a calming nature just to diffuse the situation down.

06:07And that's quite a set of skills to have.

06:11Incidents at Turn 1 and Turn 2 under review.

06:17Peter Atwater was in the pits from pit in to pit out for about a minute.

06:22And it's a 38-second transit time.

06:25Everyone else behind the Porsche safety car.

06:28This is not just about clearing up the track, Peter.

06:30There was a couple of the steel barriers that took a pretty big hit.

06:34And I would think they'd want to have a look at that as well.

06:37There's a lot of fluids down on the track as well as pieces of car.

06:43And in behind that Porsche, white Porsche safety car.

06:50At the moment, there's no way of short-cutting that.

06:55If it was on the front straight, you could have gone down the pit lane.

06:58And they're having to drive through that.

06:59So, Riley on driver's right, camera left, is defending against Ryan Yardley.

07:05The black and red car, Jimmy Lieber, goes round the outside.

07:09Also right in there as well was Yves Baltas.

07:12But it's behind that that it all happens.

07:15And I still really haven't worked out how that kicked off behind them.

07:20But I suspect there was contact in the midfield.

07:25And then the domino effect happens.

07:27And the people have just got nowhere to go.

07:29Scott Blind right in the middle of it.

07:30Richard Edge turned backwards.

07:33And a very damaged James Sofronas coming through.

07:38Sofronas coming through.

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