SRO America put on solid racing at Sonoma all weekend

I don’t know why people insist on being hipsters about SRO-sanctioned sports car racing, but they’re missing out. These grids are all stacked. SRO championships are not just giving ams more way to spend money; they’re filling in the gaps allowing each global region’s working sports car drivers to have careers.

The three-hour opener of the top-class GT World Challenge America was won by the JMF Motorsports #34, a Mercedes-AMG GT3 customer team fielding Michai Stephens and a Mercedes driver with whom you may be familiar named Mikael Grenier. This team and car has been dominant at Sonoma the past couple years, but this was the beginning of the three-hour GTWC America race format, and the #34 proved they can keep going all day if they have to.

The other big story to my eye is that Westin Workman and Tyler Gonzalez are absolutely unstoppable in their #68 GR Supra in Pirelli GT4 America. It’s worth watching those races just to see if anybody’s got anything for them.