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Seb Priaulx and teammate Laurin Heinrich grew their GTD Pro championship advantage to 98 points after a third placed finish at the Chevrolet Grand Prix.
The race was won by Alexander Sims and Antonio Garcia, who dominated the day to earn the inaugural IMSA victory for the Corvette Z06 GT3.R.
They were followed home at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park by Tommy Milner and Nicky Catsburg for a 1-2 Corvette finish ahead of the AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R.
Garcia had established a comfortable 4.5-second gap to Catsburg and had nearly 20 seconds in hand over Heinrich when a full-course caution bunched the field with 16 minutes remaining in the two-hour, 40-minute contest. When racing resumed with about eight minutes to go, neither Heinrich nor anyone else could match the speed of the yellow cars.
The final few laps provided a bit of drama, as Garcia and Catsburg took the restart in a crowd of GTD class traffic. But Catsburg protected the 1-2 finish for Corvette. Garcia's margin of victory over Catsburg was 0.408 seconds, with Heinrich 1.064 seconds in arrears at the checkered flag.
Henrich and Priaulx extended their GTD PRO championship advantage to 98 points over Ross Gunn (No. 23 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo) and 120 points over Jack Hawksworth and Ben Barnicoat (No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3).
Gunn and Mario Farnbacher finished fifth at CTMP, while the No. 14 Lexus started on the front row but dropped out with an engine issue.
The next round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is the IMSA SportsCar Weekend, August 1-4 at Road America near Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
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