Mason Filippi encores in TC America at Las Vegas

Mason Filippi drove his Copeland Motorsport Hyundai Veloster N to a second victory in TC America’s final event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That was his sixth victory out of his ten participations in the championship, because due to clashing commitment in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge he missed three of the seven events. Despite this he finished third in the standings behind the FCP Euro duo of Michael Hurczyn and Nate Vincent.
The TCR field was reduced to eight cars, as James Walker’s Alfa Romeo couldn’t be repaired following his crash with Victor González at the start of yesterday’s race. The latter’s Honda Civic made it to the grid, but crawled back to the pits after a few laps.
Filippi took the lead at the start from Vincent, Michael McCann and Stephen Vajda; the freshly crowned champion Hurczyn cruised in seventh position behind Christian Cole and Bryan Putt. In lap 4, the safety car was deployed after one of the TCA cars had spread oil on the tarmac. It took five laps to clean the track and when racing resumed, Vincent was chasing Filippi, while Hurczyn overtook the three DSG Audi cars one by one and climbed to fourth.
Ten minutes before the end, Filippi increased his pace a bit and Vincent had to settle in second place, two seconds behind. McCann completed the podium ahead of Hurczyn, while Vajda won the TCR Cup for DSG cars.

Race 2
1. Mason Filippi (Copeland Motorsport, Hyundai Veloster N), 20 laps
2. Nate Vincent (FCP Euro, Volkswagen Golf GTI), 2.052
3. Michael McCann (McCann Racing, Audi RS 3 LMS), 11.268
4. Michael Hurczyn (FCP Euro, Volkswagen Golf GTI), 17.815
5. Stephen Vajda (EXR Team by Premat, Audi RS 3 LMS DSG), 30.185

Championship points
1. Hurczyn 285 pts; 2. Vincent 257; 3. Walker 187