2018 America's Tire 250

[@arivette2010]

Thank you IMSA!! You guys are the best!

[@jamesFong]

I was fortunate enough to be there live for this race and it was amazing! Got a little rough trying to keep my 2 year old entertained during all the yellow in the beginning but once the race settled down, so did she. Can't wait for next year!

[@JK-ki8oq]

Cool

[@chada75]

Raising them right.

[@Tzalaf5731]

I Certainly Love IMSA Racing; Outstanding Multi-Class Competition With The World's Best Drivers & Wonderful IMSA Commentators. Thank You IMSA For All These Great Uploads, You're The Best!

[@EdgySwordfish]

Thanks for changing the thumbnail, IMSA. Props to you for removing the previous spoiler thumbnail

[@mateoqz6616]

Hats off to you guys for posting the race so quick. Thank you

[@germansimracer8253]

Thanks! Would be awesome if you could stream the races on KZbin as well. This way we could watch the race either live or right after it happened.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Yup! Or maybe just a day later? The longer we have to wait, the more likely we are to have our race spoiled by someone telling us who won it! Do appreciate you putting it on YT no matter what.

[@joeygold24]

if you are outside of the US you can watch it live @ www.imsa.tv

[@Blueflag04]

is it free?

[@MrDjsmooth87]

OMFG, I absolutely LOVE IMSA. Every race is just utterly amazing! Get me off your emotional roller coaster darn you👍🏾😁

[@julianturberfield7101]

Mazda and throwing away good results, name a more iconic duo.

[@ohwell2790]

Julian, please correct me if I am wrong. Is this comedy central of car wrecks by children driving rc cars?

[@etessier10]

So bad the Mazda is beautiful car so frustrating

[@alexandreremillard8331]

Ferrari and throwing away wins

[@enzoardente4474]

Toyota and Le Mans

[@rogersharp794]

The most underated circuit on the planet

[@brandonrose4388]

I'm in love with this track it is my dream to drive this track once In my life

[@bowelrupture]

It can't compete against Road America, Road Atlanta and Watkins Glen.

[@douglaskirk2543]

Great and Interesting Race, AS ALWAYS, IMSA. The only way I get to see any Racing. Thanks for this video . . . Enjoyed this Show . . .

[@tokenride04]

Getting ready for this weekend by watching this. Gonna be my fist time at laguna seca to see the race :D

[@Nicks62999]

Race start @ 6:24 Restart @ 20:50

[@HoodOnFire]

38:02 Restart

[@dirty_c5573]

Restart 52:30 Restart 1:36:45

[@Blueflag04]

race start and then crash

[@danoiddano6891]

That was a awesome race guys Thanks big time

[@jajahmal8780]

Congrats on back to back wins ///M motorsports!! Love you all! Cars looking awesome!

[@dennisberoukas3468]

great coverage great on board racing love i great work guys thank you

[@zanafisabilillah7553]

Congratulations for Derani on Nissan and for all his team, very good performance gentleman !!!

[@johngrable9745]

On Imsa's website Gibson isn't in contention with the dpi championship it's just Mazda Nissan Cadillac Acura

[@takenoprisoners6604]

The teams that run Gibson powered LMP2's are in contention for the driver/team championships. But Gibson aren't a manufacturer so yes they aren't eligible for the manufacturer championship.

[@theexpendables3hd]

Thanks looks crazy

[@yetifacekilah8885]

Love it.!! See you at Petit Le Mans in ATL.!!

[@viciousocean]

Congrats to Derani on the Nissan, awesome performance !!

[@MB_GT]

Why is the sound always 2 second behind in every race?!.... Bit annoying...

[@enriquevelazquez7156]

I found my self on youtube again😂 im the tow truck driver 13:03

[@heavyharris5580]

Been rooting for Mazda for years, all I want to do is see them finally get a win, and it just isn't happening. A win at Road Atlanta would be amazing.

[@EdgySwordfish]

Hey IMSA. Could you please not use a thumbnail that spoils anything? I already know without even watching the race that a major contender in GTLM sustains massive damage. Spoilers are no fun :(

[@theflagstand]

EdgySwordfish I agree that any kind of spoiler is bad, but I have to say it could be much worse. NASCAR once used thumbnails that spoiled the winner, just as indycar still does to this day in their uploads of old race broadcasts. At least here the overall winner and the class winners were not spoiled.

[@koraxi8958]

LOL! I didn't know that about NASCAR or Indy. Might aswell just read the report XD

[@Tzalaf5731]

Gevald!... Did The Drivers All Drink Their Breakfast Before The Race? They're Starting Out Like A Mob Of Drunks.

[@DinsdalePiranha67]

Hello from the flagger at T7!

[@notdagergs]

Is this the new ALMS? Haven't been paying attention to racing much for the past 10 years or so.

[@danieloliver2278]

Grand Am merged with IMSA and merged their premier series Rolex and ALMS

[@kelseyjames6502]

Why put a picture in the thumbnail giving away a major turning point in the race

[@EdgySwordfish]

Right? Might as well just tell us who won too lol

[@kelseyjames6502]

But regardless, thank you for the upload IMSA. Hard to complain about amazing racing for free

[@f1sherman52]

to make all the corvette fans happy

[@imsaofficial]

Apologies if that spoiled the race for you Kelsey James. Three thumbnails are auto-generated by KZbin and unfortunately it defaulted to this one. It's since been updated and we'll do a better job in the future.

[@kelseyjames6502]

@@imsaofficial thank you for the response, like I said I know we complain but you guys put out the best product and even better make it free to everyone so thank you for that and continue being awesome :)

[@XionUnjust]

Almost at the end of the series this year and these guys are THIRSTY for points and it's showing. Insane crashes in the beginning!!

[@keirangeorge4638]

Crazy race! Fantastic

[@michaelflaherty3202]

2:14:00 if you’re looking for the incident that was main news headline from this race.

[@brandonryan9582]

i love this track on iRacing

[@Nan0uk1]

21:50 wtf is that hook on the rooftop?

[@1959mstone]

we love Shea Adams , and Danger Mouse and Pennfold to

[@AF93510]

Will IMSA be uploading the ctscc race from laguna seca? Or only after it re-airs on tv?

[@oliwhere]

It usually gets uploaded after the re-air, so you have to wait a bit :-)

[@beenaplumber8379]

1:46:49 (SPOILER!) - They said it was the 66 Ford that was being pushed off and retired, but it clearly had 67 on the side. When I looked closer, it had a 66 on the hood/bonnet. Can anyone explain? If they borrowed a door from the 67 car, wouldn't they have to deface the number and maybe put a 66 in its place? I'm a noob, but that seems a very serious breach. How do drivers know who they're racing?

[@atraxr603]

So it's now called Weathertech and not Mazda Raceway?

[@elr2141979]

I'm wish that FS1 did not have this race covered on TV because I can't stand the commercials. I much prefer the watching on IMSA TV instead

[@arturos.3973]

End of the year and things get desperate. Lots of action

[@SpartanRacing1989]

Has there ever been a race in history that has had no cautions? Lol

[@jdord4838]

Great race as always..."Yeshua (Jesus Christ) is the way"

[@justsomeguy7294]

😂this is like forza 7 motorsports all over again

[@ChuckBeefOG]

They are already at 7! I had Forza 4 near the end of my video came days. Painted and sold the 3 Fast and The Furious cars and made $600,000,000 at the auction lol. Awesome games, good times

[@brandonryan9582]

forza sucks thats why get iRacing, a real racing game but prepare to pay $500 for all the tracks and cars bcus theyre laser scanned

[@ohwell2790]

Rhaegar Targaryan What other games have you sucked. They make adult games for that and blow up dolls. You would be from India any chance?

[@iracingrookie3301]

hes right. forza is dog shit rated for 3 year olds ahah iRacing is 18+ only and you need a bank account

[@deletedaccount966]

Rhaegar Targaryan Are you in INDIA?

[@MeanGeneSanDiego]

The box on the left of the screen is too big.

[@StevenP727]

I want both xfinity and monster energy NASCAR cup series to have a couple race's here and overall more and more road course race's period

[@joeygold24]

whats the consensus on the start crash? Was Robert Elon at fault or was this just a racing incident? I've noticed there are a lot of crashes around race starts in many series, often surrounding this complex idea of mashing the gas at the same time as 30+ other cars around you. I'm not sure what the solution would be, but I really hate seeing cars check up on the field and then speed off, in this case while everyone else who checked up to avoid hitting you is now wrecking in your mirror

[@olov244]

great race after the frustrating start

[@Scorpion7substance]

I blade the crash on poor internet connection and lag

[@slayerjohn447]

This is a truly underrated comment.

[@mrg6baseball]

Does anyone know what happened to the GTLM Ferrari team #62 ?

[@ColeYote]

Man, how frustrating must it be for a team to watch their driver crash before he even gets to turn one?

[@JanitorIsBack]

kat legge needs an indycar ride

[@eod696]

rough start, but turned out to be a pretty good race.

[@lakalister]

Why would they not remove 99 from the race after the amount of damage he caused?

[@bobbychilds3080]

This is why there needs to be a gap between the classes - someone at the front of the prototype field brake-checked and caused that whole mess.

[@mikejones8866]

I also initially thought it was a brake-check until later when the pole sitter experienced a race-ending mechanical failure. I now believe the alleged "brake-check" may have also been a mechanical issue which caused the melee.

[@artmchugh5644]

REMEMBER BALTIMORE! !! What a clusterfuck that was !!😄😄😄

[@9freelandk]

Yeah, Good !

[@phachara6608]

What happened to Risi Competizione???

[@takenoprisoners6604]

There a privateer team running in a class of factory teams. Ferrari doesn't support them enough so they have to rely on mostly themselves or sponsorship. They should be back for the final race.

[@l2positionuno268]

If anyone from Corvette says anything about preparation and winning, I will scream. They were only lucky to be on the right side of the track.

[@nascarDee48]

They didn't even win the race, so how are they going to talk about preparation and winning? And cars on the left side at the start who were cautious made it through perfectly fine. It's not anyone else's fault that the 66 saw a chance to take the lead and shoot a gap between the crashing cars that wasn't there before the race even started instead of taking it carefully.

[@Dethmeister]

Yeah the 66 didn't even slow down.

[@mikejonez724]

@@Dethmeister I honestly thought it sped up

[@ohwell2790]

This is why I watch IMSA a crash before the start line, Awsome, I like crashes before the race even starts. I like drivers destroying Million dollar plus cars while I have a beer in my cheap trailer in a cheap trailer park, makes my day.

[@Landsharkitis]

hell ueah im here for it my n words

[@HoodOnFire]

Already expecting an LMP2 car to win....Just from the race start... Come on DPIs

[@sebo8872]

Crazy Race....are they all stung by a bee?

[@taven2164]

Can you maybe change up how the cars are displayed on the left in their order and time behind? It is really crappy trying to follow the GT battles when the camera is on the Prototype cars for tens of minutes at a time(sometimes) and then the GT times are all displaying -1 laps or -2 laps, etc. with no times. You could take a tip from some other multiclass timing sheets that leave the Prototype class as is, but then display the GT cars in thier proper position in the entire race, however do not display a behind time to the overall leader. The change is that the overall leader in every class is displayed with no "time behind" time, and all classes are only displayed in a -time to their class leader. This way you can distinguish what position the GT car is in overall, based on its position in the overall lineup of cars, but the time displays its time within the battles of its own class, and therefore are followable despite the prototypes getting all the camera time at times and the gt battle is impossible to follow with no times displayed, as it is now... Because after a few laps the GT "times" might as well not even be shown as they are useless.

[@taven2164]

There are a few times it gets split and shows the top 6 from each class for awhile as well. Another way could be to have it like that all the time and then shuffle between the first and second page of the classes while separated instead of having them all mixed up. Idk, just trying to get a better way to follow all battles, not just the ones hogging the camera for a long time..

[@koraxi8958]

Spoiler alert! So disappointed for the no. 55 of Team Joest and Harry was well. This could have been the teams first win of the series since the DPI formula. Mazda Team Joest has yet to win a race compared to its DPI competition. When i saw that spin, i Just SMH, it was due to driver error too so fustrating. On a different note, No. 55 and No. 22 had the best overtake moves in the enitre race! The No. 55 weaving through the Ferrari GTD on straight, and Derani's text book over take from the 54 was absolute brilliance. With all the yellows, those accounts almost made up for it.

[@muhann4d]

Turns out Turn 10 had it right all along.

[@Dethmeister]

1:18:47 Haha, Going too fast and falling off of that pit lane. It really is what happens in racing games.

[@michaelflaherty3202]

Dethmeister can confirm. Have done this in iracing.

[@MrF-ly2bb]

Great job BMW that's 2 wins back 2 back !!

[@ShawnSalzman]

What the hell is up with the commentators... it takes them a good 5 seconds to react to something important happening, and even worse, they miss commenting or switching camera on a lot of big actions (i.e. close battling) throughout the race. Poor performance. i.e. @2:21:40... commentators talking about the most unimportant shit during that pass

[@somsakdachtong8488]

I love you BMW M8

[@Dethmeister]

It took too long for that first yellow to come out. Drivers aren't going to slow down without a yellow. They were still accelerating past that wreckage instead of slowing down. They could have hit that loose wheel as they were speeding up.

[@shaunster2]

What the heck is going on with these drivers two yellows and an hour hasn’t even passed

[@ohwell2790]

Shaun Gomez, no talent, no common sense, ego before skill, and way over payed. The race lasts for hours and they think they can win in the first turn. How pissed could an owner be to put more money in a car that a ego wrecked. I would pay off their contract and find another driver that had the owner, team mates, pit crew, and builders first. Then go win races.

[@SpectralUmbreon197]

6:30 Rick Allen intensifies

[@BOCAH69]

😁👍

[@CaNTBREaKCHRiS]

IMSA WHY DO YOU KEEP DESTROYING THE FRAME RATE?! The qualifying video is 60fps but you made the race only 30fps? Why? Why do you keep doing this on and off and on again? Some of the other races are 60fps, the continental tire sports car races are 60fps, what is the deal here? PLEASE for the love of god PLEASE don't do the same to Road Atlanta... please!

[@Powertampa]

Probably because it means twice the filesize and that means longer upload times or greater potential for upload or conversion failures, youtube has certain size limits.

[@imsaofficial]

Sorry for any inconvenience CaNTBREaKCHRiS. We prefer not to break a video up into multiple parts unless it's absolutely necessary... like at Petit Le Mans. If you need further clarification, please email [e-mail]. Thanks!

[@CaNTBREaKCHRiS]

Powertampa - Thank you for your suggestions, but 30fps vs 60fps doesn't actually mean double the file size, trust me I look at the difference all the time, you usually see a greater increase in file size when going from 720p to 1080p. The races were always 720p @ 60fps before, every time without delay for many years... so it was obviously ok before. What I'd like to know is, what if anything has changed? Watkins Glen was a 6 hour race, uploaded as a single video 720p@60fps. Daytona 24 hours was in several parts, some of which were up to 8 hours in length, but again all 720p@60fps. That said, why is mid-Ohio which is only a 3 hour race, uploaded at 720p@30fps?

[@CaNTBREaKCHRiS]

IMSA Official - Thank you for your response, however Watkins Glen was a 6 hour race, 720p @ 60fps without having to be broken up into multiple parts. That being said, how come races half or less in length are being uploaded at 30fps? I will send you an email in case you prefer not to disclose the answer here, but for the record your response does not address the question, which was about frame rate. Sebring was uploaded in 2 parts, 6 hours each, both 720p @ 60fps. I just want to put it out there, the reason why I care about this is because of an ocular condition I have that makes me extremely sensitive to lower frame rates or inconsistent frame rate.

[@drawmaster6343]

NOOO! the poor Ford, such a Magnificent machine, i hate seeing like this.

[@daltonbedore8396]

there's basically no crowd other than support racers it looks like....sad days

[@darthstanley166]

Ready, set, CRASH!

[@doginu]

Taylors fault he slowed that row down

[@mikejones8866]

That was my initial thought as well until later when he experienced mechanical problems. I now believe he also experienced some kind of problem at the initial start causing him to "slow that lane down." I had thought he - for some unknown reason - checked up which caused the melee. But as I stated in my first sentence I believe it was a mechanical issue, not driver error.

[@brandonryan9582]

if they used European rules that crash at the beginning wouldnt happen. no overtaking before the start finish line

[@jonathancouch7779]

Nothing like a little argy bargy imsa style

[@r1cardorpower136]

BMW 😎🏆

[@alissoncesar1437]

👏👏👏😉

[@magnummax78]

I think running the P cars with the GT cars this year was a mistake. Some tracks allow for it. Laguna Seca isn’t one of those tracks, in my opinion.

[@benjaminfranklyn604]

wont be exciting as it is .

[@magnummax78]

Benjamin Franklyn, safe races with fewer cautions is always more exciting. More honest. I’m more of a Chevy man, but I would have liked to have seen the 66 Ford get its cumupins straight up.

[@commissarjackson]

Yellows are sooo exciting.

[@JK-ki8oq]

Got to b careful what u wish for

[@benjaminfranklyn604]

yea this yellow flag was out more than 40 minutes looking at it, isma need a bigger crew for clean up.nascar got 40 grid and plus more depending race track and yet clean up are quicker there than isma,since nascar makes twice or triple the money. another reason p cars and gt always race together is isma dont got f1 dsr or any sorta gadget to help race stay close as possible after the leader gap the pack the race gets dull, so adding traffic effect keep the race close as possible in p class. so isma makes dsr or boost system,then p cars could race without gt.

[@cobrafan427]

Gotta say that both the 5 AND the 99 were both at fault for that disaster at the beginning. Looked like they both jumped the start

[@blameusa7082]

Destruction Derby!

[@brandonrose4388]

I wouldn't let Juan Pablo Montoya drive a go kart much less a race car I don't know why they even give him a license

[@Mike-xh8fl]

The first 40 minutes of this race are a complete embarrassment - video game start/restart and hillbilly NASCAR squabbling behind the safety car. Dismal.

[@enzoardente4474]

To be fair the #99 should have backed off to begin with. He already was causing trouble at the start and was trying to do the same again

[@SergePupko]

Weather tech raceway Laguna seca... Doesnt sound right.

[@commissarjackson]

Porsche can't catch a break

[@MrIsmile3]

Winning car , Ford gt out

[@coadergrosse8696]

#24 :(

[@Dangerous_Dave_]

Complete shit show. Love it

[@efrenalvarez6190]

The Commentators are crap.

[@1SECRETBILLY]

A ny penalties given out. Or should I say awards for bad driver of the day,

[@savantart]

GT Sport IRL. SMH

[@roblawson2896]

A bit ugly, don't you think?

[@saleemwaheed9956]

Who the hell was driving the 99 car? I never heard of him. Any way, he should be beat to he is unconscious and banned from the series! This shit was ridiculous!

[@cmskinner3682]

It's like iRacing. Omg rotfl

[@Tegridynews]

Horrible race

[@takenoprisoners6604]

Why because of the first 30 min with 2 cautions? There was action and drama throughout. Unpredictable in every class. Passing throughout the race.

[@Tegridynews]

@@takenoprisoners6604 the first two green flag starts were wrecks. And all the other wrecks and cautions.not imsa fault just the way the dice rolled

[@joeygold24]

na i loved it

[@Tegridynews]

@@joeygold24 I love seen the Corvettes finsh last cars on the lead lap.lol.. and tha had pretty much a Flawless run. Slow junk

[@Tegridynews]

@Ricky Gravelboulder that's because the Ford GT had 2 bad races