Tunjo, Workman Double Up Victories at Mid-Ohio

Photo: Geoff Miller/IMSA

Oscar Tunjo and Westin Workman completed weekend sweeps in the pair of IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge races at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. At least for Tunjo, it was a different experience compared to his flag-to-flag win from pole on Saturday.

Due to the wet weather conditions for qualifying on Saturday morning, the LMP3 grid was set by the fastest lap times in Saturday’s Race 1 on a damp-but-drying track.

Although Tunjo had solid pace in the No. 1 Gebhardt Motorsport Duqueine D09 Toyota, his best race lap was only fifth fastest in Race 1 which left him out of position for Sunday’s second 45-minute race of the weekend.

Tunjo gained a spot before the race even started as one car in front of him failed to present to the false grid in time.

After the green flag, he leapt to third into Turn 4 on Lap 2, got to second by Lap 3 and then chased down polesitter Gian Buffomante in his No. 30 Toney Driver Development Ligier JS P325 Toyota.

Buffomante led the opening ten laps before Tunjo made his move, using his more extensive LMP3 experience to his advantage. As Buffomante was balked exiting Turn 1 catching traffic, Tunjo darted to the inside in the Keyhole on Lap 11 to secure the lead.

Tunjo quickly built his lead and despite a full-course caution that wiped out the lead, drove away on a restart to his fifth total and fourth sprint win of 2026 by 11.337 seconds.

The battle for second came down to the final lap, although contact occurred between Buffomante and Danny Soufi in his No. 11 PINAXIS-ZONE 4 Racing Duqueine D09.

The incident was reviewed with no further action and Soufi made it through into second, while Buffomante was delayed in the gravel.

Toney’s second driver made it to the podium with Lincoln Day advancing to third in his No. 95 Ligier JS P325 entry.

In fourth and capturing the Bronze Cup win was Slade Stewart, making his IMSA LMP3 debut this weekend in the No. 29 Riley Ligier JS P320 Nissan.

GSX: Workman Makes it a Six-Pack of GSX Wins

Westin Workman’s win streak continued into the sixth round of GSX competition, following another authoritative victory at Mid-Ohio.

In today’s race, he again started from pole, led flag-to-flag, and captured the checkered by a winning margin of one lap in his No. 8 RAFA Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2.

He set a new GSX record for fastest race lap of 1 minute, 25.958 seconds (94.566 mph), which was more than 1.6 seconds faster than anyone else in class.

The battle in GSX most of the race was a strong three-way battle for second.

Bronze Cup winner Rob Walker started and finished second in his No. 53 Kingpin Racing Toyota, holding off the consistent advances of Justin Di Benedetto and Ismaeel Ellahi in a pair of Porsche 718 GT4 RS Clubsport cars.

Di Benedetto finished third in his No. 4 Di Benedetto Racing Porsche ahead of Ellahi in fourth in his No. 25 CSM Porsche.

RESULTS: Race 2

Source: Sports Car 365