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Canadian Tire Motorsport Park

The 2017 Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix was a professional sports car racing event held at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park near Bowmanville, Ontario on July 7, 8, and 9, 2017. The race was the seventh round of the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the 32nd IMSA sanctioned sports car race held at the facility.

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The race was won overall by Eric Curran and Dane Cameron for the second year in a row, driving a Cadillac DPi-V.R (which replaced the Chevrolet Corvette DP they drove the year before) for Action Express Racing. They finished ahead of the JDC-Miller Motorsports Oreca 07 driven by Misha Goikhberg and Stephen Simpson, while the podium was completed by Scott Sharp and Ryan Dalziel of Tequila Patrón ESM. Performance Tech Motorsports won the Prototype Challenge class, with drivers James French and Patricio O'Ward finishing eighth overall, while in the GT Le Mans class the two entrants from BMW Team RLL driven by Bill Auberlen & Alexander Sims and John Edwards & Martin Tomczyk finished first and second in class and ninth and tenth overall. The GT Daytona class was won by Lawson Aschenbach and Andrew Davis in the Stevenson Motorsports Audi R8 LMS.

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Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps
Engine
1 P 31   Action Express Racing   Eric Curran
  Dane Cameron
Coyote Chevrolet Corvette DP C 125
Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8
2 P 5   Action Express Racing   João Barbosa
  Christian Fittipaldi
Chevrolet Corvette DP C 125
Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8
3 P 10   Wayne Taylor Racing   Ricky Taylor
  Jordan Taylor
Chevrolet Corvette DP C 125
Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8
4 P 90   VisitFlorida.com Racing   Ryan Dalziel
  Marc Goossens
Chevrolet Corvette DP C 125
Chevrolet LS9 5.5 L V8
5 P 70   Mazda Motorsports   Joel Miller
  Tom Long
Lola B08/80 C 125
Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L I4 Turbo
6 PC 54   CORE Autosport   Jon Bennett
  Colin Braun
Oreca FLM09 C 123
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
7 PC 8   Starworks Motorsport   Alex Popow
  Renger van der Zande
Oreca FLM09 C 123
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
8 PC 52   PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports   Robert Alon
  Tom Kimber-Smith
Oreca FLM09 C 123
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
9 PC 38   Performance Tech   James French
  Kyle Marcelli
Oreca FLM09 C 123
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
10 PC 85   JDC/Miller Motorsports   Misha Goikhberg
  Stephen Simpson
Oreca FLM09 C 122
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
11 P 60   Michael Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian   John Pew
  Oswaldo Negri Jr.
Ligier JS P2 C 122
Honda HR35TT 3.5 Turbo V6
12 PC 20   BAR1 Motorsports   Matt McMurry
  Johnny Mowlem
Oreca FLM09 C 122
Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
13 P 0   Panoz DeltaWing Racing   Katherine Legge
  Sean Rayhall
DeltaWing DWC 13 C 121
Élan 1.9 L Turbo I4
14 GTLM 67   Ford Chip Ganassi Racing   Ryan Briscoe
  Richard Westbrook
Ford GT M 119
Ford 3.5 L EcoBoost V6
15 GTLM 4   Corvette Racing   Oliver Gavin
  Tommy Milner
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 119
Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
16 PC 88   Starworks Motorsport   Mark Kvamme
  Richard Bradley
Oreca FLM09 C 119
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
17 GTLM 3   Corvette Racing   Antonio García
  Jan Magnussen
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 119
Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
18 GTLM 25   BMW Team RLL   Bill Auberlen
  Dirk Werner
BMW M6 GTLM M 119
BMW 4.4 L V8
19 GTLM 66   Ford Chip Ganassi Racing   Joey Hand
  Dirk Müller
Ford GT M 119
Ford 3.5 L EcoBoost V6
20 GTLM 912   Porsche North America   Earl Bamber
  Frédéric Makowiecki
Porsche 911 RSR M 119
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
21 GTLM 62   Risi Competizione   Giancarlo Fisichella
  Toni Vilander
Ferrari 488 GTE M 119
Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L V8
22 GTLM 911   Porsche North America   Patrick Pilet
  Nick Tandy
Porsche 911 RSR M 119
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
23 GTD 96   Turner Motorsport   Bret Curtis
  Jens Klingmann
BMW M6 GT3 C 116
BMW 4.4 L V8
24 GTD 6   Stevenson Motorsports   Robin Liddell
  Andrew Davis
Audi R8 LMS C 116
Audi 5.2 L V10
25 GTD 48   Paul Miller Racing   Bryan Sellers
  Madison Snow
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 116
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
26 GTD 63   Scuderia Corsa   Christina Nielsen
  Alessandro Balzan
Ferrari 488 GT3 C 116
Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L V8
27 GTD 16   Change Racing   Spencer Pumpelly
  Corey Lewis
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 116
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
28 GTD 73   Park Place Motorsports   Patrick Lindsey
  Jörg Bergmeister
Porsche 911 GT3 R C 116
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
29 GTD 22   Alex Job Racing   Cooper MacNeil
  Leh Keen
Porsche 911 GT3 R C 115
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
30 GTD 27   Dream Racing   Cédric Sbirrazzuoli
  Fabio Babini
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 115
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
31 GTD 9   Stevenson Motorsports   Lawson Aschenbach
  Matt Bell
Audi R8 LMS C 114
Audi 5.2 L V10
32 GTD 44   Magnus Racing   John Potter
  Andy Lally
Audi R8 LMS C 112
Audi 5.2 L V10
33 GTD 33   Riley Motorsports   Ben Keating
  Jeroen Bleekemolen
Dodge Viper GT3-R C 110
Dodge 8.3 L V10
34 GTLM 100   BMW Team RLL   John Edwards
  Lucas Luhr
BMW M6 GTLM M 108
BMW 4.4 L V8
35 GTD 23   Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing   Mario Farnbacher
  Alex Riberas
Porsche 911 GT3 R C 106
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
36 P 55   Mazda Motorsports   Jonathan Bomarito
  Tristan Nunez
Mazda Prototype C 60
Mazda MZ2.0T 2.0 L I4 Turbo
37 GTD 97   Turner Motorsport   Michael Marsal
  Markus Palttala
BMW M6 GT3 C 34
BMW 4.4 L V8
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CTSC Prototype Lites MX-5 Cup Nissan Micra Cup
GS   Scott Maxwell
  Billy Johnson
Race 1   Clark Toppe   Nikko Reger   Xavier Coupal
ST   Sarah Cattaneo
  Owen Trinkler
Race 2   Austin Versteeg   Mark Drennan   Olivier Bedard

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  1. ^ "Race Official Results" (PDF). International Motor Sports Association. July 11, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
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WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
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6 Hours of The Glen
2017 season Next race:
Northeast Grand Prix

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