2014 6 Hours of The Glen

The 2014 Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen was a sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) held on the Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York on June 29, 2014. The event served as the seventh of thirteen scheduled rounds of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship.

International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed that the race was part of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship schedule in October 2013.^[1] It was the first year the event was held as part of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship. The 2014 Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen was the seventh of thirteen scheduled sports car races of 2014 by IMSA, and it was the third round held as part of the North American Endurance Cup.^[1] The event was held at the eleven-turn 3.450 mi (5.552 km) Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York on June 29, 2014.^[1]

Before the race, Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor led the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 160 points, 7 points clear of João Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi in second, and Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas with 145 points.^[2] With 133 points, PC was led by Jon Bennett and Colin Braunwith a six-point advantage over Renger van der Zande.^[2] In GTLM, the Drivers' Championship was led by Bill Auberlen and Andy Priaulx with 123 points; the duo held a five-point gap over Antonio García and Jan Magnussen.^[2] Bill Sweedler and Townsend Bell led the GTD Drivers' Championship with 111 points, 1 point ahead of Leh Keen and Cooper MacNeil.^[2] Chevrolet, Porsche, and Ferrari were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Wayne Taylor Racing, CORE Autosport, BMW Team RLL, and AIM Autosport were their respective Teams' Championships.^[2]

Fifty-five cars were officially entered for the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen, with the bulk of entries in the Prototype (P) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) classes.^[3] Action Express Racing (AER) fielded two Chevrolet Corvette DP cars while VisitFlorida Racing (VFR) and Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) fielded one. Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR) and Michael Shank Racing (MSR) entered one Ford-powered Riley MkXXVI. Speedsource had two Lola B12/80 while Extreme Speed Motorsports (ESM) entered two HPD ARX-03b cars and OAK Racing entered one Morgan LMP2 chassis with Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 engine.^[4] The DeltaWing car after skipping the Belle Isle round.^[4] The Prototype Challenge (PC) class was composed of ten Oreca FLM09 cars: two from Starworks Motorsport and RSR Racing. BAR1 Motorsports, CORE Autosport, JDC-Miller MotorSports, Performance Tech, PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, and 8Star Motorsports entered one car each.^[5] GTLM was represented by eleven entries from five different brands.^[3] In the list of GTD entrants, twenty-one GT-specification vehicles were represented by six different manufacturers.^[3]

There were three practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Sunday, two on Friday and one on Saturday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. The third on Saturday afternoon lasted an hour.^[6]

Saturday afternoon's 80-minute four-group qualifying session gave 15-minute sessions to all categories. Cars in GTD were sent out first before those grouped in GTLM, PC, and Prototype had three separate identically timed sessions. Regulations stipulated teams to nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each classes starting order. IMSA would arranged the grid to put all Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM, and GTD cars.^[6]

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡. P stands for Prototype, PC (Prototype Challenge), GTLM (Grand Touring Le Mans) and GTD (Grand Touring Daytona).

Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡. P stands for Prototype, PC (Prototype Challenge), GTLM (Grand Touring Le Mans) and GTD (Grand Touring Daytona).