TCR / 14 July 2025
Major victories for JAS Motorsport-built racing cars
Two major victories for the Honda Civic Type R TCR plus multiple class successes for the NSX GTX Evo 22 made it another ultra-strong weekend for JAS Motorsport-built racing cars across the globe.
IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge
Louis Philippe Montour and Karl Wittmer made it back-to-back TCR wins for the first time in their Montreal Motorsport Group Civic Type R TCR to elevate themselves into third place in the Drivers’ Championship.
Montour started second and ran there for most of the first hour of the race, but was close enough to the front that a slick driver swap allowed Wittmer to emerge with a lead that he kept to the flag.
KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering driver William Tally was spun to the tail of the field by another car on the second lap. He and Tim Lewis Jr recovered to 10th.
TCR South America
Leonel Pernia increased his series advantage as he led pole-sitting Honda Racing YPF team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr home for a one-two finish for the Civic Type R TCR at Mercedes, Uruguay.
Pernia out-sprinted Piquet to take the lead by the first corner and then hauled himself up from ninth on Race Two’s partially-reversed grid to open up a 92-point lead.
Mariano Pernia – who qualified a season’s-best third – stalled on the line, but rescued a sixth-place finish later on, one spot higher than nephew Tiago’s best result of the day.
Honda Racing YPF’s Adrian Chiriano increased his advantage in the Trophy class after twice finishing second. Porthack Racing’s Enzo Gianfratti beat him to category honours in Race One.
British GT Championship
Bridger Motorsport scored a double win in the GT3 Silver-Am class at Snetterton as the NSX GT3 Evo 22 continued to show its strength.
Johnny Ip started from category pole in Race One and, after spinning to the tail of the GT3 field, recovered strongly to take Silver-Am success with co-driver Jay Bridger.
The Hong Kong racer was equally inspired in Race Two as he closed down an eight-second deficit after climbing aboard to chase down and pass the car ahead, take a fourth Silver-Am win of 2025 and close to within 3.5 points of the series lead.
Italian GT Sprint
Nova Race scored the first overall podium finish for the NSX GTX Evo 25 as Daniele di Amato and Felice Jelmini finished second in Sunday’s 50-minute race at Mugello.
Having started sixth overall, several strong passing moves by di Amato plus a slick driver change meant that Jelmini lay third as racing resumed with 15 minutes left, following a safety-car period that had bunched the field together.
A spectacular ‘round the outside’ pass netted the duo second overall. That made up for the previous day when Jelmini was hit by a rival on the opening lap, had to make an unplanned pitstop, leading to di Amato coming home sixth in the Pro class.
The same safety car that helped Jelmini wiped out a 15-second Am lead that had been built up by class polesitter Paolo Rocca for his co-driver Luca Magnoni.
Magnoni was powerless to hold onto his advantage at the green and fell to fifth. He and Rocca were second in class on Saturday.
