Wright Motorsports Earns Hard Fought Second Place Finish in Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen

Wright Motorsports delivered a remarkable drive at Watkins Glen International in the third Michelin Endurance Cup round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, bringing home a P2 result in the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen. After starting eighth on the grid in the GTD class in the No. 120 Porsche 911 GT3 R, Adam Adelson, Callum Ilott, and Tom Sargent climbed through the field to secure their second podium finish of the season.

Adelson took the start and held position throughout the opening laps before gaining another place as a competitor was assessed a drive-through penalty. From there, there were numerous interruptions in the early stages of the endurance race, with Wright Motorsports opting to make their first pit stop while keeping Adelson behind the wheel. The team completed service and rejoined in ninth before the field returned to green.

As the race settled back into a rhythm, Adelson worked his way back to eighth despite a series of additional short caution periods. However, another yellow emerged just after two hours had elapsed just as the team was preparing for a driver change. Instead, Wright Motorsports were forced to make an emergency fuel-only stop before bringing the No. 120 Porsche back to pit lane one lap later for the driver change to Tom Sargent.

Following another quick splash of fuel, Sargent rejoined the race in 17th before beginning an impressive charge through the field. During his stint, he expertly avoided a major incident involving several cars ahead, allowing him to leap to sixth in class. Continuing to capitalize on the changing race conditions and strong pace, he climbed into fourth with two hours left on the clock.

Callum Ilott took over driving duties shortly thereafter and returned to the track in fifth. A drive-through penalty handed to another competitor promoted the No. 120 Porsche back to fourth before Ilott continued the charge into third. Another strategic opportunity for Wright Motorsports arose while several other entries elected to pit while the team stayed on track, allowing Ilott to inherit second position before the race returned to green with just over 1 hour remaining.

In the closing stages, the strategy played out perfectly. Ilott held strong over second place all the way to the checkered flag, completing an outstanding recovery drive after the team faced an initial setback.

This marks the team’s third top four finish of the season following a third place finish at Sebring International Raceway, a fourth place finish at WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway, and now a second place result at Watkins Glen International. 

“To get another podium after what has been a difficult season, and to do it on strategy and performance, is just really awesome,” said Adam Adelson. “It feels really great, but I also don't think I've ever been so dissatisfied with a podium result because we want to be on top. I think we're going to analyze exactly what we could have done better. We got a little unlucky with the strategy at the end of the race and the timing of Callum’s pit stop as it just so happened to coincide with traffic from the entire GTP field. But I'm just super proud of everyone, it really was a full team effort from our engineers and everyone on the crew. Our pit stops were smoking, I'm really happy with my stint, Tom had the avoidance of his life, and Callum drove great to bring it home at the end. I think we can only be proud.” 

“ We worked hard for that one,” added Callum Ilott. “We came back from a dodgy yellow that had initially dropped us to the back, but we were able to move forwards and I’m very happy. We didn't quite have the pure pace for the win today. I was trying to hold off the other Porsche in my first stint but the undercut worked in their favor, and then once we settled out near the end I had to focus on defending my position as well. Overall I’m very happy and it was a great job by the team. A few little issues that we needed to wiggle through, but between the wonderful avoidance by Tom, and the great first couple stints by Adam, this was a nice way to finish it off.” 

“The race was really cool,” echoed Tom Sargent. “We executed a really good race even though some things didn't go our way. I think we did so many pit stops just due to the way the yellow flags fell, but we dug ourselves out of it. When it mattered, we executed, and in the end it was a good outcome. Adam did an amazing start and Callum came in with a great finish. As for myself, I had a pretty big near miss. Hopefully that's my one-and-done for the year because that was a bit close. If you told us coming into the weekend that we’d be on the podium, we would have been very happy. But now that we’re here, we want more. We'll look back on this and know that this is a good result for us and it shows that we did the best we could do today. I think if things fell our way, we would've been one better, but we'll take second place this time.” 

Wright Motorsports will be back on track in just a few weeks as the team heads north of the border to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for the upcoming sprint round, set to take place from July 10th to 12th, 2026.