The2016 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase was asports car race sanctioned by theInternational Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The Race was held atRoad America inElkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 7, 2016. The race was the ninth round of the2016 IMSA SportsCar Championship.

International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed the race was part of the schedule for the2016 IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA SCC) in August 2015.^[1] It was the third consecutive year the event was held as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The 2016 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase was the ninth of twelve scheduled sports car races of 2016 by IMSA, and was the sixth round not held on the held as part of the North American Endurance Cup.^[1] The race was held at the fourteen-turn 4.048 mi (6.515 km)Road America inElkhart Lake, Wisconsin on August 7, 2016.^[2]

Before the race,João Barbosa andChristian Fittipaldi led the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 220 points, ahead ofEric Curran andDane Cameron in second by four points, andJordan Taylor andRicky Taylor in third with 211 points.^[3] With 267 points,Alex Popow andRenger van der Zande led the Prototype Challenge Drivers' Championship overRobert Alon andTom Kimber-Smith by 17 points.^[3] In GTLM,Oliver Gavin andTommy Milner led the Drivers' Championship with 228 points, 10 ahead ofRyan Briscoe andRichard Westbrook.^[3] In GTD, the Drivers' Championship was led byAlessandro Balzan andChristina Nielsen with 212 points; the duo held a thirteen-point advantage overAndy Lally andJohn Potter.^[3]Chevrolet andAudi were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, whileAction Express Racing,Starworks Motorsport,Corvette Racing, andScuderia Corsa each led their own Teams' Championships.^[3]

Forty-one cars were officially entered for the Continental Tire Road Race Showcase, with most of the entries in the Prototype Challenge (PC), Grand Touring Le Mans (GTLM) and Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) categories.Action Express Racing (AER) fielded twoChevrolet Corvette DP cars whileVisitFlorida Racing (VFR) and Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) fielded one. Mazda Motorsports had two Lola B12/80 cars andMichael Shank Racing (MSR) entered oneLigier JS P2 chassis with aHonda HR35TTtwin-turbocharged 3.5-literV6 engine.Panoz brought the DeltaWing car to Road America for the fourth successive year.^[4] ThePrototype Challenge (PC) class was composed of eight Oreca FLM09 cars: three fromStarworks Motorsports and two from BAR1 Motorsports.CORE Autosport,JDC-Miller MotorSports, Performance Tech andPR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entered one car each.^[4][5] GTLM was represented by nine entries from five different brands.^[4] In the list of GTD entrants, fifteenGT3-specification vehicles were represented by six different manufacturers.Alex Job Racing entered a thirdPorsche 911 GT3 R.^[6]Black Swan Racing withdrew afterTim Pappas' father died.^[7]

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 the third on Saturday morning lasted an hour.^[8]

In the first session, Bomarito set the fastest time in the No. 55 Mazda with a time of 1 minute, 56.623 seconds, 0.231 seconds faster than teammate Miller in the sister No. 70 Mazda. Ricky Taylor was third quickest in WTR's No. 10 car.^[9] The fastest PC class car wasStephen Simpson's No. 85 JDC-Miller Motorsports car with a lap of 2 minutes, 00.519 seconds.^[10] Ford occupied first and second in GTLM with Westbrook faster than his teammate Müller by less than four-tenths of a second.^[9] Bryan Sellers' No. 48 Paul Miller Lamborghini recorded the fastest time in GTD.^[10]

In the second practice session, Negri led with a lap of 1 minute, 55.747 seconds, ahead of Nunez's No. 55 Mazda.^[11] The nine-vehicle PC class was led by CORE Autosport's No. 54 car, driven by Braun with a time of 1 minute, 59.060 seconds.^[12] With a 2:03.415 lap, Hand led the GTLM class in the No. 66 CGR Ford GT, followed by Luhr's No. 100 RLL BMW M6.^[11] Pumpelly led GTD with a time of 2:07.078.^[12]

Bomarito led the final practice session in the No. 55 Mazda with a lap of 1 minute, 55.021 seconds. Jordan Taylor's WTR car was second-fastest.^[13] A 1:58.898 lap saw van der Zande's No. 8 Starworks vehicle lead PC.^[14] With a 2:02.620 lap, García led the GTLM class in the No. 3 Corvette.^[14] Sellers led GTD with a time of 2 minutes, 06.753 seconds.^[14]

Saturday afternoon's 90-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.^[15][8]

Pole positions in each class are indicated inbold and by ‡.

Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	P	55	Mazda Motorsports	Jonathan Bomarito	1:54.507	–	1‡
2	P	5	Action Express Racing	Christian Fittipaldi	1:55.659	+1.152	2
3	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor	1:55.685	+1.178	3
4	P	70	Mazda Motorsports	Tom Long	1:56.021	+1.514	4
5	P	31	Action Express Racing	Eric Curran	1:56.120	+1.613	5
6	P	90	VisitFlorida Racing	Marc Goossens	1:56.992	+2.485	6
7	P	0	Panoz DeltaWing Racing	Sean Rayhall	1:57.227	+2.720	7
8	PC	38	Performance Tech Motorsports	James French	1:59.133	+4.626	8‡
9	PC	7	Starworks Motorsport	José Gutiérrez	1:59.208	+4.701	171
10	PC	85	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Misha Goikhberg	1:59.462	+4.955	9
11	PC	20	BAR1 Motorsports	Matt McMurry	1:59.519	+5.012	10
12	PC	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Robert Alon	1:59.625	+5.118	11
13	PC	8	Starworks Motorsport	Alex Popow	1:59.634	+5.127	12
14	P	60	Michael Shank Racing withCurb-Agajanian	John Pew	2:00.4361	+5.929	13
15	PC	26	BAR1 Motorsports	Don Yount	2:01.091	+6.584	14
16	PC	54	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett	2:02.376	+7.869	15
17	GTLM	66	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Dirk Müller	2:02.451	+7.944	18‡
18	GTLM	911	Porsche North America	Patrick Pilet	2:02.912	+8.405	19
19	GTLM	67	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Ryan Briscoe	2:02.936	+8.429	392
20	GTLM	62	Risi Competizione	Giancarlo Fisichella	2:02.975	+8.468	20
21	GTLM	912	Porsche North America	Earl Bamber	2:03.173	+8.666	21
22	PC	88	Starworks Motorsport	Mark Kvamme	2:03.215	+8.708	16
23	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Antonio García	2:03.432	+8.925	22
24	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin	2:03.521	+9.014	23
25	GTLM	100	BMW Team RLL	Lucas Luhr	2:04.129	+9.622	403
26	GTLM	25	BMW Team RLL	Bill Auberlen	2:04.882	+10.375	414
27	GTD	23	Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing	Alex Riberas	2:07.520	+13.013	24‡
28	GTD	6	Stevenson Motorsports	Andrew Davis	2:07.759	+13.252	25
29	GTD	9	Stevenson Motorsports	Matt Bell	2:07.785	+13.278	26
30	GTD	33	Riley Motorsports	Ben Keating	2:08.166	+13.659	27
31	GTD	63	Scuderia Corsa	Christina Nielsen	2:08.237	+13.730	28
32	GTD	16	Change Racing	Spencer Pumpelly	2:08.243	+13.736	29
33	GTD	27	Dream Racing	Luca Persiani	2:08.334	+13.827	30
34	GTD	48	Paul Miller Racing	Madison Snow	2:08.495	+13.988	31
35	GTD	73	Park Place Motorsports	Patrick Lindsey	2:08.504	+13.997	32
36	GTD	96	Turner Motorsport	Bret Curtis	2:08.680	+14.173	33
37	GTD	97	Turner Motorsport	Markus Palttala	2:09.048	+14.541	34
38	GTD	44	Magnus Racing	John Potter	2:09.881	+15.374	385
39	GTD	80	Lone Star Racing	Dan Knox	2:11.251	+16.744	35
40	GTD	77	Alex Job Racing	David MacNeil	2:15.449	+20.942	36
41	GTD	22	Alex Job Racing	Cooper MacNeil	No time6	–	37
Sources:[16][17]

• ¹ The No. 60 MSR Ligier had its fastest lap deleted as penalty for causing a red flag during its qualifying session.
• ² The No. 7 Starworks Motorsport entry was sent to the rear of the PC grid as per 13.1.2a of the Sporting regulations (Ride height).^[15]
• ³ The No. 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing entry was sent to the rear of the GTLM grid as per 13.1.2a of the Sporting regulations (Ride height).^[15]
• ⁴ The No. 100 BMW Team RLL entry was sent to the rear of the GTLM grid as per article 8.3.2 of the Sporting regulations (Boost control violation).^[15]
• ⁵ The No. 25 BMW Team RLL entry was sent to the rear of the GTLM grid as per article 8.3.2 of the Sporting regulations (Boost control violation).^[15]
• ⁶ The No. 44 Magnus Racing Audi was sent to the rear of the GTD grid as per article 40.1.5 of the Sporting regulations (Tire change).^[15]
• ⁷ The No. 22 Alex Job Racing Porsche had all qualifying laps forfeited as per Article 40.2.6. of the Sporting regulations (Working on the car during qualifying).^[15]

With a total of 253 points, Barbosa and Fittipaldi's second-place finished allowed them to keep their advantage in the Prototype Drivers' Championship, but their advantage was reduced to 1 point by race-winners Curran and Cameron.^[18] Popow and van der Zande's sixth-place finish kept them atop the PC Drivers' Championship, but their advantage was reduced to 7 points over race winners Alon and Kimber-Smith.^[18] The final results of GTLM allowed Gavin and Milner to extend their advantage in the GTLM Drivers' Championship to 13 points over Briscoe and Westbrook.^[18] Balzan and Nielsen's third-place finish allowed them to increase their advantage in the GTD Drivers' Championship to 15 points over Lally and Potter. Bleekemolen and Keating advanced from fifth to fourth while Farnbacher and Riberas dropped to fifth.^[18] Chevrolet and Audi continued to top their respective Manufactures' Championships while Action Express Racing, Starworks Motorsport, Corvette Racing, and Scuderia Corsa kept their respective advantages in their of Teams' Championships with three rounds left in the season.^[18]

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

Final race classification Pos Class No. Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps Time/Retired Engine 1 P 31 Action Express Racing Eric Curran Dane Cameron Corvette Daytona Prototype C 73 2:40:56.808‡ Chevrolet 5.5 LV8 2 P 5 Action Express Racing João Barbosa Christian Fittipaldi Corvette Daytona Prototype C 73 +0.626 Chevrolet 5.5 LV8 3 P 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor Corvette Daytona Prototype C 73 +1.460 Chevrolet 5.5 LV8 4 P 60 Michael Shank Racing withCurb-Agajanian John Pew Oswaldo Negri Jr. Ligier JS P2 C 73 +18.283 Honda HR35TT 3.5 TurboV6 5 P 55 Mazda Motorsports Jonathan Bomarito Tristan Nunez Mazda Prototype C 73 +22.114 Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 LI4Turbo 6 P 90 VisitFlorida Racing Marc Goossens Ryan Dalziel Corvette Daytona Prototype C 73 +34.499 Chevrolet 5.5 LV8 7 PC 52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Robert Alon Tom Kimber-Smith Oreca FLM09 C 72 +1 lap‡ Chevrolet 6.2 LV8 8 PC 54 CORE Autosport Jon Bennett Colin Braun Oreca FLM09 C 72 +1 lap Chevrolet 6.2 LV8 9 PC 38 Performance Tech Motorsports James French Kyle Marcelli Oreca FLM09 C 72 +1 lap Chevrolet 6.2 LV8 10 PC 7 Starworks Motorsport José Gutiérrez Gustavo Yacamán Oreca FLM09 C 72 +1 lap Chevrolet 6.2 LV8 11 PC 20 BAR1 Motorsports Matt McMurry Bruno Junqueira Oreca FLM09 C 72 +1 lap Chevrolet 6.2 LV8 12 P 0 Panoz DeltaWing Racing Katherine Legge Sean Rayhall DeltaWing DWC13 C 72 +1 lap Élan (Mazda) 1.9 LI4Turbo 13 GTLM 4 Corvette Racing Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 70 +3 Laps‡ Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 LV8 14 GTLM 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Ford GT M 70 +3 Laps FordEcoBoost 3.5 LTwin-turboV6 15 GTLM 100 BMW Team RLL John Edwards Lucas Luhr BMW M6 GTLM M 70 +3 Laps BMW 4.4 LTurboV8 16 GTLM 912 Porsche North America Earl Bamber Frédéric Makowiecki Porsche 911 RSR M 70 +3 Laps Porsche 4.0 LFlat-6 17 GTLM 62 Risi Competizione Toni Vilander Giancarlo Fisichella Ferrari 488 GTE M 70 +3 Laps Ferrari F154CB 3.9 LTurboV8 18 GTLM 3 Corvette Racing Antonio García Jan Magnussen Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 70 +3 Laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 LV8 19 GTLM 911 Porsche North America Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy Porsche 911 RSR M 70 +3 Laps Porsche 4.0 LFlat-6 20 GTLM 25 BMW Team RLL Bill Auberlen Dirk Werner BMW M6 GTLM M 69 +4 Laps BMW 4.4 LTurboV8 21 GTD 33 Riley Motorsports Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Dodge Viper GT3-R C 69 +1 lap‡ Dodge 8.3LV10 22 GTD 73 Park Place Motorsports Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Lindsey Porsche 911 GT3 R C 69 +4 Laps Porsche 4.0 LFlat-6 23 GTD 63 Scuderia Corsa Christina Nielsen Alessandro Balzan Ferrari 488 GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Ferrari F154CB 3.9 LTurboV8 24 GTD 44 Magnus Racing John Potter Andy Lally Audi R8 LMS C 69 +4 Laps Audi 5.2LV10 25 GTD 6 Stevenson Motorsports Andrew Davis Robin Liddell Audi R8 LMS C 69 +4 Laps Audi 5.2LV10 26 GTD 9 Stevenson Motorsports Lawson Aschenbach Matt Bell Audi R8 LMS C 69 +4 Laps Audi 5.2LV10 27 GTD 96 Turner Motorsport Bret Curtis Jens Klingmann BMW M6 GT3 C 69 +4 Laps BMW 4.4 LTurboV8 28 GTD 48 Paul Miller Racing Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 69 +4 Laps Lamborghini 5.2 LV10 29 GTD 97 Turner Motorsport Michael Marsal Markus Palttala BMW M6 GT3 C 69 +4 Laps BMW 4.4 LTurboV8 30 GTD 80 Lone Star Racing Dan Knox Mike Skeen Dodge Viper GT3-R C 69 +4 Laps Dodge 8.3LV10 31 GTD 22 Alex Job Racing Cooper MacNeil Sven Müller Porsche 911 GT3 R C 69 +4 Laps Porsche 4.0 LFlat-6 32 GTD 23 Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing Mario Farnbacher Alex Riberas Porsche 911 GT3 R C 69 +4 Laps Porsche 4.0 LFlat-6 33 GTD 77 Alex Job Racing Gunnar Jeannette David MacNeil Porsche 911 GT3 R C 69 +4 Laps Porsche 4.0 LFlat-6 34 GTD 16 Change Racing Corey Lewis Spencer Pumpelly Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 68 +5 Laps Lamborghini 5.2 LV10 35 GTLM 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Dirk Müller Joey Hand Ford GT M 67 +6 Lpas FordEcoBoost 3.5 LTwin-turboV6 36 PC PC 8 Starworks Motorsport Alex Popow Renger van der Zande Oreca FLM09 C 66 Accident Chevrolet 6.2 LV8 37 DNF PC 85 JDC-Miller MotorSports Misha Goikhberg Stephen Simpson Oreca FLM09 C 66 Accident Chevrolet 6.2 LV8 38 PC 26 BAR1 Motorsports Don Yount Johnny Mowlem Oreca FLM09 C 65 +8 Laps Chevrolet 6.2 LV8 39 DNF GTD 27 Dream Racing Luca Persiani Cédric Sbirrazzuoli Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 44 Did Not Finish Lamborghini 5.2 LV10 40 DNF PC 88 Starworks Motorsport Mark Kvamme Richard Bradley Oreca FLM09 C 25 Accident Chevrolet 6.2 LV8 41 DNF P 70 Mazda Motorsports Tom Long Joel Miller Mazda Prototype C 6 Oil pump Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 LI4Turbo Sources:[19][20]

Tyre manufacturers Key Symbol Tyre manufacturer C Continental M Michelin

Prototype Drivers' Championship standings Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 João Barbosa Christian Fittipaldi 253 2 Eric Curran Dane Cameron 252 3 Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor 242 4 Marc Goossens 223 5 Oswaldo Negri Jr. 220 Source:[18]

PC Drivers' Championship standings Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 Alex Popow Renger van der Zande 293 2 Robert Alon Tom Kimber-Smith 286 3 Stephen Simpson Misha Goikhberg 260 4 Jon Bennett Colin Braun 245 5 James French Kyle Marcelli 241 Source:[18]

GTLM Drivers' Championship standings Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner 264 2 Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook 251 3 Antonio García Jan Magnussen 223 4 1 Giancarlo Fisichella Toni Vilander 220 5 1 Bill Auberlen Dirk Werner 219 Source:[18]

GTD Drivers' Championship standings Pos. +/– Driver Points 1 Alessandro Balzan Christina Nielsen 243 2 Andy Lally John Potter 228 3 1 Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating 222 4 1 Andrew Davis Robin Liddell 212 5 2 Mario Farnbacher Alex Riberas 207 Source:[18]

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

Prototype Teams' Championship standings Pos. +/– Team Points 1 No. 5Action Express Racing 253 2 No. 31Action Express Racing 252 3 No. 10Wayne Taylor Racing 242 4 No. 90VisitFlorida Racing 223 5 No. 60Michael Shank Racing withCurb-Agajanian 220 Source:[18]

PC Teams' Championship standings Pos. +/– Team Points 1 No. 8Starworks Motorsport 293 2 No. 52PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports 286 3 No. 54CORE Autosport 268 4 No. 85JDC-Miller MotorSports 266 5 No. 38 Performance Tech Motorsports 260 Source:[18]

GTLM Teams' Championship standings Pos. +/– Team Points 1 No. 4Corvette Racing 264 2 No. 67Ford Chip Ganassi Racing 251 3 No. 3Corvette Racing 223 4 1 No. 62Risi Competizione 220 5 1 No. 25BMW Team RLL 219 Source:[18]

GTD Teams' Championship standings Pos. +/– Team Points 1 No. 63Scuderia Corsa 243 2 No. 44Magnus Racing 228 3 1 No. 33Riley Motorsports 222 4 1 No. 6 Stevenson Motorsports 212 5 2 No. 23Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing 207 Source:[18]

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

Prototype Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 271 2 Honda 259 3 Mazda 242 4 BMW 56 5 Ford 30 Source:[18]

GTLM Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 262 2 Ford 249 3 Porsche 237 4 1 BMW 230 5 1 Ferrari 230 Source:[18]

GTD Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos. +/– Manufacturer Points 1 Audi 248 2 1 Porsche 241 3 1 Ferrari 240 4 Dodge 234 5 BMW 223 Source:[18]

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

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