IMSA Laguna Seca results, points: JDC-Miller snaps 5-year victory drought with landmark win

JDC-Miller MotorSports ended a winless streak of more than five years with a dramatic last-lap pass, taking the victory in the IMSA SportsCar Championship race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and becoming the first privateer team to win in Grand Touring Prototype.

Laurin Heinrich made the winning move in Turn 5 with the No. 5 Porsche 963, passing Earl Bamber in the No. 31 Cadillac V-Series.R to claim the Grand Touring Prototype victory by 0.758 seconds.

It's the fifth IMSA victory for JDC-Miller Motorsports and its first since the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in 2021. The team had been winless since the 2023 debut of the hybrid prototype in the rebranded GTP category (its previous best GTP finish was third at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in September 2024).

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“It hasn’t sunk in 100 percent yet, but certainly this is one of the biggest wins,” team principal John Church said. “We started here four years ago and didn’t have any idea what we were doing with this car and have slowly been building and picking up the pace. We’ve been fighting an uphill battle the last couple years, so this is really special.

“It’s been great to have Laurin come along and give us some direction and some pace as well,” he added. “What a day. Incredible! I couldn’t be happier.”
Heinrich combined with co-driver Tijmen van der Helm, who started 11th — last in the GTP category.

"This place seems to work for me and I love it, to be honest,” Heinrich said. “Every time I come here in the morning and see this track, I feel something special. The team has given Tijmen and me an extremely strong car, extremely well balanced. I think our strength was tires, which we could really make use of in the last four or five laps. The strategy also worked great. To have all this work pay off is incredible.