IMSA WEATHERTECH SPORTSCAR CHAMPIONSHIP: SAHLEN'S SIX HOURS OF THE GLEN

June 22, 2025

Tom Gamble

Zacharie Robichon

Casper Stevenson

Press Conference

THE MODERATOR: We now have our GTD winners here, Tom Gamble, Casper Stevenson, and Zacharie Robichon. This is the 14th win for the team, first since Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in 2024 in the GTD class with the No. 27 team.

Q. Zach, since you started from the pole position, take us through that first stint. It was pretty wild in here. I could only imagine what it looked like from your seat.

ZACHARIE ROBICHON: Yeah, the first two hours were possibly the craziest two hours I've ever had in a race car, which, when you feel like your car is fast, is usually not a good thing because you kind of want everything to be calm.

But it made it very exciting. And I must say that, especially at the beginning, the first 20, 30 minutes when there was sprinkling and everything was changing, felt like everybody was relatively calm; and then after that, everybody kind of lost their heads a little bit.

But it was very exciting, and it was a true endurance race that survival puts you in a position to win. And I think after the first two hours, many of the cars that just didn't have any incidents were in it for a legitimate shot at victory. It made it a true sort of endurance race in a compact six-hour package.

Q. Casper, you're now just 60 points out of the lead, but more importantly first win in IMSA. Tell us about both of those things.

CASPER STEVENSON: Yeah, I'm really happy with the championship position at the moment. And to get my first win is sick. I want to experience it again.

Q. Take us through a little bit of your stint in the car. Any adventures while you were at the wheel?

CASPER STEVENSON: Yeah, it was pretty good. I had a little contact with the Ferrari, and that lost us a few positions. But then I made some positions back up. Just fuel saving when I got behind cars that were not easy to pass, and it meant that when Tom got in, he was kind of in that front pack, and then he picked them off like a pro.

Q. Tom, obviously the 12 car pulled off the road late, but do you think you could have run them down anyway?

TOM GAMBLE: Yeah, it was obviously a bit of a crazy race. I think before the yellow came out at the end, it was looking a bit better because I had just got past the Rexy pro car. So I was hunting him down, and then the yellow came out, and obviously he got put back in front. So made my life a little bit more difficult.

Yeah. And then the that last two laps were just -- I think my heart was about 190 BPM for the last two laps. When I saw the Lexus, I think it had run out of fuel. It was a good feeling. Unfortunate for them. But really incredible to get my first win in IMSA. Feels like a long time coming. Incredible job by these two boys and also the Heart of Racing gave us a really fast car today.

I think when it was looking like second at the end, I was a bit disappointed because I wanted to pay them back with a win with the car they gave us. Onwards and up. I think had a very strong start to the season, and yeah, keep the momentum up now, and yeah, keep winning.

Q. Zacharie, in the big crash at Turn 9, how close do you feel you were to none of this happening at all? How close were you to disaster?

ZACHARIE ROBICHON: Very?

Honestly, I was telling the guys after I got out of the car, I don't think I've ever hit the brake pedal so hard in my life. It was a matter of inches.

The P2 car that was right in front of us, quite literally I was standing on the brake for all I could (indiscernible) hit the brake, I'm definitely in him, but luckily he kind of rolled off. Yeah, we definitely got lucky on that one.