6 Hours of Road America — the race team's race report

On Saturday 25 July 2026, JOBARD Racing took the start of the 6 Hours of Road America, on the Wisconsin circuit, at the wheel of the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R in iRacing. The car was shared between Guillaume Jobard and John Ribeiro. Six hours of endurance concluded in P19 in the GT3 category from 33 entries (P40 overall), following an accident that could have ended the race before the first third was done.

Twice in the wrong place

As early as the second lap, a heavy accident between GT3 cars broke out directly ahead of the Corvette. The car got through, undamaged. The sort of moment that suggests the race is off to a good start.

The second episode would leave no such margin. A LMP2 car was stationary in the middle of the track. The avoidance line was taken — and the LMP2 pulled away at the precise moment of passing. The contact sent the Corvette into the concrete barrier. The car came to rest on its roof. Return to the pits by flatbed truck.

There is nothing to rewrite here: this accident was not of our making and could not have been avoided. That is endurance racing. What belongs to us is what we do with it afterwards.

Seventeen minutes, then six places

17 minutes of repairs in the pits. The race resumed from 25th in class, at a deficit no pace could recover over a six-hour event. Only one question remained: to see it through, or not.

The team saw it through. 240 laps completed, six positions recovered in the second half of the race, finishing 14 laps from the class winner. The car's fastest lap came after the accident: 2:05.119, the crew's benchmark on the combination, set in the race rather than in practice. That is perhaps the most telling figure of the day.

The result

• Finish: P19 in the GT3 category from 33 entries — P40 overall
• Crew: Guillaume Jobard / John Ribeiro
• Circuit: Road America, Elkhart Lake (Wisconsin)
• Car: Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R · iRacing
• Distance: 240 laps, 14 laps from the class winner
• Fastest lap: 2:05.119
• Format: 6-hour endurance, shared driving

What comes next

The post-event debrief runs through JOBARD Race Engineer: stint pace, tyre degradation, pit-stop window, and above all the reading of the setup adjustments that allowed time to be recovered after the repairs. A race completed despite a heavy accident is often worth more, in terms of method, than one that passes without incident. See you at the next round, live on the Twitch channel.