Skip Barber Alumni Colin Braun Wins Six Hours of Watkins Glen!

Skip Barber Racing School alumni Colin Braun captured the overall victory in the Six Hours of Watkins Glen. With this win, the Skip Barber graduate now has an overall win in three of the four legs of the Michelin Endurance Cup. In addition to Braun’s triumph in sportscars, Skip Barber alumni won races in stock cars at Pocono Raceway and open wheelers at Road America and Monza. Beginning with NASCAR’s visit to the Tricky Triangle of Pocono Raceway, Skip Barber alumni Connor Zilisch delivered a win for his interim crew chief, NASCAR Hall of Fame member Dale Earnhardt Jr. With Zilisch’s efforts, Dale Jr. became just the ninth person to win a NASCAR race as a driver, team owner, and crew chief. In the NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, Skip Barber alumni Chris Buescher led the field of graduates with a third-place finish. John Hunter Nemechek (6th) now has back-to-back top ten finishes, the third time he has achieved that mark this season. Graduate Austin Cindric completed the top ten in the 400-mile race. In addition to Zilisch, graduates Christian Eckes (3rd) and Sammy Smith (8th) also finished in the top ten of the NASCAR Xfinity Series race. At Road America, Skip Barber alumni Santino Ferrucci continued his hot summer with another top five finish. Since the Indianapolis 500, Ferruci has finished in the top five on a superspeedway, a street circuit, a short oval, and a road course. Fellow graduate Kyle Kirkwood was fourth in the 55-lap race from Elkhart Lake. In Indy NXT, Skip Barber alumni Myles Rowe was fifth. Skip Barber alumni continued to find success further down the ladder as Max Taylor collected a win in USF Pro 2000, Jack Jeffers earned a pole position in USF 2000, and former Skip Barber Race Series competitor Caleb Gafrarar added a top five finish to his rookie campaign in USF 2000. Across the Atlantic, 2023 Skip Barber Race Series champion Sebastian Wheldon was back in action in Italian F4 where he opened the weekend from the iconic Monza Circuit with a pole position that he converted to a win. That victory was Wheldon’s third of the season, all on different tracks. To learn more about the Skip Barber Racing School, including the Skip Barber Race Series, click here.