Turner Motorsport Takes Laguna Seca 120 as Mars and Machavern Seal GS Victory

Overview

• Turner Motorsport’s Luca Mars and Dillon Machavern won Saturday’s two-hour IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca by 4.063 seconds in the No. 95 BMW M4 GT4 EVO.
• Pole-sitter Nate Cicero led early in the No. 13 McCumbee McAleer Racing Ford Mustang GT4, but a quicker Turner stop put Mars in front before Morgan Burkhard’s No. 2 CSM Porsche grabbed second from Robert Noaker on the final lap in a fuel-saving fight.
• Bryson Morris and Mason Filippi controlled TCR in the No. 33 Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Elantra N TCR, converting Filippi’s class pole after the No. 99 Victor Gonzalez Racing Cupra fell back with a late puncture.
• Qualifying set the tone as Cicero claimed overall pole with a 1:28.848 for his second pole of 2026, while Filippi topped TCR with a 1:29.373, though TCR cars started behind the GS field by rule.
• The result is Turner’s first Pilot Challenge win since Mid-Ohio in June 2025 and its first at Laguna Seca since 2009, while BMW’s milestone underscores its long-run strength in GS.