Tom Blomqvist put the #60 Acura ARX-06 on the front row at Watkins Glen, qualifying P2 for the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen and setting up Meyer Shank Racing’s bid to defend the win they took here a year ago.
Blomqvist and Colin Braun, who share the #60 entry, led just two laps in the 2025 edition of this race. The second of those came on the final lap, which is the one that counted. The car crossed the finish line with less than 1 percent of its battery charge remaining. Saturday’s race gives them a chance to prove that result was not a fluke.
The sister #93 Acura ARX-06 will start P4, piloted by Renger van der Zande, Nick Yelloly, and Kaku Ohta. Van der Zande and Yelloly already have a 2026 win on the board, having taken the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach earlier this season, so the #93 entry arrives at Watkins Glen as the stronger points threat of the two cars. Ohta, the Honda-backed Japanese driver, ran with the #93 team at Daytona in January and appeared in three races with the team in 2025, including at this circuit. Outside IMSA, he competes full time in both Super Formula and Super GT with Honda, and currently leads the Super Formula championship with Docomo Team Dandelion Racing after sweeping both races of the opening weekend.
Van der Zande was candid about where the #93 car stands heading into race day. Acknowledging that the Acura tends to show well in qualifying only to face harder competition in race trim, he noted the team has improvements to make before the green flag. Blomqvist took a more measured view, pointing to the separation between the two Acura entries in qualifying as a matter of hundredths and calling the P2 slot a solid foundation for a six-hour event.
The ARX-06, designed by Honda Racing Corporation USA and built by Oreca, has been a consistent GTP-class factor since its 2023 debut, when it collected three wins and five pole positions across an 11-race season. Wayne Taylor Racing added victories at Sebring and Detroit in 2024. Meyer Shank’s Long Beach win earlier in 2026 extended that record to both Acura entries in the current field.
Flag-to-flag coverage of the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen begins at 12:00 PM ET on NBC Peacock and IMSA’s YouTube channel.
Blomqvist and Braun found victory lane here last year on nearly empty batteries. If the #60 is going to do it again, it will need to survive five hours and fifty-nine minutes first.
Source: Acura. Images courtesy of Acura.
