Denis Dupont Daytona victory sees him break the top 100

The second IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race victory for former TCR International Series and Benelux racer Denis Dupont saw the Montreal-based Belgian break into the top 100 of the Kumho TCR World Ranking this week.

Dupont moved up 17 places to 97th in the classification, while his BHA Hyundai co-driver Preston Brown also made great progress, leaping up to 111th.

Dupont and Brown’s team-mate Mark Wilkins, who finished in second place in the race with his new co-driver Bryson Morris, made the most progress within the top 100, moving up 15 places to 62nd in the ranking, and is now just six spots behind the best-placed driver from the series, Mason Filippi.

After a year away from TCR competition, Ryan Eversley and his new Brazilian co-driver Celso Neto were the highest climbers of the week, both moving up 162 places in a week after their podium at Daytona in the Precision Racing LA Audi RS 3 LMS.

Meanwhile, Madison ‘Maddie’ Aust’s fourth place on her TCR debut along with her Brazilian co-driver Suellio Almeida established her as a potential leading female racer in the ranking, both debuting at 405th of the 1,500+ ranked drivers.

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