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on March 30, 2019. The race was contested with GT3-spec cars, "GT Cup" for one-make spec cars, and GT4-spec cars. The race was organized by the

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(SRO). The third and final California 8 Hours was the second round of the

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. The event was replaced on the

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calendar by the Indianapolis 8 Hour. The race was won by Taiwanese Ferrari team HubAuto Corsa. The Ferrari 488 GT3 completed 327 laps in the allotted eight hours, making a race distance of over 730 miles. Miguel Molina,

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beat Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing by twelve seconds. American Porsche team Park Place Motorsports was third. Lamborghini team ARC Bratislava won the GT Cup class, finishing 24 laps behind the HubAuto Corsa Ferrari and completed 678 miles. Winning the GT4 class was the PF Racing Ford Mustang, a further seven laps down, completing 662 miles.

Entries

Qualifying

Pole Shootout

These were the 10 fastest cars in qualifying

Official results

Bold denotes category winner. * Race time of winning car: 8:01:11.484 * Race distance of cars on the leaders lap: * Fastest race lap: 1:24.287 – Alex Buncombe on lap 5

Notes

References

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Motorsport competitions in California

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