The 2020 Indianapolis 8 Hours was an endurance race held on 4 October 2020 at the

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in Speedway, in

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. The event was open to cars in GT classes, namely GT3 and GT4. It was the inaugural running of the Indianapolis 8 Hour, replacing the previous American leg of the

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, the California 8 Hours held at

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. It was the second leg of the

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and the sixth and final round of the 2020 GT World Challenge America. The GT World Challenge America results would be determined by the race results after three hours instead of the full eight hours. 22 cars started the race, 12 GT3 entries and 10 GT4 entries. Just three of the entries had also raced in round 1 of the Intercontinental GT Challenge held in Australia in February. The race was dominated by BMWs. The German Walkenhorst Motorsport team finished first and second after eight hours, lead by the #34

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of Dutch driver

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, American driver

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and Brazilian driver

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. BMW M4s also finished first and second in the GT4 class.

Class structure

Cars competed in the following four classes. * GT3 Overall * GT3 Pro/Am * GT3 Silver Cup * GT4

Entries

Results

Top 10 shootout

Race

* Race time of winning car: 8:00:55.390 * Race distance of cars on the lead lap: 1177.500 km * Fastest race lap: 1:23.310 –

on lap 219

References

External links

* * {{Sportscar Race Report , Year_of_race=2020 , Sportscar_Series=Intercontinental GT Challenge , Previous_race_in_season=

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