Acura’s Filipe Albuquerque took pole place for this weekend’s IMSA SportsCar Championship spherical at Street America.
Albuquerque beat his team-mate Jordan Taylor and Cadillac Racing’s Renger van der Zande within the 15-minute GTP qualifying session forward of Sunday’s 2h40m race across the four-mile observe that’s the self-proclaimed ‘America’s Nationwide Park of Pace’ and incorporates a 47-car entry.
The premier class GTP hybrids are again in motion at Elkhart Lake after taking a break at Mosport final month, the place LMP2 was the highest class.
Albuquerque set the benchmark at 1m49.559s within the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06, as Dane Cameron took a wild journey by way of the gravel within the points-leading No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 on the Carousel.
Taylor beat the provisional pole time with 1m49.235s within the sister No. 40 Acura, earlier than Albuquerque retook P1 with 1m48.968s, and his pole tear continued with a 1m48.601s that couldn’t be overwhelmed.
Van der Zande entered the dialog by grabbing P2 within the Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-Collection.R regardless of being half a second off the tempo. However Taylor retook second with 1m48.915s with two minutes to go, nonetheless three tenths down on Albuquerque, whereas van der Zande acquired inside 0.005s of Taylor however stayed third.
“I couldn’t go quicker,” stated Albuquerque. “It’s (team-mate) Ricky (Taylor’s) birthday and I promised him a pole.”
Jordan Taylor improved to 1m48.863s on his ultimate effort, 0.262s down on the pole time. Van der Zande will begin third, with the fast Gianmaria Bruni the quickest Porsche in Proton’s buyer No. 5 963 in fourth, forward of the Motion Specific-run Cadillac of Pipo Derani.
Connor De Phillippi’s No. 25 BMW M Hybrid V8, which set the tempo in apply, will begin from the third row in sixth. Nick Tandy was the quickest of the manufacturing facility Porsches in his No. 6 PPM 963, beating Richard Westbrook’s JDC-Miller MotorSport instance and Cameron’s No. 7 automotive.
BMW’s No. 24 automotive didn’t participate in qualifying after Jesse Krohn hit the wall on the Kink in FP2 this morning, requiring a critical restore job that included a brand new hybrid battery and transmission. However because the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing crew tried to get the automotive going, the advanced power storage system refused to conform.
#99 AO Racing ORECA LMP2-Gibson: PJ Hyett, Paul-Loup Chatin
Photograph by: Michael L. Levitt / Motorsport Photos
Hyett scores fourth consecutive pole in LMP2
General Mosport winner Nick Boulle set the early tempo for Inter Europol by PR1 Mathiasen, however AO Racing’s PJ Hyett was eager on extending his current run of poles by pipping his 1m54.516s by 0.024s with a 1m54.492s. Hyett improved to 1m53.818s on his subsequent tour earlier than slamming in 1m53.738s on his final lap.
“To get pole at Street America is such a tremendous feeling, my grandfather taught me to drive simply 100 miles from right here,” stated Hyett.
Ben Keating was again out in United Autosports’ No. 2 automotive after he suffered a brutal crash on the Carousel in FP2 this morning. He grabbed P2 because the clock ticked down with 1m54.110s.
Daniel Goldburg was third quickest within the No. 22 United Autosports Oreca with 1m54.129s. Early pole challenger Boulle labored right down to 1m54.303s however slipped to fourth.
Luis Perez Companc was fifth for AF Corse regardless of an off at Flip 12.
#4 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Tommy Milner, Nicky Catsburg
Photograph by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Photos
Corvette Racing 1-2 in GTD Professional
In GTD Professional, Nicky Catsburg took pole place within the No. 4 Corvette Z06 GT3.R with an early lap of 2m02.198s, which was three tenths faster than Alexander Sims’ first strive within the No. 3 sister Pratt Miller Motorsports-run automotive. Sims acquired inside 0.194s on his second push lap to make sure the Corvette 1-2.
“It was an superior lap and the automotive was actually dialled in, super-cool to have a 1-2 once more,” stated Catsburg.
Giacomo Altoe was a formidable third quickest in Conquest Racing’s Ferrari 296, forward of Jack Hawksworth – who had set the tempo in FP2 however suffered an enormous wreck within the Pilot Problem race that preceded qualifying – within the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F.
Oddly, Hawksworth stopped simply forward of the pitlane entry on his in-lap.
Mike Rockenfeller was subsequent up within the No. 64 Multimatic Ford Mustang from Oliver Jarvis in Pfaff Motorsports’ McLaren 720S.
Mikael Grenier was quickest within the pro-am GTD class in Korthoff/Preston Motorsports’ Mercedes-AMG, simply over a tenth away from Zach Robichon’s Coronary heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage.
