The Brazilian went out in the course of the session and dropped a staggering lap of 1m32.656s across the 3.56-mile highway course to grab the highest spot within the No. 31 Motion Specific Racing Cadillac V-Collection.R.
The lap bested final 12 months’s mark of 1m34.031s set by Tom Blomqvist, who’s now Derani’s team-mate. Derani’s time additionally eclipsed the earlier fastest-ever prototype lap set by Oliver Jarvis in a Mazda DPi at 1m33.685s to assert pole in 2019.
Sebastien Bourdais, Derani’s Cadillac Racing counterpart representing Chip Ganassi Racing, was the closest challenger to Derani, falling solely 0.071s behind to finish up second.
The No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 had an adventurous run, with Felipe Nasr ending up third at 0.220s off the file time however not earlier than spinning off in Flip 5. The highest three had been the one ones to go sub-1m33s laps.
Connor De Phillippi flexed the muscle of the BMW M Hybrid V8, placing it fourth at solely 0.366s behind. In fifth was the No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06 pushed by Louis Deletraz, trailing 0.444s off pole.
Proton Competitors was the one GTP workforce to not put down a qualifying lap, which was because of Neel Jani crashing within the warm-up GTP session prior. The Porsche 963 was developing on visitors coming into Flip 5 whereas on chilly tires for an out-lap. Jani had solely run two laps previous to the shunt.
LMP2
Ben Keating, who’s double dipping into GTP and LMP2, continued to point out his power in qualifying, scoring the LMP2 class pole with a 1m38.501s within the No. 2 United Autosports USA ORECA. Remarkably, It’s the fifth straight 12 months Keating has captured the category pole.
The closest competitor to the highest time was Nick Boulle, who was solely 0.102s behind within the No. 52 ORECA for Inter Europol by PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports.
Crowdstrike Racing by APR’s George Kurtz was a distant third, 0.751s behind.
Photograph by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Pictures
#77 AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R: Laurin Heinrich, Sebastian Priaulx, Michael Christensen
GTD and GTD Professional
AO Racing’s Seb Priaulx took the highest spot in GTD Professional with a category monitor file with a time of 1m44.382s within the Porsche 911 GT3 R (992). The tempo was considerably quicker than final 12 months’s mark of 1m46.093 by Winward Racing’s Philip Ellis.
Jack Hawksworth was solely 0.080s behind within the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3.
Parker Thompson, Hawksworth’s team-mate, put the workforce’s No. 12 entry on pole in pro-am GTD with a 1m44.494s run. The outing by Thompson was a slim 0.043s forward of the MDK Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) of Klaus Bachler in second.
Katherine Legge was third in Gradient Racing’s Acura NSX GT3 in GTD, ending 0.146s off the mark set by Thompson.
Moments after the beginning of GTD and GTD Professional qualifying, Kellymoss with Riley’s David Brule stuffed the No. 92 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) into the barrier whereas popping out of pit lane. The incident introduced out the primary purple flag.
