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Nick Yelloly gave Acura Meyer Shank who ran his third championship post Sportscar imsa Weathertech consecutive before the Grand Prix of the Sports Car on Sunday in Road America.
Yelloly won a graphic 1: 48.628 in its ACURA ARX-06 N ° 93 to explore the n ° 25 Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 of Sheldon van der Linde of 0.053 second.
He marked the second pole of English of the season after winning the best qualification honors in the streets of Detroit.
His co -pilot Ranger Van der Zande took the post by car for the six hours of Glen du Sahlen.
Dries Vanthoor made two BMWs in the first three aboard the entrance No. 24, in front of Acura n ° 60 of Colin Braun, which finished fourth.
The Penske Porsche 963 n ° 6 by Matt Campbell completed the top-five, ahead of Jack Aitken, who was the fastest Cadillac v-series.
Filipe Albuquerque qualified seventh in n ° 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac, with Felipe Nasr, Jordan Taylor and Ross Gunn finishing the top of the range.
N ° 85 JDC-Miller Motorsports Porsche by Gianmaria Bruni experienced a time off at the turn 3 at the start of the 15-minute session, but rebounded to define the fastest 11th time in the general classification and in class.
PJ Hyett marked its third consecutive LMP2 pole, storming a time of turn of 1: 53,240 in n ° 99 AUCA ORECA 07 Gibson which was 0.666 second faster than George Kurtz n ° 04 in Crowdsstrike n ° 04 races before entry in April.
He marked the second consecutive post of Hyett on the track of the four -thousand Wisconsin.
The leader of the Daniel Goldberg championship finished third in entry No. 22 United Self -Sports, with Tonis Kasemets, during his LMP2 beginnings, qualifying a fourth impressive class in his team entrance Tonis.
Altoe takes the GTD Pro pole; Ward goes the fastest in GT
Dragonspeed claimed its third GTD Pro post of the season, Giacomo Altoe wrapping a better time of 2: 03.904 in its n ° 81 Ferrari 296 GT3.
It was 0.010 second faster than the number 3 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R of Alexander Sims, which will start second in class.
Altoe won his second class center of the season after winning the best qualification honors at the Weatherch Raceway Laguna Seca.
Corvette de Tommy Milner de Pratt Miller finished third in the class, the two Evos by Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 from Dan Harper and Madison Snow finished the top-cinq.
The honors of the GTD pole went to the Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Russell Ward n ° 57, thanks to a time of turn of 2: 03.745 which was faster than the winner of GTD Pro of Altoe.
As is the case now this season, the whole GTD Pro class will be grinded before the GTD category entries for the two -hour and 40 -minute race tomorrow.
Ward, who, with co -pilot Philip Ellis, directed the GTD championship, was ahead of team n ° 27 of the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO Race team from Casper Stevenson by 0.163 seconds.
He marked the fourth post in Ward and the first of the season and the tenth different winner from pole in class.
Onofrio Triarsi will start the third in class in its n ° 021 Triarsi Competizione Ferrari, in front of Robert Wickens’ fourth, Racing Racing Corvette in fourth.
The Grand Prix of the Motul Sportscar in Road America begins on Sunday at 1:10 p.m. with live coverage on Peacock as well as the IMSA YouTube channel for international viewers.
Results: qualifier
