ALMS

BMW Team RLLTake GT Front Row For ALMS Mid-Ohio Qualifying

Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

Edited: Aug 6, 2011, 6:28 PM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

BMW Team RLL qualify 1-2 at Mid-Ohio

Lexington, Ohio - August, 5, 2011… BMW Team RLL will start 1-2 in tomorrow's American Le Mans Series Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge following the team's third consecutive GT class front row qualifying effort.

Joey Hand drove the No. 56 BMW M3 GT to his third pole of the year (four total: Hand: Long Beach, Lime Rock Park, Mid-Ohio. M ller: Mosport) with a lap of 1:20.539 minutes around the 2.25-mile, 13-turn road course.

BMW Team RLL BMW M3 GT: Bill Auberlen, Dirk Werner

Photo by: Ted Rossino

Only 0.116 seconds slower, Dirk Werner qualified the No. 55 M3 GT with a 1:20.655 minute lap to sew up the third 1-2 BMW Team RLL start. The duo of Werner and Auberlen has qualified second to teammates Hand and M ller in the last three races.

Hand along with co-drivers Dirk Müller and Andy Priaulx, won the opening round of the 2011 ALMS season, leading a 1-2 BMW Team RLL GT class finish at the 12 Hours of Sebring. Hand and M ller scored a second and third consecutive victory at Long Beach and Lime Rock Park. The duo finished fourth at Mosport to extend their lead in the driver point standings.

Auberlen and Werner stand third in GT driver points with two podium finishes this season (Sebring - second, Mosport - third).

By: BMW / RLL

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Alex Job Racing Mid-Ohio Qualifying Report

Next article Flying Lizard Motorsports Mid-Ohio Qualifying Report

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

George Russell: F1 2026 season a test of "character and resilience"

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

United States GP

49 min

George Russell: F1 2026 season a test of "character and resilience"

Marc Marquez: ‘Jorge Martin rides on instinct; he just attacks, and that’s his strength’

MotoGP

MGP MotoGP

Australian GP

1 h

Marc Marquez: ‘Jorge Martin rides on instinct; he just attacks, and that’s his strength’

Lamborghini Super Trofeo | North America, Race 2: Bamber dominates to take the win

Lamborghini Super Trofeo

LBST Lamborghini Super Trofeo

World Finals - Monza 2026

1 h

Lamborghini Super Trofeo | North America, Race 2: Bamber dominates to take the win

Belgian firm to take over Renault/Alpine engine facility in Viry

WEC

WEC WEC 2 h

Belgian firm to take over Renault/Alpine engine facility in Viry

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts