Qualifying report
IMSA Road America
Road America IMSA: Cameron shatters DPi lap record to win pole
Dane Cameron claimed IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pole position for Acura Team Penske at Road America with a 1min48.715sec lap that cut more than two seconds from the track's DPi record.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Aug 4, 2019, 6:24 AM
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Oliver Jarvis performed superbly for Mazda Team Joest to split the Acura ARX-05s before the session was interrupted by a red flag caused by Matt McMurry dropping his P2 car into a sandtrap.
However, when action resumed and Helio Castroneves went out for the final five minutes, the Brazilian veteran was a man on a mission, and his last effort drew him to within 0.016sec of Cameron to complete an Acura Team Penske front row.
Jonathan Bomarito was not so successful in finding a clean lap in the second Mazda and was disappointed to wind up 0.4sec off teammate Jarvis, but it was still quick enough for fourth.
Simon Trummer earned the honor of being quickest Cadillac DPi-V.R driver in JDC Miller Motorsports' #84 entry but he was 1.2sec off the ultimate pace, albeit 0.2sec ahead of Action Express Racing’s Pipo Derani.
A brief and mild rain shower between the abbreviated GTD session and the GT Le Mans session left some localized damp patches, one of which sent Jan Magnussen’s #3 Corvette C7.R skating on at the final corner, although he dug himself out without assistance.
Magnussen’s teammate Oliver Gavin was the first driver to eclipse the GT Daytona times, and it took until his third lap to do so. Thereafter the track started drying rapidly, Patrick Pilet’s #912 Porsche took a turn at the top but then Tom Blomqvist’s #25 BMW M8 set a new GTLM lap record at 2min00.344sec to go P1. He then pitted.
Gavin looked like he was going to be Blomqvist’s closest challenger, 0.319sec behind; then Ryan Briscoe completed a strong lap in the final seconds to beat Gavin by 0.005sec, but the former IndyCar driver was adjudged to have exceeded track limits at Turn 1 and his lap was invalidated.
Thus Briscoe was relegated to fourth, where he’ll start alongside the second BMW of Jesse Krohn, who was some 0.4sec slower than his teammate.
Dirk Muller (Ford) and Laurens Vanthoor (Porsche 911 RSR) comprise third row, while Magnussen and Pilet wound up seventh and eighth respectively.
Two-time Road America winner Ben Keating earned his first pole position in GTD, although the last five minutes of the session were chopped off due to lightning in the area halting the session early.
Nonetheless, given the pace of the Riley Motorsports Mercedes AMG-GT3 all weekend, it seems unlikely that anyone was going to topple him. He was four-tenths clear of the rest of the field, led by Corey Lewis in the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan, who just edged Matt Plumb’s Compass Racing McLaren 720S by 0.06sec mere nanoseconds before the red flag.
Zacharie Robichon’s Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R grabbed fifth ahead of Trent Hindman’s Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX and Robby Foley’s Turner Motorsports BMW M6.
Richard Heistand made it seven different cars in the top seven spots, the #14 Lexus RC F of AIM Vasser Sullivan beating Ana Beatriz’s Acura by just 0.001sec.
Tomorrow’s 20min warm-up session starts at 8.30am local (Central) time, with the race getting the green flag at 1.35pm.
UPDATE: Both BMW M8s were sent to the back of the GTLM grid after ride height infractions were discovered in post-session scrutineering checks.
It means the #4 Corvette inherits class pole, ahead of the two Ford GTs and the #912 Porsche.
Session results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 6 Dane Cameron
Juan Pablo Montoya
DPi Acura DPi 1'48.715 2 7 Ricky Taylor
Helio Castroneves
DPi Acura DPi 1'48.731 0.016 3 77 Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez
DPi Mazda DPi 1'48.949 0.234 4 55 Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell
DPi Mazda DPi 1'49.381 0.666 5 84 Simon Trummer
Stephen Simpson
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'49.911 1.196 6 31 Felipe Nasr
Pipo Derani
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'50.111 1.396 7 5 Joao Barbosa
Filipe Albuquerque
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'50.783 2.068 8 10 Renger van der Zande
Jordan Taylor
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'50.799 2.084 9 85 Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'51.251 2.536 10 54 Jon Bennett
Colin Braun
DPi Nissan DPi 1'51.257 2.542 11 38 Cameron Cassels
James French
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'52.037 3.322 12 52 Matt McMurry
Patrick Kelly
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'53.264 4.549 13 25 Tom Blomqvist
Connor de Phillippi
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 2'00.344 11.629 14 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
GTLM Corvette C7.R 2'00.663 11.948 15 24 Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 2'00.767 12.052 16 67 Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
GTLM Ford GT 2'00.835 12.120 17 66 Joey Hand
Dirk Muller
GTLM Ford GT 2'00.922 12.207 18 912 Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 2'01.038 12.323 19 3 Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia
GTLM Corvette C7.R 2'01.085 12.370 20 911 Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 2'01.836 13.121 21 33 Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 2'05.250 16.535 22 48 Bryan Sellers
Corey Lewis
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 2'05.663 16.948 23 76 Paul Holton
Matt Plumb
GTD McLaren 720S GT3 2'05.723 17.008 24 9 Matt Campbell
Zacharie Robichon
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 2'05.890 17.175 25 86 Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman
GTD Acura NSX GT3 2'06.028 17.313 26 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
GTD BMW M6 GT3 2'06.105 17.390 27 14 Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 2'06.425 17.710 28 57 Katherine Legge
Ana Beatriz
GTD Acura NSX GT3 2'06.426 17.711 29 91 Anthony Imperato
Dennis Olsen
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 2'06.432 17.717 30 63 Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander
GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 2'06.537 17.822 31 73 Patrick Lindsey
Patrick Long
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 2'06.886 18.171 32 44 John Potter
Andy Lally
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 2'07.509 18.794 33 8 Parker Chase
Ryan Dalziel
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 2'08.156 19.441 34 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 2'08.289 19.574 35 74 Gar Robinson
Lawson Aschenbach
GTD Mercedes-AMG 2'08.392 19.677 View full results
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