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IMSA Laguna Seca
IMSA Laguna Seca: Bourdais pips Derani for pole in Cadillac 1-2
Cadillac’s Sebastien Bourdais set pole position for the fourth round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Laguna Seca, as Corvette bossed the GTD Pro class.
Charles Bradley
Published: May 12, 2024, 12:28 AM
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Bourdais beat the sister Cadillac Racing entry of Pipo Derani and Philipp Eng’s BMW in the quickfire 15-minute qualifying session, ahead of this weekend’s 2h40m event that is being run for GTP and GTD machinery only.
Derani’s #31 Action Express-run Cadillac V-Series.R had taken pole in each of the trio of preceding races, but its challenge at Laguna was stymied by a vicious crash in Jack Aitken’s hands on Friday. Even so, it missed pole this time by only 0.112s.
Derani set the early pace at 1m12.658s before Bourdais (#01 Chip Ganassi-run Cadillac V-Series.R) joined the party, producing 1m12.737s to get within 0.079s of him.
Bourdais then eclipsed Derani’s pole time by 0.027s, and then improved even further to 1m12.445s to ensure pole by a tenth with a new GTP track record.
“I kinda struggled to put a lap together,” Bourdais admitted. “I made a mistake on one, and then the last one wasn’t completely clean.”
Eng’s #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 snatched third, two tenths off pole. Mathieu Jaminet grabbed fourth with 1m12.664s in the #6 Porsche Penke Motorsport 963.
Connor De Phillippi will start fifth in the RLLR-run #25 BMW M Hybrid V8, ahead of Dane Cameron in the #7 factory Porsche.
Ricky Taylor qualified seventh in the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06, ahead of the sister #40 car of Louis Deletraz.
Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports, Corvette Z06 GT3.R, GTD PRO: Tommy Milner, Nicky Catsburg
Photo by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Images
Corvette scores 1-2 in GTD
In GTD, Nicky Catsburg took the Pro class pole in his #4 Pratt Miller Motorsports Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R – the first IMSA pole for this new car – with 1m20.502s and worked down to 1m19.727s.
His team-mate Antonio Garcia was three tenths slower in the sister #3 Vette, which had one of its laps deleted for exceeding track limits at Turn 5.
Marvin Kirchhofer (Pfaff Motorsports McLaren 720S) was third quickest, over half a second off the pace in the McLaren MP4/4 tribute liveried car.
Jack Hawksworth was fourth in Vasser Sullivan’s #14 Pro class Lexus RC F, seven tenths off the pace, ahead of the AO Racing Porsche 911 of Seb Priaulx.
Danny Formal’s Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Lamborghini Huracan will start the pro-am class from pole.
The 2h40m race starts at 3:10pm ET on Sunday.
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Cla Drivers # Chassis Laps Time Interval km/h 1 R. van der Zande
S. Bourdais Cadillac Racing 01 Cadillac V-Series.R 10
1'12.445
111.213 2 P. Derani
J. Aitken Whelen Cadillac Racing 31 Cadillac V-Series.R 11
+0.112
1'12.557
0.112 111.041 3 J. Krohn
P. Eng BMW M Team RLL 24 BMW M Hybrid V8 8
+0.204
1'12.649
0.092 110.900 4 N. Tandy
M. Jaminet Porsche Penske Motorsport 6 Porsche 963 11
+0.219
1'12.664
0.015 110.877 5 C. de Phillippi
N. Yelloly BMW M Team RLL 25 BMW M Hybrid V8 8
+0.259
1'12.704
0.040 110.816 6 D. Cameron
F. Nasr Porsche Penske Motorsport 7 Porsche 963 12
+0.326
1'12.771
0.067 110.714 7 R. Taylor
F. Albuquerque Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti 10 Acura ARX-06 8
+0.460
1'12.905
0.134 110.511 8 J. Taylor
L. Deletraz Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti 40 Acura ARX-06 11
+0.639
1'13.084
0.179 110.240 9 T. van der Helm
R. Westbrook JDC/Miller Motorsports 85 Porsche 963 12
+0.739
1'13.184
0.100 110.090 10 G. Bruni
B. Viscaal Proton Competition 5 Porsche 963 11
+0.869
1'13.314
0.130 109.894 11 T. Milner
N. Catsburg Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports 4 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R 7
+7.282
1'19.727
6.413 101.055 12 A. Garcia
A. Sims Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports 3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R 9
+7.593
1'20.038
0.311 100.662 13 M. Kirchhofer
O. Jarvis Pfaff Motorsports 9 McLaren 720S GT3 EVO 7
+7.799
1'20.244
0.206 100.404 14 J. Hawksworth
B. Barnicoat Vasser Sullivan 14 Lexus RC F GT3 9
+7.986
1'20.431
0.187 100.170 15 L. Heinrich
S. Priaulx AO Racing
77 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 10
+8.028
1'20.473
0.042 100.118 16 R. Gunn
M. Farnbacher Heart Of Racing Team 23 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo 10
+8.222
1'20.667
0.194 99.877 17 K. Marcelli
D. Formal Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti 45 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 10
+8.421
1'20.866
0.199 99.631 18 R. Foley
P. Gallagher Turner Motorsport 557 BMW M4 GT3 9
+8.550
1'20.995
0.129 99.473 19 B. Sellers
M. Snow Paul Miller Racing 1 BMW M4 GT3 7
+8.558
1'21.003
0.008 99.463 20 R. Ward
P. Ellis Winward Racing 57 Mercedes AMG GT3 10
+8.574
1'21.019
0.016 99.443 21 R. De Angelis
S. Pumpelly Heart Of Racing Team 27 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo 9
+8.606
1'21.051
0.032 99.404 22 F. Montecalvo
P. Thompson Vasser Sullivan 12 Lexus RC F GT3 8
+8.629
1'21.074
0.023 99.376 23 M. Skeen
M. Grenier Korthoff/Preston Motorsports 32 Mercedes AMG GT3 9
+8.643
1'21.088
0.014 99.359 24 H. Tincknell
M. Rockenfeller Ford Multimatic Motorsports 64 Ford Mustang GT3 8
+8.691
1'21.136
0.048 99.300 25 M. Goikhberg
L. Spinelli Forte Racing 78 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 10
+8.890
1'21.335
0.199 99.057 26 B. Iribe
F. Schandorff Inception Racing 70 McLaren 720S GT3 EVO 10
+8.908
1'21.353
0.018 99.035 27
M. Franco
A. Costa Conquest Racing 34 Ferrari 296 GT3 9
+9.378
1'21.823
0.470 98.466 28 J. Hand
D. Muller Ford Multimatic Motorsports 65 Ford Mustang GT3 9
+9.476
1'21.921
0.098 98.348 29
G. Levorato
C. Lewis Proton Competition 55 Ford Mustang GT3 10
+9.606
1'22.051
0.130 98.193 30 J. Andretti
G. Chaves Andretti Motorsports 43 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 9
+9.901
1'22.346
0.295 97.841 31
A. Adelson
E. Skeer Wright Motorsports 120 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 10
+10.013
1'22.458
0.112 97.708 32
S. Monk
S. McAleer Gradient Racing 66 Acura NSX GT3 9
+10.118
1'22.563
0.105 97.584 33 O. Fidani
M. Bell AWA 13 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTD 10
+10.849
1'23.294
0.731 96.727 34
K. Li
A. Fjordbach MDK Motorsports 86 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 10
+10.992
1'23.437
0.143 96.561 View full results
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