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IMSA Laguna Seca: Campbell takes pole in Porsche 1-2
Porsche’s Matt Campbell took pole position for Sunday’s fourth round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Laguna Seca.
Charles Bradley
Edited: May 13, 2023, 10:33 PM
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Fresh off Porsche Penske Motorsport’s victory at the Long Beach Grand Prix, the 963 took its first GTP pole position since returning to top-level prototype competition.
Campbell lapped the famed 2.238-mile Californian road course under a cloudless sky in 1m14.774s. His #7 963 set the initial benchmark with a lap of 1m14.950s, 0.057s ahead of Pipo Derani’s Action Express Cadillac V-Series.R.
Campbell then lowered the bar to 1m14.774s, with Mathieu Jaminet getting to within 0.09s of the sister car to ensure the Porsche 1-2.
Colin Braun took third in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 with 1m14.979s, before a ragged next lap took him on the rough ride over the kerbs at The Corkscrew.
Derani slipped to fourth, ahead of Ricky Taylor’s Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport Acura, and the Chip Ganassi-run Caddy of Sebastien Bourdais. The BMW M Hybrids will start seventh and eighth, with Connor De Phillippi ahead of Philipp Eng.
Tijmen van der Helm rounded out the GTP class in JDC-Miller MotorSport’s new customer 963, which was 2.2s off the pace.
Crowdstrike’s George Kurtz set LMP2 pole of 1m19.262s on his very last lap, to pip regular category dominator Ben Keating (PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports) by 0.061s in the eight-car LMP2 entry – although Keating had a faster time deleted for exceeding track limits.
Keating was four tenths quicker than Steven Thomas’s TDS car, the latter escaping a huge slide at The Corkscrew. Thomas starts third, ahead of the second TDS machine of Francois Heriau.
#9 Pfaff Motorsports, Porsche 911 GT3 R (992), GTD PRO: Klaus Bachler, Patrick Pilet
Photo by: Art Fleischmann
Porsche scores 1-2 in GTD classes
Porsche topped both the GTD Pro and the pro-am GTD classes, which locked out the front row of the GT entry overall.
Daniel Juncadella (WeatherTech Mercedes) set the P1 bar at 1m25.017s, before the Heart of Racing Aston Martins of Alex Riberas and Roman De Angelis both beat him with 1m24.776s and 1m24.647s respectively.
They were first split by Jack Hawksworth in the #14 Pro class Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F on 1m24.727s, before Bachler took over at the top with 1m24.529s in the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, and Alec Udell leapt to second – just 0.01s slower – in the pro-am #92 Kellymoss with Riley 911.
On his first taste of Laguna, Bachler just clung on to overall GT pole, ahead of Udell, De Angelis, Riberas, Juncadella and Hawksworth.
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 7 Matt Campbell
Felipe Nasr
GTP Porsche 963 1'14.774 2 6 Nick Tandy
Mathieu Jaminet
GTP Porsche 963 1'14.864 0.090 3 60 Tom Blomqvist
Colin Braun
GTP Acura ARX-06 1'14.979 0.205 4 31 Pipo Derani
Alexander Sims
GTP Cadillac V-Series.R 1'15.007 0.233 5 10 Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
GTP Acura ARX-06 1'15.303 0.529 6 01 Sébastien Bourdais
Renger van der Zande
GTP Cadillac V-Series.R 1'15.335 0.561 7 25 Connor de Phillippi
Nick Yelloly
GTP BMW M Hybrid V8 1'15.648 0.874 8 24 Philipp Eng
Augusto Farfus
GTP BMW M Hybrid V8 1'15.747 0.973 9 5 Tijmen van der Helm
Mike Rockenfeller
GTP Porsche 963 1'16.995 2.221 10 04 George Kurtz
Ben Hanley
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'19.262 4.488 11 52 Ben Keating
Paul-Loup Chatin
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'19.323 4.549 12 11 Steven Thomas
Mikkel Jensen
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'19.718 4.944 13 35 François Heriau
Giedo van der Garde
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'20.475 5.701 14 51 Eric Lux
Juan Pablo Montoya
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'20.625 5.851 15 20 Dennis Andersen
Ed Jones
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'20.655 5.881 16 8 John Farano
Louis Deletraz
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'21.055 6.281 17 18 Dwight Merriman
Ryan Dalziel
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'21.912 7.138 18 9 Klaus Bachler
Patrick Pilet
GTD PRO Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'24.529 9.755 19 92 Alec Udell
Julien Andlauer
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'24.539 9.765 20 27 Roman De Angelis
Marco Sorensen
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'24.647 9.873 21 23 Ross Gunn
Alex Riberas
GTD PRO Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'24.654 9.880 22 79 Daniel Juncadella
Jules Gounon
GTD PRO Mercedes AMG GT3 1'24.706 9.932 23 14 Jack Hawksworth
Ben Barnicoat
GTD PRO Lexus RC F GT3 1'24.727 9.953 24 3 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
GTD PRO Corvette C8.R GTD 1'24.907 10.133 25 80 PJ Hyett
Seb Priaulx
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'25.005 10.231 26 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Aaron Telitz
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'25.085 10.311 27 1 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
GTD BMW M4 GT3 1'25.260 10.486 28 32 Mike Skeen
Mikael Grenier
GTD Mercedes AMG GT3 1'25.433 10.659 29 96 Patrick Gallagher
Robby Foley
GTD BMW M4 GT3 1'25.440 10.666 30 57 Russell Ward
Philip Ellis
GTD Mercedes AMG GT3 1'25.442 10.668 31 91 Alan Metni
Kay van Berlo
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'25.601 10.827 32 70 Brendan Iribe
Frederik Schandorff
GTD McLaren 720S GT3 EVO 1'25.842 11.068 33 78 Mikhail Goikhberg
Loris Spinelli
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 1'25.927 11.153 34 97 Bill Auberlen
Chandler Hull
GTD BMW M4 GT3 1'26.227 11.453 35 94 Jarett Andretti
Gabby Chaves
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'26.289 11.515 36 66 Sheena Monk
Katherine Legge
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'26.363 11.589 37 77 Alan Brynjolfsson
Trent Hindman
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'26.365 11.591 38 44 John Potter
Andy Lally
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'26.415 11.641 View full results
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