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Laguna Seca IMSA: Albuquerque sets pole position in WTR Acura
Filipe Albuquerque’s Wayne Taylor Racing Acura will start IMSA’s Hyundai Monterey Sports Car event at Laguna Seca from pole position after beating Dane Cameron by 0.023s in qualifying.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Sep 12, 2021, 7:39 PM
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Cameron set the early pace in his Meyer Shank Acura DPi at 1m14.957s, repeatedly swapping the top spot early on with Albuquerque, who eventually took over with a lap of 1m14.441s that won the pole, compared to Cameron’s 1m14.464s.
Kevin Magnussen (Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac) was third quickest, over half a second off the pace, ahead of Mazda’s Harry Tincknell – who was only fourth fastest after pacing the morning’s practice session.
UPDATE: After qualifying, the Mazda failed technical inspection and will start at the rear of the six-car DPi field.
Pipo Derani (Action Express Cadillac DPi) now starts fourth, while Tristan Vautier’s JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillac was just over a second off the pace but starts fifth.
Ben Keating took LMP2 pole in his PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA at 1m17.227s, well clear of Dwight Merriman in his Era Motorsport ORECA, whose best time was 1m19.873s.
#3 Corvette Racing Corvette C8.R, GTLM: Antonio Garcia, Jordan Taylor
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Taylor beats Milner for GTLM pole
Jordan Taylor scored his now customary GTLM pole for Corvette Racing by lapping his C8.R in 1m21.151s, which was 0.116s faster than Tommy Milner. Cooper MacNeil was 0.78s off the pace in the WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19.
In GTD, Robby Foley’s Turner Motorsports BMW M6 set the early pace at 1m25.089s. Practice pacesetter Madison Snow, in his Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan, took control with 1m24.711s before he was toppled again by Foley on 1m24.568s.
Trent Hindman’s Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R then hit P1 with 1m24.505s, grabbing pole from Foley by 0.063s.
Roman de Angelis qualified third in his Heart of Racing-run Aston Martin Vantage, ahead of Snow, Richard Heistand (CarBahn with Peregrine Audi R8) and Zacharie Robichon in the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche.
Cla Driver Class Chassis Time Gap km/h 1 Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
DPi Acura DPi 1'14.441 108.231 2 Dane Cameron
Olivier Pla
DPi Acura DPi 1'14.464 0.023 108.197 3 Renger van der Zande
Kevin Magnussen
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'15.026 0.585 107.387 4 Oliver Jarvis
Harry Tincknell
DPi Mazda DPi 1'15.052 0.611 107.350 5 Felipe Nasr
Pipo Derani
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'15.384 0.943 106.877 6 Tristan Vautier
Loic Duval
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'15.451 1.010 106.782 7 Ben Keating
Mikkel Jensen
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'17.227 2.786 104.326 8 Dwight Merriman
Ryan Dalziel
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'19.873 5.432 100.870 9 Thomas Steven
Tristan Nunez
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'19.894 5.453 100.844 10 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'21.151 6.710 99.282 11 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'21.267 6.826 99.140 12 John Farano
Gabriel Aubry
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'21.563 7.122 98.780 13 Cooper MacNeil
Matt Campbell
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'21.931 7.490 98.336 14 Trent Hindman
Patrick Long
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'24.505 10.064 95.341 15 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'24.568 10.127 95.270 16 Roman De Angelis
Ross Gunn
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'24.591 10.150 95.244 17 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'24.711 10.270 95.109 18 Richard Heistand
Jeff Westphal
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'24.751 10.310 95.064 19 Zacharie Robichon
Laurens Vanthoor
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'24.754 10.313 95.061 20 Aaron Telitz
Jack Hawksworth
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'24.802 10.361 95.007 21 Ian James
Alex Riberas
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'25.385 10.944 94.358 22 Frankie Montecalvo
Zach Veach
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'25.600 11.159 94.121 23 Rob Ferriol
Katherine Legge
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'25.813 11.372 93.888 24 Mario Farnbacher
Jacob Abel
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'25.875 11.434 93.820 25 John Potter
Andy Lally
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'26.613 12.172 93.021 26 Till Bechtolsheimer
Marc Miller
GTD Acura NSX GT3 View full results
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