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Lime Rock IMSA: Vanthoor takes pole in Porsche front-row lockout
Laurens Vanthoor nailed a 49.133sec lap of Lime Rock Park to edge Porsche teammate Nick Tandy and take the #912 car’s first pole of the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for this afternoon’s Northeast Grand Prix.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jul 20, 2019, 8:56 PM
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Tandy set the fastest first sector in the #911 Porsche, but Vanthoor clawed that deficit and more back over Sectors 2 and 3 to claim pole by 0.052sec.
Vanthoor’s margin of less than 0.2sec over the fastest non-Porsche was perhaps less than expected given the 911 RSRs' pace in practice, but a bigger surprise was the identity of their nearest challenger.
Connor De Phillippi set a brilliant 49.322sec in the #25 BMW M8, over half a second faster than teammate John Edwards and well able to outpace Dirk Muller in the Ford GT and the two Corvette C7.Rs of Antonio Garcia and Oliver Gavin.
Ryan Briscoe in the #67 Ford and Edwards will roll off from the fourth row.
A close battle in GT Daytona saw Trent Hindman dig deep for his third pole of the season in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX, setting a new track record and beating Ben Keating in the Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 by 0.026sec.
The Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3, qualified this week by Corey Lewis who is subbing for Ryan Hardwick, was just a further 0.05sec in arrears while behind him Robby Foley slotted the Turner Motorsport BMW M6 into fourth, despite being only 0.08sec from top spot.
Zacharie Robichon was fastest of the Porsches, grabbing fifth for Pfaff Motorsports ahead of the quicker of the two AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC Fs, the #14 of Richard Heistand.
The Northeast Grand Prix begins at 3.10pm local (Eastern) time.
Session results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 912 Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 49.133 2 911 Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 49.185 0.052 3 25 Tom Blomqvist
Connor de Phillippi
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 49.322 0.189 4 66 Joey Hand
Dirk Muller
GTLM Ford GT 49.458 0.325 5 3 Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia
GTLM Corvette C7.R 49.690 0.557 6 4 Oliver Gavin
Marcel Fassler
GTLM Corvette C7.R 49.748 0.615 7 67 Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
GTLM Ford GT 49.808 0.675 8 24 Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 49.864 0.731 9 86 Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman
GTD Acura NSX GT3 51.456 2.323 10 33 Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 51.482 2.349 11 48 Bryan Sellers
Corey Lewis
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 51.532 2.399 12 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
GTD BMW M6 GT3 51.536 2.403 13 9 Dennis Olsen
Zacharie Robichon
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 51.575 2.442 14 14 Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 51.642 2.509 15 73 Marco Seefried
Patrick Long
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 51.661 2.528 16 63 Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander
GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 51.719 2.586 17 91 Anthony Imperato
Matt Campbell
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 51.785 2.652 18 76 Paul Holton
Matt Plumb
GTD McLaren 720S GT3 52.008 2.875 19 57 Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen
GTD Acura NSX GT3 52.059 2.926 20 11 John Potter
Andy Lally
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 52.226 3.093 21 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 52.236 3.103 View full results
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