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Long Beach IMSA: Castroneves and Tandy win pole positions
Helio Castroneves earned pole position for the BUBBA Burger SportsCar Grand Prix at Long Beach with a brilliant 1min11.332sec laptime for Acura Team Penske.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Apr 13, 2019, 6:03 AM
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Castroneves, a four-time IndyCar Long Beach polesitter, was over 0.2sec faster than his closest opposition, the Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R of Felipe Nasr, in the #7 Acura ARX-05.
That was over half a second quicker than his third-placed teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, who took pole for this event last year.
Joao Barbosa made a late improvement to slot the second AXR Cadillac into fourth place.
Jonathan Bomarito appeared to have a chance of taking pole but understeered his #55 Mazda RT24-P into the tires exiting Turn 6 after clipping the inside wall, although he remained over a quarter-second faster than teammate Tristan Nunez.
Jordan Taylor, who had his appendix removed earlier this week and for whom Kamui Kobayashi was on standby as sub, was a brave seventh fastest in the Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac ahead of the similar cars of JDC-Miller and Juncos Racing.
In GT Le Mans, Nick Tandy produced a 1min16.313sec in the #911 Porsche 911 RSR to win pole, just 0.064sec ahead of teammate Laurens Vanthoor, who made a slight mistake on his final flying lap when he appeared to be heading for P1.
Corvette Racing’s Oliver Gavin was 0.2sec behind in third, beating IndyCar ace Sebastien Bourdais in the #66 Ford GT, the Frenchman subbing for the unwell Joey Hand.
Antonio Garcia slotted the second Corvette into fifth ahead of Ford fulltimer Ryan Briscoe in the #67 Ford, while the two BMW M8 GTEs of Tom Blomqvist and John Edwards brought up the rear.
Qualifying results:
Pos. Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 7 
Helio Castroneves
Ricky Taylor DPi Acura DPi 1'11.332 2 31 Pipo Derani
Felipe Nasr DPi Cadillac DPi 1'11.550 0.218 3 6 
Juan Pablo Montoya
Dane Cameron DPi Acura DPi 1'11.847 0.515 4 5 
Filipe Albuquerque
Joao Barbosa DPi Cadillac DPi 1'11.870 0.538 5 55 
Harry Tincknell
Jonathan Bomarito DPi Mazda DPi 1'11.884 0.552 6 77 Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez DPi Mazda DPi 1'12.147 0.815 7 10 Jordan Taylor
Renger van der Zande DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.312 0.980 8 84 
Simon Trummer
Stephen Simpson DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.455 1.123 9 85 
Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.650 1.318 10 50 Kyle Kaiser
Will Owen DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.694 1.362 11 54 Jon Bennett
Colin Braun DPi Nissan DPi 1'13.389 2.057 12 911 Nick Tandy
Patrick Pilet GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'16.313 4.981 13 912 
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'16.377 5.045 14 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 1'16.520 5.188 15 66 Sébastien Bourdais
Dirk Muller GTLM Ford GT 1'16.662 5.330 16 3 
Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia GTLM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 1'16.685 5.353 17 67 
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 1'16.874 5.542 18 25 Connor de Phillippi
Tom Blomqvist GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'17.021 5.689 19 24 John Edwards
Jesse Krohn GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'17.236 5.904
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