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Long Beach IMSA: Brilliant Bourdais takes record-breaking pole
Sebastien Bourdais led teammate Alex Lynn in a Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac 1-2 after delivering a lap that was around 1.9sec faster than the DPi lap record.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Apr 9, 2022, 1:59 AM
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At the start of the session, Tom Blomqvist went straight on at Turn 1 in his efforts to get the Acura ARX-05 of Meyer Shank Racing onto the front row, and Filipe Albuquerque slid along the wall exiting Turn 5 as he tried extracting the max from the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura. They were both making great efforts, but were on the back foot as everyone was shooting at Pipo Derani in the Action Express Racing Cadillac, whose top effort, a 1min10.001sec, was a new DPi qualifying record for the 1.968-mile track.
That record lasted for only minutes however, as the Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillacs were on the prowl. Sure enough, Sebastien Bourdais – who won the Grand Prix of Long Beach three times in his open-wheel career – delivered a sensational 69.472sec to eclipse Derani’s time by over half a second. In the #02 Ganassi entry, IMSA rookie Alex Lynn was also seriously impressive in his first weekend at Long Beach, eventually finishing up 0.361sec behind Bourdais.
That last-gasp effort from Lynn deposed Blomqvist who nonetheless can be proud to have broken up the all-Cadillac party with a car whose characteristics don’t suit the nature of Long Beach layout and track surface.
Derani will roll off fourth ahead of Vautier and Albuquerque
Jordan Taylor delivered the fastest time in a thrilling GT qualifying session, the sole Corvette C8.R clocking a 1min18.048sec lap on its final tour of the 1.968-mile circuit. That was enough to leave him 0.067sec clear of Connor De Phillippi in the ‘works’ Rahal Letterman Lanigan BMW M4 and 0.125sec faster than the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R of Mathieu Jaminet.
Ross Gunn, FP1 pacesetter for Heart of Racing, slotted into fourth in the Aston Martin Vantage, just ahead of the fastest GTD cars – a pair of BMW M4s. Madison Snow of Paul Miller Racing edged Robby Foley of Turner Motorsports by just over a tenth of a second.
Next up was the fastest of the Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC Fs, Jack Hawksworth’s GTD Pro entry, while Mike Skeen was third fastest GTD, seventh overall in GT, in the quickest Mercedes AMG GT3, the Team Korthoff Motorsports car.
Cla Driver Class Chassis Laps Time Gap 1 Renger van der Zande
Sébastien Bourdais
DPi Cadillac DPi 6 1'09.472 2 Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn
DPi Cadillac DPi 7 1'09.833 0.361 3 Oliver Jarvis
Tom Blomqvist
DPi Acura DPi 10 1'09.939 0.467 4 Pipo Derani
Tristan Nunez
DPi Cadillac DPi 5 1'10.001 0.529 5 Tristan Vautier
Richard Westbrook
DPi Cadillac DPi 11 1'10.376 0.904 6 Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
DPi Acura DPi 8 1'10.576 1.104 7 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
GTD PRO Corvette C8.R GTD 12 1'18.048 8.576 8 Connor de Phillippi
John Edwards
GTD PRO BMW M4 GT3 6 1'18.115 8.643 9 Matt Campbell
Mathieu Jaminet
GTD PRO Porsche 911 GT3 R 7 1'18.173 8.701 10 Ross Gunn
Alex Riberas
GTD PRO Aston Martin Vantage GT3 8 1'18.437 8.965 11 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
GTD BMW M4 GT3 10 1'18.487 9.015 12 Robby Foley
Bill Auberlen
GTD BMW M4 GT3 9 1'18.599 9.127 13 Jack Hawksworth
Ben Barnicoat
GTD PRO Lexus RC F GT3 11 1'18.627 9.155 14 Mike Skeen
Stevan McAleer
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 10 1'18.918 9.446 15 Jon Miller
Paul Holton
GTD McLaren 720S GT3 11 1'18.932 9.460 16 Russell Ward
Philip Ellis
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 8 1'18.973 9.501 17 Mario Farnbacher
Marc Miller
GTD Acura NSX GT3 11 1'19.146 9.674 18 Roman De Angelis
Maxime Martin
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 10 1'19.181 9.709 19 Frankie Montecalvo
Aaron Telitz
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 12 1'19.181 9.709 20 Ryan Eversley
Aidan Read
GTD Acura NSX GT3 12 1'19.366 9.894 21 Brendan Iribe
Frederik Schandorff
GTD McLaren 720S GT3 9 1'19.385 9.913 22 Robert Megennis
Jeff Westphal
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 9 1'19.742 10.270 23 Cooper MacNeil
Raffaele Marciello
GTD PRO Mercedes-AMG GT3 12 1'19.743 10.271 24 Ryan Hardwick
Jan Heylen
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 12 1'20.072 10.600 25 Rob Ferriol
Katherine Legge
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 10 1'21.079 11.607 26 Kyle Washington
James Sofronas
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 11 1'23.938 14.466 View full results
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