Long Beach IMSA: Montoya puts Acura Team Penske on pole
Juan Pablo Montoya, who scored his first ever Indy car win at Long Beach 19 years ago, has now claimed a pole position at the hallowed venue, his Acura ARX-05 beating the best Cadillac by just under 0.2secs.
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Montoya lapped the 1.968-mile course in 1min12.922sec, a time 0.187sec ahead of Felipe Nasr’s top lap in the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R.
Harry Tincknell’s Joest-run Mazda RT24-P was third, around a quarter second off top spot, with Helio Castroneves fourth in the second Acura.
Joao Barbosa’s second AXR Cadillac will start fifth ahead of Renger Van der Zande in the similar car of Wayne Taylor Racing.
Tristan Nunez was seventh in the second Mazda ahead of the fastest of the ESM Nissans, piloted by Scott Sharp.
Joey Hand came out on top in a fantastic GT Le Mans battle between the Chip Ganassi Racing-run Ford GTs and Porsche 911 RSRs, as he grabbed pole position for the #66 Ford by 0.144sec ahead of Laurens Vanthoor’s #912 Porsche.
Next up came Patrick Pilet in the second Porsche, a further 0.25sec behind, while the Corvette C7.Rs of Jan Magnussen and Oliver Gavin claimed fourth and fifth.
Richard Westbrook was sixth in the second Ford, with the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing BMW M8s of Connor de Phillippi and Jesse Krohn filling the last GT row, around 1.3sec off Hand’s pace.
Qualifying results:
Pos. | # | Drivers | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 1'13.160 | |
2 | 31 | Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'13.210 | 0.050 |
3 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 1'13.217 | 0.057 |
4 | 5 | Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'13.655 | 0.495 |
5 | 55 | Harry Tincknell Jonathan Bomarito |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'13.715 | 0.555 |
6 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'13.921 | 0.761 |
7 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'13.982 | 0.822 |
8 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'14.658 | 1.498 |
9 | 22 | Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'15.307 | 2.147 |
10 | 54 | Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'15.326 | 2.166 |
11 | 38 | James French Kyle Masson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'15.385 | 2.225 |
12 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'15.545 | 2.385 |
13 | 85 | Simon Trummer Robert Alon |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'15.567 | 2.407 |
14 | 52 | Gustavo Yacaman Sebastian Saavedra |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'15.749 | 2.589 |
15 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'17.571 | 4.411 |
16 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'17.596 | 4.436 |
17 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'17.606 | 4.446 |
18 | 66 | Joey Hand Dirk Müller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'17.954 | 4.794 |
19 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'18.144 | 4.984 |
20 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'18.168 | 5.008 |
21 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'18.297 | 5.137 |
22 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'18.533 | 5.373 |
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