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IMSA VIR: Makowiecki’s Porsche and Fergus’ McLaren take poles
Fred Makowiecki scorched his way around VIRginia International Raceway to land pole for tomorrow’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar championship event, while Compass Racing’s Corey Fergus landed P1 in GTD.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Aug 21, 2020, 11:28 PM
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The pair of Porsche 911 RSR-19s looked tough to beat in practice in the GT Le Mans class earlier on Friday, but in qualifying they went way beyond that.
Makowiecki in the #911 car he shares with Nick Tandy delivered a 1min40.389sec lap that put him just 0.130sec ahead of teammate Laurens Vanthoor, but 0.706sec ahead of third fastest car, the BMW M8 GTE driven heroically by Connor de Phillippi.
De Phillippi left it until his final flyer to beat the two Corvette C8.Rs of Jordan Taylor and Oliver Gavin who were separated by 0.4sec, while John Edwards was sixth in the second BMW.
Photo by: Art Fleischmann
Corey Fergus grabbed GT Daytona pole by just 0.074sec in Compass Racing’s McLaren 720S GT3, edging another strong qualifying performance from Turner Motorsports’ Robby Foley in the BMW M6 GT3.
Recent class dominators AIM Vasser Sullivan saw Franke Montecalvo and Aaron Telitz slot into third and sixth places in their Lexus RC F GT3s, separated by Matt McMurry in Meyer Shank Racing’s #86 Acura NSX GT3 and Madison Snow piloting the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan. This top six, featuring five different marques, was covered by by less than 0.3sec.
Cooper MacNeil slotted his WeatherTech Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 into eighth, just behind the second MSR Acura driven by Misha Goikhberg.
Session results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 911 Nick Tandy
Frédéric Makowiecki
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'40.389 2 912 Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'40.519 0.130 3 25 Bruno Spengler
Connor de Phillippi
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'41.095 0.706 4 3 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'41.228 0.839 5 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'41.662 1.273 6 24 Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'41.716 1.327 7 76 Corey Fergus
Paul Holton
GTD McLaren 720S GT3 1'45.236 4.847 8 96 Robby Foley
Bill Auberlen
GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'45.310 4.921 9 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'45.397 5.008 10 86 Mario Farnbacher
Matt McMurry
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'45.434 5.045 11 48 Madison Snow
Bryan Sellers
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'45.453 5.064 12 14 Jack Hawksworth
Aaron Telitz
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'45.524 5.135 13 63 Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander
GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 1'45.565 5.176 14 57 Alvaro Parente
Mikhail Goikhberg
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'45.570 5.181 15 22 Till Bechtolsheimer
Marc Miller
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'46.196 5.807 16 23 Roman De Angelis
Ian James
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'46.391 6.002 17 74 Gar Robinson
Lawson Aschenbach
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'46.391 6.002 18 16 Ryan Hardwick
Patrick Long
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'46.459 6.070 19 30 Rob Ferriol
Spencer Pumpelly
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'46.726 6.337 20 44 Andy Lally
John Potter
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'48.186 7.797 View full results
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