IMSA: Bourdais puts Cadillac on pole at Mid-Ohio

Cadillac claimed its third pole start in five IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races as Sebastien Bourdais recorded a best lap of 1 minute, 10.439 seconds in the No. 01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac DPi-V.R on the 2.258-mile, 13-turn Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course to edge out the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05 of Filipe Albuquerque by 0.222 seconds.

The No. 01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac DPi-V.R will lead the field to the green flag for the 2-hour, 40-minute Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio on Sunday, May 15. The will air live on USA Network and stream on Peacock starting at 2 p.m. ET. IMSA Radio will broadcast the race at IMSA.com along with XM 207.

“We had to push really hard really early on the green flag because it was drizzling and I wasn’t sure the lap was going to be good enough, but I nailed a good one,” said Bourdais, who presented Cadillac Racing its first pole in five races at Mid-Ohio since 2018. “The boys did a really good job of giving us some fast cars we got that Cadillac up there. We’re definitely hoping for a clean start and keeping the Cadillac up front throughout the race.”

Earlier this season, Bourdais reset the track records in qualifying on the pole at Sebring International Raceway and the streets of Long Beach, California. He and co-driver Renger van der Zande went on to win at Long Beach. Last May, the No. 01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac DPi-V.R set the race record lap time of 1:12.188 (112.605 mph).

Oliver Jarvis qualified third in the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura DPi, followed by the No. 02 CGR Cadillac of Alex Lynn and the No. 31 Action Express Racing entry of Tristan Nunez.

Tristan Vautier brought up the rear of the six-car DPi field.

LMP2 class pole went to Patrick Kelly in the No. 52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07 Gibson, in a lockout of the front row for the Bobby Oergel-led team.

Snow Takes Paul Miller Racing to GTD Pole

Madison Snow scored GTD class pole honors for Paul Miller Racing and BMW in an ever-improving session for the production-based class.

Snow reeled off a 1:20.525 time in the No. 1 BMW M4 GT3 on his final flying lap to edge out a last-lap improvement by the No. 32 Team Korthoff Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo of Stevan McAleer by two-tenths.

RESULTS: Qualifying