IMSA: Acura on the Pole at Road America

It’s a P1 start for Filipe Albuquerque, Ricky Taylor and the Wayne Taylor Racing team as Albuquerque qualified their #10 Acura ARX-05 on the pole today for Sunday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Fastlane SportsCar Weekend at Road America.

The pole position comes at a vital time in the championship for Wayne Taylor Racing, as the team battles for the championship with fellow Acura team Meyer Shank Racing. For their efforts, the #60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-05 will start third with co-drivers Tom Blomqvist and Oliver Jarvis.

Steven Thomas claimed top qualifying honors in LMP2, taking his No. 11 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07 Gibson to a fast lap of 1:54.137 to edge out teammate Patrick Kelly in the No. 52 entry.

LMP3 class pole went to the No. 33 Sean Creech Motorsport Ligier JS P320 Nissan of Malthe Jakobsen, who recorded a 1:59.434 lap time to give the team its first top qualifying run in series competition.

Hawksworth, Foley Take GTD Pro, GTD Class Poles

Vasser Sullivan’s Jack Hawksworth claimed top qualifying honors in GTD Pro while Robby Foley took his Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 to the class pole in GTD.

Hawksworth, in the No. 14 Lexus RC F GT3, reeled off a best lap of 2:05.365 in the closing moments of the session, edging out GTD Pro championship leader Matt Campbell in the No. 9 Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R by 0.253 seconds.

Foley’s 2:06.084 was good enough for fourth quickest amongst the production-based cars and fourth overall, ahead of the No. 12 Vasser Sullivan Lexus of Frankie Montecalvo

Quotes

Filipe Albuquerque (#10 Wayne Taylor Racing ARX-05) pole qualifier: “It all came together with pole position and the championship points [earned for pole]. The satisfaction is for me, from the drivers point of view, and for the team as well. They gave me the perfect car and I just felt great right away, from Turn 1, the car was really, really good, with a lot of grip. Tomorrow’s race is going to be really rainy, so starting from P1 in a potentially chaotic race, that should help keep us out of trouble. It’s ideal! The pressure is on now, though, we cannot finish behind the #60 and those guys are so fast. We are going to keep fighting for the championship and we’ll see how it goes tomorrow!”

Jack Hawksworth:
“I’m really happy with starting from the front tomorrow. It’s been a great weekend so far all around. The Lexus RC F GT3 has been working really well. The Vasser Sullivan team worked on a few things last night and the car felt a bit better today. We’re starting at the front, however, obviously the big points pay tomorrow. I think we’ve got the guys and we’ve got the car to have a good race tomorrow. Our first GTD PRO win is what we’re going for.”

Qualifying Results

Pos

Pic

No.

Class

Drivers*

Team

Car

Time

Lap

Total

Behind/Gap/Mph

1

1

10

DPi

R. Taylor / F. Albuquerque

Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05

Acura DPi

1:48.915

5

6

+0.000s +0.000s 133.799

2

2

02

DPi

E. Bamber / A. Lynn

Cadillac Racing

Cadillac DPi

1:49.097

3

5

+0.182 +0.182 133.576

3

3

60

DPi

O. Jarvis / T. Blomqvist

Meyer Shank Racing W/Curb-Agajanian

Acura DPi

1:49.841

3

5

+0.926 +0.744 132.671

4

4

5

DPi

T. Vautier / R. Westbrook

JDC Miller MotorSports

Cadillac DPi

1:50.322

5

7

+1.407 +0.481 132.092

5

5

31

DPi

O. Pla / P. Derani

Whelen Engineering Racing

Cadillac DPi

1:50.369

6

7

+1.454 +0.047 132.036

6

1

11

LMP2

S. Thomas / T. Nunez

PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports

ORECA LMP2 07

1:54.137

5

7

+5.222 +3.768 127.677

7

2

52

LMP2

P. Kelly / J. Pierson

PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports

ORECA LMP2 07

1:54.271

5

7

+5.356 +0.134 127.528

8

3

18

LMP2

D. Merriman / R. Dalziel

Era Motorsport

ORECA LMP2 07

1:54.677

5

7

+5.762 +0.406 127.076

9

4

20

LMP2

D. Andersen / F. Scherer

High Class Racing

ORECA LMP2 07

1:54.678

4

7

+5.763 +0.001 127.075

10

5

8

LMP2

J. Farano / L. Deletraz

Tower Motorsport

ORECA LMP2 07

1:54.809

5

7

+5.894 +0.131 126.930

11

6

81

LMP2

H. Hedman / J. Montoya

DragonSpeed USA

ORECA LMP2 07

1:54.833

5

7

+5.918 +0.024 126.903

12

1

33

LMP3

J. Barbosa / M. Jakobsen

Sean Creech Motorsport

Ligier JS P320

1:59.434

4

6

+10.519 +4.601 122.015

13

2

36

LMP3

J. Andretti / G. Chaves

Andretti Autosport

Ligier JS P320

2:00.163

4

6

+11.248 +0.729 121.274

14

3

74

LMP3

G. Robinson / F. Fraga

Riley Motorsports

Ligier JS P320

2:00.969

7

8

+12.054 +0.806 120.466

15

4

58

LMP3

D. Dickerson / J. Sarchet

MLT Motorsports

Ligier JS P320

2:01.083

5

7

+12.168 +0.114 120.353

16

5

38

LMP3

J. French / C. Shields

Performance Tech Motorsports

Ligier JS P320

2:01.369

3

7

+12.454 +0.286 120.069

17

6

54

LMP3

J. Bennett / C. Braun

CORE Autosport

Ligier JS P320

2:02.778

5

6

+13.863 +1.409 118.691

18

7

30

LMP3

A. Balogh / G. Grist

Jr III Racing

Ligier JS P320

2:03.907

7

8

+14.992 +1.129 117.610

19

8

90

LMP3

G. Kraut / S. Andrews

JDC-Miller MotorSports

Duqueine D08

2:04.307

7

8

+15.392 +0.400 117.232

20

1

14

GTDPRO

J. Hawksworth / B. Barnicoat

VasserSullivan

Lexus RC F GT3

2:05.365

3

4

+16.450 +1.058 116.242

21

2

9

GTDPRO

M. Campbell / M. Jaminet

Pfaff Motorsports

Porsche 911 GT3R

2:05.618

3

4

+16.703 +0.253 116.008

22

3

3

GTDPRO

A. Garcia / J. Taylor

Corvette Racing

Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTD

2:05.829

4

5

+16.914 +0.211 115.814

23

9

13

LMP3

M. Bell / O. Fidani

AWA

Duqueine D08

2:05.942

6

8

+17.027 +0.113 115.710

24

1

96

GTD

R. Foley / B. Auberlen

Turner Motorsport

BMW M4 GT3

2:06.084

4

5

+17.169 +0.142 115.579

25

2

12

GTD

F. Montecalvo / A. Telitz

VasserSullivan

Lexus RC F GT3

2:06.224

4

5

+17.309 +0.140 115.451

26

3

39

GTD

R. Megennis / J. Westphal

CarBahn with Peregrine Racing

Lamborghini Huracan GT3

2:06.237

5

6

+17.322 +0.013 115.439

27

4

32

GTD

M. Skeen / S. McAleer

Team Korthoff Motorsports

Mercedes-AMG GT3

2:06.275

3

4

+17.360 +0.038 115.404

28

4

25

GTDPRO

C. De Phillippi / J. Edwards

BMW M Team RLL

BMW M4 GT3

2:06.289

2

5

+17.374 +0.014 115.392

29

5

57

GTD

R. Ward / P. Ellis

Winward Racing

Mercedes-AMG GT3

2:06.297

4

6

+17.382 +0.008 115.384

30

5

23

GTDPRO

R. Gunn / A. Riberas

Heart of Racing Team

Aston Martin Vantage GT3

2:06.517

3

4

+17.602 +0.220 115.184

31

6

27

GTD

R. De Angelis / M. Martin

Heart of Racing Team

Aston Martin Vantage GT3

2:06.631

4

5

+17.716 +0.114 115.080

32

7

1

GTD

B. Sellers / M. Snow

Paul Miller Racing

BMW M4 GT3

2:06.674

4

5

+17.759 +0.043 115.041

33

8

79

GTD

C. MacNeil / D. Juncadella

WeatherTech Racing

Mercedes-AMG GT3

2:07.895

3

6

+18.980 +1.221 113.943

34

9

16

GTD

R. Hardwick / J. Heylen

Wright Motorsports

Porsche 911 GT3R

2:07.999

4

6

+19.084 +0.104 113.850

35

6

01

DPi

R. van der Zande / S. Bourdais

Cadillac Racing

Cadillac DPi

3

+2.396 +0.942

36

10

42

GTD

J. Conwright / M. Holzer

NTE/SSR

Lamborghini Huracan GT3

6

+5.884 +0.009

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