Filipe Albuquerque took pole position for this weekend’s Long Beach round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship, heading an Acura 1-2 that left the opposition far behind ⏱️ Meanwhile, Marco Sorensen was the fastest GTD runner in an interrupted session ⬇️
Filipe Albuquerque took pole position for this weekend’s Long Beach round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship, heading an Acura 1-2 that left the opposition far behind.In the 20-minute GTP-only session around the 1.968-mile Californian street course, Albuquerque lapped in 1m09.909s in his Acura ARX-06.
Albuquerque then took P1 again with 1m10.943s, only to be was bettered by Tom Blomqvist’s Meyer Shank Racing Acura on 1m10.720s. But the Portuguese then unleashed 1m10.428s to Blomqvist’s 1m10.489s, with just 0.061s between the Acuras at the time. Bourdais was best of the rest, but over a second off the ultimate pace, just clear of Nick Yelloly in the #25 BMW M Hybrid V8. Augusto Farfus backed him up with fifth place in the #24 BMW, an impressive result for the improving Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run cars, just ahead of Nick Tandy’s #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963.
Ross Gunn set the early GTD Pro pace but then had an early moment in the #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin at Turn 8. Hawksworth took over at the top in his Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F with a 1m18.490s.
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