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Indianapolis United SportsCar: Ryan Dalziel puts ESM HPD on pole

Ryan Dalziel came out on top in the battle for pole position at the Indianapolis round of the United SportsCar Championship

The Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD driver took command of proceedings early on, gradually improving to a time of 1m17.603s by the middle of the 15-minute Prototype session.

Dalziel's team-mate Johannes von Overbeek will join him on the front row having set a time 0.276 seconds slower, with the OAK Morgan of Mosport Park winner Gustavo Yacaman just a further 0.029s back in an all-LMP2 top three.

Action Express Racing's Christian Fittipaldi made a jump up to fourth place in the dying moments of the session to become the best of the DP entries, pushing fellow Corvette driver Richard Westbrook down to fifth.

Chip Ganassi driver Scott Pruett rounded out the top half-dozen, and has a new partner this weekend as Indy Lights champion Sage Karam gets another sportscar outing while Memo Rojas recovers from a back injury.

CORE Autosport driver Colin Braun will start from the Prototype Challenge pole after beating Bruno Junqueira and Luis Diaz to class honours.

The Risi Ferrari of Giancarlo Fisichella set the pace in the GT LM session by a slim margin, the ex-Formula 1 star's early benchmark remaining unchallenged until the end.

John Edwards' BMW proved Fisichella's closest rival, falling 0.064s short, with Jonathan Bomarito and Marc Goossens making it an all-SRT Viper second row in class.

The battle for pole in the GTD class was almost as close, Turner BMW driver Dane Cameron coming out on top after setting a lap time just 0.091s clear of Jeroen Bleekemolen's Viper.

Townsend Bell's Ferrari and Spencer Pumpelly's Audi were also both within two tenths of Cameron's pace and will start third and fourth in class respectively.

Pos  Cl    Drivers             Team/Car                    Time
 1.  P     Sharp/Dalziel       Extreme Speed HPD           1m17.603s
 2.  P     Brown/van Overbeek  Extreme Speed HPD           1m17.879s
 3.  P     Yacaman/Tung        OAK Morgan-Nissan           1m17.908s
 4.  P     Barbosa/Fittipaldi  Action Express Corvette DP  1m18.102s
 5.  P     Westbrook/Valiante  SDR Corvette DP             1m18.188s
 6.  P     Pruett/Karam        Ganassi Riley-Ford          1m18.436s
 7.  P     Taylor/Taylor       Taylor Corvette DP          1m18.592s
 8.  P     Pew/Negri           Shank Riley-Ford            1m19.555s
 9.  P     Curran/Frisselle    Marsh Corvette DP           1m19.714s
10.  PC    Bennett/Braun       CORE FLM                    1m19.849s
Other class polesitters:
22.  GTLM  Fisichella/Kaffer   Risi Ferrari                1m22.378s
32.  GTD   Cameron/Dalla Lana  Turner BMW                  1m26.058s

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