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Cocker gives Drayson another pole

Jonny Cocker and Drayson Racing took their second straight American Le Mans Series pole with another dominant performance at Elkhart Lake

The British driver was the only man below 1m50s as he set a 1m49.554s lap in the Lola-Judd before the session was half over, putting him 1.3 seconds clear of Guy Smith in the Lexington-winning Dyson Lola-Mazda. The result made Cocker the first man to take two poles in the 2010 ALMS season.

Back after missing Lexington due to a testing crash, CytoSport will start third, with Klaus Graf taking qualifying duties before sharing the Porsche with super-sub Timo Bernhard in the race due to team boss Greg Pickett's back injury.

Johnny Mowlem made a strong debut in the Autocon Lola-AER to take fourth - ahead of the points-leading Highcroft HPD, which could not match the LMP1-based cars ahead in qualifying trim and was 2.5s off the pace. Intersport missed the session due to engine problems in practice.

There was a commanding pole margin in LMPC too, where recent category convert Luis Diaz was on top by 1.125s for PR1/Mathiasen.

The Corvettes claimed a one-two in a GT qualifying session interrupted by a red flag after Andy Lally crashed TRG's GTC Porsche.

Oliver Gavin had already established himself on class pole ahead of team-mate Jan Magnussen before the stoppage, with Pierre Kaffer putting the #61 Risi Ferrari third.

His team-mate Jaime Melo did not manage to get a lap in early though, and could only salvage seventh when the session resumed. The championship-leading Flying Lizard Porsche was fourth.

Black Swan's Jeroen Bleekemelon stormed to yet another GTC pole, while Lally's pre-crash time was good enough to hold second.

Pos  Cl   Drivers                    Car         Time       Gap
 1.  P    Drayson/Cocker             Lola        1m49.554s
 2.  P    Dyson/Smith                Lola-Mazda  1m50.875s  + 1.321s
 3.  P    Bernhard/Graf              Porsche     1m51.312s  + 1.758s
 4.  P    Willman/Burgess/Mowlem     Lola        1m51.711s  + 2.157s
 5.  P    Brabham/Pagenaud           HPD         1m52.148s  + 2.594s
 6.  PC   Gonzalez/Diaz              ORECA       1m58.287s  + 8.733s
 7.  PC   Marcelli/Ducote            ORECA       1m59.412s  + 9.858s
 8.  PC   Jeannette/Julian           ORECA       2m00.092s  + 10.538s
 9.  PC   Tucker/Wallace             ORECA       2m00.740s  + 11.186s
10.  PC   Montecalvo/Zugel           ORECA       2m00.846s  + 11.292s
11.  GT   Beretta/Gavin              Corvette    2m06.509s  + 16.955s
12.  GT   Magnussen/O'Connell        Corvette    2m06.674s  + 17.120s
13.  GT   Salo/Kaffer                Ferrari     2m06.997s  + 17.443s
14.  GT   Muller/Hand                BMW         2m07.222s  + 17.668s
15.  GT   Bergmeister/Long           Porsche     2m07.392s  + 17.838s
16.  GT   Sharp/van Overbeek         Ferrari     2m07.455s  + 17.901s
17.  GT   Melo/Bruni                 Ferrari     2m07.561s  + 18.007s
18.  GT   Auberlen/Milner            BMW         2m07.716s  + 18.162s
19.  GT   Sellers/Henzler            Porsche     2m07.939s  + 18.385s
20.  GT   Murry/Robertson/Robertson  Doran Ford  2m08.703s  + 19.149s
21.  GT   Dalziel/Goossens           Jaguar      2m10.084s  + 20.530s
22.  GTC  Pappas/Bleekemolen         Porsche     2m14.345s  + 24.791s
23.  GTC  Ende/Lally                 Porsche     2m14.520s  + 24.966s
24.  GTC  Curtis/Sofronas            Porsche     2m14.843s  + 25.289s
25.  GTC  Miller/Hines               Porsche     2m15.656s  + 26.102s
26.  GT   Brown/Cosmo                Ferrari     2m15.710s  + 26.156s
27.  GTC  Rodriguez/Bieker           Porsche     2m15.972s  + 26.418s
28.  GTC  Lewis/Rice                 Porsche     2m16.216s  + 26.662s
29.  GTC  Sweedler/Kapudija          Porsche     2m16.221s  + 26.667s
30.  GT   Law/Neiman                 Porsche     2m20.428s  + 30.874s
31.  GTC  Beggs/Baron                Porsche
32.  P    Field/Field                Lola
33.  PC   Tucker/Bouchut             ORECA

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