Qualifying: Werner leads Audi one-two
Joest Audi driver Marco Werner led a record-shattering qualifying session for the American Le Mans Series Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres, as every class polesitter set a new track record
Werner covered the famous 1.521-mile street course in 57.740s, the fastest ever lap of the track by any car. The German will share his Audi R8 with Frank Biela in tomorrow's race.
The Champion Audi of Johnny Herbert and JJ Lehto will start second, ahead of Sears Point winner and LMP675 polesitters Butch Leitzinger and James Wallace. Olivier Beretta and David Saelens complete row two in the JML Panoz.
Tomas Enge drove the Prodrive Ferrari 550 Maranello to a lap of 1m01.557s to take the GTS class pole as he and co-driver Peter Kox seek their first ALMS win of the season. The Chevrolet Corvette C5-R of Oliver Gavin and Kelly Collins will start second in class, followed by the second Prodrive Ferrari of Jan Magnussen and David Brabham.
Sascha Maassen won his first GT class pole of the season with a lap of 1m04.518s in the Alex Job Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RS that he will share with Lucas Luhr. The second Job Porsche of Timo Bernhard and Jorg Bergmeister qualified second, followed by the PK Sport Porsche of Robin Liddell and Alex Davison.
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