IMSA Lime Rock: Pfaff Porsche and VS Lexus take poles

Jordan Taylor in the Chevrolet Corvette C8.R was the first GTD Pro driver to show his hand, taking first with a 51.302s, until Ross Gunn’s Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage edged him by just 0.021s.

Then Matt Campbell in the Pfaff Porsche 911 GT3 R set a 51.079s to take provisional pole, just ahead of Jack Hawksworth in second in the #14 Lexus RC F of Vasser Sullivan, 0.018s off Campbell's leading effort.

With a relatively empty track, Connor De Phillippi moved up to third in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW M4. Campbell pitted with two minutes to go, leaving Hawksworth and De Phillippi to make their last assaults on the Porsche driver’s benchmark, but both missed out by failing to improve on their previous efforts.

The GTD class appeared to be a battle between Stevan McAleer in the Team Korthoff Motorsports Mercedes AMG GT3 and Russell Ward in the Winward Racing Mercedes, because with 10 minutes to go they were just 0.121s apart at the top.

But then the BMW M4s of Paul Miller Racing and Turner Motorsports made their presence felt, Robby Foley in the latter car taking top spot with a 51.490s.

Also entering the fray was Robert Megennis driving the Carbahn with Peregrine Racing machine who moved to second in class before improving on his next push lap to take the provisional pole.

But Frankie Montecalvo grabbed pole in the #12 Lexus from Megennis by a mere 0.006s.

IMSA Lime Rock - Qualifying results

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	Matt Campbell Mathieu Jaminet	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R	51.079
2	Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat	GTD PRO	Lexus RC F GT3	51.097	0.018
3	Connor de Phillippi John Edwards	GTD PRO	BMW M4 GT3	51.227	0.148
4	Ross Gunn Alex Riberas	GTD PRO	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	51.281	0.202
5	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	51.302	0.223
6	Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	51.459	0.380
7	Robert Megennis Jeff Westphal	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	51.465	0.386
8	Roman De Angelis Maxime Martin	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	51.477	0.398
9	Robby Foley Bill Auberlen	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	51.490	0.411
10	Mike Skeen Stevan McAleer	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	51.516	0.437
11	Russell Ward Philip Ellis	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	51.517	0.438
12	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	51.651	0.572
13	Ryan Eversley Aidan Read	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	51.741	0.662
14	Cooper MacNeil Jules Gounon	GTD PRO	Mercedes AMG GT3	52.213	1.134
15	Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	52.312	1.233
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