Klaus Graf puts Pickett HPD on comfortable American Le Mans Series LMP1 pole at Laguna Seca as Aston Martin leads GT
Pickett Racing's HPD dominated LMP1 qualifying for the American Le Mans Series' Laguna Seca round on Friday
Klaus Graf took the car, which had also been quickest in testing and practice, to the top spot with a commanding 1.795-second advantage over the Dyson Lola-Mazda that completes the slender LMP1 entry.
Level 5 continued HPD's good day with a one-two result in LMP2, Christophe Bouchut setting the class pole time, as a suspension problem prevented Conquest from running in the session. Class newcomer Dempsey Racing was third.
In another tight GT qualifying session, Darren Turner put the Aston Martin at the head of the field. The Briton had a four tenths of a second margin over second-placed Tommy Milner's Corvette, behind which just a tenth of a second covered the two BMWs, both Extreme Speed Ferraris, the second Corvette and the top Flying Lizard Porsche.
Pos Cl Drivers Team/Car Time 1. P1 Luhr/Graf Pickett HPD 1m13.573s 2. P1 Dyson/Smith/Mowlem Dyson Lola-Mazda 1m15.358s 3. P2 Tucker/Bouchut/Montagny Level 5 HPD 1m15.846s 4. P2 Tucker/Diaz/Montagny Level 5 HPD 1m15.935s 5. P2 Dempsey/Foster/Cocker Dempsey Lola-Judd 1m17.494s 6. PC Junqueira/Drissi/Gonzalez RSR FLM 1m17.867s 7. PC Guasch/Gidley/Hamilton Pickett FLM 1m18.114s 8. PC Leitzinger/Dobson PR1 Mathiasen FLM 1m18.396s 9. PC Bennett/Braun CORE FLM 1m18.423s 10. PC Richard/Ende/Lewis Dempsey FLM 1m18.466s 11. PC Marcelli/Downs/Stirling Merchant FLM 1m18.500s 12. PC Nicolosi/Vera Performance Tech FLM 1m18.725s 13. P2 Prendeville/Mitchell/da Costa Libre Radical 1m21.539s 14. PC Burgess/Ducote/Downs Merchant FLM 1m21.645s 15. GT Fernandez/Turner/Mucke Aston Martin 1m22.229s 16. GT Gavin/Milner Corvette 1m22.661s 17. GT Muller/Auberlen RLL BMW 1m22.905s 18. GT Bergmeister/Long/Lietz Flying Lizard Porsche 1m22.919s 19. GT Magnussen/Garcia Corvette 1m22.919s 20. GT Sharp/van Overbeek Extreme Speed Ferrari 1m22.923s 21. GT Hand/Muller RLL BMW 1m22.939s 22. GT Brown/Cosmo Extreme Speed Ferrari 1m22.942s 23. GT Henzler/Sellers Falken Porsche 1m23.356s 24. GT Miller/Maassen Miller Porsche 1m23.448s 25. GT Neiman/Holzer Flying Lizard Porsche 1m26.787s 26. GTC LeSaffre/Faulkner/Bleekemolen Green Hornet Porsche 1m27.495s 27. GTC Hedlund/Krohn/Tandy TRG Porsche 1m27.670s 28. GTC di Guida/Bleekemolen/Curtis TRG Porsche 1m27.673s 29. GTC Cumming/Marsh/Ragginger JDX Porsche 1m28.155s 30. GTC Faieta/Avenatti/Wagner Competition Porsche 1m28.618s 31. GTC MacNeil/Lazzaro Alex Job Porsche 1m28.641s 32. GTC Sofronas/Welch/Villeneuve GMG Porsche 1m29.298s 33. PC Popow/Kimber-Smith CORE FLM 34. P2 Plowman/Hansson/Pizzonia Conquest Morgan-Nissan 35. GT Sweedler/Bell Alex Job Lotus
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