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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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