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Baltimore ALMS: Lucas Luhr gives Pickett Racing fourth straight pole

Lucas Luhr gave Pickett Racing its fourth straight American Le Mans Series pole position by dominating qualifying on the streets of Baltimore

The German, who shares the team's LMP1 HPD with his countryman Klaus Graf, set three separate laps that would have been good enough for pole; his best coming in 1m25.174s.

Guy Smith put the best of the Dyson Racing Lola-Mazdas second, 0.8 seconds adrift of Luhr, but comfortably outqualified his team-mate Eric Lux's similar machine.

A late flyer from Christophe Bouchut gave the Frenchman pole in LMP2; the Level 5 HPD driver just sneaking in ahead of Martin Plowman's Conquest Morgan by 0.08s.

Oliver Gavin took a brilliant pole in GT; the Corvette driver's lap 0.380s up on the BMW Team RLL driver Bill Auberlen.

Remarkably, Gavin's time came less than an hour after his car suffered significant damage to its bodywork and exhaust in a pre-qualifying practice collision with the best of the Dyson machines.

Jan Magnussen put the second factory Corvette in third spot while Pat Long was the best of the Porsche drivers in fourth for the Flying Lizard team and Scott Sharp upheld Ferrari honours in sixth for Extreme Speed.

A heavy crash for Dominik Farnbacher in practice meant that his SRT Viper did not take part in qualifying. The sister car, driven by Marc Goossens qualified ninth in class.

Bruno Junqueira, who is also racing an IndyCar at Baltimore this weekend, survived clipping the Turn 12 tyre stack to take pole in the LMPC class; the RSR ORECA-Chevrolet driver traded the top spot several times with Ryan Dalziel's Core Autosport machine.

Irishman Damien Faulkner took the honours in GTC for the fourth time in 2012 in his Green Hornet Porsche.

Pos  Cl   Drivers                      Team/Car                Time
 1.  P1   Luhr/Graf                    Pickett HPD             1m25.174s
 2.  P1   Dyson/Smith                  Dyson Lola-Mazda        1m25.914s
 3.  P1   Marsal/Lux                   Dyson Lola-Mazda        1m26.830s
 4.  P2   Tucker/Bouchut               Level 5 HPD             1m27.119s
 5.  P2   Plowman/Heinemeier Hansson   Conquest Morgan-Nissan  1m27.199s
 6.  P2   Tucker/Diaz/Gonzalez         Level 5 HPD             1m28.453s
 7.  PC   Junqueira/Drissi             RSR FLM                 1m27.464s
 8.  PC   Popow/Dalziel                Core FLM                1m27.541s
 9.  PC   Bennett/Braun                Core FLM                1m27.794s
10.  PC   Younessi/Matos               Performance Tech FLM    1m28.107s
11.  PC   Marcelli/Burgess             Merchant FLM            1m28.278s
12.  PC   Downs/Downs                  Merchant FLM            1m31.206s
13.  PC   Richard/Ende                 Dempsey FLM             1m31.811s
14.  GT   Gavin/Milner                 Corvette                1m29.945s
15.  GT   Muller/Auberlen              RLL BMW                 1m30.327s
16.  GT   Magnussen/Garcia             Corvette                1m30.413s
17.  GT   Bergmeister/Long             Flying Lizard Porsche   1m30.665s
18.  GT   Muller/Hand                  RLL BMW                 1m30.838s
19.  GT   Sharp/van Overbeek           Extreme Speed Ferrari   1m31.262s
20.  GT   Henzler/Sellers              Falken Porsche          1m31.412s
21.  GT   Miller/Maassen               Miller Porsche          1m32.108s
22.  GT   Goossens/Kendall             SRT Viper               1m33.526s
23.  GT   Sweedler/Bell                Alex Job Lotus          1m33.701s
24.  GT   Brown/Cosmo                  Extreme Speed Ferrari   1m37.386s
25.  GT   Neiman/Holzer                Flying Lizard Porsche   1m40.561s
26.  GT   Wittmer/Farnbacher           SRT Viper
27.  GTC  LeSaffre/Faulkner            Green Hornet Porsche    1m35.493s
28.  GTC  MacNeil/Keen                 Alex Job Porsche        1m36.117s
29.  GTC  Cumming/Valiante             JDX Porsche             1m36.412s
30.  GTC  Bunting/Pumpelly             TRG Porsche             1m36.803s
31.  GTC  Carter/Pilet                 TRG Porsche

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