Lime Rock ALMS: Lucas Luhr puts Pickett HPD on comfortable pole
Lucas Luhr took a commanding pole position for Pickett Racing's HPD as the American Le Mans Series resumed at Lime Rock after its Le Mans 24 Hours break
With its early-season rival Rebellion opting out of the ALMS this weekend, Pickett has become a strong favourite for a second straight title.
Remaining opponent Dyson Racing has yet to score this season, and Chris Dyson was 0.8 seconds off Luhr's pace in qualifying on Friday afternoon.
In LMP2, Level 5 duo Ryan Briscoe and Marino Franchitti beat the Extreme Speed cars.
Andy Meyrick put the DeltaWing 12th overall.
The Rahal Letterman Lanigan BMWs fended off their rivals in the typically close GT session.
John Edwards beat Maxime Martin as the two BWMs went head to head for pole.
The Corvettes start third and fifth, separated by the Risi Ferrari, with CORE leading the Porsche challenge from sixth.
CORE took LMPC pole, recovering from an off by Jon Bennett late in final practice to get the car ready for Colin Braun to put up front in class.
Bruno Junqueira was his closest rival in the RSR entry.
Spencer Pumpelly gave former GT top dog Flying Lizard its first GTC pole, narrowly defeating Alex Job man Jeroen Bleekemolen.
Pos Cl Qual Driver Team/Car Time Cl gap 1. P1 Lucas Luhr Pickett HPD 44.396s 2. P1 Chris Dyson Dyson Lola-Mazda 45.243s +0.847s 3. P2 Ryan Briscoe Level 5 HPD 46.191s 4. P2 Marino Franchitti Level 5 HPD 46.428s +0.237s 5. P2 Johannes van Overbeek Extreme Speed HPD 46.729s +0.538s 6. P2 Scott Sharp Extreme Speed HPD 46.870s +0.679s 7. PC Colin Braun CORE FLM 48.078s 8. PC Bruno Junqueira RSR FLM 48.188s +0.110s 9. PC Kyle Marcelli BAR1 FLM 48.403s +0.325s 10. PC Renger van der Zande DragonSpeed FLM 48.422s +0.344s 11. PC Tristan Nunez Performance Tech FLM 48.564s +0.486s 12. P1 Andy Meyrick DeltaWing 48.931s +4.535s 13. PC Mike Guasch PR1 FLM 49.222s +1.144s 14. PC Rusty Mitchell BAR1 FLM 50.044s +1.966s 15. GT John Edwards RLL BMW 50.996s 16. GT Maxime Martin RLL BMW 51.157s +0.161s 17. GT Oliver Gavin Corvette 51.490s +0.494s 18. GT Olivier Beretta Risi Ferrari 51.499s +0.503s 19. GT Antonio Garcia Corvette 51.537s +0.541s 20. GT Patrick Long CORE Porsche 51.732s +0.736s 21. GT Townsend Bell West/AJR Ferrari 51.812s +0.816s 22. GT Dominik Farnbacher SRT Viper 51.916s +0.920s 23. GT Kuno Wittmer SRT Viper 52.185s +1.189s 24. GT Bryan Sellers Falken Porsche 52.199s +1.203s 25. GT Bryce Miller Miller Porsche 52.254s +1.258s 26. GTC Spencer Pumpelly Flying Lizard Porsche 55.155s 27. GTC Jeroen Bleekemolen Alex Job Porsche 55.317s +0.162s 28. GTC Damien Faulkner TRG Porsche 55.414s +0.259s 29. GTC Andy Lally Dempsey Porsche 55.500s +0.345s 30. GTC Jan Heylen JDX Porsche 55.604s +0.449s 31. GTC Nicolas Armindo NGT Porsche 55.677s +0.522s 32. GTC Dion von Moltke Flying Lizard Porsche 55.744s +0.589s 33. GTC Craig Stanton TRG Porsche 55.992s +0.837s
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