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Pickett Racing takes another American Le Mans Series pole with Klaus Graf at Mosport Park

Pickett Racing's domination of the American Le Mans Series continued in Mosport Park qualifying as Klauf Graf blasted to a commanding pole in the HPD he shares with Lucas Luhr

After escaping a big moment on his second flying lap, Graf set a 1m06.486s to put himself on pole by two seconds over Pickett's arch-rival Dyson. Tyre warm-up issues on Dyson's latest Lola-Mazda meant Chris Dyson had to work hard to depose the team's older #20 car, driven by Eric Lux, from the front row.

Conquest claimed a maiden pole in LMP2, as Martin Plowman kept the team's Morgan-Nissan ahead of Level 5's Christophe Bouchut, and lapped within a few tenths of Dyson.

Corvette took a one-two in GT, with Jan Magnussen putting his and Antonio Garcia's #3 car on class pole in front of their championship-leading team-mates Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner.

Rahal Letterman Lanigan's BMWs had to settle for third and sixth, split by Johannes van Overbeek's Extreme Speed Ferrari and Jorg Bergmeister's Flying Lizard Porsche.

LMPC became a CORE one-two, led by Colin Braun, when Merchant Services' Kyle Marcelli had his best time - which had put him second - deleted for impeding other cars. This session was interrupted by a late red flag to retrieve the spun car of Marino Franchitti - in for Butch Leitzinger at PR1/Mathiasen this weekend. Damien Faulkner was quickest in GTC for Green Hornet.

Pos  Cl   Drivers                     Team/Car                Time
 1.  P1   Luhr/Graf                   Pickett HPD             1m06.486s
 2.  P1   Dyson/Smith                 Dyson Lola-Mazda        1m08.637s
 3.  P1   Burgess/Lux                 Dyson Lola-Mazda        1m08.746s
 4.  P2   Plowman/Heinemeier Hansson  Conquest Morgan-Nissan  1m08.853s
 5.  P2   Tucker/Bouchut              Level 5 HPD             1m09.420s
 6.  PC   Bennett/Braun               CORE FLM                1m10.698s
 7.  PC   Popow/Dalziel               CORE FLM                1m10.935s
 8.  PC   Marcelli/Downs              Merchant FLM            1m11.043s
 9.  PC   Junqueira/Drissi            RSR FLM                 1m11.122s
10.  PC   Richard/Ende                Dempsey FLM             1m11.810s
11.  PC   Franchitti/Dobson           PR1/Mathiasen FLM       1m12.094s
12.  GT   Magnussen/Garcia            Corvette                1m15.478s
13.  GT   Gavin/Milner                Corvette                1m15.782s
14.  GT   Muller/Auberlen             RLL BMW                 1m16.011s
15.  GT   Sharp/van Overbeek          Extreme Speed Ferrari   1m16.189s
16.  GT   Bergmeister/Long            Flying Lizard Porsche   1m16.212s
17.  GT   Hand/Muller                 RLL BMW                 1m16.398s
18.  GT   Miller/Maassen              Miller Porsche          1m16.963s
19.  GT   Henzler/Sellers             Falken Porsche          1m17.060s
20.  GT   Sweedler/Bell               Alex Job Lotus          1m18.650s
21.  GT   Brown/Cosmo                 Extreme Speed Ferrari   1m20.601s
22.  GT   Neiman/Lally                Flying Lizard Porsche   1m20.610s
23.  GTC  LeSaffre/Faulkner           Green Hornet Porsche    1m21.615s
24.  GTC  Di Guida/Pumpelly           TRG Porsche             1m21.935s
25.  GTC  MacNeil/Keen                Alex Job Porsche        1m22.520s
26.  GTC  Cumming/Valiante            JDX Porsche             1m22.741s

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