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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