ALMS – BMW on pole at the Circuit of the Americas

American spectators Le Mans Series only have eyes for the GT category. It is true that this is where the show is located. This afternoon, on a Circuit of the Americas that continues to be soaked by showers, the No. 4 BMW Z55 GTE took pole position for the penultimate round of the season. At the wheel, Bill Auberlen completed a lap in 2'17"178. It's the first pole of the season for the American, the second for BMW. Behind the car hit by the propeller, we find Jan's two Corvette C6.R ZR1s Magnussen et Oliver Gavin, qui suivent respectivement à 0 »26 et 0 »41. Le quinté de tête de la catégorie est complété par la BMW Z4 de Jonathan Edwards-Dirk Müller et la Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Core Autosport de Colin Braun et Patrick Long. Les Viper GTS-R SRT sont 6e et 9e.
As a reminder, in the championship, Corvette Racing leads the debates with 127 points on the clock ahead of BMW Team RLL and SRT Motorsports, who follow with 97 and 89 points respectively. Among the drivers, the advantage currently goes to Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner. But the two men are only two points ahead of their stablemates Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen and eight ahead of Dirk Müller. Fourth with 13 lengths behind, Marc Goossens and Dominik Farnbacher are also still in the fight.

Already crowned in LM P1 with his teammate Klaus Graf, Lucas Luhr took pole in LM P1, and overall, thanks to a time of 2'08"423. Tomorrow, the HPD ARX-03a Muscle Milk Pickett Racing will start in the lead when the lights go out, and will have the first LM P2 at its side, namely the HPD ARX-03b Level 5 Motorsports n°552 of Marino Franchitti and Scott Tucker. It was the Scotsman who was put in charge of qualifying, a task which he fulfilled by posting a time of 2'10"573. The sister car was not credited with any time, Australian Ryan Briscoe having seen his right front wheel escape on his launch lap. Finally, championship leader Marino Franchitti is ahead of the two Extreme Speed ​​Motorsports HPD ARX-03b, the No. 02 of Ed Brown-Johannes Van Overbeek ahead of the No. 01 of Sharp-Lazzaro.

Due to the very precarious weather conditions, we have to go back to 10th place to find any trace of the LM PC pole sitter. The latter's name is Renger Van der Zende, who is registered on the Oreca 09 FLM n°81 of the DragonSpeed ​​team. The Dutchman is 1”06 ahead of the Scotsman Ryan Dalziel, who made Starworks Motorsports shine for his first steps in the category.

The start of the race will be given tomorrow at 15:45 p.m. local time, i.e. 22:45 p.m. French time.