IMSA – Wayne Taylor Racing crushes qualifying at Road America

Thanks to a best lap from Ricky Taylor, the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi-VR will start on pole for the Road America event. Ford dominated the GTLM category.

Published on 05/08/2017 à 21:22

Pierre Tassel

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IMSA – Wayne Taylor Racing crushes qualifying at Road America

Ricky taylor showed himself to be uncompromising in qualifying this Saturday evening at Road America (Wisconsin) in IMSA Sportscar Championship. The driver of the No. 10 Cadillac DPi-VR – Wayne Taylor Racing posted the best performance of the session in 1'53 "058, 1″017 better than the #217 Ligier JS P52 of PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports of José Gutierrez, associated with Olivier Pla.

The #2 Ligier-Nissan – Tequila Patron ESM of Dalziel – Sharp will start in third position alongside the #217 – VisitFlorida Racing Ligier JS P90 of van der Zande – Goossens. The second #22 Ligier ESM of van Overbeek – Derani and the #31 – Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-VR of Cameron – Curran will share the third row.

No surprise in the PC category, since the No. 09 Oreca FLM38 – Performance Tech Motorsports of French – O'Ward was the fastest in 1'59″149, almost three seconds better than the BAR1 Motorsports car. by Yount–Rice.

In GTLM, Ford achieves the double with the GT n°66 of Dirk Müller – Joey Hand and n°67 of Ryan Briscoe – Richard Westbrook. Müller set the best time in 2'01″422, more than seven tenths ahead of Briscoe.

Alexander Sims et Bill Auberlen placent la première BMW M6 n°25 – Team RLL sur la seconde ligne de la catégorie en précédant la première Porsche 911 RSR n°912 de Bruni – Vanthoor. Suivent la seconde BMW M6 n°24 – Team RLL de Tomczyk – Edwards et les deux Corvette officielles.

The GTD category saw the #3 Lamborghini Huracan GT16 – Change Racing from Mul – Lewis dominate the session, with a best time set in 2'06″649. The No. 6 Turner Motorsport BMW M3 GT96 of Klingmann – Krohn will start in second position. The race will start tomorrow at 20:35 p.m. French time.

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