IMSA CTMP: Blomqvist takes pole in Acura 1-2 ahead of Cadillacs

Blomqvist lapped the challenging Canadian road course in 1m05.653s, just 0.081s ahead of the Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport ARX-06 of Ricky Taylor.

Pipo Derani set the benchmark at 1m06.502s in the Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R, which Taylor beat with 1m05.734s. Blomqvist then took over with 1m05.653s, 0.081s faster than Taylor, but admitted to a “messy lap”.

Derani worked down to 1m05.829s but stayed in third, 0.176s off the pace, the AXR Caddy losing time in the middle sector of the lap. Sebastien Bourdais was fourth in the Chip Ganassi Racing example, ahead of the first Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 of Felipe Nasr, who was eight tenths off pole.

The BMWs looked terribly skittish over Mosport’s bumps and yumps, with Augusto Farfus bucking his way to sixth in the first M Hybrid V8, fractionally ahead of the sister car of Nick Yelloly.

Mike Rockenfeller’s JDC Miller MotorSports Porsche 963 beat the #6 works car of Mathieu Jaminet to eighth place in the nine-car GTP field.

In LMP3, Gar Robinson took pole position in his #74 Riley-run Ligier, ahead of Orey Fidani’s #13 AWA Duqueine and Ari Balogh, who was back in the #30 Jr III Racing Ligier after skipping the Watkins Glen race after his big qualifying crash there.

#14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3: Jack Hawksworth, Ben Barnicoat (Photo by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Images)

Lexus beats Mercedes for GTD pole

In GTD, the Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantages of Alex Riberas and home hero Roman
De Angelis led the way early on, with Riberas setting 1m15.314s in the Pro class car to De Angelis’s 1m15.478s in its pro-am entry.

Jack Hawksworth then took over in his all-Pro #14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F with a new track record of 1m15.029s. Jules Gounon leapt to second in the WeatherTech Racing Mercedes, lapping in 1m15.250s, but didn’t endear himself to Hawksworth by pulling out in front of him.

Behind the Astons, Jordan Taylor’s Corvette C8.R took fifth, ahead of the #12 Lexus of Frankie Montecalvo, who was second in the pro-am class behind De Angelis, ahead of Klaus Bachler (Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911) and Madison Snow (Paul Miller Racing BMW M4).

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Tom Blomqvist Colin Braun	GTP	Acura ARX-06	1'05.653
2	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque	GTP	Acura ARX-06	1'05.734	0.081	0.081
3	Pipo Derani Alexander Sims	GTP	Cadillac V-Series.R	1'05.829	0.176	0.095
4	Sébastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande	GTP	Cadillac V-Series.R	1'06.266	0.613	0.437
5	Matt Campbell Felipe Nasr	GTP	Porsche 963	1'06.521	0.868	0.255
6	Philipp Eng Augusto Farfus	GTP	BMW M Hybrid V8	1'06.801	1.148	0.280
7	Connor de Phillippi Nick Yelloly	GTP	BMW M Hybrid V8	1'06.848	1.195	0.047
8	Tijmen van der Helm Mike Rockenfeller	GTP	Porsche 963	1'06.946	1.293	0.098
9	Nick Tandy Mathieu Jaminet	GTP	Porsche 963	1'07.329	1.676	0.383
10	Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	1'12.946	7.293	5.617
11	Orey Fidani Matthew Bell	LMP3	Duqueine D08	1'13.355	7.702	0.409
12	Garett Grist Ari Balogh	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	1'13.593	7.940	0.238
13	Anthony Mantella Wayne Boyd	LMP3	Duqueine D08	1'13.682	8.029	0.089
14	Antoine Comeau George Staikos	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	1'13.884	8.231	0.202
15	Lance Willsey Joao Barbosa	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	1'14.751	9.098	0.867
16	Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat	GTD PRO	Lexus RC F GT3	1'15.029	9.376	0.278
17	Daniel Juncadella Jules Gounon	GTD PRO	Mercedes AMG GT3	1'15.103	9.450	0.074
18	Ross Gunn Alex Riberas	GTD PRO	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'15.341	9.688	0.238
19	Roman De Angelis Marco Sorensen	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'15.478	9.825	0.137
20	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	1'15.494	9.841	0.016
21	Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'15.508	9.855	0.014
22	Klaus Bachler Patrick Pilet	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'15.584	9.931	0.076
23	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	1'15.595	9.942	0.011
24	Mike Skeen Mikael Grenier	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	1'15.670	10.017	0.075
25	Patrick Gallagher Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	1'15.992	10.339	0.322
26	Mikhail Goikhberg Loris Spinelli	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	1'16.100	10.447	0.108
27	Russell Ward Philip Ellis	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	1'16.165	10.512	0.065
28	Bill Auberlen Chandler Hull	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	1'16.196	10.543	0.031
29	Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3 EVO	1'16.360	10.707	0.164
30	PJ Hyett Seb Priaulx	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'16.983	11.330	0.623
31	Alan Brynjolfsson Trent Hindman	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'17.028	11.375	0.045
32	Alan Metni Kay van Berlo	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'17.126	11.473	0.098
33	Sheena Monk Katherine Legge	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'17.213	11.560	0.087
34	David Brule Alec Udell	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'20.469	14.816	3.256
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