Filipe Albuquerque took a stunning pole position at GPLongBeach for the IMSA SportsCar Championship, heading an Acura 1-2 👇
#27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage GT3: Roman De Angelis, Marco SorensenWith no LMP2 or P3 cars in action, GTD is the sole secondary class at Long Beach.set the early GTD Pro pace but then had an early moment in the #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin at Turn 8. Hawksworth took over at the top in his Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F with a 1m18.490s.
Gunn took the provisional pole back with 1m18.113s, but Hawksworth topped him again with 1m17.885s – breaking the class qualifying lap record. He beat that fractionally again to lower the pole time to 1m17.811s. But that was just pipped by Marco Sorensen in the pro-am #27 Heart of Racing Aston, who lapped in 1m17.811s. Hawksworth had set an even faster first split when the session was curtailed by a huge shunt at Turn 8.
Ashton Harrison clipped the wall on the outside and came to halt, before the AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R of PJ Hyett, who’d clipped the wall on the inside, slammed into the barrier just behind her. Harrison’s car caught fire, which she was able to escape from, while Hyett was also able to walk away unhurt after his huge impact with the concrete.
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