Acura front row for the 29th Motul Petit Le Mans
All Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Acura ARX 06 front row for the 29th Motul Petit Le Mans with Tom Blomqvist in #60 setting the fastest lap of the session ahead of his teammate Nick Yelloly in sister #93.
PJ Hyett, Neil Verhagen and Philip Ellis are the other class pole setters.
Acura front row lock out for last GTP race
The Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian team locked out the front row today in qualifying for the final race of the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season, Petit Le Mans from Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
Tom Blomqvist scored pole position in the #60 Acura ARX-06, his second-consecutive pole position of the season and the third in a row for Acura. The pole position is also Blomqvist's second-straight pole at Petit Le Mans, after also putting his #60 Acura ARX-06 first on the grid for the 2025 edition of the race.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Road Atlanta. Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Acura ARX 06 #60
Tom Blomqvist: (#60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Acura ARX-06) qualified first: "Awesome! Super happy with the result to get one-two for the team and pole position. Great job by everyone at MSR and HRC. We didn't have the best day yesterday, but we knew the car's potential was there. We knew we had a good pace for qualifying and it was just about executing. It was a team effort."
Nick Yelloly completed the front-row lockout for Acura, qualifying the #93 Acura MSR machine P2. This is Acura's second sweep of the front row this season, following a 1-2 qualifying result at Road America earlier this year.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Road Atlanta. Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Acura ARX 06 #93
Nick Yelloly: (#93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Acura ARX-06) qualified second: "P1 and P2 for the Acura Meyer Shank Racing crew here today at Road Atlanta. It was a great qualifying result as we see this program come to an unfortunate end. Tom did a great lap and got the pole there. I thought I had it, but then I saw him pop up on the last lap. Great job by him. I'm happy to be starting second and in front of a lot of the competition. We scored more good points, and now we can try and control the race as best as we can from there." Source: Acura
PJ Hyett in LMP2
PJ Hyett scored his first pole of the season being the fastest of Bronze LMP2 drivers with #99 AO Racing Oreca LMP2 07.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Road Atlanta. #99 AO Racing Oreca LMP2 07
Verhagen in GTD PRO
Neil Verhagen dominated the entire GTD PRO session, topping the timesheets from the start and clocking a 1:18.194 lap in the #1 BMW M4 GT3. Drudi placed second in the #68 Car Blanche Aston Martin. Verhagen and the Paul Miller Racing team (#1) extend their lead over the #4 Corvette by 10 points (35 points for pole position versus 25 for third place), while the two Corvettes locked out the second row of the grid for tomorrow's race, with Catsburg (#4) and Sims (#3) finishing third and fourth, respectively.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Road Atlanta. BMW M4 GT3 #1
Ellis in GTD
Philip Ellis was fastest of GTDs with #57 Mercedes-AMG with a 1:18.674 ahead of Antonio Fuoco in Ferrari 296 #21. The #57 team and drivers extend their leadership in the Weathertech championship for GTD with the 35 points of GTD pole.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Road Atlanta. #57 Mercedes-AMG
Source: IMSA. Drivers fastest lap Free Practices
Schedule
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2026
2:20 PM to 3:35 PM ET: WeatherTech Championship Qualifying
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2026
12:10 PM to 10:10 PM ET: Motul Petit Le Mans
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📷 © Luc Warnotte at Road Atlanta 2026. Cadillac looking to lock up championships at PLM.
