Cadillac Racing secured 3rd pole in four years
Cadillac Racing secured pole position for the 12 Hours of Sebring—the third in four years for the Cadillac Whelen team.
Jack Aitken laid down the perfect lap at Sebring International Raceway, clocking in at 1:46.153. The #31 Cadillac V-Series.R run by Action Express Racing had previously taken pole at the 24 Hours of Daytona last January before being penalized for a technical infraction.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Sebring. Cadillac V-Series.R #31
“It’s one of the more fun sessions of the year,” Atiken said. “I love this track, we love this track. It’s usually been pretty kind to us, but equally we had a near miss last year so we kind of want to come back and claim it as our own. I loved it. The Whelen Cadillac was flying, and it gave me a lot of confidence.
“I don’t think anyone gets a perfect lap around here as it’s a really tough track, but we were closest. We’re over the moon, but we still have some homework to do tonight, we’ve got plenty of competition and some of the other guys are very quick especially on the long runs. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.”
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Sebring. Cadillac V-Series.R #31
Earl Bamber and Frederik Vesti’s teammate edged out the #60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura driven by Tom Blomqvist by a margin of 109 thousandths of a second.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Sebring. #60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura
Tom Blomqvist (#60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Acura ARX-06) qualified second: "It was a very good result to put the #60 Acura on the front row. It was actually a really difficult session with the wind conditions and the tires—it was hard to put everything together, to be honest. I only had grip for one lap before it started to drop off, so I only had one real chance at it and I pushed pretty hard. There were some pros and cons in there, but when you're only a tenth off, you look at all of the areas where you could have potentially done a better job. Second place is good but it's not the most important thing, the bigger task is tomorrow. Let's see how we race!" Source: Honda
A spot in GTP is decided by less than 40 thousandths of a second. Thus, Albuquerque with the Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R #10 misses out on third place by 36 thousandths of a second.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Sebring. Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R #10
Filipe Albuquerque, #10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R: "I'm very happy with the performance in qualifying. P3. Obviously we wanted to be P1, but I think it shows we have been evolving the outright performance of our car at Wayne Taylor Racing. What is crazy is what a difference a year makes in understanding the Cadillac V-Series.R. I've been confident the whole weekend. We've been finetuning the car and I've been enjoying the work process within the team before the result. Our results were good; I missed pole position by a tenth or so. We will take that for the 12 hours, especially at Sebring where the conditions are so different plus we'll be racing in the night. So let's go onto race day."
The factory #6 Porsche 963 driven by Kévin Estre settled for the fourth-fastest time, just 242 thousandths off the benchmark.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Sebring. Porsche 963 #6
The second Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac (#40), entrusted to Louis Delétraz finishes fifth 26 thousandths of a second behind Estre.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Sebring. Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac #40
Louis Delétraz, #40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R: “We qualified top five for Sebring and again for Sebring it’s not the most important as it’s a 12 Hour race. We worked hard on the race car and we’re pretty happy and confident for the race tomorrow. The car feels good on the bumps and we have full focus on the race with no mistakes and try to move forward.” Source: Cadillac Racing
GTP Qualifying results
Source IMSA
How to Watch the Twelve Hours of Sebring
Television coverage for the 74th running of the final hours of the Twelve Hours of Sebring will air on NBCSN from 5 PM ET through the conclusion of the race.
Live flag-to-flag coverage will be available on NBC Peacock in the US and on IMSA's YouTube channel internationally. Additionally, Radio Le Mans will have live flag-to-flag coverage via IMSA.com.
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