P1racenews AI automatic summary:
Sebastien Bourdais claimed pole for the IMSA Sportscar Championship’s 6 hour race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the ‘Battle on the bricks’, with the Cadillac factory driver setting a 1:14.592 to go fastest. The Frenchman was 0.225 faster than Louis Deletraz in the #40 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06, with Mathieu Jaminet third in the #6 Porsche 963, […]
The Frenchman was 0.225 seconds faster than Louis Deletraz in the #40 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06, with Mathieu Jaminet in third place in the #6 Porsche 963, trailing by 0.031 seconds. The session kicked off with the two BMW M Hybrid V8 cars, #24 driven by Philipp Eng and #25 by Connor de Phillippi, setting the early pace, followed by a significant increase in lap times in the second half of the 15-minute session. Eng initially led with a 1:15.228 lap time before being surpassed by his teammate with a 1:15.200. Jaminet of Porsche came close to breaking the 75-second mark with a 1:15.003 time, but it was Deletraz who achieved that milestone with a lap time almost a tenth quicker. Ending the session with an unbeatable pole-sitting lap, Bourdais secured the top spot, leaving Deletraz in second place and Jaminet in third. In the LMP2 category, Nick Boulle claimed pole position for Inter Europol by PR1 Mathiasen with a time of 1:17.618, followed by Steven Thomas in second and Ben Keating in third. Keating’s United Autosports teammate, Daniel Goldburg, secured the fifth spot, while the 4th place went to PJ Hyett in the #99 AO Racing Oreca 07-Gibson.
