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Jack Aitken has taken pole for Petit Le Mans, the traditional season finale of the IMSA Sportscar Championship, with the Cadillac driver setting a 1:09.639 to go fastest by under a tenth from Porsche’s Matt Campbell. This marks the British-Korean driver’s first IMSA pole, in the #31 Action Express Cadillac V-Series.R. At the start of […]
British-Korean driver secured his first IMSA pole position in the #31 Action Express Cadillac V-Series.R, outperforming his competitors at Road Atlanta. Initially, Phil Hanson in the JDC-Miller Porsche set the pace with a 1:10.444 lap time. It was Jack Aitken’s Cadillac teammate, Sebastien Bourdais, who first broke the 70-second barrier with a time of 1:09.964. Aitken then surpassed Bourdais with a time of 1:09.639, securing pole position just 7 hundredths faster than Matt Campbell in the Porsche. In the LMP2 class, Ben Keating dominated the session in the #2 United Autosports Oreca 07-Gibson, setting a blistering lap time of 1:12.973, almost half a second faster than his closest competitor. Despite challenges from other drivers, Keating’s impressive performance remained unbeatable, with Steven Thomas taking second and PJ Hyett finishing third in the session.
