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Acura’s Nick Yelloly took pole in Chevrolet’s backyard at Detroit, with his teammate Tom Blomqvist locking out the front row.
Acura’s Nick Yelloly secured pole position for the IMSA Chevrolet Sports Car Classic in Detroit, driving the #93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing ARX-06 and setting a time of 1:05.762.
Yelloly’s Acura teammate, Tom Blomqvist, grabbed the second spot on the grid, just 0.146 seconds behind. Sheldon van der Linde in the #25 BMW M Team RLL M Hybrid V8 qualified third, trailing Yelloly by three tenths.
Initially, the battle for pole seemed to be between BMW and Porsche in the IMSA GTP class, with Nick Tandy in the #7 Porsche 963 and BMW drivers S. van der Linde and Dries Vanthoor setting early fast laps.
S. van der Linde briefly led the session with a 1:06.351, but Yelloly ultimately claimed pole with a 1:05.762. The only other driver to break the 66-second mark was Blomqvist, posting a time of 1:05.981.
Yelloly’s dominant performance saw him secure pole ahead of Blomqvist and van der Linde, with Vanthoor in fourth. The two Porsches followed in fifth and sixth, while the Cadillacs rounded out the top ten in their hometown of Detroit.
