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IMSA Indianapolis: Campbell scores pole in Porsche lockout
In qualifying, the 28-year-old Australian driver set the fastest lap time of 1 minute and 13.672 seconds, earning the pole position for Team Penske’s #7 Porsche 963. This is Campbell’s second pole position of the year.
Teammate Mathieu Jaminet also secured a front-row lockout for Porsche Penske Motorsports, finishing just 0.152 seconds behind Campbell. Tom Blomqvist of Meyer Shank Racing briefly took second place, but Jaminet regained the position in the final minutes, pushing Blomqvist’s #60 Acura ARX-06 to third. Sebastien Bourdais of Chip Ganassi Racing’s #01 Cadillac V-Series.R finished fourth, followed by points leader Ricky Taylor in the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport entry.
In the LMP2 category, Ben Keating took the pole position in the #51 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA with a late charge, beating the #04 Crowdstrike Racing by APR entry by 0.440 seconds. The #11 TDS Racing machine secured third place, with a gap of 0.673 seconds.
The #9 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) of Pfaff Motorsports claimed the pole position in the GTD class, with Klaus Bachler setting a lap time of 1m23.140s. This is Bachler’s second pole position of the year. The #79 Mercedes AMG GT3 of WeatherTech Racing finished 0.150 seconds behind in second place.
Madison Snow of Paul Miller Racing claimed the GTD Pro-Am pole position in the #1 BMW M4 GT3, setting the fastest lap time in both GTD categories. Mikael Grenier in the #32 Mercedes AMG GT3 for Korthoff/Preston Motorsports finished 0.349 seconds behind in second place.
In the upcoming IMSA GTP title showdown races, Ricky Taylor expressed his readiness to take risks in order to compete for the championship.
Source: motorsport
