The Brazilian skillfully navigated the 17-turn, 3.74-mile circuit and jumped to the highest of the leaderboard with a flying lap of 1m48.152s to assert pole within the #31 Cadillac V-Sequence.R ready by Action Express Racing.
Sebastien Bourdais was capable of propel the Cadillac ready by Chip Ganassi Racing to second, 0.147 seconds behind.
Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti’s #40 Acura ARX-06, which missed Thursday night’s observe as a result of an engine change, was subsequent quickest due to Louis Deletraz’s effort, whereas the #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 of Philipp Eng seized fourth.
Nonetheless, Ricky Taylor, within the sister WTR Andretti entry, really set the quickest time in GTP, however he obtained further work on the machine throughout a purple flag, which voided his general time of 1m48.038s.
Earlier, Phil Hanson had the highest time of 1m51.441s within the #85 Porsche 963 for JDC-Miller MotorSports till the purple flag and Hanson ended up sixth.
The #6 Penske Porsche 963 of Mathieu Jaminet, who was out on his maiden run, had a big shunt after his proper rear went over the kerbing on the exit of Flip 1, which despatched the automotive right into a wild slide that resulted within the nostril slamming into the barrier.
The incident introduced out purple flags and left 4 minutes within the the rest of the section.
LMP2
PJ Hyett delivered a stout 1m52.142s flyer to take his first-ever pole behind the wheel of ‘Spike’, AO Racing’s #99 ORECA LMP2 07.
“Yeah, I am form of speechless about what’s occurring right here,” Hyett stated. “Sebring is without doubt one of the best tracks on the earth, and to get pole in a P2 automotive is a dream come true. I can not imagine it. I truthfully cannot imagine it.”
United Autosports #22 ORECA of Daniel Goldburg bought near the highest, however in the end fell 0.171s off Hyett’s pace-setting time.
After going high briefly with 10 minutes remaining within the class qualifying, Ben Keating pulled off an influence slide coming into Flip 3 that kicked out the rear of his #2 United Autosports ORECA and got here to a slight halt sufficient to be lined up with the exit of the nook. He was capable of proceed and ended up 0.531s adrift in third when the mud settled.
The #20 ORECA of MKD by Excessive Class Racing, piloted by Dennis Andersen, was stopped on observe simply offline in Flip 7 to deliver out the purple flag within the closing minute and ended the section early.
GTD and GTD Professional
#14 VasserSullivan Lexus RC F GT3: Jack Hawksworth, Ben Barnicoat, Kyle Kirkwood
Picture by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Images
Jack Hawksworth dropped a flyer of 1m58.714s to assert the GTD Professional pole in Vasser Sullivan’s #14 Lexus RC F GT3.
The lap got here with roughly six minutes remaining, and meant the Lexus crew completed sizeably forward of Coronary heart of Racing Group’s #23 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo of Marco Farnbacher by 0.550s.
AO Racing’s Seb Priaulx was third quickest within the #77 Porsche 911 GT3 R, 0.732s off Hawksworth’s time.
Winward Racing’s Philip Ellis led GTD with a lap of 1m58.778s within the #57 Mercedes-AMG GT3, which was solely 0.064s off the general GTD class mark set by Hawksworth.
Antonio Fuoco, driving the #47 Ferrari 296 GT3 for Cetilar Racing was second in school, whereas Parker Thompson put the GTD entry for Vasser Sullivan third in school within the #12 Lexus.
Qualifying end result:
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