SportsCar Championship Qualifying Report

October 12, 2018

Track: Road Atlanta

Race: Petit Le Mans

Date: October 12, 2018

No. 6 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 DPi – Dane Cameron/Juan Pablo Montoya/Simon Pagenaud

Practice 3:

Position: 12th

Time / Speed: 1:11.771 seconds / 127.404 mph

Qualifying

Driver: Juan Pablo Montoya

Position: 8th

Time / Speed: 1:10.947 seconds / 128.884 mph

No. 7 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 DPi – Helio Castroneves/Ricky Taylor/Graham Rahal

Practice 3:

Position: 4th

Time / Speed: 1:10.857 seconds / 129.048 mph

Qualifying

Driver: Ricky Taylor

Position: 5th

Time / Speed: 1:10.780 seconds / 129.188 mph

Fast Practice Time: 1:10.786 seconds (No. 77 – Oliver Jarvis)

Fastest Qualifying Time: 1:10.437 seconds (No. 22 – Pipo Derani)

Recap: The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship teams battled the high-speed turns of Road Atlanta during Friday afternoon’s qualifying session for tomorrow’s running of the historic Petit Le Mans. Earlier in the day the final practice session gave the teams one more shot to find the perfect balance for qualifying and the race. Following the practice session, Ricky Taylor was chosen to qualify the No. 7 Acura Prototype with Juan Pablo Montoya getting the post in the No. 6. Taylor finished the time trials with the fifth fastest lap with Montoya not far behind in eighth.

Coverage: Petit Le Mans – the season finale for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship – can be seen live on FS1 and IMSA.tv tomorrow beginning at 10:30 am ET before switching over to FS2 beginning at 12:00 pm ET through the duration of the 10-hour event.