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Qualifying
Perfect starting position for
Comments after the qualifying
Frédéric Makowiecki (#912): “That was a very difficult qualifying with a perfect result for
Patrick Pilet (#911): “That was tough. I experienced understeer early on with our 911 RSR, but towards the end the balance improved from lap to lap. Now I’m also feeling optimistic for the race – the whole package works. The most important thing in Sebring is that the car’s performance remains constant. This race is won in the last two hours, so we need a perfect strategy and we can’t make any mistakes.”
At the wheel of the sister 911 RSR sporting the starting number 911, Patrick Pilet (France) set the second quickest time and, with Nick Tandy (Great Britain) and Richard Lietz (Austria), takes up the race from the first grid row.
In the GTD class, the best
Qualifying result
GTLM class
1. Bergmeister/Bamber/Makowiecki (D/NZ/F),
2. Tandy/Pilet/Lietz (GB/F/A),
3. Magnussen/Garcia/Briscoe (DK/E/AUS), Chevrolet Corvette, + 0.241
4. Auberlen/Werner/Farfus (USA/D/BRA), BMW Z4 GTE, + 0.255
5. Kaffer/Fisichella/Bertolini (D/I/I), Ferrari F458 Italia, + 0.340
6. Edwards/Luhr/Klingmann (USA/D/D), BMW Z4 GTE, + 0.343
8. Henzler/Sellers/Long (D/USA/USA),
GTD class
1. J. Bleekemolen/S. Bleekemolen/Keating (NL/NL/USA), Dodge Viper, 2:03.485 minutes
2. Farnbacher/James/Riberas (D/USA/E),
3. Pumpelly/Lindsey/Norman (USA/USA/USA),
This is the Tudor United SportsCar Championship
The Tudor United SportsCar Championship is a new sports car race series contested in the USA and Canada which was run in 2014 for the first time. The series was formed from the merger of the American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am Series. Sports prototypes and sports cars start in four different classes: GTLM (GT Le Mans), GTD (GT Daytona), P (Prototype) and PC (Prototype Challenge). The
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