Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Laguna Seca 2015 Prototype Challenge Gallery GT Daytona

Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Laguna Seca 2015 Prototype Challenge Gallery GT Daytona Photos and Stories.

Sports Car Races at Laguna Seca California 2015, 2015-05-01 - 2015-05-03, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, California, USA

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Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Laguna Seca 2015 Prototype Challenge Gallery GT Daytona

Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge

GT classes

Dirk Werner (GT Le Mans) and Patrick Lindsey (GT Daytona) are first-time TUDOR United SportsCar Championship polesitters in the GT classes for Sunday's Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix Powered by Mazda at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Werner, who co-drove with Bill Auberlen to win the most recent GTLM round at Long Beach two weeks ago, took the No. 25 BMW Team RLL BMW Z4 GTE to a new lap record of 1:22.362 around the 2.238-mile road course. He waited a bit in the 15-minute session to run, but executed it to perfection. It eclipses the previous mark of 1:22.373, set last year by Antonio Garcia. Lindsey took his first GTD pole in the No. 73 Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT America with an absolute flier nearly a second clear of the rest of the field. His best time of 1:27.040 was 0.981 of a second clear of Marc Miller, in the No. 93 Riley Motorsports Dodge Viper GT3-R, in the best session of the weekend for the second Viper.

Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge

Tudor United Sports Car championship round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Finishing order
1. (3) Michael Valiante/Richard Westbrook, Corvette DP, 112 laps, 93.547 mph • 2. (1) Jordan Taylor/Ricky Taylor, Corvette DP, 112, 93.533 • 3. (4) John Pew/Oswaldo Negri, Ligier JS P2 Honda HPD, 112, 93.260 • 4. (5) Christian Fittipaldi/Joao Barbosa, Corvette DP, 112, 92.833 • 5. (7) Eric Curran/Dane Cameron, Corvette DP, 112, 92.827 • 6. y-(11) Chris Cumming/Bruno Junqueira, ORECA FLM09 Chevrolet, 110, 91.672 • 7. (8) Tristan Nunez/Jonathan Bomarito, Mazda, 110, 91.338 • 8. (20) Jon Bennett/Colin Braun, ORECA FLM09 Chevrolet, 110, 91.299 • 9. x-(13) Lucas Luhr/John Edwards, BMW Z4 GTLM, 108, 90.140 • 10. (15) James French/Mike Hedlund, ORECA FLM09 Chevrolet, 108, 90.120 • 11. (10) Dirk Werner/Bill Auberlen, BMW Z4 GTLM, 108, 89.930 • 12. (16) Patrick Pilet/Michael Christensen, Porsche 911 RSR, 108, 89.843 • 13. (14) Pierre Kaffer/Giancarlo Fisichella, Ferrari F458 Italia, 108, 89.656 • 14. (18) Michael Christensen/Joerg Bergmeister, Porsche 911 RSR, 108, 89.581 • 15. (17) Tommy Milner/Oliver Gavin, Chevrolet Corvette C7.R, 108, 89.543 • 16. (23) Mikhail Goikhberg/Zach Veach, ORECA FLM09 Chevrolet, 108, 89.540 • 17. (19) Antonio Garcia/Jan Magnussen, Chevrolet Corvette C7.R, 108, 89.426 • 18. (21) Wolf Henzler/Bryan Sellers, Porsche 911 RSR, 108, 89.404 • 19. (24) Todd Slusher/John Falb, ORECA FLM09 Chevrolet, 106, 87.991 • 20. (22) Mirco Schultis/Renger van der Zande, ORECA FLM09 Chevrolet, 104, 86.713 • 21. z-(25) Patrick Lindsey/Spencer Pumpelly, Porsche 911 GT America, 103, 85.884 • 22. (27) Dion von Moltke/Christopher Haase, Audi R8 LMS, 103, 85.851 • 23. (2) Scott Pruett/Joey Hand, Riley DP Ford EcoBoost, 103, 85.748 • 24. (31) Ian James/Mario Farnbacher, Porsche 911 GT America, 103, 85.463 • 25. (34) Bill Sweedler/Townsend Bell, Ferrari 458 Italia, 103, 85.404 • 26. (30) Christina Nielsen/James Davison, Aston Martin V12 Vantage, 102, 85.129 • 27. (29) John Potter/Andy Lally, Porsche 911 GT America, 102, 85.121 • 28. (33) Cooper MacNeil/Leh Keen, Porsche 911 GT America, 102, 84.699 • 29. (26) Marc Miller/Jeff Mosing, Dodge Viper SRT, 102, 84.635 30. (32) Patrick Byrne/Guy Cosmo, Audi R8 LMS, 100, 83.345 • 31. (35) Michael Marsal/Markus Palttala, BMW Z4, 98, 82.430 • 32. (28) Ben Keating/Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dodge Viper SRT, 97, 80.794 • 33. (12) Mike Guasch/Tom Kimber-Smith, ORECA FLM09 Chevrolet, 96, 83.684 • 34. (6) Katherine Legge/Memo Rojas, DeltaWing DWC13 Elan, 38, 35.826 • 35. (9) Tom Long/Joel Miller, Mazda, 18, 95.784 •
x-GT Le Mans class winner y-Prototype Challenge class winner z-GT Daytona class winner