Louis Deletraz took pole in the #40 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06 for the IMSA Sportscar Championship’s 6 Hours of the Glen, setting a 1:32.209, 0.038 faster than Renger van der Zande in the #01 Cadillac V-Series.R.
The Swiss driver took the top spot mid way through the session, with no one else able to beat his time in the remaining minutes.
Van der Zande was very briefly fastest but Deletraz beat him, with the top two not improving after setting these fastest laps.
Jack Aitken was third quickest in the #31 Action Express Cadillac V-Series.R, 0.270 off Deletraz. Fourth was Phil Hanson in the #95 JDC Miller Porsche 963, the quickest of the Porsches, 0.046 away from Aitken.
Fifth was fastest factory Porsche of Mathieu Jaminet, in the #6 Porsche 963, just 0.054 slower than Hanson, as Porsche’s customer out-qualified the factory team.
In LMP2, P.J. Hyett was quickest in the #99 AO Racing Oreca 07-Gibson, setting a spectacular 1:35.925 to go almost seven tenths faster than United Autosports’ Daniel Goldburg in second.
Hyett was top for much of the session in the purple ‘Spike the dragon’ car. He kept chipping away at the times while at the top of the timesheets, with his final lap after the 15 minute session almost 2 seconds quicker than his initial lap set early in the session. On his last lap he was faster by almost four tenths than his previous best, cementing his pole position.
Goldburg was near the top for much of the session, but couldn’t quite best Hyett. At one point he slipped back to third after Steven Thomas, in the #11 TDS Racing Oreca 07-Gibson, went second, but Goldburg took it back with just a 0.002 gap to Thomas in third.
Nick Boulle was fourth quickest in the #52 Inter Europol PR1 Mathiasen Oreca 07-Gibson, 0.372 tenths off Thomas and over a second off Hyett. Ben Keating was fifth fastest in the #2 United Autosports, a further two tenths off Boulle.
