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Dyson sweeps Laguna front row

September 16th, 2011

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Smith/Dyson/Cochan, Dyson Lola-Mazda, Laguna Seca 2011Dyson’s Lola-Mazdas filled the front row in qualifying for the American Le Mans Series’ six hour race at Laguna Seca, with championship leaders Guy Smith and Chris Dyson, plus third driver Jay Cochran, taking pole.


Smith had brought the car in with a suspected misfire after its out-lap, but the problem appeared to clear itself, allowing the Briton to set a 1m13.927s to earn the top spot.


His team-mate Steven Kane, who had dominated LMP1 qualifying up to that point, ended up 0.694s adrift in second.


Adrian Fernandez announced Aston Martin Racing’s return to the ALMS with third on the grid in the Lola-Aston, 0.2s behind Kane, and ahead of the similar Muscle Milk car, as Klaus Graf struggled for grip and speed.


RLL BMW stretched its GT pole run to seven races, but compared to the usually tight contests, Joey Hand was spectacularly dominant in Laguna qualifying.


At one stage the American’s advantage was over a second, while just 0.4s covered the next eight cars.


Corvette’s Oliver Gavin eventually got Hand’s margin down to 0.898s as he got between the two BMWs on the grid with a bold late lap.


The Extreme Speed team had a strong afternoon, with Guy Cosmo and Johannes van Overbeek putting its Ferraris fourth and sixth, either side of the #45 Flying Lizard Porsche, and ahead of the Risi Ferrari and #3 Corvette.


Risi had a complicated day. Jaime Melo went off in practice, meaning Toni Vilander – making his Laguna debut – had to qualify to ensure he had enough running at the track before the race. The Finn ended qualifying parked on the circuit having run out of fuel.


The hybrid Porsche, running outside the class system, had been among the GT frontrunners in practice but did not take part in qualifying.


Kyle Marcelli earned LMPC pole for Intersport. Points leader Gunnar Jeanette (CORE Autosport) got to within 0.043s of Marcelli’s early provisional pole, then had a high speed trip through the gravel at Turn 6. While he recovered, Marcelli went faster still to extend his final cushion to 0.394s.


For the third straight race, Jeroen Bleekemolen put the #54 Black Swan Porsche on GTC pole, this time by 0.3s over Damien Faulkner’s Green Hornet/Black Swan entry.

Pos  Cl   Drivers                         Team/Car                Time

 1.  P1   Dyson/Smith/Cochran             Dyson Lola-Mazda        1m13.927s

 2.  P1   Al Masaood/Kane/Leitzinger      Dyson Lola-Mazda        1m14.621s

 3.  P1   Fernandez/Primat/Mucke          AMR Lola-Aston          1m14.827s

 4.  P1   Luhr/Graf                       Muscle Milk Lola-Aston  1m15.564s

 5.  P2   Tucker/Bouchut/Diaz             Level 5 Lola-Honda      1m16.688s

 6.  P1   Burgess/McMurry/Willman         Autocon Lola-AER        1m18.379s

 7.  PC   Ducote/Ducote/Marcelli          Intersport FLM          1m18.844s

 8.  PC   Jeannette/Gonzalez/Junco        CORE Autosport FLM      1m19.238s

 9.  PC   Lux/Julian/Guasch               Genoa FLM               1m19.423s

10.  PC   Bennett/Montecalvo/Wallace      CORE Autosport FLM      1m20.028s

11.  PC   Dobson/Richard/Villeneuve       PR1 Mathiasen FLM       1m20.779s

12.  GT   Muller/Hand                     RLL BMW                 1m22.226s

13.  GT   Gavin/Magnussen                 Corvette                1m23.124s

14.  GT   Auberlen/Werner                 RLL BMW                 1m23.132s

15.  GT   Brown/Cosmo                     Extreme Speed Ferrari   1m23.367s

16.  GT   Bergmeister/Long                Flying Lizard Porsche   1m23.368s

17.  GT   Sharp/van Overbeek              Extreme Speed Ferrari   1m23.386s

18.  GT   Melo/Vilander                   Risi Ferrari            1m23.518s

19.  GT   Beretta/Milner                  Corvette                1m23.566s

20.  GT   Henzler/Sellers                 Falken Porsche          1m23.758s

21.  GT   Miller/Maassen                  Miller Porsche          1m24.133s

22.  GT   Junqueira/Wilden                RSR Jaguar              1m24.383s

23.  GT   Neiman/Holzer                   Flying Lizard Porsche   1m27.829s

24.  GTC  Pappas/Bleekemolen/Bleekemolen  Black Swan Porsche      1m27.850s

25.  GTC  LeSaffre/Faulkner               Green Hornet Porsche    1m28.152s

26.  GTC  Ende/Pumpelly/Ludwig            TRG Porsche             1m28.386s

27.  GTC  Ragginger/Kauffmann/Cisneros    NGT Porsche             1m28.617s

28.  GTC  von Moltke/Buckler/di Guida     TRG Porsche             1m28.796s

29.  GTC  Ham/Thompson/Blackett           JDX Porsche             1m28.870s

30.  GTC  Sweedler/Wong/Lewis             Alex Job Porsche        1m29.194s

31.  GTC  Sofronas/Welch                  GMG Porsche             1m29.334s

32.  GTC  Avenatti/Faieta/Wagner          Competition Porsche     1m29.532s

33.  PC   Nicolosi/Boon/Lueders           Performance Tech FLM

34.  PC   Moro/Drissi/Vera                Intersport FLM

35.  GT   Jones/Moran                     RSR Jaguar

36.  UNC  Dumas/Lietz                     Porsche Hybrid

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