TUDOR USCC Brickyard Grand Prix Qualifying Results

INDIANAPOLIS -RIS- Welcome to the third running of the NASCAR Super Weekend at the famed 2.5-mile oval of the 105-year old Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The stock cars of the Nationwide and Sprint Cup series practice and compete Friday through Sunday, but first, the sports cars.

Under perfect, sunny weather, the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship arrived at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway - the first time the unified sports car championship has ever competed at the Brickyard.

The Grand-American series had competed here the last two years with the NASCAR Super Weekend (sports cars, Nationwide, and Sprint Cup), but this is the first time many of the former American Le Mans Series teams have been on the IMS 2.439-mile infield road course.

In the day's first practice session, the #1 HPD ARX-03b prototype of Scott Sharp and Ryan Dalziel was quickest at 1:18.349 sec. (112.068 mph).

In the warmer second session, the #5 Corvette Daytona prototype of Joao Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi emerged fastest overall at 1:18.322 (112.106 mph).

The close competition of the GTLM class saw the factory Porsche of Patrick Long and Michael Christensen (#912) and the BMW Z4 GTE of Bill Auberlen and Andy Priaulx (#55) as the fastest of sessions 1 and 2 respectively.

Qualifying completed, here are the final qualification results before tomorrow's running of the Brickyard Grand Prix at 5:45 p.m. Eastern.


TUDOR United SportsCar Championship

BRICKYARD GRAND PRIX
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
July 24, 2014

QUALIFYING RESULTS

SP CP   CLS CAR   DRIVER CAR T LPS GAP   BTIME
BLAP
1 1   P 1   Ryan Dalziel HPD ARX-03b C 11 - - -   01:17.6 5
2 2   P 2   Johannes van Overbeek HPD ARX-03b C 10 0.276   01:17.9 5
3 3   P 42   Gustavo Yacaman Nissan Morgan C 10 0.305   01:17.9 5
4 4   P 5   Christian Fittipaldi Corvette DP C 8 0.499   01:18.1 7
5 5   P 90   Richard Westbrook Corvette DP C 11 0.585   01:18.2 9
6 6   P 1   Scott Pruett Ford EcoBoost/Riley C 11 0.833   01:18.4 9
7 7   P 10   Jordan Taylor Corvette DP C 12 0.989   01:18.6 6
8 8   P 60   Oswaldo Negri Jr Ford EcoBoost/Riley C 10 1.952   01:19.6 8
9 9   P 31   Eric Curran Corvette DP C 10 2.111   01:19.7 4
10 1   PC 54   Colin Braun ORECA FLM09 C 12 2.246   01:19.8 7
11 2   PC 9   Bruno Junqueira ORECA FLM09 C 11 2.473   01:20.1 6
12 3   PC 25   Luis Diaz ORECA FLM09 C 11 2.508   01:20.1 9
13 4   PC 38   David Ostella ORECA FLM09 C 12 2.605   01:20.2 11
14 5   PC 88   Martin Plowman ORECA FLM09 C 11 2.656   01:20.3 5
15 6   PC 52   Gunnar Jeannette ORECA FLM09 C 12 2.814   01:20.4 11
16 7   PC 8   Renger van der Zande ORECA FLM09 C 12 2.951   01:20.6 7
17 8   PC 8   Jack Hawksworth ORECA FLM09 C 10 2.979   01:20.6 4
18 9   PC 7   John Martin ORECA FLM09 C 11 3.052   01:20.7 9
19 10   PC 85   Stephen Simpson ORECA FLM09 C 11 3.573   01:21.2 8
20 10   P 7   Tristan Nunez Mazda SKYACTIV-D C 8 3.781   01:21.4 6
21 11   P 70   Sylvan Tremblay Mazda SKYACTIV-D C 7 4.454   01:22.1 7
22 1   GTLM 62   Giancarlo Fisichella Ferrari F458 Italia M 4 4.775   01:22.4 3
23 2   GTLM 56   John Edwards BMW Z4 GTE M 7 4.839   01:22.4 6
24 3   GTLM 93   Jonathan Bomarito SRT Viper GTS-R M 8 4.888   01:22.5 7
25 4   GTLM 91   Marc Goossens SRT Viper GTS-R M 8 4.900   01:22.5 4
26 5   GTLM 55   Bill Auberlen BMW Z4 GTE M 6 4.960   01:22.6 2
27 6   GTLM 3   Antonio Garcia Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 9 4.990   01:22.6 5
28 7   GTLM 17   Bryan Sellers Porsche 911 RSR F 5 5.127   01:22.7 3
29 8   GTLM 912   Michael Christensen Porsche 911 RSR M 7 5.335   01:22.9 4
30 9   GTLM 911   Nick Tandy Porsche 911 RSR M 9 5.498   01:23.1 6
31 10   GTLM 4   Tommy Milner Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 7 5.634   01:23.2 6
32 1   GTD 94   Dane Cameron BMW Z4 C 8 8.455   01:26.1 4
33 2   GTD 33   Jeroen Bleekemolen SRT Viper GT3-R C 7 8.546   01:26.1 3
34 3   GTD 555   Townsend Bell Ferrari 458 Italia C 7 8.617   01:26.2 4
35 4   GTD 45   Spencer Pumpelly Audi R8 LMS C 6 8.643   01:26.2 4
36 5   GTD 23   Mario Farnbacher Porsche 911 GT America C 10 8.668   01:26.3 4
37 6   GTD 7   James Davison Aston Martin V12 Vantage C 7 8.733   01:26.3 3
38 7   GTD 58   Jan Heylen Porsche 911 GT America C 5 8.737   01:26.3 5
39 8   GTD 48   Christopher Haase Audi R8 LMS C 7 8.916   01:26.5 2
40 9   GTD 63   Alessandro Balzan Ferrari 458 Italia C 9 9.139   01:26.7 4
41 10   GTD 22   Leh Keen Porsche 911 GT America C 9 9.164   01:26.8 8
42 11   GTD 81   Damien Faulkner Porsche 911 GT America C 4 9.260   01:26.9 3
43 12   GTD 46   Charles Espenlaub Audi R8 LMS C 8 9.407   01:27.0 6
44 13   GTD 44   Andy Lally Porsche 911 GT America C 8 9.503   01:27.1 5
45 14   GTD 27   Andrew Davis Porsche 911 GT America C 9 9.621   01:27.2 8
46 15   GTD 73   Mike Skeen Porsche 911 GT America C 9 9.716   01:27.3 4
47 16   GTD 35   Dion von Moltke Audi R8 LMS C 10 9.803   01:27.4 7
48 17   GTD 19   Randy Probst Porsche 911 GT America C 8 10.227   01:27.8 4

Tom Beeler

Tom has been a contributor to RIS since 1992. He was invited to join the staff as a full-time reporter/editor in 1995, and has covered IndyCar, Formula 1, NASCAR, Grand-Am, ALMS and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In addition to his RIS work, Tom has been a contributor for General Motors, Nissan, Toyota and the ACO.

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