Friday, 10 February 2012
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Scott Tucker Racing Degree 5 Team Gets Pole For Petit Le Mans
Luis Diaz took the No. 055 Microsoft Workplace 2010-sponsored HPD ARX-01g for the pole in an awe-inspiring way with a qualifying effort for that Level 5 Motorsports group and owner, Scott Tucker Racing from Leawood, KS.
Teammate Christophe Bouchut held the top spot with the No. 33 Microsoft Office 2010 HPD ARX-01g for that 15 minute prototype session. Bouchut was knocked out by No. 26 Signatech ORECA-Nissan within the closing minutes.
Bouchut couldn’t get it with each other within the final minutes from the race, but team member Diaz took this Honda-powered prototype for the checked flag. It took the pole to the 2009 American Le Mans Series LMP2 champion
“It was a matter of having a clean lap,” Diaz said. “The LMP1 cars did not make our lives highly easy. We had been surprised because we know the speed of the Nissan, and to beat them right here is extremely special. But the Level 5 guys did a great job with the car. They’ve labored about the clock in both Europe and here to prepare the cars. I consider this pole is great motivation for that race.”
Diaz’s remarkable 1:12.335 lap time was extraordinary and beat out Nissan. That takes him and his co motorists Tucker and Marino Franchitti to key place to just take the win at Saturday’s 10 hour endurance race.
The No. 33 HPD inside the meantime, is set to take the Petit Le Mans and Tucker and Bouchut are LMP2 championships with wins at Lengthy Seaside, Highway The usa and Laguna Seca. A brand new group member, Portuguese ace Joao Barbosa, will join the team on Saturday.
“I was not expecting to become in third, to be honest, but we changed lots of points,” Bouchut mentioned. “Maybe I pushed way too a lot at the begin, but when the Nissan took the pole, it was way too late for us. It is what it really is, but it was superior to the team to nevertheless start out around the pole. We’re going to the win tomorrow.”
Tucker has had a quite busy and effective record subsequent his title win as 4 times driving champion at SCCA National Runoffs at Street The us. He currently had 3 wins in 5 starts. He took both days in the Cooper Tire IMSA Prototype Lites races even though also getting the triumph at Pro Racing Trans-Am Sequence 100-mile race in his Microsoft Office 2010-sponsored Ferrari 430 Challenge car. This tends to make it his Global GT course 63rd occupation win
“There was some great racing out there,” Tucker said. “It’s great to have earned three more wins in the final two days. We grabbed the pole for tomorrow, so there’s plenty of momentum building. We’re looking ahead to the huge one and hopefully getting back around the top step from the podium”
The 14th annual Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda, the 1,000-mile/10-hour endurance race at Street Atlanta, is set for Saturday, Oct. 1. The race will air on ABC at 4 p.m. ET on Sunday, Oct. 2. Live protection will be available inside the U.S. on ESPN3 or outside the U.S. on americanlemans.com starting at 11:15a.m. ET on Saturday, Oct. 1.
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