Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing secures pole for Lagu...

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Louis Deletraz delivered a breakthrough efficiency to place Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing on pole at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

The 29-year-old Swiss driver wheeled the #40 Cadillac V-Sequence.R to a flying lap of 1m13.221s across the 11-turn, 2.238-mile pure terrain highway course to take the highest spot. It marks the primary pole for Wayne Taylor Racing since 2024 (Street America).

“That’s superior,” Deletraz mentioned. “I’m so pleased. We’ve been working actually exhausting. All of the girls and boys have been actually pushing for efficiency and it’s nice to reward them with a pole place.”

The WTR Cadillac can have firm on the entrance row as Jack Aitken put the the #31 Whelen Cadillac in second, 0.280s behind.

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The 15-minute session noticed Deletraz put down his greatest lap with just below 5 minutes to go, and remained untouched all through.

Behind Deletraz and Aitken was Nick Yelloloy, who had the #93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 in third with a late fast lap of 1m13.696s. Dries Vanthoor handed the #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 a fourth-place begin for BMW M Team WRT, 0.514s behind.

Tom Blomqvist (Acura Meyer Shank Racing) was fifth, with Ross Gunn (Aston Martin THOR Crew) in sixth.

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Vasser Sullivan’s Jack Hawksworth delivered a powerful run of 1m21.228s to place the #14 Lexus RC F GT3 on pole. It’s the Briton’s sixteenth profession pole, however first at Laguna Seca. He now has taken pole at 9 completely different race tracks.

Neil Verhagen twice put up a powerful laps however each had been disallowed on account of exceeding observe limits, however was in a position to nonetheless mount a very good lap of 1m21.485 to place Paul Miller Racing’s #1 BMW M4 GT3 EVO in second.

Ford Racing’s Christopher Mies ended up third within the #65 Ford Mustang GT3, with AO Racing’s Harry King fourth within the #77 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992). Antonio Garcia was fifth within the #4 Corvette Z06 GT3.R for Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports.

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Lorenzo Patrese put the #34 Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO for Conquest Racing on pole in GTD with a fast lap of 1m21.441s. It marks the primary pole for Conquest Racing in 14 years, and stands as Patrese’s second profession pole.

Danny Formal’s #45 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 (Wayne Taylor Racing) was simply 0.022s in need of Patrese’s pole tempo, which got here with a couple of minutes left within the 15-minute session. Formal tried to go faster however ran out of gas with a couple of corners left on the next lap and was pressured to dive again to pit lane.

Coronary heart of Racing Crew’s #27 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo of Dude Barrichello, the present class factors chief, ended up third at 0.266s behind.

Russell Ward (Winward Racing) was fourth, whereas Benjamin Pedersen, who co-drove the #12 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 with Aaron Telitz to victory within the final spherical at Lengthy Seashore, ended up fifth.