ALMS Grand Prix of Mosport Qualifying Results

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The only stop in Canada for the American Le Mans Series, the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (previously known as Mosport Raceway) is a 2-hour, 45-minute event set on the historic 2.459-mile road course set outside of Toronto. A total 26 cars came north of the United States border for the Mobil 1 Presents the Grand Prix of Mosport. 

In a warm Saturday afternoon qualifying Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, the #6 Muscle Milk Pickett Racing HPD ARX-03a was fastest on track with a 1-minute, 6.486-second lap time. The Pickett Racing car driven by Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr beat out the Dyson Racing owned Mazda-powered Lola for the top spot for Sunday's main event.

In other classes, the #37 Conquest Racing Morgan was the fastest of two P2 cars present at the Grand Prix of Mosport. The #5 logged in the PC (prototype challenge) class' top time with Colin Braun and Jonathan Bennett set to teamed up for Sunday's race. In a congested GT class, the Corvette Racing squad took the top-2 positions in class. The #3 Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1 driven by Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia gains the immediate class lead to the green flag Sunday by 3/10th of a second over their #4 team car. Finally, the #34 car driven by Damien Faulkner and Peter LeSaffre was fastest in qualifying within the all-Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car GTC series.

Canadian driver Kyle Marcelli will start 3rd in class and 8th after qualifying. The #8 Merchant Services Racing Prototype Challenge car actually recorded the second-fastest time in class but was assessed penalty by the American Le Mans Series after being ruled the driver blocked another vehicle during the qualifying session. The car was stripped of its fastest time dropping it one position on the starting lineup.

Other Canadian competitors are found in the P1 and GTC class for the Grand Prix of Mosport event Sunday. Co-driving the #20 Lola, Toronto's Tony Burgess will be the highest-starting Canadian in the field for the ALMS race. In GTC, the #11 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car will fact feature an all-Canadian driving lineup. Grand Am sports car series regular Michael Valiante and Chris Cumming are both natives of Vancouver, British Columbia starting fourth in class at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

The American Le Mans Series Grand Prix of Mosport event is set for a noontime start on Sunday.


2012 American Le Mans Series
Grand Prix of Mosport
Qualifying Results


8 car will start in 8th place overall after ALMS penalized team.

Overall	Class Rank	Class	Car #	Drivers	Car Type
1	1	P1	6	Klaus Graf/Lucas Luhr	HPD ARX-03a
2	2	P1	16	Chris Dyson/Guy Smith	Lola B12/60
3	3	P1	20	Eric Lux/Tony Burgess	Lola B11/66
4	1	P2	37	Martin Plowman/David Heinemeier Hansson	Morgan
5	2	P2	55	Christophe Bouchut/Scott Tucker	HPD ARX-03b
6	1	PC	5	Colin Braun/Jonathan Bennett	Oreca FLM09
7	2	PC	8	Kyle Marcelli/Matt Downs	Oreca FLM09
8	3	PC	6	Ryan Dalziel/Alex Popow	Oreca FLM09
9	4	PC	9	Bruno Junqueira/Tomy Drissi	Oreca FLM09
10	5	PC	25	Duncan Ende/Henri Richard	Oreca FLM09
11	6	PC	52	Marino Franchitti/Ken Dobson	Oreca FLM09
12	1	GT	3	Jan Magnussen/Antonio Garcia	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1
13	2	GT	4	Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1
14	3	GT	55	Bill Auberlen/Jörg Müller	BMW E92 M3
15	4	GT	1	Johannes van Overbeek/Scott Sharp	Ferrari F458 Italia
16	5	GT	45	Jorg Bergmeister/Patrick Long	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR
17	6	GT	56	Dirk Mueller/Joey Hand	BMW E92 M3
18	7	GT	48	Sascha Maassen/Bryce Miller	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR
19	8	GT	17	Wolf Henzler/Bryan Sellers	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR
20	9	GT	23	Townsend Bell/Bill Sweedler	Lotus Evora
21	10	GT	2	Ed Brown/Guy Cosmo	Ferrari F458 Italia
22	11	GT	44	Seth Neiman/Andy Lally	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR
23	1	GTC	34	Damien Faulkner/Peter LeSaffre	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
24	2	GTC	66	Spencer Pumpelly/Emilio Di Guida	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
25	3	GTC	22	Leh Keen/Cooper MacNeil	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
26	4	GTC	11	Michael Valiante/Chris Cumming	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup