Ricky Taylor will start Sunday’s Mobil 1 Sportscar Grand Prix from the pole following a quick lap by the second-generation driver in qualifying Saturday evening at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
Taylor put the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP on top with a 1:07.705 lap, edging out the No. 5 Action Express Racing Corvette DP of Christian Fittipaldi by 0.201 seconds.
It marked Ricky Taylor’s second pole of the season and the team’s third, as the Taylor brothers look to rebound following a race-ending accident last month at Watkins Glen.
Scott Pruett qualified his Chip Ganassi Racing Riley-Ford DP in third, ahead of points leader Michael Valiante in the VisitFlorida.com Racing Corvette DP and the No. 31 Action Express Corvette DP of Eric Curran, who completed the top-five.
The No. 60 Michael Shank Racing Ligier JS P2 Honda, which topped two of the three practice sessions by Ozz Negri, qualified sixth in the hands of John Pew.
The top-six in the Prototype class were separated by just over one second.
James French scored his second Prototype Challenge class pole of the season, thanks to a late flyer by the Performance Tech Motorsports driver.
French reeled off a 1:12.667 late in the 15-minute session, bumping the No. 11 RSR Racing Oreca FLM09 of Chris Cumming, who had held provisional pole for the majority of the session.
The 23-year-old becomes the first repeat polesitter in the spec prototype class this season. He’ll share the wheel of the No. 38 car with Conor Daly tomorrow.
Jon Bennett qualified an impressive third in class in his CORE autosport entry, with Mike Guasch (PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports) and Mikhail Goikhberg (JDC/Miller Motorsports) completing the top-five.
Nick Tandy has become the first repeat GT Le Mans polesitter in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, after taking his Porsche 911 RSR to the top qualifying spot for tomorrow’s Mobil 1 Sportscar Grand Prix.
The Porsche North America driver reeled off a quick lap of 1:14.829 in the 15-minute session, outpacing the championship-leading No. 25 BMW Team RLL entry of Dirk Werner by 0.028 seconds.
It broke a 17-race streak with different pole winners dating back to the series-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2014, with Tandy having claimed class pole at last year’s Petit Le Mans.
The recently crowned Le Mans overall winner will share driving duties with Patrick Pilet in tomorrow’s two-hour and 40-minute race as the German manufacturer searches for its first class win of the season.
The No. 24 BMW of Lucas Luhr qualified third, ahead of Pierre Kaffer’s Risi Competizione Ferrari F458 Italia and the No. 3 Corvette C7.R of Jan Magnussen, which completed the top-five.
The entire GTLM field was separated by less than eight-tenths of a second.
The Mobil 1 Sportscar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park takes the green Sunday at 12:05 p.m. ET. LIVE coverage will begin at 12 p.m. ET Sunday on FOX Sports 1.
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