Sebastien Bourdais broke the DPi lap record to land pole for the IMSA SportsCar Championship’s Sebring 12 Hours, heading a Cadillac lockout of the front row.
Bourdais, who won the race last year racing in the Cadillac DPi-V.R for JDC-Miller, delivered a 1m45.166s in Chip Ganassi Racing’s #01 car to eclipse the existing lap record by over two-tenths of a second, but shade his nearest opposition by only 0.026s.
Impressively, the top four cars were under the lap record, and covered by only 0.157s.
Bourdais took only two laps to warm up his tires and deliver his knockout blow to the opposition, ensuring the car he shares full-time with Renger van der Zande and, this weekend, former IndyCar rival Ryan Hunter-Reay, will lead the field to the green in the 70th Twelve Hours of Sebring.
Pipo Derani in the Action Express Racing #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac, kept whittling away at Bourdais’ margin, until he was just two and a half hundredths slower.
Although he fell short, he still…
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