{"id":83385,"date":"2020-08-03T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-acura-repeats-front-row-qualifying-sweep-at-road-america\/"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:51:02","slug":"acura-repite-barrida-de-primera-fila-en-las-eliminatorias-de-road-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/acura-repite-barrida-de-primera-fila-en-las-eliminatorias-de-road-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Acura Repeats Front Row Qualifying Sweep at Road America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>&#8211; <b><i>Acura Team Penske&#8217;s <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricky Taylor<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Dane Cameron<\/span> top qualifying at Road America\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <b><i>Acura Team Penske also qualified 1-2 at Road America in 2019<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <b><i><span class=\"xn-person\">Matt McMurry<\/span> heads Acura NSX GT3 effort, qualifying seventh in GTD <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ELKHART LAKE, Wis.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 1, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0For the second year in a row, Acura Team Penske swept qualifying for Sunday&#8217;s IMSA WeatherTech Championship race at Road America, with <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricky Taylor<\/span> claiming the pole, and teammate <span class=\"xn-person\">Dane Cameron<\/span> qualifying second. In GTD, Meyer Shank Racing&#8217;s <span class=\"xn-person\">Matt McMurry<\/span> posted the seventh-quickest GTD qualifying run in his Acura NSX GT3 Evo.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpga150left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpga150left\" title=\"Ricky Taylor captured the pole in his #7 Acura ARX-05 prototype for Sunday\u2019s IMSA Road Race Showcase at Road America. It is the second consecutive 1-2 qualifying result at Road America pole for Acura and Team Penske.\" style=\"HEIGHT: 267px; WIDTH: 400px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ricky Taylor captured the pole in his #7 Acura ARX-05 prototype for Sunday\u2019s IMSA Road Race Showcase at Road America. It is the second consecutive 1-2 qualifying result at Road America pole for Acura and Team Penske.\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1222758\/Acura_ARX_05_prototype.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><b><u>Acura Team Penske<br \/><\/u><\/b>Taylor hustled his #7 Acura ARX-05 to a time of 1:49.061 around the 4.0-mile Road America circuit, with teammate and defending series champion Cameron slotting in second, three-tenths of a second behind.\u00a0 This is Taylor&#8217;s 20<sup>th<\/sup> career pole in IMSA competition, and his second for Acura Team Penske, with the first recorded last year at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.<\/p>\n<p>The front-row sweep repeated Acura Team Penske&#8217;s qualifying performance from last year, when Cameron claimed the pole driving the #6 ARX-05, and Helio Castroneves completed the front row in the #7 Acura.\u00a0 Cameron and <span class=\"xn-person\">Juan Pablo Montoya<\/span> went on to finish second in last year&#8217;s race en route to the IMSA Manufacturer, Driver and Team championships.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor will start the #7 for Sunday&#8217;s two-hour, 40-minute contest, once again co-driving with Castroneves, while Montoya will continue to share the driving duties aboard the #6 with Cameron.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Acura NSX GT3 Evo Teams<br \/><\/u><\/b><span class=\"xn-person\">Matt McMurry<\/span> led the way for Meyer Shank Racing team in the ultra-competitive GT Daytona category qualifying session, and will start his #86 Acura NSX GT3 seventh in class, sharing the driving duties with defending series champion <span class=\"xn-person\">Mario Farnbacher<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In the #57 Heinricher Racing with MSR Acura, <span class=\"xn-person\">Misha Goikhberg<\/span> qualified just over a tenth of a second slower in eighth, and will share with co-driver <span class=\"xn-person\">Alvaro Parente<\/span>.\u00a0 Till Bechtolscheimer rounded out the Acura GTD contingent in qualifying, and will start his Gradient Racing NSX GT3 Evo from 10<sup>th<\/sup> before handing off to co-driver <span class=\"xn-person\">Marc Miller<\/span> in tomorrow&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>Live US network television coverage from Road America begins at <span class=\"xn-chron\">1 p.m. EDT on Sunday<\/span>, August 2, on NBC.\u00a0 Complete, flag-to-flag race coverage also will be available on the NBC Sports App and NBC Gold with NBCSN Trackpass authentication. <\/p>\n<p>Acura Motorsports social media content and video links from Road America will be available on Facebook (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2873992-1&amp;h=409726857&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHondaRacingHPD&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHondaRacingHPD\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HondaRacingHPD<\/a>) and Twitter (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2873992-1&amp;h=800754719&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FHondaRacing_HPD&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FHondaRacing_HPD\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/HondaRacing_HPD<\/a>).\u00a0Produced by the CoForce Digital Media, the YouTube videos can be found at:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2873992-1&amp;h=3506460700&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2FHondaRacingHPDTV&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2FHondaRacingHPDTV\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/HondaRacingHPDTV<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Quotes<br \/><\/u><\/b><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Ricky Taylor<\/span> <\/b>(#7 Acura Team Penske ARX-05) <b>pole qualifier, first pole of 2020, 20<sup>th<\/sup> career IMSA pole: <\/b>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a great weekend for Acura Team Penske and it&#8217;s nice to cement the strength of our ARX-05 prototypes in winning the pole position, and doing it in a 1-2 fashion. Both cars have been really fast this weekend. We kept swapping the top spot on the charts. Road America is a track that fits these cars so well, so we were hoping to come out of the box strong to get our season back on track a bit. We&#8217;ve done that to this point, but we need to continue to execute in the race the way we have so far this weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Matt McMurry<\/span> <\/b>(#86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 Evo) <b>qualified seventh in GTD<\/b>:\u00a0&#8220;Qualifying went pretty well today, but we had pace to be further ahead than we ended up,\u00a0Unfortunately I ran into traffic on what would have been my fast lap. We&#8217;re trying to strategize for tomorrow. There&#8217;s a strong chance of rain [tomorrow] and Mario [Farnbacher, co-driver] and I are both excited for that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Acura Motorsports<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>&#8211; <b><i>Acura Team Penske&#8217;s <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricky Taylor<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Dane Cameron<\/span> top qualifying at Road America\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <b><i>Acura Team Penske also qualified 1-2 at Road America in 2019<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <b><i><span class=\"xn-person\">Matt McMurry<\/span> heads Acura NSX GT3 effort, qualifying seventh in GTD <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ELKHART LAKE, Wis.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 1, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0For the second year in a row, Acura Team Penske swept qualifying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automotriz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}