{"id":84711,"date":"2020-10-19T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-double-poles-for-acura-at-road-atlanta\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T06:42:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:42:05","slug":"dos-primeras-posiciones-en-la-parrilla-de-salida-para-acura-en-road-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/dos-primeras-posiciones-en-la-parrilla-de-salida-para-acura-en-road-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Poles for Acura at Road Atlanta"},"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><span class=\"xn-location\">BRASELTON, Georgia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 16, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Dane Cameron claimed the second consecutive WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pole for Acura Team Penske Friday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta to lead an all-Acura ARX-05 front row; while Shinya Michimi claimed his first IMSA pole with his Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 Evo in the production-based GTD class.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpge013left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpge013left\" title=\"Dane Cameron captures Acura's fourth consecutive IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pole of the season Friday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dane Cameron captures Acura's fourth consecutive IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pole of the season Friday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1314620\/Acura_Motorsports_RDPLM_20_125.jpg\" imagelabel=\"General\"\/><\/div>\n<p><b><u>Acura Team Penske<br \/><\/u><\/b>Cameron took his #6 ARX-05 to the pole in a hard fought 15-minute session to set the field for Saturday&#8217;s 10-hour Petit Le Mans endurance contest, setting a new lap record to edge his teammate <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricky Taylor<\/span> in the #7 Acura by 0.094 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The pole is the second of the season for Cameron, and the fourth consecutive WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pole for Acura Team Penske this season, a streak that started at Road America in August. <\/p>\n<p>Taylor completed the front-row sweep for Acura, in the car he will share with Helio Castroneves and <span class=\"xn-person\">Alexander Rossi<\/span> tomorrow, while Cameron&#8217;s co-drivers at Road Atlanta will be <span class=\"xn-person\">Juan Pablo Montoya<\/span> and Simon Pagenaud as Acura Team Penske seeks a fourth consecutive victory tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3<br \/><\/u><\/b>Shinya Michimi, third driver for Meyer Shank Racing in the long-distance rounds of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, claims his first career pole in the #86 Acura he shares with full-season drivers <span class=\"xn-person\">Mario Farnbacher<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Matt McMurry<\/span>.\u00a0 Michimi battled for fastest lap honors throughout the 15-minute qualifying, eventually besting the Ferrari 488 GT3 of <span class=\"xn-person\">Jeff Westphal<\/span> by 17 hundredths of a second to take the GTD pole.<\/p>\n<p>In the #57 Heinricher Racing with MSR Acura, Misha Goikberg qualified sixth in the NSX GT3 Evo he shares with fellow full-season driver <span class=\"xn-person\">Alvaro Parente<\/span> and endurance-race driver <span class=\"xn-person\">Trent Hindman<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Where to Watch<br \/><\/u><\/b>Live network television coverage from Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta begins at 12:30 p.m. <span class=\"xn-chron\">Saturday, October 17<\/span>, for six hours on the NBC Sports Network.\u00a0 Coverage will resume on NBCSN from <span class=\"xn-chron\">9:30 p.m. EDT<\/span> to the finish.\u00a0 Live flag-to-flag race coverage also will be available on the NBC Sports App and NBCSN Gold with NBCSN Trackpass authentication.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Quote<br \/><\/u><\/b><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Dane Cameron<\/span> <\/b>(#6 Acura Team Penske ARX-05) <b>pole qualifier, new lap record; Cameron&#8217;s second consecutive pole this season and 14<sup>th<\/sup> career IMSA pole; the fourth consecutive pole of 2020 for Acura Team Penske: <\/b>&#8220;When we were here in September [for the six-hour race], I thought we missed the [qualifying] setup a little bit, so we made a few changes to get the car a bit more on the limit.\u00a0 I took a lot of risks on that [pole qualifying] lap, so we&#8217;re really, really happy with the result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Shinya Michimi <\/b>(#86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 Evo) <b>pole qualifier, first IMSA pole, 12<sup>th<\/sup> pole for Meyer Shank Racing, new GTD lap record for Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta<\/b>:\u00a0&#8220;I haven&#8217;t had too many IMSA starts, but I&#8217;ve been with the right team this year &#8211; Meyer Shank Racing did an awesome job to give me a fast car today.\u00a0 Our Acura NSX GT3 has been amazing and everyone at HPD has been amazing. It feels great to get pole and we&#8217;re building on our success from last month&#8217;s win here. But today was just 5% of the work, we have the whole 10-hours tomorrow. We&#8217;re definitely going to go and try to get the win.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgf0b0left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgf0b0left\" title=\"Acura Logo. \" border=\"0\" alt=\"Acura Logo. \" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/458749\/acura_logo.jpg\" imagelabel=\"General\"\/><\/div>\n<p\/>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2952695-1&amp;h=4019952446&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1314620%2FAcura_Motorsports_RDPLM_20_125.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1314620%2FAcura_Motorsports_RDPLM_20_125.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1314620\/Acura_Motorsports_RDPLM_20_125.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2952695-1&amp;h=2060744697&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F458749%2Facura_logo.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F458749%2Facura_logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/458749\/acura_logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p\/>\n<p>SOURCE  Acura Motorsports<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">BRASELTON, Georgia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 16, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Dane Cameron claimed the second consecutive WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pole for Acura Team Penske Friday at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta to lead an all-Acura ARX-05 front row; while Shinya Michimi claimed his first IMSA pole with his Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 Evo in the production-based GTD class.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpge013left\" dir=\"ltr\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpge013left&quot; title=&quot;Dane&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84711","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\/84711","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=84711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}