Brundle claims USC pole in new Ligier

Alex Brundle claimed pole position on the debut of OAK Racing’s Ligier LMP2 in the United SportsCar Championship at Austin. Brundle notched up his second USC pole of the season with the HPD-engined Ligier JSP2 by more than eight tenths of a second. His time of 1m57.809s compared with the 1m58.643s of second-placed Ricky Taylor in the Wayne Taylor Racing Dallara-Chevrolet Corvette DP. Brundle said: “We were struggling in FP1; we had a problems early on with the turbos and the downshift. “But I was impressed with the way OAK and HPD have worked, especially since this is the first time that we have run the car on the Continental tyre.” Third place went to Memo Rojas in the Chip Ganassi Racing Riley-Ford with a 1m58.928s Joao Barbosa was fourth [...]

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