Westphal Takes Pole as BMW Lock Out Front Row at Mid-Ohio
A late qualifying lap by veteran Jeff Westphal set a new Mid-Ohio record and finalized the grid for Sunday’s four-hour IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race with live streams available.
Overview
- Jeff Westphal put the No. 39 CarBahn with Peregrine Racing BMW on pole with a 1:25.216 in the closing minutes of qualifying, a new Mid-Ohio qualifying track record.
- The lap, which beat Stevan McAleer by 0.375 seconds, completed a BMW front-row lockout in the GS class for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 4 Hours of Mid-Ohio.
- Trenton Estep qualified third in GS for Van der Steur Racing, followed by Ford Koch’s Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 in fourth and Moisey Uretsky fifth in the McLaren.
- Rocco Pasquarella claimed TCR pole in the No. 5 KMW/TMR Honda with a 1:26.564, edging Bryson Morris by 0.008 seconds while Daijiro Yoshihara was third.
- Qualifying on Saturday set the grid ahead of Sunday’s race, scheduled to start roughly 12:10–12:15 p.m. ET and streaming live on Peacock and IMSA’s official YouTube channel.