{"id":1703,"date":"2019-10-11T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2023-05-03T15:43:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T19:43:26","slug":"mustang-sampling-ready-to-fight-from-third-at-road-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/11\/mustang-sampling-ready-to-fight-from-third-at-road-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustang Sampling Ready to Fight From Third at Road Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRASELTON, GA (11 October 2019) \u2013 Mustang Sampling Racing will be looking for a strong finish to the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season after a solid third-place qualifying effort for Saturday\u2019s Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The team has been in a winning position late in the race in the two most recent editions of the 10-hour race, and has a firm focus on converting the speed in the Mustang Sampling car into a big result to close out the 2019 IMSA season.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Filipe Albuquerque took the inside of the second row, running a lap of 1:08.629-seconds in the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac DPi-V.R. He will be joined in the 10-hour race by Joao Barbosa and Mike Conway. The sister No. 31 entry will start directly in front of the No. 5 after capturing the pole position in the ultra-tight qualifying session.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was super close and on the limit,\u201d Albuquerque said of his fastest lap. \u201cIt was a different feeling driving around here with the Michelin tires, but I was able to lay down a good lap. A big congratulations to my teammates for securing the pole position. When it comes to an endurance\u00a0event it all comes down to the race. We have ten hours to race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s 22<sup>nd<\/sup> running of the Motul Petit Le Mans is set to take the green flag at 12:05 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRASELTON, GA (11 October 2019) \u2013 Mustang Sampling Racing will be looking for a strong finish to the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season after a<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}