{"id":2708,"date":"2020-11-01T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T14:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2020-11-02T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:44:09","slug":"mcmurry-scores-first-ever-imsa-gtd-pole-at-weathertech-raceway-laguna-seca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/01\/mcmurry-scores-first-ever-imsa-gtd-pole-at-weathertech-raceway-laguna-seca\/","title":{"rendered":"McMurry Scores First-Ever IMSA GTD Pole at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Third pole position for Meyer Shank Racing at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Monterey, Calif. (1 November 2020) &#8211; Matt McMurry scored his first ever IMSA GTD pole position at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca on Sunday. After completing just four laps during the 15-minutes session, McMurry posted a 1:25.126-second flyer to put the No. 86 Acura NSX GT3 on pole for Sunday afternoon\u2019s Monterey Sports Car Championship (4:05pm ET, TRACKPASS).<\/p>\n<p>The pole position comes just two weeks after MSR endurance driver Shinya Michimi scored the team\u2019s first pole of the 2020 IMSA season for the Motul Petit Le Mans. Meyer Shank Racing has now locked in three poles at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, with its first front row start in 2005 with Ozz Negri claiming the top qualifying position.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Legge scored the team\u2019s first GTD pole at Laguna Seca in 2018 while also claiming a track lap record of 1:24.456-seconds which still holds today.<\/p>\n<p>The front row start is a confidence inspiring result considering the team\u2019s battle to best manage the soft Michelin Tire\u2019s degradation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd a6T alignleft\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ci6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/eZ5p17iES3NacUF5iKefKeizxvVajQGkQH07dOWH8H9fGlUvRY5mxInc04KQKK9afuFgeLQqA1A6srzH2fNfJZ6QrVipcpF9cINqGhgDjF2ATrfNxaCoxU3adXFrDSaqC-zMoxfgB5VHbYQPrsG5AFRTYTvt-w=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/a33ba08d163385b4a77fabf6c\/images\/c30ae5a3-2df7-47a5-a712-4f70d34c9855.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\u201cThat was awesome,\u201d said McMurry. &#8220;This was an especially tough qualifying session, because the tire degradation is so bad here. You have to do it in one lap, and that\u2019s a pretty tough thing to do. The plan was to do two flying laps and that worked out really well. Most of the other teams put a lot more laps on their tires so we\u2019re happy about that as well. I hope this is a step in the right direction as far as the championship goes \u2013 hopefully our bad luck streak is ended. Hopefully we can start from the front and stay there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Monterey Sports Car Championship will go green at 4:05pm ET on Sunday with live coverage on TRACKPASS by NBC Sports Gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third pole position for Meyer Shank Racing at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, Calif. (1 November 2020) &#8211; Matt McMurry scored his first ever IMSA GTD<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-feature","category-meyer-shank-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","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=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}