{"id":8128,"date":"2025-05-10T01:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T05:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2025-05-12T01:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T05:34:31","slug":"acura-msr-qualifies-fifth-eighth-in-handicapped-qualifying-session-at-weathertech-raceway-laguna-seca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/acura-msr-qualifies-fifth-eighth-in-handicapped-qualifying-session-at-weathertech-raceway-laguna-seca\/","title":{"rendered":"Acura MSR Qualifies Fifth, Eighth in Handicapped Qualifying Session at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Penalty for practice incidents saw Acura MSR unofficially qualify fifth and eighth\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Monterey, Calif. (10 May 2025) \u2013 Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian (Acura MSR) unofficially qualified fifth and eighth at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for the fourth round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both teams entered the 15-minute session knowing that their best laps would be disallowed due to bringing out a red flag in separate practice sessions at the historic circuit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd a6T alignleft\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_Nb8KzPhnCleRbjX8L54qUXSfUrv1a0Gd38k585tRJ-6aD5u_2WihQrIl9RXh7gB9eESHGBHcQ06iYyfpNbxDfJTGvq52MaHT76bB2NLvq8Ab2jFeSPkyZD_tzf5yrJuMVdRpeKq8lH1Q-tuelDredFOJ3R_iOl3zym6CisXO9A=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/a33ba08d163385b4a77fabf6c\/_compresseds\/da37a4b3-5286-655f-bffd-a608b389f841.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/>Tom Blomqvist lost one position due to the penalty in the No. 60 Acura ARX-06, settling for fifth on the grid with a second-best lap of 1:13.058-seconds. Nick Yelloly will start eighth in the No. 93 Acura ARX-06 with a lap of 1:13.535-seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The TireRack.com Monterey SportsCar Championship takes the green flag at 3:10 p.m. ET. The race will be covered live flag-to-flag on NBC, along with being streamed on Peacock and broadcast on SiriusXM channel 206.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meyer Shank Racing Team Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Blomqvist:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a bit frustrating in qualifying when you know it\u2019s so tight. I was a bit conservative, but nonetheless it\u2019s a good result. I think we were hoping for more to be honest, but equally I guess\u00a0a little bit what we expected. The Acuras had a tough year last year here, but I think we made some good gains from the performance of last year. We can still have a good race from there, we just have to be smart and see what we can do tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Yelloly:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cObviously we\u2019re not first, so it\u2019s not great. We struggled a bit today with extracting the most out of the car in qualifying, but I think we have a better race car. It\u2019s a shame for the incident I had in practice which cost us our fastest lap in qualifying, although I don\u2019t think it would have made much of a difference at least in our case. There\u2019s a lot that can happen tomorrow, so we\u2019ll try to put it together and move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penalty for practice incidents saw Acura MSR unofficially qualify fifth and eighth\u00a0 &nbsp; Monterey, Calif. 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