Murray said he felt, “… pretty emotional, really. The whole team is emotional. We had the car delivered to us 10 days before this race. We worked so hard to set up the car.”
“That’s the great thing about this series, it’s how the team performs on the track. They [the big teams] might have the technologies and the funding but it shows that it is so close, that if you work hard and you do you work you can compete with these teams on the same level.”
The Doran Ford has never shown winning speed; it is usually a steady mid-pack performer. But Road Atlanta is driver David Murray’s home track, and the team obviously found something which gave them an edge.
The BMWs qualified fourth and fifth, behind the #4 Corvette Racing CR6. Patrick Long put the class-leading #45 Flying Lizard Porsche into sixth.
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GT2 Qualifying Results 12th Annual Petit Le Mans | ||||||||
Pos | Num | CL | Car | Driver | Best Lap | Behind | Behind | |
1 | P | GT2 | Doran Ford GT MK 7 | David Murry | 1:20.819 | --- | --- | |
2 | P | GT2 | Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6 | Tom Sutherland | 1:20.877 | -0.058 | -0.058 | |
3 | P | GT2 | Corvette C6.R | Olivier Beretta | 1:20.912 | -0.093 | -0.035 | |
4 | P | GT2 | BMW E92 M3 | Dirk Mueller | 1:20.981 | -0.162 | -0.069 | |
5 | GT2 | BMW E92 M3 | Joey Hand | 1:21.219 | -0.400 | -0.238 | ||
6 | P | GT2 | Porsche 911 GT3 RSR | Patrick Long | 1:21.299 | -0.480 | -0.080 | |
7 | P | GT2 | Corvette C6.R | Johnny O'Connell | 1:21.491 | -0.672 | -0.192 | |
8 | P | GT2 | Porsche 911 GT3 RSR | Wolf Henzler | 1:21.760 | -0.941 | -0.269 | |
9 | GT2 | Panoz Esperante GTLM Ford | Dominik Farnbacher | 1:21.839 | -1.020 | -0.079 | ||
10 | P | GT2 | Ferrari F430 GT | Jaime Melo | 1:22.718 | -1.899 | -0.879 | |
11 | P | GT2 | Porsche 911 GT3 RSR | Bryan Sellers | 1:23.081 | -2.262 | -0.363 | |
12 | P | GT2 | Dodge Viper Comp Coupe | Chris Hall | 1:23.121 | -2.302 | -0.040 | |
13 | GT2 | Porsche 911 GT3 RSR | Seth Neiman | 1:25.601 | -4.782 | -2.480 |