Blake McDonald stormed to pole position for the first GT America powered by AWS race of the weekend at Circuit of the Americas.
The DXDT Racing driver drove his No. 11 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R to a best lap of 2:04.532 to edge out the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R of Kyle Washington by 0.209 seconds.

It marked McDonald’s second consecutive pole after taking top qualifying honors for Race 2 on the streets of Long Beach.’
Elias Sabo is set to roll off third on the grid for this morning’s race in his No. 80 Flying Lizard Motorsports BMW M4 GT3 EVO, with Memo Gidley and Justin Rothberg completing the top-five for SKI Autosports and Turner Motorsport, respectively.

GT4 pole honors went to the No. 39 Van der Steur Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT4 Evo of Max Hewitt.
Hewitt’s 2:14.539 lap time was three-tenths quicker than the No. 69 JTR Motorsports Engineering Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO2 of Anthony McIntosh.

Michael Auriemma is set to start third in class in his No. 47 Nolasport Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport.

Race 1 of the weekend gets underway at 11:20 a.m. CST, with live coverage on SRO’s GT World YouTube channel and on Twitch.

Watch Race 1 live on Y-tube