The BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team M3 GTs will start fifth and sixth in the ultra-competitive GT class for Sunday’s American Le Mans Series Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix.
Tommy Milner, in his first qualifying run of the season, placed the No. 92 M3 GT fifth on the GT grid with a time of 1:47.966 minutes around the 3.048-mile, 15-turn circuit, only .299 seconds off the pole. A scant .004 seconds back, Dirk Müller drove the No. 90 M3 GT to the sixth starting position. Today’s qualifying session saw the top-nine GT cars qualify within one second of the pole.
With four podium finishes in the first three races of the season, BMW stands second in GT manufacturer points. BMW M3 GT co-drivers Joey Hand and Dirk Müller, along with Bill Auberlen and Tommy Milner, stand third and fourth in Driver points, respectively.
The Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix is scheduled to start at 2:35 p.m. on Sunday. The two-hour-and-forty-five-minute contest will be broadcast same-day on
SPEED television beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET.Tommy Milner takes you for a lap in the M3 GT at Miller Motorsports Park
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Author: Horatiu B.
Source: http://www.bmwblog.com/2010/07/11/bmw-r ... ng-report/