Park Place Motorsports will start Saturday’s VisitFlorida.com Sports Car 250 in third-place following an abbreviated qualifying session at Road America today. An accident involving two cars cut the 15-minute GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series qualifying session short ending any late session opportunities for the four customer Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars entered for the two-hour, 45-minute race to better their positions.

Patrick Lindsey (Santa Barbara, Calif.) turned up the speed early in the session and it paid off. His lap of two-minutes, 11.415-seconds was strong enough to make the No. 73 Park Place Porsche the quickest of the 911 GT3 Cup cars. Lindsey, who shares the car with factory driver Patrick Long (Playa del Rey, Calif.), will start third behind the pole-winning effort of Leh Keen in the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 458 whose lap of 2:11.183 was 0.181 seconds quicker than the Texas-based Porsche. The No. 94 Turner Motorsports BMW M3 driven by Paul Dalla Lana was second quickest in the qualifying session with a lap of 2:11.234.

“That was a good qualifying session for us but we only got one flyer before the red flag,” said Lindsey. “The Park Place Porsche was really good. That was actually a conservative lap for me. We haven’t been unloading great when we get to the track but the Park Place crew has been on it and they got us to the top of the time sheets again this weekend. Third is a good spot for us to start. We’re just going to hit our marks tomorrow just like at Indy. We had a great shot to win that race before the shift linkage problem.”

Source : Porsche Cars North America