IMSA: Westbrook leads morning warm-up at Detroit

Seeking his second consecutive TUDOR United SportsCar Championship victory, Richard Westbrook posted the fastest time in Saturday morning’s warm-up session at the Raceway at Belle Isle Park.Westbrook clocked a lap of 1:24.909 in the No. 90 VisitFlorida.com Corvette DP he drove to victory with Michael Valiante in the most recent race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Joao Barbosa was second, running 1:25.604 in the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Corvette DP co-driven by Christian Fittipaldi.

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TOTAL Pole Award winner Fittipaldi will lead the field to the green flag today at 12:05 p.m. ET in the Chevrolet Sports Car Classic presented by Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers (live, FOX Sports 2 and internationally on IMSA.com). The race will also be televised on FOX Sports 1 at 2 p.m. ET.

Colin Braun was fastest in Prototype Challenge in the incident-free session, running 1:27.830 in the No. 54 CORE autosport ORECA FLM09 he shares with Jon Bennett. Leh Keen led GT Daytona with a lap of 1:33.127  in the No. 22 WeatherTech Porsche 911 GT America co-driven by Cooper MacNeil.