Blomqvist put his Acura ARX on the GTP pole at the Roar Before the 24.
A Swede born in the U.K. and raised in New Zealand, the son of former world rally champion Stig Blomqvist has all the credentials and the experience at age 29 to stand out in IMSA new era of complex prototypes.Thomas Blomqvist, left, and Simon Pagenaud hope to put Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb Agajanian on the podium in this year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona.
“It was a lick the stamp and send it kind of thing,” said Blomqvist, who had only his “scrub in laps” to guide him before edging Felipe Nasr in the Porsche Penske Motorsports Porsche 963 by 0.083 seconds. “It might be hereditary, but some things don’t phase me,” he said. Absent a red flag that shortened the session, Blomqvist might have broken the track record despite the hybrids being heavier than the preceding DPis.
Now paired with American Colin Braun, it might be the perfect duo for a sanctioning body that needs to have standout driving stars to complement its stellar new hybrid prototypes. Working for a home-grown team owner in Shank, who came up through the Grand-Am and WeatherTech Championship series before joining IndyCar and winning the Indy 500, is a plus for IMSA fans.
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