Estep on Pole for Race 1 at COTA

Photo: Wes Duenkel/Ford

Trenton Estep has scored pole for this afternoon’s opening Mustang Challenge race of the weekend at Circuit of The Americas.

The series debutant took his No. 16 MDK Motorsports Ford Mustang Dark Horse R to a best lap of 2:20.236 to edge out Robert Noaker by just 0.081 seconds.

Noaker, who topped both of Friday’s practice sessions at the Lone Star Le Mans weekend, will roll off second overall and in the Dark Horse class in his No. 13 entry, followed by Robert Noaker Racing teammate and class points leader Tyler Maxson in third.

Brandon Gdovic and Jeremy Fletcher completed the top-five Precision Performance Motorsports and McCumbee McAleer Racing, respectively.

Reid Sweeney, Max Opalski, Sam Paley and Marcos Vento completed the top-nine, with tenth going to Dark Horse Legends class pole-sitter Zachry Lee, driving for MMR.

Mike Stillwagon qualified second in class in his No. 19 Skip Barber Racing entry.

The first Mustang Challenge race of the weekend takes the green flag at 4:40 p.m. CDT with live coverage on Peacock, IMSA.tv and the Ford Performance YouTube channel.

RESULTS: Qualifying

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