Minor Beats Beasley for VIR Pole
Alton, VA – Tim Minor is five for five on 2014 F2000 Championship Series poles – but narrowly kept his streak alive with Sam Beasley a tenth off the top spot and Thomas McGregor not much further behind. The top three represent a Ski Motorsports Citation, a Polestar Van Diemen and Exclusive Autosport Spectrum.
The top three were separated by .161 seconds.
Skylar Robinson was fourth, with Chris Livengood putting his RFR in the top five ahead of Jason Rabe's No. 14 Van Diemen for the K-Hill squad.
Qualifying Results:
Pos No. Name In Lap Best Tm Make/Model Diff 1 88 Tim Minor/M 6 1:51.644 Citation F2k - 2 44 Sam Beasley 12 1:51.800 Van Diemen +0.156 3 93 Thomas McGregor 4 1:51.805 Spectrum 014Z +0.161 4 6 Skylar Robinson 7 1:51.845 Citation +0.201 5 73 Chris Livengood 8 1:52.428 Rfr +0.784 6 14 Jason Rabe 6 1:52.673 Van Diemen +1.029 7 29 David Grant 13 1:52.779 Spectrum 014Z +1.135 8 98 Jim Libecco 6 1:53.036 Van Diemen Rf05 +1.392 9 01 John McCusker 3 1:53.653 Rfr 12 +2.009 10 23 Sergio Pasian 12 1:52.919 Van Diemen Rf +1.275 11 25 Nick Palacio 4 1:54.384 Van Diemen RF01 +2.740 12 90 Robert Wright/M 10 1:54.592 Radon Rn10 +2.948 13 66 Kevin Kopp 2 1:54.674 Van Diemen +3.030 14 70 Tom Fatur/M 8 1:54.693 Van Diemen +3.049 15 19 Doug Stout/M 14 1:54.705 Van Diemen Rf05 +3.061 16 7 Brent Gilkes/M 8 1:54.832 Van Dieman Rf03 +3.188 17 52 Dean Baker/M 3 1:55.022 Van Diemen Rf05 +3.378 18 07 Steve Bamford/M 4 1:55.247 Van Diemen Rf08 +3.603 19 83 Charles Finelli/M 7 1:55.296 Van Diemen RF01 +3.652 20 35 Eric Presbrey/M 10 1:55.690 Van Diemen +4.046 21 11 Quinlan Lall 12 1:55.775 Van Dieman Rf05 +4.131 22 31 Brendan Puderbach 15 1:56.052 Rfr +4.408 23 76 Beau Borders 14 1:56.262 Van Diemen Rf-01 +4.618 24 26 Alain Matrat 10 2:01.490 Van Diemen Rf99 +9.846