Button admits the performance of the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 NASCAR entered in the LeMans24 has exceeded expectations so far. 'We didn't expect to qualify four seconds in front of the quickest GTE car.'
The Hendrick Motorsports machine was almost four seconds faster than the quickest GTE Am entry in Wednesday's opening qualifying session, despite the team's modest pre-event public predictions of being somewhere in the middle of the GTE Am pack.posted a 3m47.976s lap that was only 8.5s slower than the lowest-ranked of the LMP2s.
"We came here thinking we'd be in the mix and, when the GTE cars get the amateur drivers in the car, we'd be able to be as quick as them - if not quicker - but we didn't expect to qualify four seconds in front of the quickest GTE car. Rockenfeller said fast lap times had been simulated before arriving at Le Mans, but he still feels the qualifying performance was better than expected."When we started with the Cup car we felt there's so much potential and then we tweaked it and got faster and faster at Le Mans on the sim, but you never know until you hit the real track," he said.
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