Button: NASCAR Le Mans qualifying pace exceeded expectations

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.
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