Pierre Kleinubing, of Coconut Creek, Fla., earned his second-consecutive Lime Rock Park pole for Saturday’s SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Touring Car Round Four race, part of an SCCA SPEED Touring Car doubleheader. Current point leader Kuno Wittmer, of Montreal, Que., will start second.Earning his third-career pole at Lime Rock Park, Kleinubing set the pole time, a 57.975 seconds (95.006 mph), on his first flying lap. This will be the second year in-a-row Kleinubing has started SCCA SPEED Touring Car race at Lime Rock Park from pole. The driver of the No. 43 Acura/RealTime/Eibach/Red Line Acura TSX also has four wins to his credit at Lime Rock Park and seems to have an affinity for the seven-turn, 1.53-mile course.”I don’t think it’s just me, if you look at the grid I think it’s RealTime,” Kleinubing said. “We seem to have the setup and every time we come here, it shows. Hopefully, that will be the case for Monday’s race as well.”Kleinubing’s stellar record at Lime Rock Park took a hit last year, when car trouble dropped him out of the lead, but doesn’t feel the track owes him anything this time around.”I was telling [team owner] Peter [Cunningham] on the way here from the airport, 20this is a losing sport; you are going to lose a lot more than you’re gonna win.’ You learn from what happens to you. We learned from what happened here last year and that’s never going to happen again. You just move on and look forward.”Wittmer, who was fastest in practice, will start alongside his teammate in the No. 44 Acura/RealTime/Eibach/Red Line Acura TSX. The current SCCA SPEED Touring Car point leader entered a time of 58.078 seconds (94.838 mph).Last year’s Lime Rock Park race winner, Chip Herr, of Lititz, Pa., will start third in the No. 97 Tindol Motorsports MAZDA6. Herr clocked a lap of 58.168 seconds (94.691 mph).RealTime team owner Peter Cunningham, of Milwaukee, Wis., will start Saturday’s race from the fourth grid spot. The No. 42 Acura/RealTime/Eibach/Red Line Acura TSX driver entered a time of 58.196 seconds (94.645 mph).Seth Thomas, of Cumming, Ga., leads the BMW contingent on the grid, starting fifth for Saturday’s race. Thomas stopped the clocks with a 58.540 seconds (94.645 mph) in his No. 38 BimmerWorld BMW 325i. Winner of the most recent round at Miller Motorsports Park Jason Saini (MAZDA6) will start the race from sixth. Fellow Mazda driver Michael Galati will start seventh in a backup car after a crash in practice.James Sofronas (BMW 325Ci), Charles Espenlaub (MAZDA6) and James Clay (BMW 325i) complete the top 10.Roxbury, Conn. driver Jason Martinelli lost an engine in practice and was not able to ready the car in time for qualifying. He will start shotgun on the field Saturday.The first of two SCCA SPEED Touring Car races at Lime Rock Park this weekend will go green at 1:45 p.m. (EDT) Saturday, May 24. Race two is scheduled for Monday, May 26, at 5:00 p.m. (EDT). Live timing and lap notes are available on http://www.world-challenge.com

Kuno Wittmer, of Montreal, Que., led practice for Round Four of the SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Touring Car Championship at Lime Rock Park. His RealTime Racing teammates, Peter Cunningham, of Milwaukee, Wis., and Pierre Kleinubing, of Coconut Creek, Fla., completed the top three on the time sheet.A podium finisher in every SCCA SPEED Touring Car round thus far, Wittmer’s No. 44 Acura/RealTime/Eibach/Red Line Acura TSX climbed to the top of the timing screen in the closing moments of the 30-minute practice session. The current point leader had been swapping spots with his RealTime Racing teammates in the top three before entering the fastest time of the session, a 58.600 (93.993 mph).”RealTime definitely did a great job getting the car prepped from Utah,” Wittmer said. “They prepped a really good car right out of the box. We barely did any changes on the car and were right there the whole time. Hats off to them for the first practice.”Qualifying’s a different story though. It’ll be some different weather and we’ll see how that goes, but for this morning [the car] was definitely pretty sharp.”We went out with some pretty fresh tires this morning and the car actually got quicker as the session went on. I turned my fastest lap two laps from the end of the session, which is a good sign for the race.”Wittmer has a busy weekend ahead of him. In addition to two SCCA SPEED Touring Car races he will be driving another Acura TSX in the Koni Challenge race.”[The two cars] have different characteristics. One is more of a production car, and one is more of a touring car; two very different cars, two different driving styles, two different setups and two different tires. It doesn’t hurt at all to run both series on the same weekend. It helps.”Driving the No. 42 Acura/RealTime/Eibach/Red Line Acura TSX, RealTime team owner Cunningham led the majority of the session, before settling behind Wittmer with a 58.705 (93.825 mph).Four-time Lime Rock Park winner Kleinubing ended the session in third at the wheel of his No. 43 Acura/RealTime/Eibach/Red Line Acura TSX. The polesitter at Lime Rock Park last year, Kleinubing’s fastest practice lap around the seven-turn, 1.53-mile track was a 58.736 (93.776 mph).In his first SCCA SPEED Touring Car event since Road Atlanta in 2007, James Sofronas, of Newport Beach, Calif., was fourth-fastest in the No. 29 GMG/Tecmark BMW 325Ci. Sofronas entered a 58.822 (93.638 mph).Returning to World Challenge competition for the first time since Sebring in 2006, Bill Auberlen, of Redondo Beach, Calif., ended the session fifth on the time sheets. Driving the No. 92 Turner Motorsports BMW 325i, the current qualifying and race lap record holder at Lime Rock Park clocked a 59.046 (93.283 mph) in practice.Tindol teammates Chip Herr and Michael Galati were sixth and seventh on the time sheets. BimmerWorld teammates James Clay and Seth Thomas followed in eighth and ninth.Local driver Jason Martinelli, of Roxbury, Conn., was 10th-fastest. The No. 8 GoodHill/Torrington Supply/Litco BMW 325Ci driver clocked a 59.296 (92.890 mph).Qualifying for Round Four of the SCCA SPEED Touring Car Championship will take place later today at 4:50 p.m. (EDT). There will be an additional practice session beforehand at 3:35 p.m. (EDT) which will serve as practice for Monday’s Round Five race.Live timing and scoring will be available throughout the weekend at http://www.world-challege.com.