The Kellymoss workshop is just a little over 100 miles from Road America, and the team used that local experience to dominate qualifying across all three classes today in Porsche Carrera Cup North America.

Pro class championship leader Loek Hartog topped the times in qualifying for the third time this season. After a red flag disrupted qualifying, Hartog’s rivals were close to the Dutchman when the session restarted with 15 minutes remaining.

Hartog was one of several drivers to make a final attack on new tires, and he put the pole position beyond doubt with a blistering final lap of 2:07.962 – 4/10ths of a second clear of his rivals.

“ The fresh tires did a good job for me today, but the Kellymoss team did too,” said Hartog.

“P1 by 4/10ths is of course, something that we’re very happy with as a team.

“It’s definitely the way to go here, you want to start in front since it’s a very twisty track, a track that I really enjoy.

“Starting both races from the pole is definitely something I’m very happy with.”

In the Masters class, Chris Bellomo completed the trifecta for Kellymoss – topping the qualifying times ahead of Matt Halcome and Richard Edge.

“The car felt really good. It was unfortunate to have the red flag, but they did a great job cleaning up and getting us back on track,” Bellomo said.

“I got a chance to go to another set of stickers, and the car was fantastic. I was very happy with it.

“This place is challenging. It’s long. It has a little bit of everything, and I’m really looking forward to the race, getting through that start cleanly and having a good day.”

Round nine of Porsche Carrera Cup North America goes green on Saturday at 11:45 a.m., with round ten scheduled for Sunday at 11:35 a.m.

Castro’s teammate and fellow former championship winner Alan Metni was second fastest today, while Jordan Wallace made it a Kellymoss 1-2-3 in the Pro-Am class in their “home” race weekend.

Ruckus Racing star Scott Blind was the man to catch in the Masters class today – finishing just 0.016 of a second ahead of John Goetz with Chris Bellomo in third.

The cars and stars of the Porsche Carrera Cup North America will be back on track at Road America for practice two at 9:35 a.m. (Central), with qualifying scheduled for 5:00 p.m.