Montour Sets TCR Record Lap ahead of Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 120
By Tony DiZinno
BOWMANVILLE, Ontario – Two Hannah Gs. Two races. Two countries. And two consecutive Motul Pole Awards.
Hannah Greenemeier secured her first IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge pole in both Grand Sport (GS) and overall on Saturday morning aboard the No. 26 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 EVO in what became a one-lap dash for the pole following a red flag in the middle of the 15-minute session.
With only one flyer to run, Greenemeier set a best lap of 1 minute, 22.461 seconds (107.352 mph). She’ll share the car with Hannah Grisham, who won the pole for the series’ most recent round at Watkins Glen International. The pairing finished a season-best sixth at Watkins Glen.
Today’s Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 120, Round 6 of the 2026 Michelin Pilot Challenge season, airs live, flag-to-flag, beginning at 1:20 p.m. ET on Peacock in the U.S. and globally on IMSA YouTube, ad-free courtesy of Michelin.
With brisk, cool, sunny conditions to start the day, lap records appeared poised to fall in both GS and Touring Car (TCR). But an incident in GS qualifying limited runners to mostly one flying lap.
Greenemeier is the fifth Motul Pole Award winner from six GS races this year. But because of the limited green flag time, it fell short of the previous mark set by Jack Hawksworth, 1:22.084 in July 2024.
“I guess I was a little bummed because I kind of let off the lap before the red flag, and thought that might have been my only chance,” Greenemeier explained. “But after the red, I just kind of went out there and tried to find a lot of space and see if it was kind of just go as fast as you can. We were able to do that.
“So, yeah, just super excited for the team. I couldn’t do it without them. I’m sure that my mom and dad are at home right now. My mom’s probably crying. They might not hear this, but yeah, thank you to them for all their support.”
The No. 46 TeamTGM Ford Mustang GT4 of Paul Holton qualified second in the car he shares with Matt Plumb, who seeks to become the series’ all-time win leader with 25 wins.
GS championship leaders Dillon Machavern and Luca Mars will roll off from 11th in the No. 95 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 EVO.
TCR: Montour to Lead Honda 1-2 to Green
In TCR, LP Montour won his second straight pole, and the third straight and fourth in the last five races for a Honda Civic FL5 TCR.
“It was pretty intense, but this a well-deserved pole position,” Montour said. “The field has been very tight this weekend. We’ll shift into race mode and make sure we have a good car to complete the race now.”
Montour, who along with Karl Wittmer won here last year in the No. 93 MMG Honda, set a blistering lap of 1 minute, 22.663 seconds (107.089 mph) on his sixth lap for a new TCR lap record and second-fastest on the day overall. It was almost three tenths quicker than Bryson Morris’ previous mark of 1:22.918, set last year in TCR.
It was a Honda 1-2 with Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course polesitter Rocco Pasquarella just 0.072 of a second behind in his No. 5 KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering Honda. Pasquarella and Tim Lewis Jr. broke through for an elusive first win of the year last race out at Watkins Glen.
Morris, who qualified third, and Mason Filippi lead the TCR championship in their No. 33 Bryan Herta Autosport with Curb Agajanian Hyundai Elantra N TCR.