{"id":274365,"date":"2026-04-18T16:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274365\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:06:21","slug":"sargent-scores-pole-in-carrera-cup-long-beach-return-porschesport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274365\/","title":{"rendered":"Sargent scores pole in Carrera Cup Long Beach return \u2014 PorscheSport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">In his first event with the Porsche 911 Cup (Type 992.2), Sargent posted the fastest time of one minute, 19.679 seconds \u2013 topping his fastest practice time earlier in the afternoon by .148 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">It\u2019s the Australian\u2019s first appearance in the Porsche single-make series since finishing runner-up in the Pro class standings in 2023, the same year the series last visited southern California.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\u201cThere is always pressure,\u201d said Sargent who was drafted into the GMG Racing machine for the weekend.\u201cTo be honest, once I moved on from Carrera Cup, I didn\u2019t think I was going to be back here. but it\u2019s nice to be back\u2026at one of the greatest street circuits there is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\u201cIt was quite tight there in the end. I\u2019m really happy with the laps, but a little bit of traffic hindered maybe some more performance we had. But, I think our racecar is really good and that is exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first event with the Porsche 911 Cup (Type 992.2), Sargent posted the fastest time of one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-274365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}