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Officially, Hélio Castroneves still holds the lap record, with a time of 1:07.722, set during qualifying for the 2000 CART Honda Grand Prix of Monterey. Subsequently, on August 20, 2006, Toyota F1 test driver Ricardo Zonta set an unofficial lap record of 1:06.309. The unofficial record was broken by Sébastien Bourdais on March 10, 2007, who lapped in 1:05.880 during Champ Car Spring Training. The unofficial record was again broken on May 19, 2012, by Marc Gené, who lapped in 1:05.786 in a Ferrari F2003-GA F1 car, during the 2012 Ferrari Racing Days at Mazda Raceway, Laguna Seca.
The lap times of Zonta, Bourdais and Gené were set during exhibition and testing sessions and official records can only be set in race conditions, either in practice, qualifying, or during the race itself.
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