Long Beach IMSA: Acura edges Cadillac in final practice
Helio Castroneves put his Acura Team Penske ARX-05 at the top of the times in the second practice session for the BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach ahead of qualifying.
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The Brazilian wheeled the #7 Acura to a best time of 1min11.918sec, just 0.019sec ahead of a late effort from former Formula 1 driver Felipe Nasr in the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R.
Jonathan Bomarito in the Mazda RT24-P was third, followed by the second AXR Caddy of Joao Barbosa, who left it late to edge Colin Braun down to fifth in the CORE autosport Nissan DPi.
Juan Pablo Montoya was 0.325sec off teammate Castroneves in sixth in the second of the Acuras, ahead of Misha Goikhberg in the Cadillac of JDC-Miller Motorsports.
In GT Le Mans, Oliver Gavin sprung the #4 Corvette C7.R to the top of the times with a 1min17.023sec, before he was demoted by the Porsche 911 RSRs of Laurens Vanthoor and Nick Tandy.
Bamber ended up with the faster time in the #912 car with a 1m16.710s, 0.234s up on Tandy.
Fourth place was the faster Ford GT of Sebastien Bourdais, who is subbing for the unwell Joey Hand in the #66 car, followed by the second Corvette and the two BMW M8 GTEs.
Practice times:
Pos. | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
DPi | Acura DPi | 1'11.918 | |
2 | 31 | Pipo Derani Felipe Nasr |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'11.937 | 0.019 |
3 | 55 | Harry Tincknell Jonathan Bomarito |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 1'11.968 | 0.050 |
4 | 5 | Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'12.125 | 0.207 |
5 | 54 | Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
DPi | Nissan DPi | 1'12.129 | 0.211 |
6 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron |
DPi | Acura DPi | 1'12.243 | 0.325 |
7 | 85 | Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'12.322 | 0.404 |
8 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 1'12.504 | 0.586 |
9 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'12.727 | 0.809 |
10 | 50 | Kyle Kaiser Will Owen |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'12.806 | 0.888 |
11 | 84 | Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'13.252 | 1.334 |
12 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'16.710 | 4.792 |
13 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'16.944 | 5.026 |
14 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Chevrolet Corvette C7.R | 1'17.023 | 5.105 |
15 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'17.322 | 5.404 |
16 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Chevrolet Corvette C7.R | 1'17.443 | 5.525 |
17 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'17.570 | 5.652 |
18 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi Tom Blomqvist |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'17.704 | 5.786 |
19 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'17.816 | 5.898 |
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