Sebring 12 Hours: Acura Team Penske dominates fourth practice

Cameron’s Acura ARX-05 turned a 1min46.643sec lap of the 3.74-mile airport course early in the 90-minute session, a mere 0.033sec faster than three-time Indy 500 winning teammate Castroneves.

Filipe Albuquerque ran the Acura squad close, however, with a 1min46.799sec lap in the #5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R suggesting it could be a very exciting qualifying session, especially as it’s likely that the Mazda RT24-Ps didn’t show their full potential.

Tristan Nunez and Jonathan Bomarito were fourth and fifth, respectively 0.31 and 0.43sec away from P1.

The same was also true of the #31 AXR Cadillac which wound up sixth in the hands of Pipo Derani.

Gabriel Aubry maintained PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports’ preeminence in the two-car LMP2 class, clocking a 1min50.269sec lap.

Patrick Pilet’s best effort in the #911 Porsche 911 RSR was enough to send it to the top of the GT Le Mans class chased by the two Ford GTs of Richard Westbrook and Dirk Muller.

A late effort from Jesse Krohn in the #24 BMW M8 sent it ahead of Tommy Milner and Antonio Garcia in the two Corvette C7.Rs, who were within half a second of top time, with Laurens Vanthoor seventh in the second 911.

In GT Daytona, Katherine Legge was quickest in the Acura NSX of Meyer Shank Racing-Heinricher Racing, pipping Mirko Bortolotti’s Grasser Racing Lamborghini Huracan by 0.017sec.

Legge’s teammate Trent Hindman put in a last-gasp effort to grab third in class by 0.006sec, bumping down the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini steered by Bryan Sellers.

The Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R narrowly edged the Turner Motorsport BMW M6 and Spencer Pumpelly in the Magnus Racing Lambo for fifth in class.

Practice times:

Pos.	No.	Drivers	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	6	Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron	DPi	Acura DPi	1'46.643
2	7	Alexander Rossi Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	DPi	Acura DPi	1'46.676	0.033
3	5	Brendon Hartley Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'46.799	0.156
4	77	Oliver Jarvis Timo Bernhard Tristan Nunez	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'46.952	0.309
5	55	Harry Tincknell Olivier Pla Jonathan Bomarito	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'47.074	0.431
6	31	Pipo Derani Eric Curran Felipe Nasr	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'47.174	0.531
7	85	Juan Piedrahita Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'47.565	0.922
8	84	Simon Trummer Chris Miller Stephen Simpson	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'47.823	1.180
9	54	Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun	DPi	Nissan DPi	1'48.174	1.531
10	10	Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande Matthieu Vaxiviere	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'48.258	1.615
11	50	Rene Binder Will Owen Agustin Canapino	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'48.697	2.054
12	52	Matt McMurry Anders Fjordbach Gabriel Aubry	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'50.269	3.626
13	38	Kyle Masson Cameron Cassels Andrew Evans	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'52.838	6.195
14	911	Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'56.635	9.992
15	67	Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	1'56.863	10.220
16	66	Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	1'56.957	10.314
17	24	John Edwards Jesse Krohn Philipp Eng	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'57.006	10.363
18	4	Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'57.071	10.428
19	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'57.105	10.462
20	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'57.169	10.526
21	25	Connor de Phillippi Tom Blomqvist Colton Herta	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'57.280	10.637
22	57	Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen Ana Beatriz	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	2'00.012	13.369
23	11	Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Rik Breukers	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'00.029	13.386
24	86	Justin Marks Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	2'00.319	13.676
25	48	Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Ryan Hardwick	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'00.325	13.682
26	9	Scott Hargrove Lars Kern Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'00.349	13.706
27	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Dillon Machavern	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	2'00.361	13.718
28	44	Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly John Potter	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'00.376	13.733
29	71	Fabian Schiller Maximilian Buhk JC Perez	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	2'00.714	14.071
30	12	Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	2'00.753	14.110
31	14	Jack Hawksworth Philipp Frommenwiler Richard Heistand	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	2'01.132	14.489
32	33	Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Felipe Fraga	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	2'01.177	14.534
33	63	Toni Vilander Cooper MacNeil Jeff Westphal	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	2'01.217	14.574
34	8	Ryan Dalziel Parker Chase Ezequiel Perez Companc	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	2'01.240	14.597
35	47	Brandon Gdovic Lawson Aschenbach Don Yount	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'01.378	14.735
36	73	Patrick Long Patrick Lindsey Nicholas Boulle	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'01.550	14.907
37	29	Daniel Morad Christopher Mies Richard Feller	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	2'01.589	14.946
38	19	Andrew Davis Will Hardeman Alex Riberas	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	2'02.574	15.931