Petit Le Mans: Title favorite Cameron leads FP2 for Acura

Cameron’s Acura ARX-05 lapped the 2.54-mile course in 69.095sec, 0.252sec faster than Tristan Vautier’s best effort in the #85 JDC-Miller Cadillac – a car that was spun into the Turn 6 gravel a little later in the session by Juan Piedrahita.

Piedrahita was not the only DPi driver to cause a red flag, as the sister JDC-Miller machine also got beached early on, and Tristan Nunez’s Mazda RT24-P fell off the track surface at Turn 10.

Third was Filipe Albuquerque in the #5 Action Express Racing Caddy, while Wayne Taylor Racing made it three Cadillacs in the top four with Renger van der Zande at the wheel. He was almost three tenths clear of Ricky Taylor’s best in the other Acura.

Meanwhile Pipo Derani’s fastest in the second AXR entry put him ahead of the two Mazdas.

GT Le Mans saw Risi Competizione again shaking up the full-time contenders. Following second place in FP1 courtesy of James Calado, Daniel Serra perched the Ferrari 488 at the top of the times in FP2, two-tenths quicker than Antonio Garcia’s Corvette C7.R.

Behind, the two Fords sandwiched the points-leading #912 Porsche of Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor and Mathieu Jaminet.

In GT Daytona, Jeroen Bleekemolen topped the charts in the Riley Motorsports Mercedes AMG-GT3 ahead of the Motaplast by Land Audi R8 LMS of Christopher Mies, Richard Feller and Daniel Morad.

Scuderia Corsa’s Ferrari 488 GT3 and Turner Motorsports’ BMW M6 GT3 were next up, while the #86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 completed the top five, despite Justin Marks being the cause of a fourth red flag of the session with an off at Turn 10.

Third practice, a 90min session, begins at 7.30pm local (Eastern) time.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	6	Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud	DPi	Acura DPi	1'09.095
2	85	Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier Juan Piedrahita	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'09.347	0.252
3	5	Joao Barbosa Mike Conway Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'09.457	0.362
4	10	Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor Matthieu Vaxiviere	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'09.709	0.614
5	7	Ricky Taylor Helio Castroneves Graham Rahal	DPi	Acura DPi	1'10.003	0.908
6	31	Felipe Nasr Eric Curran Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'10.023	0.928
7	77	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez Timo Bernhard	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'10.100	1.005
8	55	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell Olivier Pla	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'10.434	1.339
9	54	Jon Bennett Colin Braun Romain Dumas	DPi	Nissan DPi	1'10.527	1.432
10	84	Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson Chris Miller	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'11.009	1.914
11	52	Matt McMurry Gabriel Aubry Dalton Kellett	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'11.025	1.930
12	50	Will Owen Rene Binder Spencer Pigot	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'11.096	2.001
13	38	Cameron Cassels Kyle Masson Andrew Evans	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'12.854	3.759
14	62	James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi Daniel Serra	GTLM	Ferrari 488 GTE	1'16.708	7.613
15	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'16.933	7.838
16	67	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Scott Dixon	GTLM	Ford GT	1'16.957	7.862
17	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'17.123	8.028
18	66	Joey Hand Dirk Muller Sébastien Bourdais	GTLM	Ford GT	1'17.197	8.102
19	24	Jesse Krohn John Edwards Philipp Eng	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'17.200	8.105
20	4	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Marcel Fassler	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'17.284	8.189
21	25	Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi Colton Herta	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'17.516	8.421
22	911	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy Frédéric Makowiecki	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'17.647	8.552
23	33	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen Felipe Fraga	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	1'19.275	10.180
24	29	Christopher Mies Richard Feller Daniel Morad	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'19.684	10.589
25	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander Jeff Westphal	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'19.897	10.802
26	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Dillon Machavern	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'19.922	10.827
27	86	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman Justin Marks	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'20.029	10.934
28	12	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'20.288	11.193
29	44	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'20.305	11.210
30	57	Katherine Legge Ana Beatriz Christina Nielsen	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'20.544	11.449
31	14	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth Parker Chase	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'20.708	11.613
32	9	Scott Hargrove Zacharie Robichon Lars Kern	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'20.989	11.894
33	47	Brandon Gdovic Don Yount Shinya Michimi	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'21.561	12.466
34	48	Bryan Sellers Corey Lewis Marco Seefried	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	0.000
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