Petit Le Mans: Title favorite Cameron leads FP2 for Acura
Acura Team Penske’s Dane Cameron went a quarter-second clear of the field in second practice for this Saturday’s Motul Petit Le Mans, but the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs again showed well.
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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