CTMP IMSA: Braun stays on top as Castroneves wrecks

Watkins Glen pole-winner Braun, who topped this morning’s first session by almost a second, lapped the CORE autosport-run Oreca LMP2 – which he shares with Jon Bennett – in 1m06.902s. 

This time, however, Dane Cameron’s Penske-run Acura DPi was much closer to his pace, just 0.037s in arrears.

Helio Castroneves was third fastest in the second Acura, but almost a second off the pace, with Harry Tincknell fourth in the first of the Mazdas.

Castroneves then caused a red flag halfway through the session when he spun off at Turn 5 and hit the tire wall, inflicting hefty rear-end damage.

Ryan Dalziel was fifth quickest in the sole ESM Nissan, ahead of Felipe Nasr in the first of the Action Express Cadillacs. Robert Alon was seventh in his JDC-Miller Oreca, ahead of Jordan Taylor’s WTR Caddy.

In GT Le Mans, Nick Tandy set the pace for Porsche at 1m14.357s, well ahead of the Chevrolet Corvettes of Antonio Garcia and Tommy Milner. The second Porsche, the #912 car, slumped to fourth in this session, with Laurens Vanthoor some sixth tenths off Tandy’s pace.

As they were in the morning session, the Ford GTs and BMW M8s were next up.

In GT Daytona, Alvaro Parente set the pace for Acura, his 1m16.574s a tenth clear of Kyle Marcelli’s Lexus and the Porsche 911 of Wolf Henzler.

Pos	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	54	Jon Bennett    Colin Braun	P	ORECA LMP2	1'06.902
2	6	Juan Pablo Montoya    Dane Cameron	P	Acura DPi	1'06.939	0.037
3	7	Helio Castroneves    Ricky Taylor	P	Acura DPi	1'07.881	0.979
4	55	Harry Tincknell    Jonathan Bomarito	P	Mazda DPi	1'08.092	1.190
5	22	Pipo Derani    Ryan Dalziel	P	Nissan DPi	1'08.268	1.366
6	31	Eric Curran    Felipe Nasr	P	Cadillac DPi	1'08.270	1.368
7	85	Simon Trummer    Robert Alon	P	ORECA LMP2	1'08.299	1.397
8	10	Jordan Taylor    Renger van der Zande	P	Cadillac DPi	1'08.418	1.516
9	5	Christian Fittipaldi    Filipe Albuquerque	P	Cadillac DPi	1'08.466	1.564
10	77	Oliver Jarvis    Tristan Nunez	P	Mazda DPi	1'08.486	1.584
11	99	Mikhail Goikhberg    Stephen Simpson	P	ORECA LMP2	1'08.604	1.702
12	52	Gustavo Yacaman    Sebastian Saavedra	P	Ligier LMP2	1'08.694	1.792
13	911	Nick Tandy    Patrick Pilet	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'14.357	7.455
14	3	Jan Magnussen    Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'14.757	7.855
15	4	Oliver Gavin    Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'14.844	7.942
16	912	Earl Bamber    Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'14.959	8.057
17	66	Joey Hand    Dirk Müller	GTLM	Ford GT	1'15.374	8.472
18	67	Ryan Briscoe    Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	1'15.412	8.510
19	24	John Edwards    Jesse Krohn	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'15.743	8.841
20	25	Connor de Phillippi    Alexander Sims	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'15.806	8.904
21	86	Alvaro Parente    Katherine Legge	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'16.574	9.672
22	14	Kyle Marcelli    Dominik Baumann	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'16.669	9.767
23	16	Wolf Henzler    Michael Schein	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'16.674	9.772
24	48	Bryan Sellers    Madison Snow	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'16.689	9.787
25	44	Andy Lally    John Potter	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'16.716	9.814
26	33	Jeroen Bleekemolen    Ben Keating	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	1'16.822	9.920
27	63	Jeff Segal    Cooper MacNeil	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'16.878	9.976
28	15	David Heinemeier Hansson   Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'17.208	10.306
29	93	Justin Marks    Lawson Aschenbach	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'17.531	10.629
30	96	Bill Auberlen    Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'17.653	10.751
31	58	Patrick Long    Christina Nielsen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'17.749	10.847