Qualifying report
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Daytona IMSA: Castroneves’ Acura beats Mazdas to pole
Helio Castroneves turned the best lap of Daytona to earn Acura Team Penske pole for this evening’s IMSA WeatherTech 240 in a fantastically close battle for top honors between the Acura ARX-05s and Mazda RT24-Ps.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jul 5, 2020, 3:04 PM
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A mere 0.142sec covered the top four cars, and Castroneves put just 0.032sec between himself and the best of the Mazda RT24-Ps driven by Oliver Jarvis, with Jonathan Bomarito’s Mazda a further 0.032sec behind, and 0.078sec ahead of defending IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Champion Juan Pablo Montoya.
Despite getting little practice this morning due to a flat tire for Renger Van der Zande at 190mph, Wayne Taylor Racing ended up with the fastest Cadillac DPi-V.R thanks to Ryan Briscoe’s best effort. The former IndyCar ace was perhaps surprisingly only 0.671sec off top spot, but was 0.183sec ahead of Gabby Chaves, who is sharing the Action Express Racing Caddy with Pipo Derani, in place of the Covid-19-afflicted Felipe Nasr.
The JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillacs of Joao Barbosa and Chris Miller were seventh and eighth.
Oliver Gavin and Jordan Taylor produced a 1-2 for Corvette Racing’s two-race-old C8.R in GT Le Mans. Gavin was an impressive 0.272sec clear of his teammate who in turn was one-tenth faster than the third place car.
That car was the RLL-run BMW M8 GTE of Jesse Krohn who was just 0.001sec faster than Laurens Vanthoor in the faster of the two Porsche 911 RSRs. Nick Tandy might have gone still faster but ran long in Turn 1 on his final flyer in the #911 Porsche, and will line up sixth, alongside the second BMW of Bruno Spengler.
Corey Fergus took a brilliant GT Daytona-class pole for Compass Racing in the dramatic McLaren 720S GT3, beating Aaron Telitz’s Lexus RC F GT3 by 0.137sec.
Third fastest was the ever-trusty Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 of Robby Foley, who just edged the second Lexus of Frankie Montecalvo and the WeatherTech Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 of Cooper MacNeil.
The two Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3s of Matt McMurry and Misha Goikhberg will line up sixth and seventh.
This evening's 2hr40min race begins at 6.10pm local (Eastern) time.
Qualifying results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 7 Helio Castroneves
Ricky Taylor DPi Acura DPi 1'34.390 2 77
Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez DPi Mazda DPi 1'34.422 0.032 3 55
Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell DPi Mazda DPi 1'34.454 0.064 4 6
Dane Cameron
Juan Pablo Montoya DPi Acura DPi 1'34.532 0.142 5 10
Renger van der Zande
Ryan Briscoe DPi Cadillac DPi 1'35.061 0.671 6 31
Gabby Chaves
Pipo Derani DPi Cadillac DPi 1'35.244 0.854 7 5
Joao Barbosa
Sébastien Bourdais DPi Cadillac DPi 1'35.737 1.347 8 85
Chris Miller
Tristan Vautier DPi Cadillac DPi 1'35.945 1.555 9 4
Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'42.251 7.861 10 3
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'42.523 8.133 11 24
Jesse Krohn
John Edwards GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'42.628 8.238 12 912
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'42.629 8.239 13 25
Bruno Spengler
Connor de Phillippi GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'42.674 8.284 14 911
Nick Tandy
Frédéric Makowiecki GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'42.754 8.364 15 76
Corey Fergus
Paul Holton GTD McLaren 720S GT3 1'47.015 12.625 16 14
Jack Hawksworth
Aaron Telitz GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'47.152 12.762 17 96
Robby Foley
Bill Auberlen GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'47.468 13.078 18 12
Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'47.502 13.112 19 63
Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 1'47.595 13.205 20 86
Mario Farnbacher
Matt McMurry GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'47.779 13.389 21 57
Alvaro Parente
Mikhail Goikhberg GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'47.799 13.409 22 16
Ryan Hardwick
Patrick Long GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'47.839 13.449 23 74
Gar Robinson
Lawson Aschenbach GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'47.998 13.608 24 44
Andy Lally
John Potter GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'48.772 14.382 25 22
Till Bechtolsheimer
Marc Miller GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'48.795 14.405 26 30
Rob Ferriol
Spencer Pumpelly GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'49.193 14.803 View full results
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