Daytona IMSA: Mazda’s Jarvis tops second practice

The second round of the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, a 2hour40min event, is likely to see one of the turbocharged cars – a Mazda RT24-P or an Acura ARX-05 – start from pole, as these four seem to have a very clear margin over the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs.

And Jarvis, the Rolex 24 Hour pole-winner, appears to be favorite of all, lapping the course this morning in 1min34.398sec to head Helio Castroneves’ Acura by 0.248sec. That was despite the #77 Mazda failing to record a laptime in Friday's first practice session.

A last-lap effort from Jonathan Bomarito in the #55 Mazda saw him fall some 0.3sec short of P1, although he did edge the second Acura Team Penske entry of Juan Pablo Montoya.

The fastest Cadillac was the Action Express Racing #31 car piloted by Gabby Chaves, a late stand-in for Felipe Nasr who has contracted COVID-19.

He headed the JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillacs and the three-time Rolex 24 Hours winning Caddy of Wayne Taylor Racing which stopped at Turn 1, bringing out the red flag.

In the GT Le Mans class, we look set for a battle royal in qualifying between Porsche and Corvette Racing, after Nick Tandy’s 911 RSR-19 edged Oliver Gavin’s C8.R to top spot in practice by less than one-tenth of a second.

Just one tenth further back was the second Corvette of Jordan Taylor, ahead of the BMWs of Jesse Krohn and Bruno Spengler.

Aaron Telitz, new full-time recruit for the #14 AIM Vasser-Sullivan Lexus RC F, was fastest in GT Daytona by over 0.4sec, heading Corey Fergus’ McLaren 720S GT3, Toni Vilander’s Ferrari 488 GT3 and Pat Long’s Porsche 911 GT3 R.

Qualifying starts at 1.55pm local (Eastern) time.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	77	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'34.398
2	7	Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	DPi	Acura DPi	1'34.646	0.248
3	55	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'34.689	0.291
4	6	Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya	DPi	Acura DPi	1'34.741	0.343
5	31	Gabby Chaves Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'35.585	1.187
6	85	Chris Miller Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'35.674	1.276
7	5	Joao Barbosa Sébastien Bourdais	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'35.707	1.309
8	10	Renger van der Zande Ryan Briscoe	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'35.799	1.401
9	911	Nick Tandy Frédéric Makowiecki	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'42.990	8.592
10	4	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	1'43.049	8.651
11	3	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	1'43.150	8.752
12	24	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'43.377	8.979
13	25	Bruno Spengler Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'43.505	9.107
14	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'43.689	9.291
15	14	Jack Hawksworth Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'46.694	12.296
16	76	Corey Fergus Paul Holton	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	1'47.166	12.768
17	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'47.451	13.053
18	16	Ryan Hardwick Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'47.477	13.079
19	86	Mario Farnbacher Matt McMurry	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'47.564	13.166
20	12	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'47.833	13.435
21	57	Alvaro Parente Mikhail Goikhberg	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'47.889	13.491
22	96	Robby Foley Bill Auberlen	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'47.930	13.532
23	74	Gar Robinson Lawson Aschenbach	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	1'48.162	13.764
24	44	Andy Lally John Potter	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'48.276	13.878
25	30	Rob Ferriol Spencer Pumpelly	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'48.858	14.460
26	22	Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'49.014	14.616
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