Rolex 24: Bomarito puts Mazda on top in second practice
Mazda Team Joest moved to the top of the Rolex 24 at Daytona timesheets in second practice, courtesy of a late flyer from Jonathan Bomarito in the #55 Mazda RT24-P.
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After the opening session of the Rolex 24 weekend was held on a damp track, second practice was dry, albeit with laptimes still some way slower than those set in the Roar test earlier in the month.
CORE autosport's sole Nissan DPi led the session for much of the way after Colin Braun posted a 1m35.338s with 41 minutes remaining, and that wasn't beaten until Filipe Albuquerque set a 1m35.446s in the #5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R with less than 10 minutes on the clock.
But with five minutes left of the session, Bomarito knocked some six tenths off Albuquerque's benchmark with a 1m34.743s, which he followed up with a 1m34.672s on the following lap - putting the #55 Mazda seven tenths up on the competition.
Braun's earlier time was good enough to keep the #54 Nissan third, while Acura Team Penske's Ricky Taylor ensured it was four different makes in the top four with a 1m35.539s effort in the #7 Acura ARX-05.
IMSA rookie Augustin Canapino turned an impressive lap to go fifth fastest in the #50 Juncos Racing Cadillac, followed by Felipe Nasr in the #31 AXR Cadillac.
Fernando Alonso set the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac's best time of 1m35.924s to earn P7, one place ahead of the #77 Mazda RT24-P driven by Timo Bernhard.
The LMP2 contingent was headed up by James Allen in the #81 DragonSpeed Oreca-Gibson, the young Australian's 1m37.255s effort putting him three tenths clear of PR1/Mathiasen driver Gabriel Aubry.
Nick Tandy left it late to send the retro-liveried Porsche 911 RSR to the top of the times in GT Le Mans with a best time of 1m43.475s, demoting Corvette driver Jan Magnussen to second by just 0.086s.
Ryan Briscoe was the best of the Ford GT drivers in the #66 machine, taking third place, a further two tenths back, followed by the sole Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE and the second of the Ganassi-run Fords.
BMW propped up the GTLM order with its pair of M8 GTEs managing only eighth and ninth places.
In GT Daytona, Spirit of Race Ferrari driver Daniel Serra was the sole driver to breach the 1m46s barrier with a 1m45.936s, enough to top the class by 0.248s from the leading Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX driven by Trent Hindman.
Third in class was Ben Keating in the Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3, a further 0.060s behind.
Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, Practice 2:
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 55 | Harry Tincknell Olivier Pla Jonathan Bomarito |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 27 | 1'34.672 | |
2 | 5 | Christian Fittipaldi Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 29 | 1'35.383 | 0.711 |
3 | 54 | Loic Duval Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
DPi | Nissan DPi | 24 | 1'35.538 | 0.866 |
4 | 7 | Alexander Rossi Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
DPi | Acura DPi | 25 | 1'35.539 | 0.867 |
5 | 50 | Kyle Kaiser Rene Binder Will Owen Agustin Canapino |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 21 | 1'35.550 | 0.878 |
6 | 31 | Pipo Derani Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 25 | 1'35.694 | 1.022 |
7 | 10 | Fernando Alonso Kamui Kobayashi Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 26 | 1'35.924 | 1.252 |
8 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Timo Bernhard René Rast Tristan Nunez |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 21 | 1'36.102 | 1.430 |
9 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron |
DPi | Acura DPi | 9 | 1'36.346 | 1.674 |
10 | 84 | Simon Trummer Juan Piedrahita Chris Miller Stephen Simpson |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 27 | 1'36.485 | 1.813 |
11 | 85 | Rubens Barrichello Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier Devlin DeFrancesco |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 22 | 1'36.657 | 1.985 |
12 | 81 | Nicolas Lapierre Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley James Allen |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 25 | 1'37.255 | 2.583 |
13 | 52 | Matt McMurry Mark Kvamme Enzo Guibbert Gabriel Aubry |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 27 | 1'37.512 | 2.840 |
14 | 18 | Pastor Maldonado Roberto Gonzalez Sebastian Saavedra Ryan Cullen |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 25 | 1'38.228 | 3.556 |
15 | 38 | Kris Wright Kyle Masson Cameron Cassels Robert Masson |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 24 | 1'39.784 | 5.112 |
16 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 25 | 1'43.475 | 8.803 |
17 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 25 | 1'43.561 | 8.889 |
18 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 21 | 1'43.755 | 9.083 |
19 | 62 | James Calado Davide Rigon Alessandro Pier Guidi Miguel Molina |
GTLM | Ferrari 488 GTE | 22 | 1'43.758 | 9.086 |
20 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 19 | 1'43.906 | 9.234 |
21 | 4 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 21 | 1'44.017 | 9.345 |
22 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 21 | 1'44.219 | 9.547 |
23 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi Augusto Farfus Philipp Eng Colton Herta |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 22 | 1'44.249 | 9.577 |
24 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn Chaz Mostert Alex Zanardi |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 22 | 1'44.301 | 9.629 |
25 | 51 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda Daniel Serra |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 27 | 1'45.936 | 11.264 |
26 | 86 | A.J. Allmendinger Justin Marks Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 20 | 1'46.184 | 11.512 |
27 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Luca Stolz Felipe Fraga |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 20 | 1'46.244 | 11.572 |
28 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Jens Klingmann Robby Foley Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 23 | 1'46.295 | 11.623 |
29 | 13 | Andrea Bertolini Victor Franzoni Chico Longo Marcos Gomes |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 28 | 1'46.295 | 11.623 |
30 | 48 | Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Andrea Caldarelli Ryan Hardwick |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 24 | 1'46.337 | 11.665 |
31 | 9 | Scott Hargrove Lars Kern Dennis Olsen Zacharie Robichon |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 24 | 1'46.567 | 11.895 |
32 | 63 | Toni Vilander Dominik Farnbacher Cooper MacNeil Jeff Westphal |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 23 | 1'46.574 | 11.902 |
33 | 11 | Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Rik Breukers Christian Engelhart |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 27 | 1'46.579 | 11.907 |
34 | 73 | Patrick Long Patrick Lindsey Nicholas Boulle Matt Campbell |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 23 | 1'46.642 | 11.970 |
35 | 44 | Andy Lally Marco Mapelli Spencer Pumpelly John Potter |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 24 | 1'46.692 | 12.020 |
36 | 14 | Austin Cindric Jack Hawksworth Richard Heistand Nick Cassidy |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 23 | 1'46.739 | 12.067 |
37 | 12 | Townsend Bell Jeff Segal Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 25 | 1'46.781 | 12.109 |
38 | 57 | Simona de Silvestro Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen Ana Figueiredo |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 24 | 1'46.829 | 12.157 |
39 | 29 | Daniel Morad Dries Vanthoor Christopher Mies Richard Feller |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 24 | 1'46.935 | 12.263 |
40 | 46 | Fabio Babini Emanuele Busnelli Taylor Proto Giacomo Altoè |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 27 | 1'47.234 | 12.562 |
41 | 99 | Klaus Bachler Sven Muller Alfred Renauer Juergen Haering Steffen Goerig |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 27 | 1'47.444 | 12.772 |
42 | 540 | Marco Seefried Tim Pappas Dirk Werner Matteo Cairoli |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 25 | 1'47.453 | 12.781 |
43 | 47 | Don Yount Milos Pavlovic Steve Dunn Linus Lundqvist |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 27 | 1'47.527 | 12.855 |
44 | 71 | Fabian Schiller Dominik Baumann Maximilian Buhk JC Perez |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 20 | 1'47.534 | 12.862 |
45 | 88 | Ian James Frederic Vervisch Kelvin van der Linde Roman DeAngelis |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 24 | 1'47.593 | 12.921 |
46 | 8 | Ryan Dalziel Parker Chase Ezequiel Perez Companc Chris Haase |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 21 | 1'47.673 | 13.001 |
47 | 19 | Markus Winkelhock Andrew Davis Will Hardeman Alex Riberas |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 24 | 1'47.724 | 13.052 |
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