Detroit IMSA: Derani on top again in second practice

Derani’s best lap of 1min20.387sec in the #31 Cadillac DPi-V.R around the 2.35-mile Belle Isle course snipped another couple of tenths from his morning time, leaving him almost two seconds faster than his pole position from last year.

Yet he was only 0.119sec faster than his closest opposition Renger van der Zander in the Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac, and 0.223sec up on Helio Castroneves in the faster of Acura Team Penske’s ARX-05s.

Filipe Albuquerque in the second AXR Caddy was fourth, but half a second off his teammate, while the second Acura of Dane Cameron and Tristan Nunez’s #77 Mazda RT24-P were fifth and sixth.

Zacharie Robichon led the GT Daytona times for Park Place Motorsports, but was mere hundredths ahead of Christina Nielsen in the #57 Meyer Shank Racing Heinricher Racing Acura NSX, which set the pace this morning in Katherine Legge’s hands.

Bill Auberlen weaved the Turner Motorsport BMW M6 between the track’s concrete block-lined roads with panache to clock third, while Trent Hindman was fourth in the second NSX.

Jack Hawksworth clocked fifth in the #14 Lexus RC F run by AIM Vasser-Sullian, ahead of last year’s GTD pole-winner Bryan Sellers in the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan.

Compass Racing's McLaren 720S did not run in the session following its altercation with a JDC Miller Motorsports Cadillac in morning practice.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	31	Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'20.387
2	10	Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'20.506	0.119
3	7	Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	DPi	Acura DPi	1'20.610	0.223
4	5	Joao Barbosa Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'20.886	0.499
5	6	Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya	DPi	Acura DPi	1'20.920	0.533
6	77	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'20.957	0.570
7	85	Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'21.008	0.621
8	54	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	DPi	Nissan DPi	1'21.161	0.774
9	55	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'21.211	0.824
10	84	Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'21.515	1.128
11	50	Will Owen Victor Franzoni	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'22.419	2.032
12	73	Patrick Long Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'30.011	9.624
13	57	Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'30.024	9.637
14	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'30.160	9.773
15	86	Trent Hindman Mario Farnbacher	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'30.180	9.793
16	14	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'30.197	9.810
17	48	Bryan Sellers Ryan Hardwick	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'30.301	9.914
18	44	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'30.476	10.089
19	8	Parker Chase Ryan Dalziel	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'30.672	10.285
20	12	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'30.799	10.412
21	74	Gar Robinson Lawson Aschenbach	GTD	Mercedes-AMG	1'30.854	10.467
22	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'31.144	10.757
23	76	Paul Holton Matt Plumb	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3
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