Detroit IMSA: Derani on top again in second practice
Pipo Derani again drove Action Express Racing to the top of the times in the second practice session for Saturday's fifth round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Detroit.
#31 Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi, DPi: Felipe Nasr, Pipo Derani
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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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