Practice report

Laguna Seca IMSA: Albuquerque tops practice in WTR Acura

Filipe Albuquerque set the pace in his Wayne Taylor Racing Acura during IMSA’s Hyundai Monterey Sports Car event opening practice session at Laguna Seca on Friday, as the top spot traded hands numerous times.

Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi driver Felipe Nasr set the early pace with an opening flying lap of 1m15.989s, which was first beaten by Albuquerque on 1m15.521s, and then Renger van der Zande (Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac) on 1m15.661s and Harry Tincknell (Mazda) on 1m15.540s.

Having dropped to fourth, Nasr went back to the top spot with 1m15.267s, before Tincknell went P1 with 1m15.215s.

Albuquerque topped them all on 1m14.880s just after the halfway point. Pipo Derani took over the AXR Caddy from Nasr and rocketed to P2 with 1m14.974s. Tincknell stayed third, ahead of Tristan Vautier’s JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillac. Kevin Magnussen beat teammate van der Zande’s time but stayed fifth.

Mikkel Jensen dominated the LMP2 class in his PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca, even outpacing Dane Cameron in the Meyer Shank Acura DPi. Ryan Dalziel was best of the rest in P2 in his Era Motorsport Oreca.

Corvettes split by Campbell in GT Le Mans

Matt Campbell set early pace at 1m22.566s in his WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19, but Corvette duo Nick Tandy and Antonio Garcia surpassed him on 1m22.081s and 1m22.512s respectively. Campbell then split the C8.Rs with a lap of 1m22.108s, and that’s the way it stayed.

In GTD, Bill Auberlen’s early 1m24.630s in his Turner Motorsports BMW M6 couldn’t be beaten, with Laurens Vanthoor getting closest on 1m25.105s in his Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R. Bryan Sellers was third quickest in his Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan.

Practice results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	10	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Acura DPi	1'14.880
2	31	Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'14.974	0.094
3	55	Oliver Jarvis Harry Tincknell	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'15.215	0.335
4	5	Tristan Vautier Loic Duval	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'15.335	0.455
5	01	Renger van der Zande Kevin Magnussen	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'15.343	0.463
6	52	Ben Keating Mikkel Jensen	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'16.115	1.235
7	60	Dane Cameron Olivier Pla	DPi	Acura DPi	1'16.244	1.364
8	18	Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'16.996	2.116
9	8	John Farano Gabriel Aubry	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'17.053	2.173
10	11	Thomas Steven Tristan Nunez	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'17.911	3.031
11	4	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	1'22.081	7.201
12	79	Cooper MacNeil Matt Campbell	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'22.108	7.228
13	3	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	1'22.214	7.334
14	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'24.630	9.750
15	9	Zacharie Robichon Laurens Vanthoor	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'25.105	10.225
16	1	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'25.158	10.278
17	14	Aaron Telitz Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'25.343	10.463
18	66	Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'25.379	10.499
19	76	Mario Farnbacher Jacob Abel	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'25.398	10.518
20	23	Roman De Angelis Ross Gunn	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'25.424	10.544
21	16	Trent Hindman Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'25.773	10.893
22	44	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'25.841	10.961
23	39	Richard Heistand Jeff Westphal	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'26.041	11.161
24	12	Frankie Montecalvo Zach Veach	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'26.069	11.189
25	88	Rob Ferriol Katherine Legge	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'26.154	11.274
26	27	Ian James Alex Riberas	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'26.395	11.515
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