Laguna Seca IMSA: Tincknell puts Mazda on top in warm-up

The #55 Mazda of Tincknell and Jonathan Bomarito, which will start sixth on the grid, set a best time of 1min17.266sec around the 2.238-mile course to beat Juan Pablo Montoya’s Acura ARX-05 by 0.462sec.

Action Express Racing’s Cadillac DPi-V.Rs occupied third and fourth in the hands of Filipe Albuquerque and Felipe Nasr, while Oliver Jarvis in the second Mazda beat Ricky Taylor tin the second Acura.

Top LMP2 car was the AFS/PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca of Gustavo Yacaman, in ninth.

As per qualifying, Ford and Chevrolet were the dominant cars in GT Le Mans, but this time it was Richard Westbrook – a former winner here with Ford – who nabbed fastest time from the pole-winning #4 Corvette C7.R, today driven by Tommy Milner.

Their teammates Antonio Garcia and Joey Hand were third and fourth, while Connor de Phillippi got his BMW M8 ahead of the two Porsches.

Ozz Negri’s Squadra Corse Garage Italia Ferrari 488 led GT Daytona, with Patrick Lindsey’s Park Place Motorsports Porsche in second ahead of Andy Lally’s Magnus Racing Audi R8.

The race begins at 2.05pm local (Pacific) time.

Session results:

Pos.	#	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	55	Harry Tincknell Jonathan Bomarito	P	Mazda DPi	1'17.266
2	6	Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron	P	Acura DPi	1'17.728	0.462
3	5	Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa	P	Cadillac DPi	1'17.851	0.585
4	31	Eric Curran Felipe Nasr	P	Cadillac DPi	1'18.055	0.789
5	77	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	P	Mazda DPi	1'18.069	0.803
6	7	Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	P	Acura DPi	1'18.504	1.238
7	2	Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel	P	Nissan DPi	1'18.552	1.286
8	22	Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek	P	Nissan DPi	1'18.712	1.446
9	52	Gustavo Yacaman Sebastian Saavedra	P	ORECA LMP2	1'18.717	1.451
10	99	Mikhail Goikhberg Stephen Simpson	P	ORECA LMP2	1'18.771	1.505
11	85	Simon Trummer Robert Alon	P	ORECA LMP2	1'19.415	2.149
12	54	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	P	ORECA LMP2	1'23.319	6.053
13	67	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	1'23.862	6.596
14	4	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'23.911	6.645
15	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'23.960	6.694
16	66	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	1'24.032	6.766
17	25	Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'24.395	7.129
18	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'24.646	7.380
19	24	John Edwards Jesse Krohn	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'24.690	7.424
20	911	Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'24.941	7.675
21	51	Francesco Piovanetti  Ozz Negri	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'25.868	8.602
22	73	Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Lindsey	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'25.966	8.700
23	44	Andy Lally John Potter	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'26.282	9.016
24	58	Patrick Long Christina Nielsen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'26.521	9.255
25	86	Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'27.168	9.902
26	15	David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'27.227	9.961
27	93	Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'27.362	10.096
28	33	Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	1'27.858	10.592
29	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'28.002	10.736
30	48	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'28.084	10.818
31	64	Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'28.126	10.860
32	63	Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'29.103	11.837
33	10	Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande	P	Cadillac DPi
34	14	Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3