IMSA Laguna Seca: Mazda moves to the top in FP2
Mazda’s Oliver Jarvis produced the fastest lap of second practice at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca to claim top spot ahead of Dane Cameron’s Acura.
Photo by: Art Fleischmann
On the only practice day before the penultimate round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Jarvis sent his Mazda RT24-P around the 2.238-mile course in just 1min15.692.
That was around 0.15sec faster than the best time of the morning session, and a similar margin over Cameron’s Acura Team Penske ARX-05 this afternoon.
In third was Jonathan Bomarito in the second Mazda, about 0.1sec quicker than the best of the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs – the championship leading Wayne Taylor Racing entry of Ryan Briscoe.
Tristan Vautier’s JDC-Miller Caddy was a hair quicker than Action Express Racing’s best from Felipe Nasr, while Matheus Leist spun the second JDC car bringing out the session’s only red flag.
However, strangest incident was when Nasr came out of the pits into the path of Helio Castroneves, moved to driver right of the track to let his compatriot through and was then dragged off the track by the #7 Acura. Given how these two entries ended Petit Le Mans, it appears the rivalry isn’t over. It served only to hurt Acura Team Penske, its the title-contending entry that Castroneves shares with Ricky Taylor, did not complete a lap.
The #3 Corvette C8.R remained fastest of the GT Le Mans field, Jordan Taylor lapping three-tenths faster than Connor De Phillippi in the #25 BMW M8.
Nick Tandy was third for Porsche, almost four-tenths back.
Robby Foley proved his teammate Bill Auberlen’s pace in this morning’s session was no fluke, as he again kept Turner Motorsports’ BMW M6 over half a tenth clear of the opposition, which was led by Spencer Pumpelly’s Audi R8.
Aaron Telitz (AIM Vasser-Sullivan Lexus RC F) and Matt McMurry (Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX) were next up ahead of their respective teammates.
Qualifying gets underway tomorrow at 8.30am local/11.30am ET, with the race to follow at 1.05pm local/4.05pm ET.
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 25 | 1'15.692 | |
2 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron |
DPi | Acura DPi | 25 | 1'15.877 | 0.185 |
3 | 55 | Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 27 | 1'16.037 | 0.345 |
4 | 10 | Renger van der Zande Ryan Briscoe |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 27 | 1'16.142 | 0.450 |
5 | 5 | Sébastien Bourdais Tristan Vautier |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 32 | 1'16.496 | 0.804 |
6 | 31 | Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 22 | 1'16.509 | 0.817 |
7 | 85 | Matheus Leist Stephen Simpson |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 22 | 1'16.914 | 1.222 |
8 | 3 | Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor |
GTLM | Corvette C8.R | 33 | 1'22.279 | 6.587 |
9 | 25 | Bruno Spengler Connor de Phillippi |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 27 | 1'22.583 | 6.891 |
10 | 911 | Nick Tandy Frédéric Makowiecki |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | 31 | 1'22.963 | 7.271 |
11 | 24 | Jesse Krohn John Edwards |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 30 | 1'23.228 | 7.536 |
12 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C8.R | 31 | 1'23.401 | 7.709 |
13 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | 32 | 1'23.530 | 7.838 |
14 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 31 | 1'24.806 | 9.114 |
15 | 30 | Rob Ferriol Spencer Pumpelly |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 31 | 1'25.388 | 9.696 |
16 | 14 | Jack Hawksworth Aaron Telitz |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 24 | 1'25.444 | 9.752 |
17 | 86 | Mario Farnbacher Matt McMurry |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 27 | 1'25.642 | 9.950 |
18 | 12 | Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 28 | 1'25.642 | 9.950 |
19 | 57 | Alvaro Parente Mikhail Goikhberg |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 28 | 1'25.701 | 10.009 |
20 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Alessandro Balzan |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 25 | 1'25.743 | 10.051 |
21 | 23 | Ian James Roman De Angelis |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 29 | 1'25.894 | 10.202 |
22 | 76 | Jeff Kingsley Paul Holton |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 33 | 1'26.272 | 10.580 |
23 | 16 | Ryan Hardwick Patrick Long |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 31 | 1'26.339 | 10.647 |
24 | 22 | Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 23 | 1'26.715 | 11.023 |
25 | 74 | Gar Robinson Lawson Aschenbach |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 27 | 1'26.922 | 11.230 |
26 | 44 | Andy Lally John Potter |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 28 | 1'27.252 | 11.560 |
27 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
DPi | Acura DPi | 3 | ||
28 | 52 | Patrick Kelly Simon Trummer |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 0 | ||
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