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Laguna Seca IMSA: Taylor heads Acura 1-2 in FP3
Acura Team Penske maintained its supremacy in third practice for this weekend's Laguna Seca IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round, with Ricky Taylor setting the pace in the #7 car.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Sep 15, 2019, 7:25 AM
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Taylor laid down a benchmark of 1m15.497s early on in the one-hour Saturday morning session, but the #7 Acura caused a red flag when Helio Castroneves beached the pace-setting ARX-05 in the gravel at the top of the Corkscrew.
Castroneves avoided picking up any significant damage, though, and the car was back out for the final part of the session, as championship leader Juan Pablo Montoya made a late jump up to second in the sister #6 machine with a 1m15.857s effort.
Best of the rest was the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R, which has been boosted by Balance of Performance adjustments for this round, with Renger van der Zande ending up 0.538s off the pace in third.
Oliver Jarvis's early benchmark behind the wheel of the #77 Mazda RT24-P was enough for fourth in the end, ahead of the #5 Action Express Racing Cadillac of Filipe Albuquerque and the second of the Joest-run Mazdas, the #55 car of Harry Tincknell.
The title-contending #31 AXR Cadillac ended up down in ninth, with ex-Formula 1 racer Felipe Nasr's best effort putting that car 1.104s off the pace.
Kyle Masson's time of 1m18.251s was enough to put Performance Tech ahead of sole LMP2 rival PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports.
Ford set the pace in GT Le Mans with Richard Westbrook setting a 1m22.034s in the #67 car, 0.230s ahead of Tom Blomqvist's best effort in the #24 BMW M8 GTE.
Dirk Muller made it two Fords inside the top three in the #66 GT, ahead of Oliver Gavin in the quicker of the Corvette C7.Rs, while both Porsche 911 RSRs ended up propping up the class order in seventh and eighth places.
Turner Motorsports set the pace in GT Daytona courtesy of Robby Foley's 1m24.523s effort in the #96 BMW M6 GT3, a little under two tenths clear of Corey Lewis in the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3.
Andy Lally was third-fastest in Magnus Racing's Lambo ahead of the points-leading Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 of Trent Hindman.
Session results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 7 Ricky Taylor
Helio Castroneves DPi Acura DPi 1'15.497 2 6
Dane Cameron
Juan Pablo Montoya DPi Acura DPi 1'15.857 0.360 3 10
Renger van der Zande
Jordan Taylor DPi Cadillac DPi 1'16.035 0.538 4 77
Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez DPi Mazda DPi 1'16.088 0.591 5 5
Joao Barbosa
Filipe Albuquerque DPi Cadillac DPi 1'16.194 0.697 6 55
Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell DPi Mazda DPi 1'16.296 0.799 7 85
Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier DPi Cadillac DPi 1'16.311 0.814 8 54
Jon Bennett
Colin Braun DPi Nissan DPi 1'16.460 0.963 9 31
Felipe Nasr
Pipo Derani DPi Cadillac DPi 1'16.601 1.104 10 84
Simon Trummer
Stephen Simpson DPi Cadillac DPi 1'16.978 1.481 11 38
Cameron Cassels
Kyle Masson LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'18.251 2.754 12 52
Matt McMurry
Dalton Kellett LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'19.085 3.588 13 67
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 1'22.034 6.537 14 25
Connor de Phillippi
Tom Blomqvist GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'22.264 6.767 15 66
Joey Hand
Dirk Muller GTLM Ford GT 1'22.518 7.021 16 4
Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'22.567 7.070 17 3
Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'22.635 7.138 18 24
Jesse Krohn
John Edwards GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'22.729 7.232 19 911
Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'22.839 7.342 20 912
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'23.058 7.561 21 96
Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'24.523 9.026 22 48
Bryan Sellers
Corey Lewis GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'24.720 9.223 23 44
John Potter
Andy Lally GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'24.960 9.463 24 86
Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'25.061 9.564 25 33
Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'25.070 9.573 26 12
Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'25.127 9.630 27 9
Scott Hargrove
Zacharie Robichon GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'25.159 9.662 28 63
Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 1'25.210 9.713 29 14
Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'25.285 9.788 30 76
Paul Holton
Matt Plumb GTD McLaren 720S GT3 1'25.344 9.847 31 57
Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'25.434 9.937 32 73
Patrick Lindsey
Patrick Long GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 0.000 View full results
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