Lime Rock IMSA: Garcia tops FP2 for Chevy, BMW leads GTD

Connor de Phillippi’s #25 BMW M8 swapped the fastest time with Jesse Krohn in the #24 RLL-run sister car early on, but they were both pipped by Garcia’s 50.302s lap of the 1.474-mile course in Connecticut, set in the closing four minutes of the hour-long second session.

This effort was some way short of the 50.065s laptime set by Nick Tandy’s #911 Porsche in the far cooler morning session.

The Ford GTs of Richard Westbrook and Joey Hand were next up, ahead of Marcel Fassler in the second Corvette. The Porsches were the slowest GTLM contenders in this session, with Tandy just outpacing Earl Bamber.

BMW clung to the fastest time in the GT Daytona class, with Bill Auberlen setting the quickest time of 51.715s in his #96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6.

The main drama of the session was Toni Vilander’s #63 Ferrari 488 losing a right-rear wheel in pitlane and grinding to a halt in the Porsche #912 pit. He recovered to set the second fastest GTD time of the session, under a tenth away from Auberlen.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	50.302
2	25	Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	50.320	0.018
3	24	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	50.467	0.165
4	67	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	50.523	0.221
5	66	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	50.648	0.346
6	4	Oliver Gavin Marcel Fassler	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	50.943	0.641
7	911	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	51.023	0.721
8	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	51.063	0.761
9	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	51.715	1.413
10	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	51.808	1.506
11	9	Dennis Olsen Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	51.954	1.652
12	73	Marco Seefried Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	52.034	1.732
13	91	Anthony Imperato Matt Campbell	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	52.062	1.760
14	57	Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	52.085	1.783
15	14	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	52.099	1.797
16	11	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	52.112	1.810
17	33	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	52.228	1.926
18	48	Bryan Sellers Corey Lewis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	52.410	2.108
19	76	Paul Holton Matt Plumb	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	52.544	2.242
20	12	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	52.600	2.298
21	86	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	53.180	2.878
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