Lime Rock IMSA: Tandy leads Porsche sweep in FP3

Vanthoor, championship leader along with Earl Bamber, was the first to turn a 49sec lap, with a 49.938, but Tandy left it until the final minute to grab P1 with a 49.782, following it up with another lap under Vanthoor’s best.

This Porsche domination left Richard Westbrook’s Ford GT more than half a second adrift in third, although for many teams the session was about race-runs and pitstop practice.

Marcel Fassler, standing in for the still injured Tommy Milner, put the #4 Corvette C7.R in a tire barrier that left the car in need of new nose and fenders, but co-driver Oliver Gavin was fourth-fastest ahead of the second Ford of Dirk Muller and Joey Hand.

Second practice pacesetter Antonio Garcia in the #3 Corvette beat the two BMW M8s to sixth.

In GT Daytona, a late improvement by Bryan Sellers – who this weekend shares the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 with Corey Lewis rather than Ryan Hardwick – put the #48 at the top of the times with a 51.797 ahead of Pat Long in the Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R and the Acura NSX GT3 of Meyer Shank Racing’s Mario Farnbacher.

Andy Lally drove the Apollo 11-liveried Magnus Racing Lamborghini into fourth ahead of Zacharie Robichon’s Pfaff Motorsports Porsche.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	911	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	49.782
2	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	49.938	0.156
3	67	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	50.314	0.532
4	4	Oliver Gavin Marcel Fassler	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	50.462	0.680
5	66	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	50.588	0.806
6	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	50.626	0.844
7	24	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	51.139	1.357
8	25	Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	51.353	1.571
9	48	Bryan Sellers Corey Lewis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	51.797	2.015
10	73	Marco Seefried Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	51.821	2.039
11	86	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	51.874	2.092
12	11	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	51.974	2.192
13	9	Dennis Olsen Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	52.010	2.228
14	91	Anthony Imperato Matt Campbell	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	52.215	2.433
15	33	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	52.628	2.846
16	14	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	52.637	2.855
17	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	52.661	2.879
18	57	Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	53.066	3.284
19	12	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	53.303	3.521
20	76	Paul Holton Matt Plumb	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	53.495	3.713
21	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3
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