Mid-Ohio IMSA: Taylor leads Acura Team Penske 1-2 in FP1
Ricky Taylor led teammate Juan Pablo Montoya in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's opening practice at Mid-Ohio, as Earl Bamber put Porsche top in GT Le Mans and Bill Auberlen headed GTD for Turner Motorsport.
Photo by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Images
Taylor and teammate Helio Castroneves completed 35 laps in the #7 Acura ARX-05, the best of which was a 1min13.601sec, beating Montoya’s best by 0.488sec. JPM in turn was more than half a second up on the Acuras’ nearest rival, the Action Express racing Cadillac DPi-V.R of Filipe Albuquerque.
Fastest of the Global P2s was the JDC-Miller Motorsports Oreca piloted by Simon Trummer who was a mere 0.01sec quicker than the second AXR Cadillac driven by Felipe Nasr, and a tenth faster than Wayne Taylor Racing’s Cadillac.
Jonathan Bomarito was top Mazda driver with a 1min15.293 in the car he will share this weekend with IndyCar fulltimer Spencer Pigot.
The two ESM Nissans of Ryan Dalziel and Pipo Derani were eighth and tenth, separated by Stephen Simpson in the second JDC-Miller machine.
In GTLM, Bamber’s #912 Porsche was 0.3sec quicker than Jan Magnussen’s best effort in the #3 Corvette C7.R, while Jesse Krohn was third in the BMW M8. Patrick Pilet clocked P4 in the second Porsche ahead iof the fastest Ford GT, that of Joey Hand, and the second Corvette driven by Tommy Milner.
GT Daytona cars made a strong impression, with the Turner BMW M6 driven by popular veteran Bill Auberlen finishing up top, beaten by only three GTLM cars. His best effort, a 1min20.803 was a mere one-tenth slower than Krohn’s best in the works M8, and Lawson Aschenbach was also within the same tenth driving the Michael Shank Racing #93 Acura NSX.
Third and fourth in GTD were the two Lexus RC Fs of Jack Hawksworth and Dominik Baumann, ahead Bryan Sellers in Paul Miller Racing’s Lamborghini Huracan and Alessandro Balzan in the Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488.
Second practice gets underway at 3pm local (Eastern) time.
IMSA Mid-Ohio, first practice
Pos. | # | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 1'13.601 | |
2 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 1'14.089 | 0.488 |
3 | 5 | Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'14.608 | 1.007 |
4 | 85 | Simon Trummer Robert Alon |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'14.740 | 1.139 |
5 | 31 | Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'14.741 | 1.140 |
6 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'14.865 | 1.264 |
7 | 55 | Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'15.293 | 1.692 |
8 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'15.338 | 1.737 |
9 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'15.383 | 1.782 |
10 | 22 | Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'15.425 | 1.824 |
11 | 54 | Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'16.068 | 2.467 |
12 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'16.580 | 2.979 |
13 | 52 | Gustavo Yacaman Sebastian Saavedra |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'17.243 | 3.642 |
14 | 38 | James French Kyle Masson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'17.884 | 4.283 |
15 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'20.148 | 6.547 |
16 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'20.467 | 6.866 |
17 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'20.704 | 7.103 |
18 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 1'20.803 | 7.202 |
19 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'20.827 | 7.226 |
20 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'20.897 | 7.296 |
21 | 66 | Joey Hand Dirk Müller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'21.104 | 7.503 |
22 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'21.118 | 7.517 |
23 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'21.192 | 7.591 |
24 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'21.256 | 7.655 |
25 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'21.259 | 7.658 |
26 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'21.424 | 7.823 |
27 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'21.468 | 7.867 |
28 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Alessandro Balzan |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'21.671 | 8.070 |
29 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'21.813 | 8.212 |
30 | 16 | Wolf Henzler Michael Schein |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'22.004 | 8.403 |
31 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'22.160 | 8.559 |
32 | 75 | Kenny Habul Maro Engel |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'22.209 | 8.608 |
33 | 44 | Andy Lally John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 1'22.319 | 8.718 |
34 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'22.604 | 9.003 |
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