Petit Le Mans: CORE autosport on top in FP2
Colin Braun put a P2 car on top in second Petit Le Mans practice when he lapped the Road Atlanta course in 1min11.669sec to beat the best efforts from Tristan Vautier and Juan Pablo Montoya.
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Braun’s CORE autosport Oreca, which he will share with Jon Bennett and Romain Dumas, was 0.137sec ahead of this morning’s pace-setting car, the #5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R, in which Vautier is subbing for the injured Joao Barbosa.
Montoya was third for Acura Team Penske, but over a quarter-second adrift of Braun, while the Mazda RT24-Ps of Jonathan Bomarito and Oliver Jarvis were a mere one-hundredth of a second behind.
The second Acura ARX-05 of Ricky Taylor claimed P6 ahead of the ESM Nissans of Norman Nato and Timo Bernhard.
Jan Magnussen snuck the #3 Corvette C7.R ahead of Richard Westbrook’s Ford GT by hundredths of a second to head GT Le Mans, with Marcel Fassler – who will serve as third driver for both the #3 and #4 Corvette – claiming third fastest.
Earl Bamber was the quickest of the Porsche 911 RSR drivers, ahead of John Edwards, who’ll share his BMW M8 with not only Jesse Krohn as usual, but also Supercars star Chaz Mostert.
Jeroen Bleekemolen sent the Riley Mercedes AMG GT to the top of GT Daytona but was a barely a tenth quicker than Dillon Machavern in the Turner Motorsports BMW M6 and Christopher Mies in the Land Motorsport Audi R8.
Alvaro Parente slotted the Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX into fourth ahed of Bryan Sellers’ Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan and Kule Marcelli in the quicker of the two Lexus RC Fs.
Third practice is a 90min session beginning at 7.30pm local (Eastern) time.
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship FP2
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | km/h |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 54 | Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 38 | 1'11.669 | 127.587 | ||
2 | 5 | Christian Fittipaldi Filipe Albuquerque Tristan Vautier |
P | Cadillac DPi | 23 | 1'11.806 | 0.137 | 0.137 | 127.343 |
3 | 6 | Juan Pablo Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 30 | 1'11.950 | 0.281 | 0.144 | 127.088 |
4 | 55 | Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito Marino Franchitti |
P | Mazda DPi | 34 | 1'12.022 | 0.353 | 0.072 | 126.961 |
5 | 77 | Lucas di Grassi Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 28 | 1'12.034 | 0.365 | 0.012 | 126.940 |
6 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Graham Rahal Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 35 | 1'12.158 | 0.489 | 0.124 | 126.722 |
7 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel Norman Nato |
P | Nissan DPi | 34 | 1'12.266 | 0.597 | 0.108 | 126.533 |
8 | 22 | Timo Bernhard Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek |
P | Nissan DPi | 35 | 1'12.490 | 0.821 | 0.224 | 126.142 |
9 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Ryan Hunter-Reay Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 35 | 1'12.575 | 0.906 | 0.085 | 125.994 |
10 | 31 | Eric Curran Gabby Chaves Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 34 | 1'13.052 | 1.383 | 0.477 | 125.171 |
11 | 52 | Jose Gutierrez Sebastian Saavedra Will Owen |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 38 | 1'13.234 | 1.565 | 0.182 | 124.860 |
12 | 85 | Simon Trummer Robert Alon Devlin DeFrancesco |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 43 | 1'13.267 | 1.598 | 0.033 | 124.804 |
13 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Chris Miller Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 36 | 1'13.509 | 1.840 | 0.242 | 124.393 |
14 | 38 | James French Nicholas Boulle Kyle Masson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 33 | 1'13.966 | 2.297 | 0.457 | 123.624 |
15 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Marcel Fassler Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 32 | 1'18.300 | 6.631 | 4.334 | 116.782 |
16 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 29 | 1'18.337 | 6.668 | 0.037 | 116.726 |
17 | 4 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 33 | 1'18.349 | 6.680 | 0.012 | 116.709 |
18 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 30 | 1'18.406 | 6.737 | 0.057 | 116.624 |
19 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn Chaz Mostert |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 35 | 1'18.539 | 6.870 | 0.133 | 116.426 |
20 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 31 | 1'18.542 | 6.873 | 0.003 | 116.422 |
21 | 62 | Toni Vilander Andrea Bertolini Miguel Molina |
GTLM | Ferrari 488 GTE | 37 | 1'18.673 | 7.004 | 0.131 | 116.228 |
22 | 25 | Bill Auberlen Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 28 | 1'18.860 | 7.191 | 0.187 | 115.952 |
23 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 42 | 1'19.374 | 7.705 | 0.514 | 115.201 |
24 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Luca Stolz |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 32 | 1'20.506 | 8.837 | 1.132 | 113.582 |
25 | 96 | Don Yount Markus Palttala Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 38 | 1'20.628 | 8.959 | 0.122 | 113.410 |
26 | 29 | Daniel Morad Christopher Mies Sheldon Van |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 33 | 1'20.652 | 8.983 | 0.024 | 113.376 |
27 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 27 | 1'20.884 | 9.215 | 0.232 | 113.051 |
28 | 48 | Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 36 | 1'21.042 | 9.373 | 0.158 | 112.830 |
29 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann Philipp Frommenwiler |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 33 | 1'21.104 | 9.435 | 0.062 | 112.744 |
30 | 73 | Wolf Henzler Tim Pappas Spencer Pumpelly |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 29 | 1'21.127 | 9.458 | 0.023 | 112.712 |
31 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach Mario Farnbacher |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 28 | 1'21.375 | 9.706 | 0.248 | 112.369 |
32 | 71 | Maximilian Buhk JC Perez Felipe Fraga |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 39 | 1'21.532 | 9.863 | 0.157 | 112.152 |
33 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen Robert Renauer |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 36 | 1'21.588 | 9.919 | 0.056 | 112.075 |
34 | 44 | Andy Lally Andrew Davis John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 36 | 1'21.654 | 9.985 | 0.066 | 111.985 |
35 | 64 | Matteo Cressoni Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 35 | 1'21.706 | 10.037 | 0.052 | 111.913 |
36 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth Sean Rayhall |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 34 | 1'21.898 | 10.229 | 0.192 | 111.651 |
37 | 63 | Daniel Serra Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 34 | 1'22.073 | 10.404 | 0.175 | 111.413 |
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