Practice report
IMSA Road Atlanta
Petit Le Mans IMSA: Bourdais leads FP2 in Ganassi Cadillac
Sebastien Bourdais gapped the field by more than 0.3sec to end second practice for IMSA’s finale, Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, in the final event for the Cadillac DPi-V.R.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Sep 30, 2022, 1:30 AM
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For much of the session, the top five Prototypes were covered by just 0.11sec, with Renger van der Zande in the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac setting a 70.264sec, leading the stablemate #02 car’s endurance extra Ryan Hunter-Reay by 0.061sec. Loic Duval in the JDC Miller Motorsports entry made it a Caddy 1-2-3, mere hundredths behind, the team having fixed its faulty brake-bias lever which had caused the car to have an off in FP1.
At this point, Helio Castroneves of Meyer Shank Racing was fourth fastest in the quickest of the Acura ARX-05s ahead of Mike Conway in the Action Express Racing Cadillac.
Then with 37mins of the session remaining, the LMP2 championship-leading Tower Motorsports entry of Rui Pinto de Andrade plowed off the track at Turn 1, and hit the tire wall, while lying second in class behind Ryan Dalziel in the Era Motorsports machine. Thankfully the damage wasn’t hard enough to prevent Andrade to head back to the pits under his own power.
With 20mins to go, Bamber shaved a couple of hundredths off Hunter-Reay’s time to edge slightly closer to van der Zande’s benchmark, before getting pushed back to the paddock for a checkover after slight contact with a GT car. Tom Blomqvist also moved the MSR Acura up into third.
Then, with 15mins remaining, championship leader Ricky Taylor delivered the first lap of the session under the 70sec barrier with a 69.858sec for Wayne Taylor Racing. With seven minutes remaining, Blomqvist put this into perspective, working down to a 69.342sec, a quarter second ahead of the impressive Tristan Vautier of JDC Miller and a further tenth up on Sebastien Bourdais in the #01 Ganassi Caddy.
Once Blomqvist pitted, Kamui Kobayashi in the ‘extra’ Action Express Cadillac and Vautier both trimmed their deficit to the MSR Acura to under one-tenth. But Bourdais wasn’t done yet, taking a full three tenths out of Blomqvist to end the session on top with a 69.040.
Dalziel’s 1min11.656sec flyer remained the top of the LMP2 times, three-tenths ahead of Juan Pablo Montoya in the DragonSpeed machine and Anders Fjordbach of High Class Racing.
The PR1/Mathiasen LMP2 car that Scott Huffaker crashed this morning gained no laps until the last five minutes of the LMP2 class’s track time, with Mikkel Jensen at least able to shake down the car.
Kay van Berlo put Riley Motorsports on top in LMP3 ahead of Gabby Chaves of Andretti Autosport and Nolan Siegel in the Garett Grist of the Jr III team.
GTD Pro was led by Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F of Jack Hawksworth, a shocking 0.645se faster than Jesse Krohn in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW M4, while Antonio Garcia’s final flyer sent the Corvette C8.R into third, a further 0.15sec adrift.
Vasser Sullivan Lexus also topped GTD, Richard Heistand delivering an excellent 79.853sec to beat Erik Johanasson in the Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 by just 0.006sec!
Third in class was Russell Ward’s Winward Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 ahead of the similar car of Stevan McAleer in the Team Korthoff machine. Then came the Cetilar Racing Ferrari 488 of Ulysse de Pauw ahead of Simon Mann’s AF Corse Ferrari.
Magnus Racing’s GTD Aston Martin required an engine change and missed the session.
The third, 90-minute practice session will commence at 7.30pm local (Eastern) time.
Petit Le Mans - FP2 results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 01 Renger van der Zande
Sébastien Bourdais
Scott Dixon DPi Cadillac DPi 1'09.040 2 60
Oliver Jarvis
Tom Blomqvist
Helio Castroneves DPi Acura DPi 1'09.342 0.302 3 48
Mike Rockenfeller
Kamui Kobayashi
Jimmie Johnson DPi Cadillac DPi 1'09.425 0.385 4 5
Tristan Vautier
Richard Westbrook
Loic Duval DPi Cadillac DPi 1'09.438 0.398 5 31
Olivier Pla
Pipo Derani
Mike Conway DPi Cadillac DPi 1'09.772 0.732 6 10
Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
Brendon Hartley DPi Acura DPi 1'09.858 0.818 7 02
Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn
Ryan Hunter-Reay DPi Cadillac DPi 1'10.307 1.267 8 18
Dwight Merriman
Ryan Dalziel
Christian Rasmussen LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'11.656 2.616 9 81 Henrik Hedman
Juan Pablo Montoya
Sebastian Montoya LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'11.987 2.947 10 20
Dennis Andersen
Anders Fjordbach
Fabio Scherer LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'11.991 2.951 11 8
John Farano
Louis Deletraz
Rui Andrade LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'12.132 3.092 12 11
Steven Thomas
Josh Pierson
Tristan Nunez LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'12.254 3.214 13 52
Ben Keating
Mikkel Jensen
Scott Huffaker LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'14.894 5.854 14 74
Gar Robinson
Felipe Fraga
Kay van Berlo LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'15.569 6.529 15 36
Jarett Andretti
Gabby Chaves
Josh Burdon LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'15.798 6.758 16 30 Ari Balogh
Garett Grist
Nolan Siegel LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'16.260 7.220 17 13 Orey Fidani
Matthew Bell
Lars Kern LMP3 Duqueine D08 1'16.321 7.281 18 33
Joao Barbosa
Malthe Jakobsen
Nicolas Pino LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'16.560 7.520 19 38 Daniel Goldburg
Cameron Shields
Tyler Maxson LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'17.445 8.405 20 76 Anthony Mantella
Kyle Marcelli
Josh Sarchet LMP3 Duqueine D08 1'17.793 8.753 21 54 Jon Bennett
Colin Braun
George Kurtz LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'18.107 9.067 22 14
Jack Hawksworth
Ben Barnicoat
Kyle Kirkwood GTD PRO Lexus RC F GT3 1'18.912 9.872 23 25
Connor de Phillippi
John Edwards
Jesse Krohn GTD PRO BMW M4 GT3 1'19.557 10.517 24 3
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
Nick Catsburg GTD PRO Corvette C8.R GTD 1'19.718 10.678 25 12
Frankie Montecalvo
Aaron Telitz
Richard Heistand GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'19.853 10.813 26 1
Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
Erik Johansson GTD BMW M4 GT3 1'19.859 10.819 27 62
Daniel Serra
Davide Rigon
James Calado GTD PRO Ferrari 488 GT3 1'20.038 10.998 28 23
Ross Gunn
Alex Riberas
Tom Gamble GTD PRO Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'20.078 11.038 29 9
Matt Campbell
Mathieu Jaminet
Felipe Nasr GTD PRO Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'20.175 11.135 30 57
Russell Ward
Philip Ellis
Marvin Dienst GTD Mercedes AMG GT3 1'20.189 11.149 31 32
Mike Skeen
Stevan McAleer
Dirk Muller GTD Mercedes AMG GT3 1'20.204 11.164 32 47
Roberto Lacorte
Giorgio Sernagiotto
Ulysse De GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 1'20.269 11.229 33 21 Simon Mann
Luis Perez Companc
Toni Vilander GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 1'20.292 11.252 34 96
Robby Foley
Bill Auberlen
Michael Dinan GTD BMW M4 GT3 1'20.299 11.259 35 16 Ryan Hardwick
Zacharie Robichon
Jan Heylen GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'20.311 11.271 36 79
Maximilian Buhk
Mikael Grenier
Maximillian Goetz GTD PRO Mercedes AMG GT3 1'20.439 11.399 37 70 Brendan Iribe
Jordan Lee Pepper
Sebastian Priaulx GTD McLaren 720S GT3 1'20.659 11.619 38 27
Roman De Angelis
Maxime Martin
Ian James GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'20.672 11.632 39 39
Robert Megennis
Corey Lewis
Jeff Westphal GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'20.675 11.635 40 42
Jaden Conwright
Marco Holzer
Don Yount GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'20.723 11.683 41 66 Kyffin Simpson
Till Bechtolsheimer
Mario Farnbacher GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'20.785 11.745 42 99
Rob Ferriol
Katherine Legge
Nicholas Boulle GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'21.727 12.687 43 44
John Potter
Andy Lally
Spencer Pumpelly GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 View full results
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