Petit Le Mans IMSA: Tincknell puts Mazda on top in FP2
Ahead of Mazda Motorsports’ final race with the RT24-P, Harry Tincknell left it until the dying seconds to put the #55 on top ahead of title contender Felipe Nasr of Action Express Racing.
Tincknell's 69.356sec effort around the 2.54-mile course was enough to nudge aside Nasr’s Cadillac DPi-V.R by a mere 0.044sec, while Sebastien Bourdais also left it late to send JDC Miller-Motorsports into third.
Scott Dixon had a harmless spin in the Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac, but the team’s fulltimer Kevin Magnussen’s best effort was enough to put it ahead of the two Acura ARX-05s.
Mikkel Jensen topped LMP2 for PR1 Mathiasen Motorsport by almost 0.7sec, ahead of Guy Smith of United Autosports, with Ryan Dalziel a further half-tenth adrift in the Era Motorsport entry.
Dylan Murry and Felipe Fraga gave Riley Motorsport’s Ligiers a 1-2 in LMP3 ahead of Josh Skelton in the WIN Autosport Duqueine followed by Niklas Kruetten in the United Autosports LMP3 machine.
Nick Tandy led GTLM in the #4 Corvette C8.R less than a tenth ahead of Kevin Estre in the “extra” WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 RSR, and Matthieu Jaminet in the “regular” 911.
Antonio Garcia, who along with Jordan Taylor is on the cusp of a second straight GT Le Mans title, was fourth in the #3 Corvette ahead of the two BMW M8s, which were nonetheless within a second of the class leader.
Turner Motorsports strong form continued in GT Daytona, with Robby Foley topping the times but only five hundredths ahead of Aaron Telitz in the #14 Lexus RC F and its stablemate #12 RC F driven by Frankie Montecalvo.
Laurens Vanthoor was fourth in the Pfaff Porsche 911 GT3 R, but there was bad news for another Porsche runner, namely Wright Motorsports, when Jan Heylen was sent off the track hard into a wall. The Belgian ace escaped uninjured but there was heavy damage to the car, front and back.
| Cla | Num | Driver | Chassis | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 |  Oliver Jarvis Harry Tincknell  Jonathan Bomarito | Mazda DPi | 1'09.356 | |
| 2 | 31 |  Felipe Nasr Mike Conway Pipo Derani | Cadillac DPi | 1'09.400 | 0.044 |
| 3 | 5 |  Tristan Vautier Loic Duval Sébastien Bourdais | Cadillac DPi | 1'09.571 | 0.215 |
| 4 | 01 |  Renger van der Zande  Kevin Magnussen  Scott Dixon | Cadillac DPi | 1'09.687 | 0.331 |
| 5 | 60 | Dane Cameron Helio Castroneves  Juan Pablo Montoya | Acura DPi | 1'09.774 | 0.418 |
| 6 | 10 | Ricky Taylor  Filipe Albuquerque Alexander Rossi | Acura DPi | 1'10.096 | 0.740 |
| 7 | 48 | Jimmie Johnson  Kamui Kobayashi Simon Pagenaud | Cadillac DPi | 1'10.281 | 0.925 |
| 8 | 52 | Ben Keating Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'11.930 | 2.574 |
| 9 | 22 | Jim McGuire Wayne Boyd Guy Smith | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'12.612 | 3.256 |
| 10 | 18 | Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley Ryan Dalziel | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'12.664 | 3.308 |
| 11 | 11 | Thomas Steven Tristan Nunez Thomas Merrill | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'13.545 | 4.189 |
| 12 | 8 |  John Farano Gabriel Aubry James French | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'15.751 | 6.395 |
| 13 | 91 | Jim Cox Dylan Murry Jeroen Bleekemolen | Ligier JS P320 | 1'16.413 | 7.057 |
| 14 | 74 | Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga  Scott Andrews | Ligier JS P320 | 1'16.434 | 7.078 |
| 15 | 83 | Matthew Bell Naveen Rao Josh Skelton | Duqueine D08 | 1'16.824 | 7.468 |
| 16 | 4 | Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims | Corvette C8.R | 1'16.938 | 7.582 |
| 17 | 97 | Kevin Estre Michael Christensen Frédéric Makowiecki | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | 1'17.020 | 7.664 |
| 18 | 2 |  Niklas Krütten Tom Gamble Andrew Meyrick | Ligier JS P320 | 1'17.095 | 7.739 |
| 19 | 79 | Cooper MacNeil Mathieu Jaminet Matt Campbell | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | 1'17.221 | 7.865 |
| 20 | 3 |  Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg | Corvette C8.R | 1'17.359 | 8.003 |
| 21 | 24 | John Edwards  Jesse Krohn Augusto Farfus | BMW M8 GTE | 1'17.519 | 8.163 |
| 22 | 38 | Dan Goldburg  Rasmus Lindh Malthe Jakobsen | Ligier JS P320 | 1'17.643 | 8.287 |
| 23 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi  Philipp Eng Bruno Spengler | BMW M8 GTE | 1'17.830 | 8.474 |
| 24 | 36 | Jarett Andretti Josh Burdon Oliver Askew | Ligier JS P320 | 1'18.062 | 8.706 |
| 25 | 40 | Todd Archer James Vance Max Hanratty | Duqueine D08 | 1'18.548 | 9.192 |
| 26 | 30 | Ari Balogh Garett Grist Spencer Pigot | Ligier JS P320 | 1'18.775 | 9.419 |
| 27 | 54 | Jon Bennett George Kurtz Colin Braun | Ligier JS P320 | 1'19.287 | 9.931 |
| 28 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Aidan Read | BMW M6 GT3 | 1'19.593 | 10.237 |
| 29 | 14 | Aaron Telitz Jack Hawksworth Kyle Kirkwood | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'19.644 | 10.288 |
| 30 | 12 | Frankie Montecalvo Zach Veach Robert Megennis | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'19.747 | 10.391 |
| 31 | 7 |  Rodrigo Pflucker Mark Kvamme Stefan Rzadzinski | Duqueine D08 | 1'19.996 | 10.640 |
| 32 | 9 | Zacharie Robichon  Laurens Vanthoor Lars Kern | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'20.003 | 10.647 |
| 33 | 1 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'20.052 | 10.696 |
| 34 | 57 | Russell Ward  Philip Ellis Maro Engel | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'20.360 | 11.004 |
| 35 | 19 | Mikhail Goikhberg Franck Perera  Michele Beretta | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'20.578 | 11.222 |
| 36 | 23 | Roman De Angelis Ross Gunn Ian James | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'20.808 | 11.452 |
| 37 | 70 | Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff Ben Barnicoat | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1'20.911 | 11.555 |
| 38 | 44 | John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'20.928 | 11.572 |
| 39 | 42 | Don Yount Jaden Conwright Benja Hites | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 1'20.965 | 11.609 |
| 40 | 32 | Mike Skeen Guy Cosmo Stevan McAleer | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'21.151 | 11.795 |
| 41 | 28 | Daniel Morad Michael de Quesada Daniel Juncadella | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'21.343 | 11.987 |
| 42 | 88 | Rob Ferriol Katherine Legge Andrew Davis | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'22.054 | 12.698 |
| 43 | 16 | Trent Hindman Patrick Long Jan Heylen | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 0.000 | |
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