Sebring 12 Hours: Taylor keeps Penske on top in FP4
Ricky Taylor kept the Penske-Acura team on top with the fastest time in the final practice session for the Sebring 12 Hours on Friday morning.
#7 Acura Team Penske Acura DPi, P: Helio Castroneves, Ricky Taylor, Graham Rahal
Art Fleischmann
Taylor posted a lap of 1m47.076s in the #7 Acura ARX-05 DPi, beating the benchmark established by teammate Helio Castroneves in first practice on Thursday morning by a little under two tenths.
It left him 0.436s clear of his nearest challenger, which was Pipo Derani in the #22 ESM Nissan DPi.
Patricio O'Ward put the #38 Performance Tech Oreca LMP2 an impressive third, a further three tenths back, ahead of the best of the Joest-run Mazda DPis, the #55 of Jonathan Bomarito.
Olivier Pla made it two ESM entries in the top five, one place clear of Felipe Nasr in the best of the Cadillac DPis, the #31 Action Express Racing machine.
Penske's second car, the #6 Acura, ended up ninth in the hands of Juan Pablo Montoya, 1.868s off the pace, while the #77 Mazda that topped Thursday night practice was 10th with Rene Rast at the wheel.
BMW took a one-two in the GT Le Mans class, with Connor de Phillippi setting the pace in the #25 BMW M8 with a best time of 1m56.566s ahead of Jesse Krohn in the #24 machine.
De Phillippi's time was almost a second up on the best lap in class recorded on Thursday.
Laurens Vanthoor and Nick Tandy put the works Porsche 911 RSRs third and fourth in class ahead of the best of the Ford GTs, driven by Sebastien Bourdais.
The GT Daytona class was headed by the #29 Land Motorsport Audi R8 LMS of Christopher Mies, who set a 1m59.130s to head Daniel Serra in the #51 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GT3 by four tenths.
Practice four results:
Pos. | No. | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Graham Rahal Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 1'47.076 | |
2 | 22 | Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek Nicolas Lapierre |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'47.512 | 0.436 |
3 | 38 | James French Kyle Masson Patricio O'Ward |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'47.861 | 0.785 |
4 | 55 | Harry Tincknell Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'48.220 | 1.144 |
5 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel Olivier Pla |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'48.346 | 1.270 |
6 | 31 | Mike Conway Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'48.744 | 1.668 |
7 | 54 | Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'48.832 | 1.756 |
8 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Chris Miller Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'48.920 | 1.844 |
9 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 1'48.944 | 1.868 |
10 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis René Rast Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'49.106 | 2.030 |
11 | 52 | Gustavo Yacaman Roberto Gonzalez Sebastian Saavedra |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'49.116 | 2.040 |
12 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Ryan Hunter-Reay Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'49.129 | 2.053 |
13 | 90 | Matt McMurry Tristan Vautier Eddie Cheever III |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'49.220 | 2.144 |
14 | 32 | Paul di Resta Alex Brundle Phil Hanson |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'49.304 | 2.228 |
15 | 85 | Simon Trummer Nelson Panciatici Robert Alon |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'49.528 | 2.452 |
16 | 5 | Christian Fittipaldi Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'50.842 | 3.766 |
17 | 25 | Bill Auberlen Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTLM | 1'56.566 | 9.490 |
18 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn Nick Catsburg |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTLM | 1'56.805 | 9.729 |
19 | 912 | Gianmaria Bruni Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'56.822 | 9.746 |
20 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'57.031 | 9.955 |
21 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Müller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'57.125 | 10.049 |
22 | 62 | James Calado Toni Vilander Alessandro Pier Guidi |
GTLM | Ferrari 488 GTE | 1'57.244 | 10.168 |
23 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'57.290 | 10.214 |
24 | 4 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'57.873 | 10.797 |
25 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'57.911 | 10.835 |
26 | 29 | Alessio Picariello Christopher Mies Sheldon Van Der Linde |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 1'59.130 | 12.054 |
27 | 51 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda Daniel Serra |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'59.567 | 12.491 |
28 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'59.889 | 12.813 |
29 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen Robert Renauer Mathieu Jaminet |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'00.097 | 13.021 |
30 | 64 | Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo Bill Sweedler |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'00.212 | 13.136 |
31 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Luca Stolz |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'00.326 | 13.250 |
32 | 48 | Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'00.499 | 13.423 |
33 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann Philipp Frommenwiler |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'00.518 | 13.442 |
34 | 44 | Andy Lally Andrew Davis John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 2'00.579 | 13.503 |
35 | 69 | Ryan Eversley Tom Dyer Chad Gilsinger |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'00.589 | 13.513 |
36 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette Alessandro Balzan |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'00.919 | 13.843 |
37 | 73 | Jörg Bergmeister Tim Pappas Patrick Lindsey |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'01.099 | 14.023 |
38 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth Sean Rayhall |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'01.174 | 14.098 |
39 | 75 | Kenny Habul Thomas Jäger Mikael Grenier |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'01.276 | 14.200 |
40 | 36 | Marc Miller Kuno Wittmer Till Bechtolsheimer |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'02.502 | 15.426 |
41 | 96 | Don Yount Markus Palttala Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 2'03.834 | 16.758 |
42 | 71 | Kenton Koch Loris Spinelli JC Perez |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'04.025 | 16.949 |
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