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IMSA Watkins Glen 240
Watkins Glen 240 IMSA: Pla leads wet practice
Very wet opening practice for tomorrow’s 2hrs40min race at Watkins Glen for the saw Meyer Shank Racing’s Acura top the times in the hands of Olivier Pla.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jul 2, 2021, 9:14 AM
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Just six days after the MSR Acura ARX-05 qualified on pole for the Six Hours of The Glen, Pla again ensured the car was fastest around the 3.4-mile roadcourse, but this time with a lap some 18sec slower due to heavy rain.
In the dying minutes, Pla turned a 1min48.813sec, 0.14sec faster than Renger van der Zande’s best effort in the Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R which had earlier sustained rear end damage when Kevin Magnussen spun, bringing out one of three red flags.
The other two were caused by last week’s winner Mazda RT24-P grinding to a halt on its out lap, and Jarett Andretti having an off in Andretti Autosport’s LMP3 entry.
Ricky Taylor was the last of the DPi drivers to pass the checkered flag, the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura clocking third fastest albeit half a second off the MSR team’s equivalent.
Felipe Nasr was fourth in the Action Express Racing Caddy ahead of Harry Tincknell in the Mazda and Loic Duval in the JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac.
Tower Motorsports’ Gabriel Aubry was fastest in LMP2 by a full second, ahead of Mikkel Jensen in the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports entry.
Andretti’s grassy moment notwithstanding, Oliver Askew was fastest of the LMP3 runners, 0.4sec ahead of Riley Motorsports’ #91 car piloted by Dylan Murry and 0.75 ahead of Felipe Fraga in the second Riley machine.
Nick Tandy led the three-car GT Le Mans field for Corvette Racing.
A Six Hours of The Glen winner who shone in these wet conditions was Robby Foley who led the GT Daytona runners in Turner Motorsports’ BMW M6, half a second ahead of Aaron Telitz in the #14 Lexus RC F of Vasser Sullivan Racing.
Mario Farnbacher’s Acura NSX was next up, ahead of Jeff Westphal in the Audi R8 of Carbahn Peregrine Racing.
That was the sole practice session for this race, as qualifying will commence at 5.40pm local (Eastern) time today.
Cla Driver Class Chassis Laps Time Gap 1 Dane Cameron
Olivier Pla DPi Acura DPi 12 1'48.813 2
Renger van der Zande
Kevin Magnussen DPi Cadillac DPi 14 1'48.953 0.140 3
Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque DPi Acura DPi 18 1'49.305 0.492 4
Felipe Nasr
Pipo Derani DPi Cadillac DPi 9 1'49.811 0.998 5
Oliver Jarvis
Harry Tincknell DPi Mazda DPi 20 1'49.991 1.178 6
Tristan Vautier
Loic Duval DPi Cadillac DPi 16 1'52.793 3.980 7
John Farano
Gabriel Aubry LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 8 1'56.588 7.775 8
Ben Keating
Mikkel Jensen LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 18 1'57.666 8.853 9
Thomas Steven
Tristan Nunez LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 14 1'57.758 8.945 10
Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy GTLM Corvette C8.R 14 1'58.913 10.100 11
Jarett Andretti
Oliver Askew LMP3 Ligier JS P320 12 1'59.440 10.627 12
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor GTLM Corvette C8.R 14 1'59.647 10.834 13
Jim Cox
Dylan Murry LMP3 Ligier JS P320 15 1'59.843 11.030 14
Gar Robinson
Felipe Fraga LMP3 Ligier JS P320 20 2'00.188 11.375 15
Jon Bennett
Colin Braun LMP3 Ligier JS P320 17 2'00.274 11.461 16
Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley GTD BMW M6 GT3 14 2'02.785 13.972 17 Theodor Olsen
Dominic Cicero LMP3 Ligier JS P320 13 2'03.033 14.220 18 Aaron Telitz
Jack Hawksworth GTD Lexus RC F GT3 12 2'03.348 14.535 19 Jeff Kingsley
Mario Farnbacher GTD Acura NSX GT3 17 2'03.475 14.662 20
Richard Heistand
Jeff Westphal GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 17 2'04.211 15.398 21
Cooper MacNeil
Matt Campbell GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 17 2'04.690 15.877 22
Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 18 2'04.719 15.906 23
Frankie Montecalvo
Zach Veach GTD Lexus RC F GT3 13 2'04.863 16.050 24
Michael de Quesada
Daniel Morad GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 15 2'05.906 17.093 25
Rasmus Lindh
Mateo Llarena LMP3 Ligier JS P320 6 2'07.592 18.779 26
Rob Ferriol
Katherine Legge GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 16 2'07.797 18.984 27
Roman De Angelis
Ross Gunn GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 3 2'09.080 20.267 28
Till Bechtolsheimer
Marc Miller GTD Acura NSX GT3 16 2'12.566 23.753 29
Mikhail Goikhberg
Franck Perera GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 15 2'13.218 24.405 30
Guy Cosmo
Shane Lewis GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 2 0.000 View full results
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