Watkins Glen IMSA: Mazda leads wet-but-drying practice

The Mazda Team Joest driver lapped the 11-turn 3.4-mile course in 1min43.279sec to beat Will Owen’s best in the Juncos Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R by 3.459sec. Renger van der Zande was next up in the Wayne Taylor Racing Caddy followed by the second Mazda steered by Olivier Pla.

Simon Trummer, who suffered an off yesterday, today beat JDC Miller Cadillac teammate Misha Goikhberg to fifth fastest, while Dane Cameron headed up Acura Team Penske’s effort but wasn’t lapping in the drier conditions at the end of th session.

Another team to take it easy in this session was Action Express Racing, whose Cadillacs turned only a total of 11 laps, compared with the 25 of the lead Mazda.

In GT Le Mans, Laurens Vanthoor and Patrick Pilet held sway in the two Porsche 911 RSRs until the dying moments when John Edwards took advantage of the dry track to slot his RLL BMW M8 into second place.

Richard Westbrook was fastest of the Ford GT drivers in fourth, ahead of the two Corvette C7.Rs.

In GT Daytona, Jack Hawksworth made a late jump to the top in his AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F, beating Parker Chase’s impressive effort in the Starworks Motorsport Audi R8 by just under 0.3sec, as open-wheel ace Aaron Telitz put both Lexus cars in the top three.

Christopher Mies was fourth in the Montaplast by Land Audi, while Corey Lewis turned the fastest Lamborghini lap for Paul Miller Racing, and Scott Hargrove was the fastest of the Porsche 911 GT3R runners.

Qualifying starts at 11.35am local (Eastern) time.

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez Timo Bernhard	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'43.279			118.514
2	Will Owen Rene Binder	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'46.738	3.459	3.459	114.673
3	Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'46.909	3.630	0.171	114.490
4	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell Olivier Pla	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'47.126	3.847	0.217	114.258
5	Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson Chris Miller	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'47.815	4.536	0.689	113.528
6	Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier Juan Piedrahita	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'48.421	5.142	0.606	112.893
7	Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron	DPi	Acura DPi	1'49.506	6.227	1.085	111.775
8	Joao Barbosa Mike Conway Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'50.870	7.591	1.364	110.400
9	Ricky Taylor Helio Castroneves	DPi	Acura DPi	1'52.290	9.011	1.420	109.003
10	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'54.280	11.001	1.990	107.105
11	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'54.842	11.563	0.562	106.581
12	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'54.915	11.636	0.073	106.514
13	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	1'55.024	11.745	0.109	106.413
14	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'55.184	11.905	0.160	106.265
15	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'55.362	12.083	0.178	106.101
16	Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'55.431	12.152	0.069	106.037
17	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth Philipp Frommenwiler	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'57.445	14.166	2.014	104.219
18	Parker Chase Ryan Dalziel Mike Skeen	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'57.719	14.440	0.274	103.976
19	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	1'57.895	14.616	0.176	103.821
20	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'57.990	14.711	0.095	103.738
21	Christopher Mies Richard Feller Daniel Morad	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'58.729	15.450	0.739	103.092
22	Felipe Nasr Eric Curran Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'58.943	15.664	0.214	102.906
23	Bryan Sellers Ryan Hardwick Corey Lewis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'59.002	15.723	0.059	102.855
24	Scott Hargrove Zacharie Robichon Lars Kern	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'59.107	15.828	0.105	102.765
25	Marc Miller Marco Seefried Dirk Werner	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'59.360	16.081	0.253	102.547
26	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman Justin Marks	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	2'00.428	17.149	1.068	101.637
27	Patrick Lindsey Patrick Long Nicholas Boulle	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'01.044	17.765	0.616	101.120
28	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'04.010	20.731	2.966	98.702
29	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Dillon Machavern	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	2'04.020	20.741	0.010	98.694
30	Brandon Gdovic Don Yount Jacob Eidson	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'05.957	22.678	1.937	97.176
31	Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen Ana Beatriz	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	2'05.973	22.694	0.016	97.164
32	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander Jeff Westphal	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	2'06.106	22.827	0.133	97.061
33	Andrew Davis Alex Riberas Will Hardeman	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	0.000
34	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen Felipe Fraga	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	0.000
35	Cameron Cassels Andrew Evans Kyle Masson	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	0.000
36	Matt McMurry Gabriel Aubry Eric Lux	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	0.000
37	Jon Bennett Colin Braun Romain Dumas	DPi	Nissan DPi	0.000
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