Watkins Glen IMSA: Jarvis lands brilliant pole for Mazda

Jarvis’ 1min29.639sec which landed Mazda’s third pole of the season, beat the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship track record for the class by two seconds, as four cars ducked under the 90sec barrier.

Ricky Taylor in the second Acura was just 0.066sec slower than teammate Cameron while Harry Tincknell in the second Mazda was a mere 0.055sec further back.

By comparison to that quartet, the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs were left gasping, and it was Renger van der Zande in the Wayne Taylor Racing machine who emerged the best of the GM cars, fifth but over one second adrift of P1. Filipe Albuquerque beat Felipe Nasr in the all-Action Express Racing battle for sixth, by just 0.007sec.

Gabriel Aubry was an impressive eighth fastest overall in the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca to outpace the two JDC Miller Motorsports Cadillacs and his only LMP2 rival, Kyle Masson in the Performance Tech Motorsports machine.

GT Le Mans

 

Photo by: Marc Fleury

Reigning GT Le Mans class champion Antonio Garcia produced an outstanding lap in the #3 Corvette C7.R he shares with Jan Magnussen to beat the Ford GTs of Richard Westbrook and Joey Hand by a clear margin, even before Hand got pinged for a track limit violation that saw him demoted to fifth. Westbrook was 0.317sec off Garcia’s 1min40.799sec benchmark.

Hand’s demise left Tommy Milner in the #4 Corvette in third, albeit half a second slower than his teammate, and only 0.01sec faster than John Edwards’ well-driven BMW M8.

The Porsche 911 RSRs of Nick Tandy and Laurens Vanthoor brought up the rear, 0.75 and 1.4sec slower respectively.

GT Daytona

 

Photo by: Jake Galstad / LAT Images

The two Meyer Shank Racing-run Acura NSXs locked out the front row of the 16-car GTD class with Trent Hindman setting a 1min44.978sec, three tenths clear of Christina Nielsen in the Heinricher Racing machine.

Dillon Machavern set the fastest opening sector in Turner Motorsports’ venerable BMW M6 but bled away six tenths in the middle sector to wind up half a second off the ultimate pace, and just 0.089sec ahead of Jeff Westphal in the Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488.

Ricky Feller was the fastest of the Audi R8s by a huge margin, the Montaplast by Land Motorsport entry grabbing fifth ahead of the quickest Porsche 911 GT3R, the Pfaff Motorsports machine of Zacharie Robichon.

Ben Keating in Riley Motorsports’ Mercedes AMG GT was seventh but will have been alarmed to wind up almost a second slower than P1. Richard Heistand was eighth in the AIM Vasser Sullivan-run Lexus RC F, but teammate Frankie Montecalvo missed the session as the #12 car had an engine change.

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez Timo Bernhard	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'29.639			136.548
2	Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron	DPi	Acura DPi	1'29.862	0.223	0.223	136.209
3	Ricky Taylor Helio Castroneves	DPi	Acura DPi	1'29.928	0.289	0.066	136.109
4	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell Olivier Pla	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'29.983	0.344	0.055	136.026
5	Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'30.758	1.119	0.775	134.864
6	Joao Barbosa Mike Conway Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'31.170	1.531	0.412	134.255
7	Felipe Nasr Eric Curran Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'31.177	1.538	0.007	134.244
8	Matt McMurry Gabriel Aubry Eric Lux	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'31.735	2.096	0.558	133.428
9	Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier Juan Piedrahita	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'32.316	2.677	0.581	132.588
10	Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson Chris Miller	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'32.409	2.770	0.093	132.455
11	Cameron Cassels Andrew Evans Kyle Masson	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'32.459	2.820	0.050	132.383
12	Will Owen Rene Binder	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'33.134	3.495	0.675	131.424
13	Jon Bennett Colin Braun Romain Dumas	DPi	Nissan DPi	1'33.466	3.827	0.332	130.957
14	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'40.799	11.160	7.333	121.430
15	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	1'41.116	11.477	0.317	121.049
16	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'41.291	11.652	0.175	120.840
17	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'41.301	11.662	0.010	120.828
18	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	1'41.304	11.665	0.003	120.824
19	Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'41.414	11.775	0.110	120.693
20	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'41.545	11.906	0.131	120.538
21	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'42.206	12.567	0.661	119.758
22	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman Justin Marks	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'44.978	15.339	2.772	116.596
23	Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen Ana Beatriz	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'45.295	15.656	0.317	116.245
24	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Dillon Machavern	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'45.506	15.867	0.211	116.012
25	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander Jeff Westphal	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'45.595	15.956	0.089	115.915
26	Christopher Mies Richard Feller Daniel Morad	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'45.597	15.958	0.002	115.912
27	Scott Hargrove Zacharie Robichon Lars Kern	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'45.842	16.203	0.245	115.644
28	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen Felipe Fraga	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	1'45.961	16.322	0.119	115.514
29	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth Philipp Frommenwiler	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'46.066	16.427	0.105	115.400
30	Marc Miller Marco Seefried Dirk Werner	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'46.100	16.461	0.034	115.363
31	Brandon Gdovic Don Yount Jacob Eidson	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'46.388	16.749	0.288	115.051
32	Bryan Sellers Ryan Hardwick Corey Lewis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'46.620	16.981	0.232	114.800
33	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'47.041	17.402	0.421	114.349
34	Parker Chase Ryan Dalziel Mike Skeen	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'48.041	18.402	1.000	113.290
35	Patrick Lindsey Patrick Long Nicholas Boulle	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'48.923	19.284	0.882	112.373
36	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	0.000
37	Andrew Davis Alex Riberas Will Hardeman	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	0.000
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