Petit Le Mans: CORE autosport on top in FP2

Braun’s CORE autosport Oreca, which he will share with Jon Bennett and Romain Dumas, was 0.137sec ahead of this morning’s pace-setting car, the #5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R, in which Vautier is subbing for the injured Joao Barbosa.

Montoya was third for Acura Team Penske, but over a quarter-second adrift of Braun, while the Mazda RT24-Ps of Jonathan Bomarito and Oliver Jarvis were a mere one-hundredth of a second behind.

The second Acura ARX-05 of Ricky Taylor claimed P6 ahead of the ESM Nissans of Norman Nato and Timo Bernhard.

Jan Magnussen snuck the #3 Corvette C7.R ahead of Richard Westbrook’s Ford GT by hundredths of a second to head GT Le Mans, with Marcel Fassler – who will serve as third driver for both the #3 and #4 Corvette – claiming third fastest.

Earl Bamber was the quickest of the Porsche 911 RSR drivers, ahead of John Edwards, who’ll share his BMW M8 with not only Jesse Krohn as usual, but also Supercars star Chaz Mostert.

Jeroen Bleekemolen sent the Riley Mercedes AMG GT to the top of GT Daytona but was a barely a tenth quicker than Dillon Machavern in the Turner Motorsports BMW M6 and Christopher Mies in the Land Motorsport Audi R8.

Alvaro Parente slotted the Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX into fourth ahed of Bryan Sellers’ Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan and Kule Marcelli in the quicker of the two Lexus RC Fs.

Third practice is a 90min session beginning at 7.30pm local (Eastern) time.

IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship FP2 

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	54	Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun	P	ORECA LMP2	38	1'11.669			127.587
2	5	Christian Fittipaldi Filipe Albuquerque Tristan Vautier	P	Cadillac DPi	23	1'11.806	0.137	0.137	127.343
3	6	Juan Pablo Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron	P	Acura DPi	30	1'11.950	0.281	0.144	127.088
4	55	Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito Marino Franchitti	P	Mazda DPi	34	1'12.022	0.353	0.072	126.961
5	77	Lucas di Grassi Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	P	Mazda DPi	28	1'12.034	0.365	0.012	126.940
6	7	Helio Castroneves Graham Rahal Ricky Taylor	P	Acura DPi	35	1'12.158	0.489	0.124	126.722
7	2	Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel Norman Nato	P	Nissan DPi	34	1'12.266	0.597	0.108	126.533
8	22	Timo Bernhard Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek	P	Nissan DPi	35	1'12.490	0.821	0.224	126.142
9	10	Jordan Taylor Ryan Hunter-Reay Renger van der Zande	P	Cadillac DPi	35	1'12.575	0.906	0.085	125.994
10	31	Eric Curran Gabby Chaves Felipe Nasr	P	Cadillac DPi	34	1'13.052	1.383	0.477	125.171
11	52	Jose Gutierrez Sebastian Saavedra Will Owen	P	ORECA LMP2	38	1'13.234	1.565	0.182	124.860
12	85	Simon Trummer Robert Alon Devlin DeFrancesco	P	ORECA LMP2	43	1'13.267	1.598	0.033	124.804
13	99	Mikhail Goikhberg Chris Miller Stephen Simpson	P	ORECA LMP2	36	1'13.509	1.840	0.242	124.393
14	38	James French Nicholas Boulle Kyle Masson	P	ORECA LMP2	33	1'13.966	2.297	0.457	123.624
15	3	Jan Magnussen Marcel Fassler Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	32	1'18.300	6.631	4.334	116.782
16	67	Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	29	1'18.337	6.668	0.037	116.726
17	4	Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	33	1'18.349	6.680	0.012	116.709
18	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	30	1'18.406	6.737	0.057	116.624
19	24	John Edwards Jesse Krohn Chaz Mostert	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	35	1'18.539	6.870	0.133	116.426
20	66	Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	31	1'18.542	6.873	0.003	116.422
21	62	Toni Vilander Andrea Bertolini Miguel Molina	GTLM	Ferrari 488 GTE	37	1'18.673	7.004	0.131	116.228
22	25	Bill Auberlen Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	28	1'18.860	7.191	0.187	115.952
23	911	Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	42	1'19.374	7.705	0.514	115.201
24	33	Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Luca Stolz	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	32	1'20.506	8.837	1.132	113.582
25	96	Don Yount Markus Palttala Dillon Machavern	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	38	1'20.628	8.959	0.122	113.410
26	29	Daniel Morad Christopher Mies Sheldon Van	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	33	1'20.652	8.983	0.024	113.376
27	86	Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	27	1'20.884	9.215	0.232	113.051
28	48	Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Madison Snow	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	36	1'21.042	9.373	0.158	112.830
29	14	Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann Philipp Frommenwiler	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	33	1'21.104	9.435	0.062	112.744
30	73	Wolf Henzler Tim Pappas Spencer Pumpelly	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	29	1'21.127	9.458	0.023	112.712
31	93	Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach Mario Farnbacher	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	28	1'21.375	9.706	0.248	112.369
32	71	Maximilian Buhk JC Perez Felipe Fraga	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	39	1'21.532	9.863	0.157	112.152
33	58	Patrick Long Christina Nielsen Robert Renauer	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	36	1'21.588	9.919	0.056	112.075
34	44	Andy Lally Andrew Davis John Potter	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	36	1'21.654	9.985	0.066	111.985
35	64	Matteo Cressoni Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	35	1'21.706	10.037	0.052	111.913
36	15	David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth Sean Rayhall	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	34	1'21.898	10.229	0.192	111.651
37	63	Daniel Serra Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	34	1'22.073	10.404	0.175	111.413