GTP
On his fifth lap, Filipe Albuquerque in the #10 Acura ARX-06 of Wayne Taylor Racing beat the fastest lap that Meyer Shank Racing’s Acura, driven by Colin Braun, set in the morning session. A 1min35.580sec around the 3.56-mile course put him some 1.6sec ahead of his nearest opposition, which came from the #02 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-LMDh and the two BMW M Hybrid V8s.
Albuquerque then raised the bar to 1min35.320sec, and Earl Bamber’s Cadillac was 0.7sec adrift, but still ahead of teammate Scott Dixon in the #01 sister car.
Both of the CGR Cadillacs were displaced by Blomqvist once the MSR team had overcome issues with a pitlane speedlimiter that wouldn’t release, and he moved up into second behind the Wayne Taylor Racing Andretti Autosport team to complete an Acura 1-2.
This was spoiled by Dixon getting into second place, 0.265sec from top spot, but Simon Pagenaud trimmed the MSR Acura’s deficit down to less than half a tenth before pitting.
His teammate in IMSA and IndyCar, Helio Castroneves, did rather better than that, and moved to the top of the times with a 1min35.210sec with under three minutes to go and backed this up with a 1min35.310sec.
Thus Castroneves led an Acura 1-2 by 0.110sec, he and Albuquerque sharing the three fastest sector times.
That left Dixon’s best Cadillac time some 0.375sec adrift in third, although the six-time IndyCar champion was a similar distance ahead of the fastest of the Porsche Penske 963s, Michael Christensen’s #7 entry.
Bamber was barely half a tenth slower in the second Ganassi Cadillac, ahead of Sheldon van der Linde’s best effort in the quicker BMW, while Marco Wittmann was a further half a second adrift.
The second Porsche 963, shared by Mathieu Jaminet, Dane Cameron and Nick Tandy, turned only nine laps with technical issues that Cameron didn’t wish to share with IMSA Radio, but their late appearance on track was still enough time for Tandy and Jaminet to push the Action Express Racing Cadillac of Jack Aitken down to the bottom.
LMP2
Matthieu Vaxiviere was the first driver in class to bust below the 100sec barrier, setting a 1min39.835sec on his fifth lap in the AF Corse machine, but then Ben Keating in the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports entry went almost half a second quicker.
It took only until his third lap for Mikkel Jensen’s TDS Racing car to trim 0.64sec from that to go fastest, and his 1min38.730sec stood firm as the top time in class for the remainder of the session.
Vaxiviere trimmed a few hundredths from his best to take second, but was still 0.6sec from Jensen, with Keating third. Christian Rasmussen was the fastest of Era Motorsport’s drivers to nab fourth ahead of Scott McLaughlin who again impressed in the Tower Motorsports entry.
LMP3
Felipe Fraga in the #74 Riley Motorsports Ligier which ran only three laps in the first session was the first car to hit the track in the second, and he produced a 1min43.389. However, Gabby Chaves in the Andretti Autosport Ligier eclipsed that with a 1min42.926, and that was the fastest lap for the LMP3 machines.
Former Rolex 24 winner Joao Barbosa left it until the last minute to move the Sean Creech Motorsports car into second, 0.45sec adrift, mere hundredths ahead of Fraga’s former benchmark. The impressive Yu Kanamaru of FastMD Racing was fourth in the fastest of the Duqueine cars.
GTD Pro and GTD
Fabian Schiller moved to the top of the table early on, producing a 1min47.020sec in the SunEnergy1 Mercedes AMG GT3, less than a tenth faster than Parker Thompson’s Lexus RC F run by Vasser Sullivan Racing.
Nicki Thiim in the Magnus Racing Aston Martin Vantage and Russell Ward’s Winward Racing Mercedes were third and fourth at this stage, this quartet all swifter than the fastest GTD Pro cars – the second Lexus driven by Jack Hawksworth and the Heart of Racing Aston piloted by Alex Riberas.
When Ben Barnicoat took over the #14 GTD Pro Lexus, it moved up to shade its sister car by half a tenth, albeit 0.02sec off the SunEnergy1 car.
Luis Perez Companc moved AF Corse’s new Ferrari 296 GT3 into fifth in GTD ahead of Maxi Goetz’s Team Korthoff Motorsports Mercedes, while Mirko Bortolotti’s Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracan was third of the GTD Pro runners.
Practice 3 runs for 90mins on Saturday, starting 11.15am local (Eastern) time.
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 60 |
Tom Blomqvist Colin Braun Helio Castroneves Simon Pagenaud |
GTP | Acura ARX-06 | 35 | 1'35.210 | |
2 | 10 |
Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque Louis Deletraz Brendon Hartley |
GTP | Acura ARX-06 | 37 | 1'35.320 | 0.110 |
3 | 01 |
Sébastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Scott Dixon |
GTP | Cadillac V-LMDh | 33 | 1'35.585 | 0.375 |
4 | 7 |
Matt Campbell Felipe Nasr Michael Christensen |
GTP | Porsche 963 | 35 | 1'35.974 | 0.764 |
5 | 02 |
Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook |
GTP | Cadillac V-LMDh | 41 | 1'36.013 | 0.803 |
6 | 25 |
Connor de Phillippi Nick Yelloly Sheldon Van Der Linde Colton Herta |
GTP | BMW M Hybrid V8 | 50 | 1'36.032 | 0.822 |
7 | 24 |
Philipp Eng Augusto Farfus Marco Wittmann Colton Herta |
GTP | BMW M Hybrid V8 | 43 | 1'36.547 | 1.337 |
8 | 6 |
Mathieu Jaminet Nick Tandy Dane Cameron |
GTP | Porsche 963 | 9 | 1'36.754 | 1.544 |
9 | 31 |
Pipo Derani Alexander Sims Jack Aitken |
GTP | Cadillac V-LMDh | 31 | 1'37.128 | 1.918 |
10 | 11 |
Thomas Steven Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker Rinus van Kalmthout |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 47 | 1'38.730 | 3.520 |
11 | 88 |
François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxiviere Julien Canal Nicklas Nielsen |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 43 | 1'39.341 | 4.131 |
12 | 52 |
Ben Keating Paul-Loup Chatin Alex Quinn Nicolas Lapierre |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 45 | 1'39.372 | 4.162 |
13 | 18 |
Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel Christian Rasmussen Oliver Jarvis |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 43 | 1'39.559 | 4.349 |
14 | 8 |
John Farano Scott McLaughlin Josef Newgarden Kyffin Simpson |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 41 | 1'40.105 | 4.895 |
15 | 04 |
George Kurtz Ben Hanley Matt McMurry Esteban Gutierrez |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 49 | 1'40.140 | 4.930 |
16 | 35 |
François Heriau Giedo van der Garde Josh Pierson Job Van Uitert |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 49 | 1'40.450 | 5.240 |
17 | 20 |
Dennis Andersen Ed Jones Anders Fjordbach Raffaele Marciello |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 46 | 1'40.635 | 5.425 |
18 | 51 |
Eric Lux Devlin DeFrancesco Austin Cindric Pietro Fittipaldi |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 43 | 1'40.809 | 5.599 |
19 | 55 |
Fred Poordad Francesco Pizzi James Allen Giammaria Bruni |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 39 | 1'41.744 | 6.534 |
20 | 36 |
Jarett Andretti Gabby Chaves Dakota Dickerson Rasmus Lindh |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 36 | 1'42.926 | 7.716 |
21 | 33 |
Lance Willsey Joao Barbosa Nicolas Pino Danny Soufi |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 37 | 1'43.375 | 8.165 |
22 | 74 |
Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga Glenn van Berlo Josh Burdon |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 41 | 1'43.389 | 8.179 |
23 | 87 |
Yu Kanamaru James Vance Antonio Serravalle Nicholas Boulle |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 35 | 1'43.820 | 8.610 |
24 | 17 |
Anthony Mantella Wayne Boyd Nico Varrone Thomas Merrill |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 40 | 1'44.290 | 9.080 |
25 | 13 |
Orey Fidani Matthew Bell Lars Kern Moritz Kranz |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 45 | 1'44.600 | 9.390 |
26 | 85 |
Till Bechtolsheimer Tijmen van der Helm Luca Mars Mason Filippi |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 43 | 1'44.882 | 9.672 |
27 | 38 |
John DeAngelis Christopher Allen Cameron Shields Connor Bloum |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 29 | 1'45.468 | 10.258 |
28 | 43 |
Sebastian Alvarez Danial Frost Alex Vogel Guilherme de |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 34 | 1'46.152 | 10.942 |
29 | 75 |
Fabian Schiller Axcil Jefferies |
GTD | Mercedes AMG GT3 | 32 | 1'47.020 | 11.810 |
30 | 14 |
Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat Mike Conway |
GTD PRO | Lexus RC F GT3 | 41 | 1'47.040 | 11.830 |
31 | 12 |
Aaron Telitz Frankie Montecalvo Kyle Kirkwood Parker Thompson |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 44 | 1'47.096 | 11.886 |
32 | 44 |
John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Nicki Thiim |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 40 | 1'47.166 | 11.956 |
33 | 57 |
Russell Ward Philip Ellis Indy Dontje Lucas Auer |
GTD | Mercedes AMG GT3 | 40 | 1'47.335 | 12.125 |
34 | 23 |
Ross Gunn Alex Riberas David Pittard |
GTD PRO | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 33 | 1'47.561 | 12.351 |
35 | 21 |
Mann Simon Luis Perez Companc Miguel Molina Francesco Castellacci |
GTD | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 38 | 1'47.575 | 12.365 |
36 | 32 |
Mike Skeen Mikael Grenier Kenton Koch Maximillian Goetz |
GTD | Mercedes AMG GT3 | 41 | 1'47.575 | 12.365 |
37 | 70 |
Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy Marvin Kirchhofer |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 40 | 1'47.609 | 12.399 |
38 | 93 |
Ashton Harrison Danny Formal Kyle Marcelli Ryan Briscoe |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 31 | 1'47.676 | 12.466 |
39 | 63 |
Andrea Caldarelli Mirko Bortolotti Jordan Lee Pepper Romain Grosjean |
GTD PRO | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 | 40 | 1'47.735 | 12.525 |
40 | 79 |
Cooper MacNeil Daniel Juncadella Jules Gounon Maro Engel |
GTD PRO | Mercedes AMG GT3 | 40 | 1'47.768 | 12.558 |
41 | 27 |
Roman De Angelis Marco Sorensen Ian James Darren Turner |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 38 | 1'47.794 | 12.584 |
42 | 023 |
Onofrio Triarsi Charles Scardina Alessio Rovera Andrea Bertolini |
GTD | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 33 | 1'47.847 | 12.637 |
43 | 62 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra Davide Rigon |
GTD PRO | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 22 | 1'47.921 | 12.711 |
44 | 3 |
Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Tommy Milner |
GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 36 | 1'48.006 | 12.796 |
45 | 47 |
Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco Alessandro Balzan |
GTD | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 34 | 1'48.112 | 12.902 |
46 | 64 |
Ted Giovanis Hugh Plumb Matt Plumb Owen Trinkler |
GTD PRO | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 25 | 1'48.115 | 12.905 |
47 | 66 |
Sheena Monk Katherine Legge Mario Farnbacher Marc Miller |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 41 | 1'48.135 | 12.925 |
48 | 78 |
Mikhail Goikhberg Loris Spinelli Benjamin Hites Marco Mapelli |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 | 38 | 1'48.322 | 13.112 |
49 | 42 |
Don Yount Jaden Conwright Kerong Li Alessio Deledda |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 | 42 | 1'48.381 | 13.171 |
50 | 83 |
Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Doriane Pin |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 | 39 | 1'48.578 | 13.368 |
51 | 96 |
Patrick Gallagher Robby Foley Michael Dinan Jens Klingmann |
GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 34 | 1'48.695 | 13.485 |
52 | 19 |
Raffaele Giammaria Frank Perera Claudio Schiavoni Rolf Ineichen |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 | 39 | 1'48.811 | 13.601 |
53 | 9 |
Klaus Bachler Patrick Pilet Laurens Vanthoor |
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 34 | 1'48.881 | 13.671 |
54 | 1 |
Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis Maxime Martin |
GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 40 | 1'49.028 | 13.818 |
55 | 95 |
Bill Auberlen Chandler Hull Bruno Spengler John Edwards |
GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 43 | 1'49.405 | 14.195 |
56 | 77 |
Alan Brynjolfsson Trent Hindman Max Root Kevin Estre |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 37 | 1'49.453 | 14.243 |
57 | 16 |
Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen Zacharie Robichon Dennis Olsen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 36 | 1'49.599 | 14.389 |
58 | 92 |
David Brule Alec Udell Andrew Davis Jeroen Bleekemolen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 34 | 1'49.701 | 14.491 |
59 | 91 |
Alan Metni Kay van Berlo Jaxon Evans Julien Andlauer |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 40 | 1'49.762 | 14.552 |
60 | 80 |
PJ Hyett Seb Priaulx Gunnar Jeannette Harry Tincknell |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 25 | 1'49.790 | 14.580 |
61 | 53 |
Mark Kvamme Trenton Estep Jan Magnussen Jason Hart |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 43 | 1'49.990 | 14.780 |
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