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The Japanese star who has amassed two wins and a runner-up finish in his three outings in the season opening IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round, turned a 1min35.470sec in Action Express Racing’s Ally Cadillac DPi-V.R, which will only be competing at the four Michelin Endurance Cup races this year.
It’s full-time sister car, the #31 Whelen Engineering AXR car was second in the hands of Mike Conway, ahead of Ricky Taylor in the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura.
Marcus Ericsson flirted with the limits of his #02 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac but kept it off the wall to go fourth fastest.
Nico Muller was again fast in the High Class Racing Oreca, topping the LMP2 class ahead of Ed Jones’ G-Drive with APR entry and Devlin DeFrancesco in the DragonSpeed car he is sharing with Colton Herta, Pato O’Ward and Eric Lux.
Felipe Fraga led LMP3 for Riley Motorsports, leading a Ligier 1-2-3, with Garett Grist of Performance Tech Motorsports barely a tenth slower and Joao Barbosa third for Sean Creech Motorsport.
Trenton Estep had a shunt on the Forty7 Motorsport car’s sixth lap that prevented him from rejoining the session.
Jack Hawksworth headed up GTD Pro for Vasser Sullivan Racing, his Lexus RC F completing just three laps before the track conditions deteriorated. Daniel Juncadella and Dirk Muller slotted the Proton Mercedes-AMG GT3s into second and third, ahead of the two Corvette C8.Rs which were split by Sheldon van der Linde in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW M4.
Winward Racing led GTD, Mikael Grenier proving the fastest of the bunch ahead of Maxi Goetz (Alegra Motorsports Benz) and Patrick Gallagher in the Crucial Motorsports McLaren 720S.
Third practice begins at 7.15pm local (Eastern) time and will last until 9.00pm.
Practice results:
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 48 |
| DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'35.470 | |
2 | 31 |
| DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'36.964 | 1.494 |
3 | 20 |
Nico Mueller | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'37.012 | 1.542 |
4 | 68 |
Oliver Rasmussen | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'37.137 | 1.667 |
5 | 81 |
| LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'37.554 | 2.084 |
6 | 29 |
Murry Dylan | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'37.632 | 2.162 |
7 | 22 |
| LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'38.378 | 2.908 |
8 | 69 |
Tijmen van | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'38.952 | 3.482 |
9 | 8 |
Rui Pinto | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'39.956 | 4.486 |
10 | 11 |
Thomas Steven | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'41.185 | 5.715 |
11 | 74 |
| LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'43.203 | 7.733 |
12 | 38 |
Dan Goldburg Hikaru Abe Nicolas Pino | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'43.347 | 7.877 |
13 | 33 |
Malthe Jakobsen Seb Priaulx | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'44.248 | 8.778 |
14 | 13 |
| LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'44.744 | 9.274 |
15 | 54 |
| LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'45.407 | 9.937 |
16 | 6 |
Efrin Castro Ori Ayrton | LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'46.091 | 10.621 |
17 | 57 |
| GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'46.577 | 11.107 |
18 | 28 |
Linus Lundqvist Maximillian Goetz | GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'46.835 | 11.365 |
19 | 59 |
Lance Bergstein Jon Miller | GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1'46.843 | 11.373 |
20 | 12 |
| GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'47.010 | 11.540 |
21 | 98 |
David Pittard | GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'47.189 | 11.719 |
22 | 70 |
Brendan Iribe | GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1'47.264 | 11.794 |
23 | 21 |
Mann Simon | GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'47.384 | 11.914 |
24 | 39 |
| GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'47.600 | 12.130 |
25 | 44 |
| GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'47.916 | 12.446 |
26 | 64 |
| GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'47.975 | 12.505 |
27 | 96 |
Michael Dinan | GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'48.080 | 12.610 |
28 | 47 |
| GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'48.110 | 12.640 |
29 | 71 |
LLarena Mateo | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'48.455 | 12.985 |
30 | 14 |
| GTD PRO | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'48.725 | 13.255 |
31 | 99 |
Rob Ferriol | GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'48.828 | 13.358 |
32 | 10 |
| DPi | Acura DPi | 1'48.852 | 13.382 |
33 | 02 |
| DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'49.000 | 13.530 |
34 | 7 |
Antoine Doquin | LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'49.180 | 13.710 |
35 | 27 |
Tom Gamble | GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'49.211 | 13.741 |
36 | 97 |
| GTD PRO | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'49.639 | 14.169 |
37 | 15 |
| GTD PRO | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'49.680 | 14.210 |
38 | 42 |
Benja Hites | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'50.246 | 14.776 |
39 | 3 |
| GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 1'50.381 | 14.911 |
40 | 19 |
John Megrue | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'50.521 | 15.051 |
41 | 18 |
Dwight Merriman | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'51.190 | 15.720 |
42 | 24 |
| GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'51.357 | 15.887 |
43 | 4 |
| GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 1'51.464 | 15.994 |
44 | 32 |
| GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'53.715 | 18.245 |
45 | 62 |
| GTD PRO | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'53.829 | 18.359 |
46 | 5 |
| DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'54.631 | 19.161 |
47 | 66 |
Kyffin Simpson | GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'55.702 | 20.232 |
48 | 26 |
Nolan Siegel Charles Crews Ugo De | LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'58.318 | 22.848 |
49 | 75 |
| GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'58.544 | 23.074 |
50 | 2 |
| GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'17.295 | 41.825 |
51 | 63 |
| GTD PRO | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'22.014 | 46.544 |
52 | 01 |
| DPi | Cadillac DPi | 0.000 | |
53 | 9 |
| GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 0.000 | |
54 | 16 |
| GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 0.000 | |
55 | 23 |
| GTD PRO | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 0.000 | |
56 | 25 |
| GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 0.000 | |
57 | 34 |
Kyle Washington | GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 0.000 | |
58 | 36 |
Josh Burdon | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 0.000 | |
59 | 52 |
Scott Huffaker | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 0.000 | |
60 | 60 |
| DPi | Acura DPi | 0.000 | |
61 | 79 |
Julien Andlauer | GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 0.000 | |
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