Laguna Seca IMSA: Taylor leads Montoya in Acura 1-2

Taylor set a superb 1min15.035sec lap in the #7 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 to eclipse Montoya by more than 0.3sec and clinch his first pole position of the year.

Brother Jordan Taylor was fastest of the Cadillacs, slotting the Wayne Taylor Racing DPi-V.R into third ahead of the quicker of the two Mazdas, the #77 driven by Tristan Nunez.

The second RT24-P of local boy Jonathan Bomarito will start sixth, on the outside of Action Express Racing’s faster Cadillac entry, driven by Felipe Nasr. Filipe Albuquerque was seventh in the other AXR Caddy, well clear of the two JDC-Miller Motorsports entries.

Jon Bennett's effort in the CORE autosport Nissan DPi was slower than both of the two LMP2 entries, the quickest of which was the Performance Tech Motorsports Oreca of Kyle Masson.

GT Le Mans

#24 BMW Team RLL BMW M8 GTE, GTLM: Jesse Krohn, John Edwards

Photo by: Richard Dole / LAT Images

Jesse Krohn set a 1min21.557sec lap in the #24 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-run BMW M8 GTE that survived Dirk Muller’s attempts to displace him, the German's Ford GT coming up 0.127sec short.

Krohn’s teammate Blomqvist got to third place, 0.334sec away, before pitting his BMW, while Laurens Vanthoor will start fourth in the #912 Porsche 911 RSR after setting a time 0.385sec from P1.

Ryan Briscoe ran off the road at the Corkscrew on what should have been his best lap in the second Ford, but his previous best was still enough to eclipse both Corvette C7.Rs.

Nick Tandy spun the #911 Porsche out of the Corkscrew and then reversed down the hill so he could rejoin in a safe place without causing any disruption to his rivals. However, he will start last in class.

GT Daytona

#73 Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, GTD: Patrick Long, Patrick Lindsey

Photo by: Charles Bradley

Patrick Lindsey had a nasty off in the Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R with eight minutes to go in the GTD session, and that brought out the red flags.

The #73 car clipped the inside curb at Turn 10, drifted out to the exit curb and then spun across the track where it made heavy contact with a concrete barrier. Lindsey walked to the rescue vehicle unaided but the car appeared that it would be difficult to repair in time for Sunday's race.

At the time the session was stopped, Trent Hindman had just set fastest time in the #86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3, edging Cooper MacNeil’s Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 by 0.055sec, with Zacharie Robichon’s Pfaff Porsche and Robby Foley’s Turner Motorsports BMW M6 GT3 on identical times in third and fourth.

However, the session was reset with four minutes on the clock, and a great final lap by Corey Lewis saw him jump his Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 to the top of the times by 0.101sec. 

Matt Plumb clocked sixth in Compass Racing’s McLaren 720S ahead of the second Acura of Christina Nielsen and the Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Ben Keating.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	7	Ricky Taylor Helio Castroneves	DPi	Acura DPi	1'15.035
2	6	Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya	DPi	Acura DPi	1'15.343	0.308
3	10	Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'15.488	0.453
4	77	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'15.517	0.482
5	31	Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'15.610	0.575
6	55	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'15.728	0.693
7	5	Joao Barbosa Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'15.757	0.722
8	85	Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'16.176	1.141
9	84	Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'16.348	1.313
10	38	Cameron Cassels Kyle Masson	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'16.817	1.782
11	52	Matt McMurry Dalton Kellett	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'17.618	2.583
12	54	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	DPi	Nissan DPi	1'17.661	2.626
13	24	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'21.557	6.522
14	66	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	1'21.684	6.649
15	25	Connor de Phillippi Tom Blomqvist	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'21.891	6.856
16	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'21.942	6.907
17	67	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	1'21.999	6.964
18	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'22.026	6.991
19	4	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'22.161	7.126
20	911	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'22.295	7.260
21	48	Bryan Sellers Corey Lewis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'24.962	9.927
22	86	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'25.063	10.028
23	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'25.118	10.083
24	9	Scott Hargrove Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'25.165	10.130
25	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'25.165	10.130
26	76	Paul Holton Matt Plumb	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	1'25.204	10.169
27	57	Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'25.311	10.276
28	33	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	1'25.678	10.643
29	14	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'26.180	11.145
30	44	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'26.414	11.379
31	12	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'26.466	11.431
32	73	Patrick Lindsey Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	0.000
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