Laguna Seca IMSA: Taylor leads Montoya in Acura 1-2
Ricky Taylor beat Acura teammate Juan Pablo Montoya to pole for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's Laguna Seca round, as BMW headed GTLM and Paul Miller Racing grabbed GTD honors.
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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
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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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