Detroit IMSA: Albuquerque tops warm-up for AXR
Action Express Racing’s Filipe Albuquerque finally nosed his Cadillac ahead of Acura Team Penske at Belle Isle this morning, topping the raceday warm-up session.
#5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi, P: Joao Barbosa, Filipe Albuquerque
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The #5 AXR Cadillac DPi-V.R lapped the 2.35-mile course in 1min22.958sec to head Juan Pablo Montoya’s best in the Acura ARX-05 by a mere 0.035sec, the pair of them two tenths of a second ahead of Jonathan Bomarito’s Mazda RT24-P.
Jordan Taylor was three-hundredths off their time in the Wayne Taylor Racing Caddy, but ahead of the second AXR machine and the second Acura, piloted by Felipe Nasr and Ricky Taylor respectively.
The most significant news in GT Daytona was that Magnus Racing had an Audi R8 back on track after a major engine failure and fire in practice yesterday wrecked the team’s hopes of qualifying well. This morning, team owner John Potter put a dozen laps on the car he will share with Andy Lally in this afternoon’s race.
At the front of the class, however, it was Mario Farnbacher who put the Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX into P1 ahead of Kyle Marcelli’s Lexus, the Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 of Wolf Henzler, and Jack Hawksworth in the second Lexus.
IMSA, Detroit warm-up
Pos. | No. | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 5 | Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'22.958 | |
2 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 1'22.993 | 0.035 |
3 | 55 | Harry Tincknell Jonathan Bomarito |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'23.185 | 0.227 |
4 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'23.215 | 0.257 |
5 | 31 | Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'23.332 | 0.374 |
6 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 1'23.460 | 0.502 |
7 | 90 | Matt McMurry Tristan Vautier |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'23.514 | 0.556 |
8 | 54 | Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'23.580 | 0.622 |
9 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'23.767 | 0.809 |
10 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'23.942 | 0.984 |
11 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'24.139 | 1.181 |
12 | 52 | Gustavo Yacaman Sebastian Saavedra |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'24.696 | 1.738 |
13 | 22 | Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'24.724 | 1.766 |
14 | 85 | Simon Trummer Robert Alon |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'25.809 | 2.851 |
15 | 86 | Katherine Legge Mario Farnbacher |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'29.680 | 6.722 |
16 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'29.750 | 6.792 |
17 | 16 | Wolf Henzler Michael Schein |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'29.782 | 6.824 |
18 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'29.783 | 6.825 |
19 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'29.814 | 6.856 |
20 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'29.902 | 6.944 |
21 | 75 | Bernd Schneider Kenny Habul |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'30.343 | 7.385 |
22 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 1'30.643 | 7.685 |
23 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'30.651 | 7.693 |
24 | 44 | Andy Lally John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 1'30.875 | 7.917 |
25 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'31.305 | 8.347 |
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