Laguna Seca IMSA: Acura Team Penske on top in FP2
Dane Cameron and Helio Castroneves sent the two Acura Team Penske ARX-05s to the top of the times in second practice for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s penultimate round.
In the final couple of minutes of the one-hour session, Helio Castroneves found a clear enough 2.238-mile lap to set a 1min16.980sec time, before Cameron in the #6 sister car eclipsed him by 0.115sec with his final effort.
Cameron’s time was 0.383sec clear of the fastest Cadillac, the #5 Action Express Racing entry piloted by Filipe Albuquerque, although the next four cars were covered by just one tenth.
Fourth place went to Colin Braun in the CORE autosport Oreca, fifth to Jordan Taylor in the WTR Caddy, while Jonathan Bomarito recovered from the #55 Mazda’s mechanical issues with an excellent 1min17.349sec effort.
The Fords were again 1-2 in GT Le Mans, but this time Dirk Muller put the #66 machine 0.16 ahead of the #67 driven by Ryan Briscoe. Magnussen was again the faster driver in the #3 Corvette, turning third fastest time ahead of teammate Tommy Milner in the #4 C7.R.
Meanwhile John Edwards managed to get one of the BMW M8s ahead of the Porsche 911 RSRs of Patrick Pilet and Laurens Vanthoor.
Jorg Bergmeister sent the Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R to the top of the GT Daytona times, with Alvaro Parente putting his Acura NSX in second ahead of Jeroen Bleekemolen in the Riley Mercedes AMG GT.
Laguna Seca, IMSA second practice
| Pos. | # | Drivers | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |  Juan Pablo Montoya  Dane Cameron | P | Acura DPi | 1'16.865 | |
| 2 | 7 |  Helio Castroneves  Ricky Taylor | P | Acura DPi | 1'16.980 | 0.115 |
| 3 | 5 |  Filipe Albuquerque  Joao Barbosa | P | Cadillac DPi | 1'17.248 | 0.383 |
| 4 | 54 |  Jon Bennett Colin Braun | P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'17.284 | 0.419 |
| 5 | 10 |  Jordan Taylor  Renger van der Zande | P | Cadillac DPi | 1'17.286 | 0.421 |
| 6 | 55 |  Harry Tincknell Jonathan Bomarito | P | Mazda DPi | 1'17.349 | 0.484 |
| 7 | 22 |  Pipo Derani  Johannes van Overbeek | P | Nissan DPi | 1'17.568 | 0.703 |
| 8 | 31 | Eric Curran  Felipe Nasr | P | Cadillac DPi | 1'17.736 | 0.871 |
| 9 | 77 |  Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez | P | Mazda DPi | 1'18.266 | 1.401 |
| 10 | 2 |  Scott Sharp  Ryan Dalziel | P | Nissan DPi | 1'18.513 | 1.648 |
| 11 | 99 |  Mikhail Goikhberg  Stephen Simpson | P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'18.648 | 1.783 |
| 12 | 85 |  Simon Trummer Robert Alon | P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'18.707 | 1.842 |
| 13 | 52 |  Gustavo Yacaman  Sebastian Saavedra | P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'19.094 | 2.229 |
| 14 | 66 | Joey Hand  Dirk Muller | GTLM | Ford GT | 1'23.265 | 6.400 |
| 15 | 67 |  Ryan Briscoe  Richard Westbrook | GTLM | Ford GT | 1'23.427 | 6.562 |
| 16 | 3 |  Jan Magnussen  Antonio Garcia | GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'23.605 | 6.740 |
| 17 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner | GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'23.739 | 6.874 |
| 18 | 24 | John Edwards  Jesse Krohn | GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'24.178 | 7.313 |
| 19 | 911 |  Nick Tandy  Patrick Pilet | GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'24.430 | 7.565 |
| 20 | 912 |  Earl Bamber  Laurens Vanthoor | GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'24.464 | 7.599 |
| 21 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi  Alexander Sims | GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'24.598 | 7.733 |
| 22 | 73 |  Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Lindsey | GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'25.148 | 8.283 |
| 23 | 86 |  Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge | GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'25.271 | 8.406 |
| 24 | 33 |  Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating | GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'25.508 | 8.643 |
| 25 | 51 | Francesco Piovanetti Ozz Negri | GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'25.654 | 8.789 |
| 26 | 44 |  Andy Lally John Potter | GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 1'25.761 | 8.896 |
| 27 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach | GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'25.856 | 8.991 |
| 28 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley | GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 1'26.064 | 9.199 |
| 29 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'26.101 | 9.236 |
| 30 | 14 |  Kyle Marcelli  Dominik Baumann | GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'26.154 | 9.289 |
| 31 | 58 | Patrick Long  Christina Nielsen | GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'26.238 | 9.373 |
| 32 | 64 | Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo | GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'26.411 | 9.546 |
| 33 | 15 |  David Heinemeier Hansson  Jack Hawksworth | GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'26.961 | 10.096 |
| 34 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette | GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'27.150 | 10.285 |
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| Series | IMSA |
| Event | Laguna Seca |
| Drivers | Dane Cameron |
| Teams | Team Penske |
| Author | David Malsher-Lopez |
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