Long Beach IMSA: Ganassi hits the front in second practice

In temperatures around 100degF, Bourdais clocked a 70.913sec lap of the 1.9680-mile track, shading teammate Alex Lynn by a mere 0.077sec on his 47^th of 50 laps.

Pipo Derani, this morning’s pacesetter, ensured a Cadillac 1-2-3 as the Action Express Racing car claimed third ahead of Tom Blomqvist in the faster of the two Acura ARX-05s. Blomqvist was only 0.13sec off the top spot, and 0.15sec ahead of the second Acura of Filipe Albuquerque, while Tristan Vautier in the slowest of the DPi cars was still within 0.4sec of P1.

Unlike this morning, the all-Pro cars took charge of the 21-car GT field, as Mathieu Jaminet slotted the Pfaff Porsche 911 GT3 R into the top spot on his final flyer, edging Connor De Phillippi in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW M4 by thousandths.

Jordan Taylor actually matched De Phillippi’s time to the thousandth in the Corvette C8.R, while Raffaele Marciello continued to impress in his first event in the WeatherTech Racing Mercedes AMG GT3.

Frederik Schandorff topped the GTD field in the McLaren 720S ahead of Mike Skeen’s Mercedes, Robby Foley’s Turner Motorsports BMW, and Alex Riberas who set the pace this morning in the Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage.

Unlike this morning, there were no red flags.

Qualifying begins at 5.10pm local (Pacific) time.

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Renger van der Zande Sébastien Bourdais	DPi	Cadillac DPi	50	1'10.913
2	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn	DPi	Cadillac DPi	44	1'10.990	0.077
3	Pipo Derani Tristan Nunez	DPi	Cadillac DPi	50	1'11.005	0.092
4	Oliver Jarvis Tom Blomqvist	DPi	Acura DPi	56	1'11.043	0.130
5	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Acura DPi	50	1'11.195	0.282
6	Tristan Vautier Richard Westbrook	DPi	Cadillac DPi	51	1'11.303	0.390
7	Matt Campbell Mathieu Jaminet	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R	43	1'18.874	7.961
8	Connor de Phillippi John Edwards	GTD PRO	BMW M4 GT3	37	1'18.915	8.002
9	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	50	1'18.915	8.002
10	Cooper MacNeil Raffaele Marciello	GTD PRO	Mercedes-AMG GT3	46	1'19.096	8.183
11	Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	50	1'19.490	8.577
12	Mike Skeen Stevan McAleer	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	50	1'19.543	8.630
13	Robby Foley Bill Auberlen	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	48	1'19.624	8.711
14	Ross Gunn Alex Riberas	GTD PRO	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	52	1'19.829	8.916
15	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	40	1'19.844	8.931
16	Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat	GTD PRO	Lexus RC F GT3	25	1'19.927	9.014
17	Roman De Angelis Maxime Martin	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	59	1'19.973	9.060
18	Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	49	1'19.979	9.066
19	Mario Farnbacher Marc Miller	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	32	1'20.014	9.101
20	Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	53	1'20.232	9.319
21	Jon Miller Paul Holton	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	51	1'20.253	9.340
22	Robert Megennis Jeff Westphal	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	52	1'20.524	9.611
23	Rob Ferriol Katherine Legge	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	51	1'20.570	9.657
24	Ryan Eversley Aidan Read	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	50	1'20.895	9.982
25	Russell Ward Philip Ellis	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	5	1'21.085	10.172
26	Kyle Washington James Sofronas	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	49	1'21.642	10.729
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