Mid-Ohio IMSA: Mazda sets 1-2 in wet-dry FP2
Oliver Jarvis led temporary teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay by 0.064sec to send the pair of Mazda Team Joest RT24-Ps to the top of the times in Mid-Ohio as the track surface dried and several teams started to switch to slicks in the closing moments.
#77 Mazda Team Joest Mazda DPi, DPi: Oliver Jarvis, Tristan Nunez, Timo Bernhard
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The session was interrupted by two red flags. After 6mins, Ricky Taylor went off at Turn 12 in the #7 Acura ARX-05, but got back to the pits. At the halfway point in the 1-hour session, T12 claimed another victim, the Moorespeed Audi R8 of Will Hardeman.
Indeed there were several off-course excursions at T12 and T2 but thankfully without significant damage, although it made the track surface increasingly perilous as more and more mud was dragged on.
Hunter-Reay, who is substituting for Harry Tincknell – today’s WEC GTE Pro polesitter in the Ford GT – held top spot until Jarvis’ very last lap of 1min28.158.
Simon Trummer and Misha Goikhberg grabbed third and fourth in the two JDC Miller Motorsports Cadillac DPi-V.Rs ahead of Helio Castroneves who took over the #7 Acura following his teammate’s mishap.
Most startling of all was the AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F of Jack Hawksworth which wound up sixth overall – 3sec ahead of its nearest GTD rival, 2sec ahead of the fastest GTLM car – thanks to a change to slicks in the final laps.
Will Owen fell off the track in his Juncos Racing Cadillac but was able to finish seventh ahead of both Filipe Albuquerque in Action Express Racing’s similar car.
A strong final lap from Nick Tandy put the #911 Porsche 911 RSR at the head of the GTLM class ahead of Jesse Krohn’s BMW M8 and the Earl Bamber/Laurens Vanthoor #912 Porsche.
Aside from Hawksworth, the rest of the GT Daytona runners were led by Scott Hargrove/Zacharie Robichon’s Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, Marco Seefried/Pat Long in the similar machine of Park Place Motorsports, and Mario Farnbacher in the faster of the two Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSXs.
Third practice begins at 8.00am local (Eastern), with qualifying commencing at 11.40am.
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | km/h | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 26 | 1'28.158 | 92.207 | |||
2 | 55 | Jonathan Bomarito Ryan Hunter-Reay |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 21 | 1'28.222 | 0.064 | 0.064 | 92.140 | |
3 | 84 | Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 26 | 1'28.556 | 0.398 | 0.334 | 91.793 | |
4 | 85 | Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 28 | 1'28.941 | 0.783 | 0.385 | 91.395 | |
5 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
DPi | Acura DPi | 19 | 1'29.676 | 1.518 | 0.735 | 90.646 | |
6 | 14 | Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 26 | 1'30.190 | 2.032 | 0.514 | 90.130 | |
7 | 50 | Will Owen Kyle Kaiser |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 21 | 1'30.412 | 2.254 | 0.222 | 89.908 | |
8 | 5 | Joao Barbosa Filipe Albuquerque |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 14 | 1'30.678 | 2.520 | 0.266 | 89.645 | |
9 | 911 | Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 22 | 1'32.142 | 3.984 | 1.464 | 88.220 | |
10 | 24 | Jesse Krohn John Edwards |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 21 | 1'32.905 | 4.747 | 0.763 | 87.496 | |
11 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 23 | 1'33.301 | 5.143 | 0.396 | 87.124 | |
12 | 9 | Scott Hargrove Zacharie Robichon |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 14 | 1'33.354 | 5.196 | 0.053 | 87.075 | |
13 | 73 | Patrick Long Marco Seefried |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 25 | 1'33.410 | 5.252 | 0.056 | 87.023 | |
14 | 86 | Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 24 | 1'33.483 | 5.325 | 0.073 | 86.955 | |
15 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 24 | 1'33.572 | 5.414 | 0.089 | 86.872 | |
16 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 24 | 1'33.777 | 5.619 | 0.205 | 86.682 | |
17 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 25 | 1'33.940 | 5.782 | 0.163 | 86.532 | |
18 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 23 | 1'33.971 | 5.813 | 0.031 | 86.503 | |
19 | 74 | Gar Robinson Lawson Aschenbach |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG | 25 | 1'34.176 | 6.018 | 0.205 | 86.315 | |
20 | 6 | Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya |
DPi | Acura DPi | 19 | 1'35.656 | 7.498 | 1.480 | 84.980 | |
21 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 25 | 1'36.220 | 8.062 | 0.564 | 84.481 | |
22 | 57 | Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 24 | 1'36.374 | 8.216 | 0.154 | 84.346 | |
23 | 12 | Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 26 | 1'36.386 | 8.228 | 0.012 | 84.336 | |
24 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 24 | 1'37.232 | 9.074 | 0.846 | 83.602 | |
25 | 52 | Matt McMurry Eric Lux |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 10 | 1'37.375 | 9.217 | 0.143 | 83.479 | |
26 | 25 | Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 18 | 1'37.515 | 9.357 | 0.140 | 83.359 | |
27 | 44 | John Potter Andy Lally |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 14 | 1'37.549 | 9.391 | 0.034 | 83.330 | |
28 | 54 | Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
DPi | Nissan DPi | 23 | 1'37.676 | 9.518 | 0.127 | 83.222 | |
29 | 33 | Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 21 | 1'37.934 | 9.776 | 0.258 | 83.003 | |
30 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Ryan Hardwick |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 22 | 1'39.908 | 11.750 | 1.974 | 81.363 | |
31 | 76 | Paul Holton Matt Plumb |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 14 | 1'41.850 | 13.692 | 1.942 | 79.811 | |
32 | 38 | Kyle Masson Cameron Cassels |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 4 | 1'46.853 | 18.695 | 5.003 | 76.075 | |
33 | 19 | Will Hardeman Alex Riberas |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 9 | 1'49.776 | 21.618 | 2.923 | 74.049 | |
34 | 8 | Parker Chase Ryan Dalziel |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 0.000 | |||||
35 | 10 | Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1 | 0.000 | ||||
36 | 31 | Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 0.000 |
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