Mid-Ohio IMSA: Acuras dominate third practice
Dane Cameron and Helio Castroneves were over one second clear of the chasing pack in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s FP3 session at Mid-Ohio.
Photo by: Art Fleischmann
Cameron’s 17th of 32 laps for the #6 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 was a 1min12.675sec, the fastest lap of the weekend, and remained a tantalizing 0.088sec clear of teammate Helio Castroneves’ 42nd-lap attempt to go P1.
The best of the rest was Jonathan Bomarito in the #55 Mazda RT24-P, who was 1.092 sec adrift of top time, but ahead of Colin Braun’s best in the CORE Autosport Oreca, and Oli Jarvis in the second Mazda.
Stephen Simpson (JDC Miller Oreca) and Pipo Derani (ESM Nissan) were sixth and seventh, ahead of the quickest Cadillac DPi-V.R, that of Wayne Taylor Racing.
In GT Le Mans, Earl Bamber put the #912 Porsche 911 RSR on top again, in front of Antonio Garcia’s #3 Corvette C7.R, Jesse Krohn in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing BMW M8 and Nick Tandy in the second Porsche.
Madison Snow’s Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan claimed GT Daytona’s top time, ahead of the 3GT Lexus RC Fs of Kyle Marcelli and Jack Hawksworth. Fourth and fifth went to the pair of Michael Shank Racing-run Acura NSXs of Katherine Legge and Lawson Aschenbach.
Qualifying starts at 12.05pm local (Eastern Time).
IMSA Mid-Ohio, third practice
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | km/h |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 32 | 1'12.675 | 111.851 | ||
2 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 42 | 1'12.763 | 0.088 | 0.088 | 111.716 |
3 | 55 | Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito |
P | Mazda DPi | 34 | 1'13.767 | 1.092 | 1.004 | 110.196 |
4 | 54 | Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 39 | 1'13.940 | 1.265 | 0.173 | 109.938 |
5 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 35 | 1'14.014 | 1.339 | 0.074 | 109.828 |
6 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 34 | 1'14.041 | 1.366 | 0.027 | 109.788 |
7 | 22 | Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek |
P | Nissan DPi | 37 | 1'14.068 | 1.393 | 0.027 | 109.748 |
8 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 36 | 1'14.103 | 1.428 | 0.035 | 109.696 |
9 | 31 | Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 39 | 1'14.295 | 1.620 | 0.192 | 109.412 |
10 | 85 | Simon Trummer Robert Alon |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 38 | 1'14.350 | 1.675 | 0.055 | 109.332 |
11 | 52 | Gustavo Yacaman Sebastian Saavedra |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 38 | 1'14.383 | 1.708 | 0.033 | 109.283 |
12 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel |
P | Nissan DPi | 32 | 1'14.640 | 1.965 | 0.257 | 108.907 |
13 | 5 | Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
P | Cadillac DPi | 32 | 1'14.914 | 2.239 | 0.274 | 108.508 |
14 | 38 | James French Kyle Masson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 35 | 1'15.396 | 2.721 | 0.482 | 107.815 |
15 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 36 | 1'18.590 | 5.915 | 3.194 | 103.433 |
16 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 37 | 1'18.972 | 6.297 | 0.382 | 102.933 |
17 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 36 | 1'19.111 | 6.436 | 0.139 | 102.752 |
18 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 34 | 1'19.227 | 6.552 | 0.116 | 102.601 |
19 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 34 | 1'19.423 | 6.748 | 0.196 | 102.348 |
20 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 36 | 1'19.438 | 6.763 | 0.015 | 102.329 |
21 | 66 | Joey Hand Dirk Müller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 30 | 1'19.484 | 6.809 | 0.046 | 102.270 |
22 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 38 | 1'19.566 | 6.891 | 0.082 | 102.164 |
23 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 36 | 1'20.400 | 7.725 | 0.834 | 101.104 |
24 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 29 | 1'20.417 | 7.742 | 0.017 | 101.083 |
25 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 27 | 1'20.537 | 7.862 | 0.120 | 100.932 |
26 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 33 | 1'20.600 | 7.925 | 0.063 | 100.854 |
27 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 35 | 1'20.622 | 7.947 | 0.022 | 100.826 |
28 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 39 | 1'20.647 | 7.972 | 0.025 | 100.795 |
29 | 44 | Andy Lally John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 35 | 1'20.796 | 8.121 | 0.149 | 100.609 |
30 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Alessandro Balzan |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 34 | 1'20.902 | 8.227 | 0.106 | 100.477 |
31 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 36 | 1'21.024 | 8.349 | 0.122 | 100.326 |
32 | 75 | Kenny Habul Maro Engel |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 33 | 1'21.174 | 8.499 | 0.150 | 100.140 |
33 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 35 | 1'21.187 | 8.512 | 0.013 | 100.124 |
34 | 16 | Wolf Henzler Michael Schein |
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