Mid-Ohio IMSA: Castroneves leads warm-up, Nasr shunts
Acura Team Penske continued the theme of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s weekend at Mid-Ohio by grabbing first and second in the raceday warm-up, as Felipe Nasr slid into a tire wall.
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Polesitter Castroneves set a lap of 1min14.124sec in the #7 Acura ARX-05 to go 0.26sec quicker than its stablemate, steered by Dane Cameron, while their fastest opponent was Colin Braun in the CORE autosport Oreca, another quarter second back.
While the Action Express Racing Cadillacs were an encouraging fourth and fifth, the #31 DPi-V.R fell off the track at the Carousel and nosed into the tire wall deranging some front-end bodywork. Nasr was able to drive the car back to the pits for repair.
One noteworthy performance came from Kyle Masson, who had the #38 Performance Tech Motorsports Oreca into seventh place, ahead of the ESM Nissans and Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac.
Jesse Krohn sent the GTLM polesitting Rahal Letterman Langian-run BMW M8 to the top of the times, ahead of Richard Westbrook who gave the Ganassi Ford squad its greatest source of encouragement this weekend with P2 in the #67 GT.
Laurens Vanthoor was third in the Porsche 911 RSR ahead of Antonio Garcia’s #3 Corvette, but the second Porsche of Patrick Pilet had a shunt that will require at least bodywork repairs pre-race.
As in qualifying for GT Daytona, the Lexus RC Fs of 3GT Racing looked strong, polesitter Jack Hawksworth posting fastest time with teammate Dominik Baumann third. On this occasion, they were split by Alvaro Parente in one of Michael Shank Racing’s Acura NSXs.
The Acura Sports Car Challenge begins at 1.05pm local (Eastern) time.
IMSA Mid-Ohio, warm-up
Pos. | # | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 1'14.124 | |
2 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 1'14.389 | 0.265 |
3 | 54 | Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'14.557 | 0.433 |
4 | 31 | Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'14.999 | 0.875 |
5 | 5 | Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'15.053 | 0.929 |
6 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'15.157 | 1.033 |
7 | 38 | James French Kyle Masson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'15.417 | 1.293 |
8 | 22 | Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'15.676 | 1.552 |
9 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'15.991 | 1.867 |
10 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'16.243 | 2.119 |
11 | 85 | Simon Trummer Robert Alon |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'16.434 | 2.310 |
12 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'16.689 | 2.565 |
13 | 52 | Gustavo Yacaman Sebastian Saavedra |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'17.272 | 3.148 |
14 | 55 | Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'18.002 | 3.878 |
15 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'19.840 | 5.716 |
16 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'20.261 | 6.137 |
17 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'20.545 | 6.421 |
18 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'20.719 | 6.595 |
19 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'20.878 | 6.754 |
20 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'21.095 | 6.971 |
21 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'21.177 | 7.053 |
22 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'21.182 | 7.058 |
23 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'21.183 | 7.059 |
24 | 66 | Joey Hand Dirk Müller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'21.243 | 7.119 |
25 | 75 | Kenny Habul Maro Engel |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'21.297 | 7.173 |
26 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'21.310 | 7.186 |
27 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 1'21.378 | 7.254 |
28 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'21.452 | 7.328 |
29 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'21.539 | 7.415 |
30 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'21.912 | 7.788 |
31 | 16 | Wolf Henzler Michael Schein |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'22.271 | 8.147 |
32 | 44 | Andy Lally John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 1'22.340 | 8.216 |
33 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'22.408 | 8.284 |
34 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Alessandro Balzan |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 |
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