IMSA Road Atlanta: Nasr keeps Action Express on top in FP2

Ex-Formula 1 racer Nasr lapped the 2.54-mile course in 69.023sec, half a second faster than another Cadillac DPi-V.R of Renger van der Zande, who in turn was a mere 0.043sec ahead of Tristan Nunez’s fine effort in the fastest of the two Mazda RT24-Ps.

Sebastien Bourdais’ 69.753 put the #5 JDC-Miller Cadillac fractionally ahead of Harry Tincknell in the second Mazda, while the Acura Team Penske ARX-05s were almost a full second off the pace.

Simon Trummer put PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports top of the two LMP2 entries, around 2.5sec behind the top DPi time.

Connor De Phillippi, who so nearly won at VIR last week, topped GT Le Mans in his Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW M8 by almost half a second, with Laurens Vanthoor second in the Porsche 911 RSR and Antonio Garcia third for Corvette Racing.

GT Daytona promises a frantic scrap, both for this evening’s qualifying session and tomorrow’s race, with 11 cars covered by 0.85sec. Steijn Schothorst’s Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan – which this weekend he’ll share with the underrated Richard Heistand and GT star Richard Westbrook – clocked a 1min20.346sec lap.

That was 0.133sec faster than Jan Heylen, who joins Pat Long and Ryan Hardwick in the Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R this weekend, and 0.155 ahead of Frankie Montecalvo’s Lexus RC F of AIM Vasser-Sullivan.

The two Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSXs sandwiched Robby Foley’s best in the Turner Motorsports BMW M6, while Jeff Westphal overcame a turbocharger-induced delay to the start of his track time to take seventh for WeatherTech Racing’s Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488.

Qualifying begins at 6.35pm local (Eastern) time.

FP2 results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	31	Felipe Nasr Filipe Albuquerque Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'09.023
2	10	Renger van der Zande Ryan Briscoe	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'09.534	0.511
3	77	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez Olivier Pla	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'09.577	0.554
4	5	Joao Barbosa Sébastien Bourdais Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'09.753	0.730
5	55	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell Ryan Hunter-Reay	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'09.794	0.771
6	6	Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron	DPi	Acura DPi	1'09.954	0.931
7	7	Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	DPi	Acura DPi	1'09.957	0.934
8	85	Matheus Leist Stephen Simpson	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'10.638	1.615
9	52	Patrick Kelly Simon Trummer Scott Huffaker	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'11.570	2.547
10	18	Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley Colin Braun	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'12.334	3.311
11	25	Bruno Spengler Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'16.875	7.852
12	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'17.351	8.328
13	3	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	1'17.383	8.360
14	24	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'17.415	8.392
15	911	Nick Tandy Frédéric Makowiecki	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'17.442	8.419
16	4	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	1'17.558	8.535
17	11	Richard Heistand Steijn Schothorst Richard Westbrook	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'20.346	11.323
18	16	Ryan Hardwick Patrick Long Jan Heylen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'20.479	11.456
19	12	Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'20.501	11.478
20	86	Mario Farnbacher Matt McMurry Shinya Michimi	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'20.666	11.643
21	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Dillon Machavern	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'20.879	11.856
22	57	Alvaro Parente Mikhail Goikhberg Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'20.929	11.906
23	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander Jeff Westphal	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'20.973	11.950
24	14	Jack Hawksworth Michael de Quesada Daniel Morad	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'20.983	11.960
25	44	Andy Lally John Potter Spencer Pumpelly	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'21.031	12.008
26	74	Gar Robinson Lawson Aschenbach Ben Keating	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	1'21.066	12.043
27	48	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'21.192	12.169
28	23	Ian James Roman De Angelis	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'21.703	12.680
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