Petit Le Mans: Cadillacs dominate opening practice
Filipe Albuquerque and Felipe Nasr gave Action Express Racing a 1-2 in first practice at Road Atlanta, with Jordan Taylor third in Wayne Taylor Racing’s similar Cadillac DPi-V.R.
#5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi, P - Joao Barbosa, Christian Fittipaldi, Filipe Albuquerque
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Albuquerque set a fastest time of 1min11.878sec to beat Nasr by 0.274sec, with Taylor less than half a tenth behind, as preparations began for the 10-hour IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship finale.
Ricky Taylor slotted the faster of the Acura Team Penske ARX-05s into fourth, but enduro co-driver Graham Rahal ground to a halt on track reporting loss of drive and bringing the one-hour session to a slightly early end.
The session's other red flag was caused when the #99 JDC Miller Motorsports Oreca stopped on course.
Oliver Jarvis was within half a second of the top time in the Mazda RT24-P, with Colin Braun sixth in the CORE autosport Oreca, just ahead of the two ESM Nissans.
In GT Le Mans, Dirk Muller and Ryan Briscoe delivered a 1-2 for Chip Ganassi Racing’s Ford GTs ahead of championship favorite Antonio Garcia in the #3 Corvette C7.R and Laurens Vanthoor in the #912 Porsche 911 RSR.
GT Daytona was led by Christopher Mies in the Land Motorsport Audi R8, with Jack Hawksworth clocking second fastest time for Lexus.
Markus Palttala (Turner Motorsports BMW M6), Jeroen Bleekemolen (Mercedes AMG GT), Patrick Long (Wright Motorsports Porsche 911), Bryan Sellers (Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini) and Daniel Serra (Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488) ensured seven different manufacturers filled the top seven places.
Second practice begins at 3.15pm local (Eastern) time.
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship FP1
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | km/h |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 5 | Christian Fittipaldi Filipe Albuquerque Tristan Vautier |
P | Cadillac DPi | 32 | 1'11.878 | 127.216 | ||
2 | 31 | Eric Curran Gabby Chaves Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 13 | 1'12.152 | 0.274 | 0.274 | 126.732 |
3 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Ryan Hunter-Reay Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 28 | 1'12.197 | 0.319 | 0.045 | 126.653 |
4 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Graham Rahal Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 25 | 1'12.330 | 0.452 | 0.133 | 126.421 |
5 | 77 | Lucas di Grassi Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 32 | 1'12.366 | 0.488 | 0.036 | 126.358 |
6 | 54 | Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 35 | 1'12.426 | 0.548 | 0.060 | 126.253 |
7 | 22 | Timo Bernhard Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek |
P | Nissan DPi | 35 | 1'12.477 | 0.599 | 0.051 | 126.164 |
8 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel Norman Nato |
P | Nissan DPi | 32 | 1'12.572 | 0.694 | 0.095 | 125.999 |
9 | 6 | Juan Pablo Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 23 | 1'12.816 | 0.938 | 0.244 | 125.577 |
10 | 85 | Simon Trummer Robert Alon Devlin DeFrancesco |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 29 | 1'13.082 | 1.204 | 0.266 | 125.120 |
11 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Chris Miller Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 33 | 1'13.229 | 1.351 | 0.147 | 124.869 |
12 | 52 | Jose Gutierrez Sebastian Saavedra Will Owen |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 34 | 1'13.328 | 1.450 | 0.099 | 124.700 |
13 | 55 | Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito Marino Franchitti |
P | Mazda DPi | 34 | 1'13.377 | 1.499 | 0.049 | 124.617 |
14 | 38 | James French Nicholas Boulle Kyle Masson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 23 | 1'13.772 | 1.894 | 0.395 | 123.949 |
15 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 25 | 1'18.343 | 6.465 | 4.571 | 116.718 |
16 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 18 | 1'18.381 | 6.503 | 0.038 | 116.661 |
17 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Marcel Fassler Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 28 | 1'18.595 | 6.717 | 0.214 | 116.343 |
18 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 31 | 1'18.843 | 6.965 | 0.248 | 115.977 |
19 | 4 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 30 | 1'18.870 | 6.992 | 0.027 | 115.938 |
20 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 27 | 1'18.960 | 7.082 | 0.090 | 115.805 |
21 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn Chaz Mostert |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 26 | 1'19.270 | 7.392 | 0.310 | 115.353 |
22 | 25 | Bill Auberlen Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 28 | 1'19.277 | 7.399 | 0.007 | 115.342 |
23 | 62 | Toni Vilander Andrea Bertolini Miguel Molina |
GTLM | Ferrari 488 GTE | 31 | 1'19.580 | 7.702 | 0.303 | 114.903 |
24 | 29 | Daniel Morad Christopher Mies Sheldon Van |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 32 | 1'20.283 | 8.405 | 0.703 | 113.897 |
25 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth Sean Rayhall |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 17 | 1'20.659 | 8.781 | 0.376 | 113.366 |
26 | 96 | Don Yount Markus Palttala Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 32 | 1'20.805 | 8.927 | 0.146 | 113.161 |
27 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Luca Stolz |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 30 | 1'20.820 | 8.942 | 0.015 | 113.140 |
28 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen Robert Renauer |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 31 | 1'20.837 | 8.959 | 0.017 | 113.117 |
29 | 48 | Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 32 | 1'20.853 | 8.975 | 0.016 | 113.094 |
30 | 63 | Daniel Serra Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 31 | 1'20.891 | 9.013 | 0.038 | 113.041 |
31 | 44 | Andy Lally Andrew Davis John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 29 | 1'20.971 | 9.093 | 0.080 | 112.929 |
32 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach Mario Farnbacher |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 27 | 1'21.268 | 9.390 | 0.297 | 112.517 |
33 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 28 | 1'21.298 | 9.420 | 0.030 | 112.475 |
34 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann Philipp Frommenwiler |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 24 | 1'21.392 | 9.514 | 0.094 | 112.345 |
35 | 73 | Wolf Henzler Tim Pappas Spencer Pumpelly |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 30 | 1'21.397 | 9.519 | 0.005 | 112.338 |
36 | 64 | Matteo Cressoni Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 33 | 1'21.562 | 9.684 | 0.165 | 112.111 |
37 | 71 | Maximilian Buhk JC Perez Felipe Fraga |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 13 | 1'24.367 | 12.489 | 2.805 | 108.384 |
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