Sebring 12 Hours: Taylor puts Penske-Acura on top again
The Acura Penske team again led the way in second free practice for this weekend's Sebring 12 Hours, the second round of the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
#7 Acura Team Penske Acura DPi, P: Helio Castroneves, Ricky Taylor, Graham Rahal
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The #7 Acura ARX-05 DPi was quickest in the second afternoon session in the hands of Ricky Taylor. His time of 1m47.841s was just over half a second off teammate Helio Castroneves's best from the morning session.
Mazda was P2 in the second 60-minute session, thanks to Jonathan Bomarito’s best lap of 1m48.753s in the #55 Mazda RT24-P.
Just 0.05sec shy of Bomarito’s best was Filipe Albuquerque who took third place in the faster of the Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.Rs. That was enough to put the Portuguese driver two tenths up on the second Mazda driven by Tristan Nunez.
The fastest LMP2 car was the CORE autosport Oreca 07 in which Colin Braun posted a 1m49.456s to take fifth position ahead of Juan Pablo Montoya in the second of the Penske Acuras.
Ford maintained its hold on top spot in the GT Le Mans class with Richard Westbrook quickest in the #67 Chip Ganassi-run GT with a 1m57.566s – 0.001s faster than teammate Dirk Muller's session one best.
James Calado was just 0.036s in arrears in the Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE, while Muller was third fastest in the second Ford.
Jack Hawksworth led the way in the GT Daytona class with the 3GT Lexus RC F. The Briton's best time of 2m00.427s put him one hundredth of a second up on Mario Farnbacher in the best of the Michael Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3s.
The session was stopped 10 minutes early when Justin Marks crashed his Acura at Tower Turn.
Second practice results:
Pos. | No. | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Graham Rahal Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 1'47.841 | |
2 | 55 | Harry Tincknell Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'48.753 | 0.912 |
3 | 5 | Christian Fittipaldi Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'48.805 | 0.964 |
4 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis René Rast Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'49.063 | 1.222 |
5 | 54 | Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'49.456 | 1.615 |
6 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 1'49.459 | 1.618 |
7 | 22 | Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek Nicolas Lapierre |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'49.542 | 1.701 |
8 | 32 | Paul di Resta Alex Brundle Phil Hanson |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'49.794 | 1.953 |
9 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Ryan Hunter-Reay Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'49.911 | 2.070 |
10 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel Olivier Pla |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'50.074 | 2.233 |
11 | 52 | Gustavo Yacaman Roberto Gonzalez Sebastian Saavedra |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'50.341 | 2.500 |
12 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Chris Miller Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'50.623 | 2.782 |
13 | 31 | Mike Conway Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'50.766 | 2.925 |
14 | 38 | James French Kyle Masson Patricio O'Ward |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'52.576 | 4.735 |
15 | 85 | Simon Trummer Nelson Panciatici Robert Alon |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'53.196 | 5.355 |
16 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'57.566 | 9.725 |
17 | 62 | James Calado Toni Vilander Alessandro Pier Guidi |
GTLM | Ferrari 488 GTE | 1'57.602 | 9.761 |
18 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Müller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'57.890 | 10.049 |
19 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn Nick Catsburg |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTLM | 1'58.402 | 10.561 |
20 | 25 | Bill Auberlen Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTLM | 1'58.477 | 10.636 |
21 | 912 | Gianmaria Bruni Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'58.722 | 10.881 |
22 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'58.743 | 10.902 |
23 | 4 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'58.999 | 11.158 |
24 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'59.167 | 11.326 |
25 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth Sean Rayhall |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'00.427 | 12.586 |
26 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach Mario Farnbacher |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'00.520 | 12.679 |
27 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen Robert Renauer Mathieu Jaminet |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'00.635 | 12.794 |
28 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann Philipp Frommenwiler |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'01.072 | 13.231 |
29 | 29 | Alessio Picariello Christopher Mies Sheldon Van Der Linde |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 2'01.107 | 13.266 |
30 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette Alessandro Balzan |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'01.186 | 13.345 |
31 | 75 | Kenny Habul Thomas Jäger Mikael Grenier |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'01.730 | 13.889 |
32 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Luca Stolz |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'01.763 | 13.922 |
33 | 73 | Jörg Bergmeister Tim Pappas Patrick Lindsey |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'01.770 | 13.929 |
34 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'01.821 | 13.980 |
35 | 69 | Ryan Eversley Tom Dyer Chad Gilsinger |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'01.826 | 13.985 |
36 | 71 | Kenton Koch Loris Spinelli JC Perez |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'02.133 | 14.292 |
37 | 48 | Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'02.200 | 14.359 |
38 | 44 | Andy Lally Andrew Davis John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 2'02.748 | 14.907 |
39 | 64 | Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo Bill Sweedler |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'02.813 | 14.972 |
40 | 51 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda Daniel Serra |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'02.900 | 15.059 |
41 | 36 | Marc Miller Kuno Wittmer Till Bechtolsheimer |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'02.915 | 15.074 |
42 | 96 | Don Yount Markus Palttala Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 2'03.733 | 15.892 |
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