Mid-Ohio IMSA: Castroneves leads Acura Team Penske 1-2 in FP3
Helio Castroneves and Dane Cameron drove their Acura Team Penske ARX-05s to first and second in Saturday morning practice for this weekend’s fourth round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as Ryan Briscoe topped the GT Le Mans times for Ford.
Photo by: Art Fleischmann
The one-hour session featured an early red flag when Townsend Bell’s AIM Vasser-Sullivan Lexus RC F went off the damp track exiting Turn 2 and needed a tow out of the bog. He managed to get his filthy car back to the pits under its own power, but amazingly the same car would cause the second red flag, eight minutes before the end of the session. Frankie Montecalvo fell off the track but restarted without aid and burbled back to the pits.
That left six minutes of opportunity for improvements, and 35 of the 36 cars hit the track but Castroneves’ previous best – set just before the second stoppage – was topped only by teammate Dane Cameron… and then himself. On the track where he and Ricky Taylor earned Acura Team Penske’s first win together last year, Castroneves got down to 1min12.737sec, over eight-tenths clear of Cameron’s best effort, albeit still more than a second slower than his pole time from 2018.
Action Express Racing’s Cadillac DPi-V.Rs were next up, Joao Barbosa ahead of Pipo Derani but both over a second away from P1, while Simon Trummer set fifth fastest for JDC-Miller in another Caddy.
Oliver Jarvis had the faster of the two Mazda RT24-Ps, as Jonathan Bomarito in the #55 car couldn’t find a way to beat the best effort of temporary co-driver Ryan Hunter-Reay, set in the greasier conditions early in the session.
Another last-lap improvement, this time from Briscoe, saw the #67 Ford GT jump to the top of GT Le Mans, ahead of Laurens Vanthoor and Patrick Pilet, while Jesse Krohn’s best in the #25 BMW M8 nudged it ahead of both Corvettes and the second Ford.
Trent Hindman put the Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX at the top of GT Daytona, ahead of Richard Heistand in the #14 Lexus RC F, the Lone Star Racing Mercedes AMG GT, and Robby Foley’s Turner Motorsports BMW M6.
Class-by-class qualifying begins at 11.40am local (Eastern) time.
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | km/h | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
DPi | Acura DPi | 27 | 1'12.737 | 111.755 | |||
2 | 6 | Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya |
DPi | Acura DPi | 33 | 1'13.563 | 0.826 | 0.826 | 110.500 | |
3 | 5 | Joao Barbosa Filipe Albuquerque |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 35 | 1'13.851 | 1.114 | 0.288 | 110.069 | |
4 | 31 | Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 30 | 1'14.056 | 1.319 | 0.205 | 109.765 | |
5 | 84 | Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 36 | 1'14.672 | 1.935 | 0.616 | 108.859 | |
6 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 32 | 1'14.907 | 2.170 | 0.235 | 108.518 | |
7 | 54 | Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
DPi | Nissan DPi | 27 | 1'15.012 | 2.275 | 0.105 | 108.366 | |
8 | 10 | Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 35 | 1'15.435 | 2.698 | 0.423 | 107.758 | |
9 | 55 | Jonathan Bomarito Ryan Hunter-Reay |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 33 | 1'15.698 | 2.961 | 0.263 | 107.384 | |
10 | 85 | Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 34 | 1'15.996 | 3.259 | 0.298 | 106.963 | |
11 | 50 | Will Owen Kyle Kaiser |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 33 | 1'16.381 | 3.644 | 0.385 | 106.424 | |
12 | 38 | Kyle Masson Cameron Cassels |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 32 | 1'16.586 | 3.849 | 0.205 | 106.139 | |
13 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 34 | 1'20.100 | 7.363 | 3.514 | 101.482 | |
14 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 31 | 1'20.138 | 7.401 | 0.038 | 101.434 | |
15 | 911 | Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 33 | 1'20.162 | 7.425 | 0.024 | 101.404 | |
16 | 24 | Jesse Krohn John Edwards |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 32 | 1'20.232 | 7.495 | 0.070 | 101.315 | |
17 | 52 | Matt McMurry Eric Lux |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 34 | 1'20.365 | 7.628 | 0.133 | 101.148 | |
18 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 31 | 1'20.810 | 8.073 | 0.445 | 100.591 | |
19 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 31 | 1'20.907 | 8.170 | 0.097 | 100.470 | |
20 | 25 | Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 27 | 1'20.943 | 8.206 | 0.036 | 100.425 | |
21 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 30 | 1'21.160 | 8.423 | 0.217 | 100.157 | |
22 | 86 | Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 29 | 1'21.818 | 9.081 | 0.658 | 99.351 | |
23 | 14 | Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 31 | 1'21.879 | 9.142 | 0.061 | 99.277 | |
24 | 74 | Gar Robinson Lawson Aschenbach |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG | 31 | 1'22.467 | 9.730 | 0.588 | 98.570 | |
25 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 31 | 1'22.483 | 9.746 | 0.016 | 98.550 | |
26 | 9 | Scott Hargrove Zacharie Robichon |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 30 | 1'22.560 | 9.823 | 0.077 | 98.459 | |
27 | 33 | Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 31 | 1'22.796 | 10.059 | 0.236 | 98.178 | |
28 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Ryan Hardwick |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 33 | 1'22.797 | 10.060 | 0.001 | 98.177 | |
29 | 12 | Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 27 | 1'22.862 | 10.125 | 0.065 | 98.100 | |
30 | 76 | Paul Holton Matt Plumb |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 29 | 1'23.335 | 10.598 | 0.473 | 97.543 | |
31 | 19 | Will Hardeman Alex Riberas |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 31 | 1'23.424 | 10.687 | 0.089 | 97.439 | |
32 | 73 | Patrick Long Marco Seefried |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 27 | 1'23.597 | 10.860 | 0.173 | 97.237 | |
33 | 57 | Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 32 | 1'23.657 | 10.920 | 0.060 | 97.167 | |
34 | 8 | Parker Chase Ryan Dalziel |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 31 | 1'24.133 | 11.396 | 0.476 | 96.618 | |
35 | 44 | John Potter Andy Lally |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 32 | 1'24.214 | 11.477 | 0.081 | 96.525 | |
36 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 29 | 1'24.500 | 11.763 | 0.286 | 96.198 |
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