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Long Beach IMSA: Acura edges Cadillac in final practice
Helio Castroneves put his Acura Team Penske ARX-05 at the top of the times in the second practice session for the BUBBA Burger Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach ahead of qualifying.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Apr 13, 2019, 5:59 AM
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The Brazilian wheeled the #7 Acura to a best time of 1min11.918sec, just 0.019sec ahead of a late effort from former Formula 1 driver Felipe Nasr in the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R.
Jonathan Bomarito in the Mazda RT24-P was third, followed by the second AXR Caddy of Joao Barbosa, who left it late to edge Colin Braun down to fifth in the CORE autosport Nissan DPi.
Juan Pablo Montoya was 0.325sec off teammate Castroneves in sixth in the second of the Acuras, ahead of Misha Goikhberg in the Cadillac of JDC-Miller Motorsports.
In GT Le Mans, Oliver Gavin sprung the #4 Corvette C7.R to the top of the times with a 1min17.023sec, before he was demoted by the Porsche 911 RSRs of Laurens Vanthoor and Nick Tandy.
Bamber ended up with the faster time in the #912 car with a 1m16.710s, 0.234s up on Tandy.
Fourth place was the faster Ford GT of Sebastien Bourdais, who is subbing for the unwell Joey Hand in the #66 car, followed by the second Corvette and the two BMW M8 GTEs.
Practice times:
Pos. Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 7 
Helio Castroneves
Ricky Taylor DPi Acura DPi 1'11.918 2 31 Pipo Derani
Felipe Nasr DPi Cadillac DPi 1'11.937 0.019 3 55 
Harry Tincknell
Jonathan Bomarito DPi Mazda DPi 1'11.968 0.050 4 5 
Filipe Albuquerque
Joao Barbosa DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.125 0.207 5 54 Jon Bennett
Colin Braun DPi Nissan DPi 1'12.129 0.211 6 6 
Juan Pablo Montoya
Dane Cameron DPi Acura DPi 1'12.243 0.325 7 85 
Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.322 0.404 8 77 Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez DPi Mazda DPi 1'12.504 0.586 9 10 Jordan Taylor
Renger van der Zande DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.727 0.809 10 50 Kyle Kaiser
Will Owen DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.806 0.888 11 84 
Simon Trummer
Stephen Simpson DPi Cadillac DPi 1'13.252 1.334 12 912 
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'16.710 4.792 13 911 Nick Tandy
Patrick Pilet GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'16.944 5.026 14 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 1'17.023 5.105 15 66 Sébastien Bourdais
Dirk Muller GTLM Ford GT 1'17.322 5.404 16 3 
Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia GTLM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 1'17.443 5.525 17 24 John Edwards
Jesse Krohn GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'17.570 5.652 18 25 Connor de Phillippi
Tom Blomqvist GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'17.704 5.786 19 67 
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 1'17.816 5.898
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