Petit Le Mans: AXR Cadillac tops second practice
Action Express Racing’s Filipe Albuquerque led second practice for Motul Petit Le Mans, topping the charts by over half a second.
With a lap of 69.366sec around the 2.54-mile Road Atlanta course, Albuquerque ended up 0.527sec quicker than Tristan Nunez in the #77 Mazda RT24-P, and over 0.6sec faster than the next quickest Cadillac DPi-V.R. That was the Wayne Taylor Racing car of Ryan Briscoe who narrowly edged Dane Cameron in the Acura Team Penske ARX-05.
Simon Trummer moved PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports to the top of LMP2, but only narrowly ahead of Colin Braun in the Performance Tech Motorsports machine.
With his final lap of the session, Antonio Garcia nailed top spot in GT Le Mans for Corvette Racing, three tenths clear of the BMWs of John Edwards and Connor De Phillippi.
Robby Foley was fastest in GT Daytona, driving the Turner Motorsports BMW M6 in which he and Bill Auberlen won last week on Charlotte’s Roval. But Paul Miller Racing’s Lamborghini Huracan continued to shine, as it did this morning, with Madison Snow taking second ahead of Shinya Michimi in the #86 Acura NSX of Meyer Shank Racing.
Evening practice, a 90min session, begins at 7.30pm local (Eastern) time.
Session results:
| Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 |  Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani  Filipe Albuquerque | DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'09.230 | |
| 2 | 77 |  Oliver Jarvis  Tristan Nunez  Olivier Pla | DPi | Mazda DPi | 1'09.757 | 0.527 |
| 3 | 10 |  Renger van der Zande  Ryan Briscoe  Scott Dixon | DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'09.860 | 0.630 |
| 4 | 6 |  Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron Simon Pagenaud | DPi | Acura DPi | 1'09.888 | 0.658 |
| 5 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor Alexander Rossi | DPi | Acura DPi | 1'10.042 | 0.812 |
| 6 | 55 | Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell Ryan Hunter-Reay | DPi | Mazda DPi | 1'10.076 | 0.846 |
| 7 | 5 | Sébastien Bourdais Tristan Vautier Loic Duval | DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'10.153 | 0.923 |
| 8 | 85 | Chris Miller Matheus Leist Gabriel Aubry | DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'10.278 | 1.048 |
| 9 | 52 | Patrick Kelly  Simon Trummer Scott Huffaker | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'11.231 | 2.001 |
| 10 | 38 | James McGuire Matthew Bell Colin Braun | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'11.402 | 2.172 |
| 11 | 8 |  John Farano  Mikkel Jensen Job Van Uitert | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'11.832 | 2.602 |
| 12 | 51 | Austin McCusker  Jakub Smiechowski Rob Hodes | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'14.182 | 4.952 |
| 13 | 3 |  Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg | GTLM | Corvette C8.R | 1'16.901 | 7.671 |
| 14 | 24 |  Jesse Krohn John Edwards Augusto Farfus | GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'17.224 | 7.994 |
| 15 | 25 | Bruno Spengler Connor de Phillippi Colton Herta | GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'17.281 | 8.051 |
| 16 | 912 | Earl Bamber  Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet | GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | 1'17.381 | 8.151 |
| 17 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Marcel Fassler | GTLM | Corvette C8.R | 1'17.392 | 8.162 |
| 18 | 911 | Nick Tandy Frédéric Makowiecki Matt Campbell | GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | 1'17.553 | 8.323 |
| 19 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Dillon Machavern | GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 1'20.057 | 10.827 |
| 20 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'20.210 | 10.980 |
| 21 | 86 |  Mario Farnbacher Matt McMurry  Shinya Michimi | GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'20.220 | 10.990 |
| 22 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil  Alessandro Balzan Jeff Westphal | GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'20.258 | 11.028 |
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