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IMSA Watkins Glen
Watkins Glen IMSA: Cameron keeps MSR Acura on top in FP2
Dane Cameron ensured that Meyer Shank Racing led an Acura 1-2 in second practice for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jun 26, 2021, 5:30 PM
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Cameron lapped the 3.4-mile Watkins Glen course in 1min30.451sec, 0.231sec faster than Ricky Taylor’s best effort in the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05.
Action Express Racing’s Pipo Derani was a further 0.2sec adrift in the best of the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs, a similar distance ahead of Renger van der Zande’s Chip Ganassi Racing’s similar car.
Oliver Jarvis set the Mazda RT24-P’s best time in fifth, although it was 0.76sec off top sport, albeit ahead of two more Cadillacs – AXR’s extra entry, to be driven by Kamui Kobayashi, Simon Pagenaud and Jimmie Johnson, and the Sebring 12 Hours winner, the JDC-Miller MotorSports machine.
Mikkel Jensen topped LMP2 in the PR1/Mathiasen Motorsport entry ahead of the Era Motorsport machine of Ryan Dalziel, with Tower Motorsport and United Autosports third and fourth.
Steven Thomas caused a red flag when his WIN Autosport LMP2 entry hit both the barriers and the GTD Pfaff Porsche 911 at Turn 8 after locking up his rear brakes. The car rejoined the action but it suffered a rear wing issue.
In LMP3, the Felipe Fraga/Scott Andrews/Gar Robinson-driven Riley Motorsports Ligier led Oliver Askew in the Andretti Autosport entry, followed by United Autosports and the second Riley car of Jeroen Bleekemolen.
The GT Le Mans field is once more boosted by the presence of the BMW team for this third enduro of the IMSA season, and it was the #25 M8 GTE of Connor De Phillippi, Bruno Spengler and Philipp Eng which topped the class, 0.125sec ahead of Antonio Garcia’s best effort in the #3 Corvette C8.R.
Their respective teammates John Edwards and Nick Tandy were third and fourth, with Cooper MacNeil fifth in the WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19.
There wasn’t a hope of any GT Daytona rival getting close to Indy Lights ace Kyle Kirkwood’s best time of 1min45.156sec in the #14 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F, Robby Foley coming closest in the Turner Motorsport BMW M6, recovered from its driveline issues yesterday but almost 0.75sec off top spot.
Newest Wright Motorsports member Trent Hindman turned the best time for the #16 Porsche 911 GT3 R but was a second off P1, but ahead of Billy Johnson’s Alegra Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3, with the second Lexus next up ahead of the Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage.
The returning NTe Sport Audi R8 was an impressive seventh fastest in the hands of Markus Palttala.
Qualifying begins at 11.50am local (Eastern) time.
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 60 Dane Cameron
Olivier Pla
DPi Acura DPi 1'30.451 2 10 Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
Alexander Rossi
DPi Acura DPi 1'30.682 0.231 3 31 Felipe Nasr
Mike Conway
Pipo Derani
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'30.893 0.442 4 01 Renger van der Zande
Kevin Magnussen
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'31.085 0.634 5 55 Oliver Jarvis
Harry Tincknell
Jonathan Bomarito
DPi Mazda DPi 1'31.211 0.760 6 48 Jimmie Johnson
Kamui Kobayashi
Simon Pagenaud
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'31.377 0.926 7 5 Tristan Vautier
Loic Duval
Sébastien Bourdais
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'31.757 1.306 8 52 Ben Keating
Mikkel Jensen
Scott Huffaker
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'33.941 3.490 9 18 Dwight Merriman
Kyle Tilley
Ryan Dalziel
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'34.901 4.450 10 8 John Farano
Gabriel Aubry
James French
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'35.091 4.640 11 22 James McGuire
Wayne Boyd
Guy Smith
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'35.888 5.437 12 11 Thomas Steven
Tristan Nunez
Thomas Merrill
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'39.366 8.915 13 74 Gar Robinson
Felipe Fraga
Scott Andrews
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'39.937 9.486 14 36 Jarett Andretti
Oliver Askew
Marco Andretti
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'40.718 10.267 15 2 Niklas Kruetten
Edouard Cauhaupe
Austin McCusker
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'41.657 11.206 16 91 Jim Cox
Dylan Murry
Jeroen Bleekemolen
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'41.886 11.435 17 25 Connor de Phillippi
Philipp Eng
Bruno Spengler
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'41.977 11.526 18 3 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'42.102 11.651 19 54 Jon Bennett
George Kurtz
Colin Braun
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'42.176 11.725 20 24 John Edwards
Jesse Krohn
Augusto Farfus
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'42.273 11.822 21 4 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'42.319 11.868 22 38 Rasmus Lindh
Mateo Llarena
Dan Goldburg
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'42.451 12.000 23 79 Cooper MacNeil
Mathieu Jaminet
Matt Campbell
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'43.146 12.695 24 84 Theodor Olsen
Dominic Cicero
Ben Devlin
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'43.842 13.391 25 14 Aaron Telitz
Jack Hawksworth
Kyle Kirkwood
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'45.156 14.705 26 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
Aidan Read
GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'45.898 15.447 27 16 Patrick Long
Jan Heylen
Trent Hindman
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'46.193 15.742 28 28 Daniel Morad
Michael de Quesada
Billy Johnson
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'46.304 15.853 29 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Zach Veach
Robert Megennis
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'46.380 15.929 30 23 Roman De Angelis
Ross Gunn
Ian James
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'46.608 16.157 31 42 Don Yount
Jaden Conwright
Markus Palttala
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'46.698 16.247 32 19 Mikhail Goikhberg
Franck Perera
Tim Zimmermann
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'46.746 16.295 33 75 Kenny Habul
Mikael Grenier
Maro Engel
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'46.794 16.343 34 1 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
Corey Lewis
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'46.821 16.370 35 39 Richard Heistand
Jeff Westphal
Tyler McQuarrie
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'46.823 16.372 36 9 Zacharie Robichon
Laurens Vanthoor
Lars Kern
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'47.055 16.604 37 44 John Potter
Andy Lally
Spencer Pumpelly
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'47.288 16.837 38 88 Rob Ferriol
Katherine Legge
Andrew Davis
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'47.366 16.915 View full results
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