Practice report

CTMP IMSA: Castroneves quickest, PMR Lamborghini crashes

Acura Team Penske’s Helio Castroneves led the times in third practice for tomorrow’s Mobil 1 Sportscar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, but Ryan Hardwick shunted the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan into the Turn 2 wall.

Castroneves lapped the 2.459-mile course in the fastest time seen yet this weekend, 65.632sec, to edge the weekend’s pacesetter Colin Braun by 0.152sec and just narrowly miss eclipsing the 135mph barrier.

Third fastest was the Watkins Glen-winning #55 Mazda RT24-P of Jonathan Bomarito and Harry Tincknell ahead of Pipo Derani’s best effort in the fastest of the Cadillac DPi-V.R’s, the #31 Action Express Racing entry. Tristan Nunez was fifth in the second Mazda ahead of the Juan Pablo Montoya/Dane Cameron-driven second Acura.

GT Le Mans again looked close with four different marques in the top four – Ryan Briscoe in the #67 Ford leading the Jesse Krohn/John Edwards BMW M8, the #911 Porsche, and the #3 Corvette C7.R.

Robbie Foley grabbed top spot in GT Daytona in the Turner Motorsport BMW M6 ahead of Ben Keating in the Riley Motorsports Mercedes AMG GT, but the big news in class was Hardwick’s shunt. After making contact with a JDC Miller Motorsports Cadillac, he went off the track and was able to step from the car without obvious hurt. However the Paul Miller Racing team faces a thrash to make the field for tomorrow’s race.

Qualifying begins at 11.30 local (Eastern) time.

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	DPi	Acura DPi	33	1'05.632
2	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	DPi	Nissan DPi	32	1'05.784	0.152	0.152
3	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell	DPi	Mazda DPi	34	1'05.947	0.315	0.163
4	Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	32	1'06.001	0.369	0.054
5	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	DPi	Mazda DPi	27	1'06.148	0.516	0.147
6	Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron	DPi	Acura DPi	27	1'06.178	0.546	0.030
7	Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor	DPi	Cadillac DPi	29	1'06.433	0.801	0.255
8	Joao Barbosa Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Cadillac DPi	36	1'06.438	0.806	0.005
9	Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	33	1'06.757	1.125	0.319
10	Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson	DPi	Cadillac DPi	34	1'06.989	1.357	0.232
11	Will Owen Victor Franzoni	DPi	Cadillac DPi	32	1'07.275	1.643	0.286
12	Kyle Masson Cameron Cassels	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	28	1'09.472	3.840	2.197
13	Matt McMurry Dalton Kellett	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	34	1'09.846	4.214	0.374
14	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	29	1'13.739	8.107	3.893
15	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	32	1'13.828	8.196	0.089
16	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	32	1'14.038	8.406	0.210
17	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	29	1'14.062	8.430	0.024
18	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	32	1'14.092	8.460	0.030
19	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	29	1'14.469	8.837	0.377
20	Oliver Gavin Marcel Fassler	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	32	1'14.644	9.012	0.175
21	Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	31	1'14.708	9.076	0.064
22	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	28	1'16.229	10.597	1.521
23	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	30	1'16.637	11.005	0.408
24	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	31	1'16.710	11.078	0.073
25	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	32	1'16.760	11.128	0.050
26	Gar Robinson Lawson Aschenbach	GTD	Mercedes-AMG	29	1'16.858	11.226	0.098
27	Scott Hargrove Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	23	1'16.908	11.276	0.050
28	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	29	1'16.908	11.276	0.000
29	Patrick Lindsey Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	26	1'16.972	11.340	0.064
30	Paul Holton Matt Plumb	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	27	1'16.986	11.354	0.014
31	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	31	1'17.020	11.388	0.034
32	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	30	1'17.024	11.392	0.004
33	Bryan Sellers Ryan Hardwick	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	7	1'17.093	11.461	0.069
34	Katherine Legge Ana Beatriz	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	29	1'17.292	11.660	0.199
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