Detroit IMSA: Bourdais moves to the top in FP2

A Chip Ganassi Cadillac DPi-V.R remained the car to beat in second practice at Belle Isle, but this time it was Sebastien Bourdais who took over top spot.

Bourdais, who has won on this track in IndyCar, lapped the 2.35-mile 14-turn course in 1min19.307sec to outpace Ricky Taylor in the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05 by just over two-tenths of a second.

Alex Lynn, despite encountering the fiendishly bumpy course for the first time this week, was barely more than a quarter-second from Bourdais to ensure both Ganassi entries were in the top three. Tom Blomqvist was similarly impressive and for the same reason, as his Meyer Shank Racing Acura lapped the course just a tenth slower than the WTR Acura.

Tristan Vautier and Olivier Pla were fifth and sixth in the JDC Miller MotorSports and Action Express Racing Cadillacs, respectively.

Fastest in the GT Daytona class was Vasser Sullivan Racing’s late call-up, Indy Lights champion and rising IndyCar star Kyle Kirkwood. His Lexus RC F lapped the course a mere 0.007sec faster than both Mike Skeen in the Korthoff Mercedes AMG GT3 and Jan Heylen in Wright Motorsports’ Porsche 911 GT3 R, who set identical times to the thousandth of a second.

Only two-hundredths slower than Kirkwood was Frankie Montecalvo in the second Lexus, with a similar margin over Roman De Angelis in the Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage.

Qualifying starts at 5.30pm local (Eastern) time.

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Renger van der Zande Sébastien Bourdais	DPi	Cadillac DPi	48	1'19.307
2	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Acura DPi	55	1'19.520	0.213
3	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn	DPi	Cadillac DPi	47	1'19.571	0.264
4	Oliver Jarvis Tom Blomqvist	DPi	Acura DPi	49	1'19.637	0.330
5	Tristan Vautier Richard Westbrook	DPi	Cadillac DPi	51	1'20.307	1.000
6	Olivier Pla Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	56	1'20.365	1.058
7	Ben Barnicoat Kyle Kirkwood	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	39	1'29.993	10.686
8	Mike Skeen Stevan McAleer	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	35	1'30.000	10.693
9	Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	58	1'30.000	10.693
10	Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	47	1'30.020	10.713
11	Roman De Angelis Ross Gunn	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	54	1'30.043	10.736
12	Robert Megennis Jeff Westphal	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	44	1'30.057	10.750
13	Ryan Eversley Aidan Read	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	32	1'30.108	10.801
14	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	54	1'30.224	10.917
15	Robby Foley Bill Auberlen	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	43	1'30.650	11.343
16	Russell Ward Philip Ellis	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	13	1'30.773	11.466
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