Detroit IMSA: Castroneves tops FP2 after red flag incidents
Helio Castroneves, an ace at Belle Isle in Indy cars, topped FP2 for the Detroit round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, but incidents for a prime rival and a GTD car lost teams a lot of track time.
Race winner Helio Castroneves, Acura Team Penske
Art Fleischmann
What should have been a 1hr50min session (for a 1hr40min race) lost 48mins, due first to Andy Lally suffering a fire in his Magnus Racing Audi R8, and then Felipe Nasr spinning his Action Express Cadillac into a barrier and damaging its left-rear corner.
Castroneves himself had an incident at Turn 10 during what should have been his best lap in the Acura Team Penske ARX-05, but not before he’d set a 1min22.363sec flyer, about 0.4sec off teammate Ricky Taylor’s mark from this morning.
His nearest challenger – just 0.025sec behind, in fact –was Pipo Derani in the #22 ESM Nissan, which in FP1 had not even made it into the Top 10. Filipe Albuquerque was third in AXR’s second Caddy, again absurdly close, 0.064 off top spot.
Montoya made it two Acuras in the top four, head of Harry Tincknell’s Mazda RT24-P and Colin Braun in the CORE autosport Oreca Gibson.
Jack Hawksworth, racing in 3GT Racing’s home state, slotted the Lexus RC F into top spot in GT Daytona with a 1min29.468, around two tenths faster than Jeff Segal’s Ferrari 488, Katherine Legge’s Acura NSX and Jeroen Bleekemolen in the Riley Motorsports Mercedes AMG GT3.
Qualifying begins at 5.20 local (Eastern) time.
IMSA Detroit, second practice
Pos. | No. | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 1'22.363 | |
2 | 22 | Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'22.388 | 0.025 |
3 | 5 | Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'22.427 | 0.064 |
4 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 1'22.514 | 0.151 |
5 | 55 | Harry Tincknell Jonathan Bomarito |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'22.619 | 0.256 |
6 | 54 | Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'22.805 | 0.442 |
7 | 31 | Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'22.866 | 0.503 |
8 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'22.944 | 0.581 |
9 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'22.990 | 0.627 |
10 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'23.218 | 0.855 |
11 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'23.254 | 0.891 |
12 | 90 | Matt McMurry Tristan Vautier |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'23.479 | 1.116 |
13 | 85 | Simon Trummer Robert Alon |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'23.516 | 1.153 |
14 | 52 | Gustavo Yacaman Sebastian Saavedra |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'24.682 | 2.319 |
15 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'29.468 | 7.105 |
16 | 63 | Jeff Segal Cooper MacNeil |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'29.652 | 7.289 |
17 | 86 | Katherine Legge Mario Farnbacher |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'29.785 | 7.422 |
18 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'29.795 | 7.432 |
19 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'29.991 | 7.628 |
20 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'30.205 | 7.842 |
21 | 75 | Bernd Schneider Kenny Habul |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'30.304 | 7.941 |
22 | 16 | Wolf Henzler Michael Schein |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'30.584 | 8.221 |
23 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 1'30.712 | 8.349 |
24 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'30.756 | 8.393 |
25 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'30.801 | 8.438 |
26 | 44 | Andy Lally John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 1'32.091 | 9.728 |
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