Practice report
IMSA Laguna Seca
Laguna Seca IMSA: Albuquerque tops practice in WTR Acura
Filipe Albuquerque set the pace in his Wayne Taylor Racing Acura during IMSA’s Hyundai Monterey Sports Car event opening practice session at Laguna Seca on Friday, as the top spot traded hands numerous times.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Sep 11, 2021, 8:19 AM
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Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi driver Felipe Nasr set the early pace with an opening flying lap of 1m15.989s, which was first beaten by Albuquerque on 1m15.521s, and then Renger van der Zande (Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac) on 1m15.661s and Harry Tincknell (Mazda) on 1m15.540s.
Having dropped to fourth, Nasr went back to the top spot with 1m15.267s, before Tincknell went P1 with 1m15.215s.
Albuquerque topped them all on 1m14.880s just after the halfway point. Pipo Derani took over the AXR Caddy from Nasr and rocketed to P2 with 1m14.974s. Tincknell stayed third, ahead of Tristan Vautier’s JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillac. Kevin Magnussen beat teammate van der Zande’s time but stayed fifth.
Mikkel Jensen dominated the LMP2 class in his PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca, even outpacing Dane Cameron in the Meyer Shank Acura DPi. Ryan Dalziel was best of the rest in P2 in his Era Motorsport Oreca.
Corvettes split by Campbell in GT Le Mans
Matt Campbell set early pace at 1m22.566s in his WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19, but Corvette duo Nick Tandy and Antonio Garcia surpassed him on 1m22.081s and 1m22.512s respectively. Campbell then split the C8.Rs with a lap of 1m22.108s, and that’s the way it stayed.
In GTD, Bill Auberlen’s early 1m24.630s in his Turner Motorsports BMW M6 couldn’t be beaten, with Laurens Vanthoor getting closest on 1m25.105s in his Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R. Bryan Sellers was third quickest in his Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan.
Practice results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 10 Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
DPi Acura DPi 1'14.880 2 31 Felipe Nasr
Pipo Derani
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'14.974 0.094 3 55 Oliver Jarvis
Harry Tincknell
DPi Mazda DPi 1'15.215 0.335 4 5 Tristan Vautier
Loic Duval
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'15.335 0.455 5 01 Renger van der Zande
Kevin Magnussen
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'15.343 0.463 6 52 Ben Keating
Mikkel Jensen
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'16.115 1.235 7 60 Dane Cameron
Olivier Pla
DPi Acura DPi 1'16.244 1.364 8 18 Dwight Merriman
Ryan Dalziel
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'16.996 2.116 9 8 John Farano
Gabriel Aubry
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'17.053 2.173 10 11 Thomas Steven
Tristan Nunez
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'17.911 3.031 11 4 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'22.081 7.201 12 79 Cooper MacNeil
Matt Campbell
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 1'22.108 7.228 13 3 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'22.214 7.334 14 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'24.630 9.750 15 9 Zacharie Robichon
Laurens Vanthoor
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'25.105 10.225 16 1 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'25.158 10.278 17 14 Aaron Telitz
Jack Hawksworth
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'25.343 10.463 18 66 Till Bechtolsheimer
Marc Miller
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'25.379 10.499 19 76 Mario Farnbacher
Jacob Abel
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'25.398 10.518 20 23 Roman De Angelis
Ross Gunn
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'25.424 10.544 21 16 Trent Hindman
Patrick Long
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'25.773 10.893 22 44 John Potter
Andy Lally
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'25.841 10.961 23 39 Richard Heistand
Jeff Westphal
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'26.041 11.161 24 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Zach Veach
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'26.069 11.189 25 88 Rob Ferriol
Katherine Legge
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'26.154 11.274 26 27 Ian James
Alex Riberas
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'26.395 11.515 View full results
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