Practice report

Laguna Seca IMSA: Tincknell beats Derani by 0.002s in second practice

Mazda’s Harry Tincknell was quickest in IMSA’s Hyundai Monterey Sports Car Saturday morning practice session at Laguna Seca, just beating Pipo Derani by 0.002s in the closing moments of Saturday’s 1h15m of running.

Derani (Action Express Cadillac DPi) set the benchmark at 1m14.982s, then lowered the P1 time to 1m14.854s and eventually 1m14.554s – which remained the fastest time until the last few minutes.

Tincknell vaulted to second in the closing 10 minutes of the session with a lap of 1m14.789s, pushing Ricky Taylor’s Wayne Taylor Racing Acura (which set the Friday pace) back to third on 1m15.096s. Tincknell then produced the fastest time of the weekend so far with a 1m14.552s, while Filipe Albuquerque also improved late on in the WTR Acura, but the car stayed third on 1m14.680s.

Dane Cameron was fourth in the Meyer Shank Acura DPi, two tenths clear of Tristan Vautier’s JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillac and Kevin Magnussen (Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac). As a result, six DPi class cars covered by 0.828s.

Ryan Dalziel was fastest in LMP2, lapping his Era Motorsport ORECA in 1m17.065s. Yesterday’s pacesetter Mikkel Jensen was second quickest this time in his PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA at 1m17.258s.

#4 Corvette Racing Corvette C8.R, GTLM: Tommy Milner, Nick Tandy

Photo by: Art Fleischmann

Corvettes dominate GTLM

Matt Campbell set the early GTLM pace at 1m21.914s in his WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19, before being bested by the Corvettes of Tommy Milner on 1m21.680s and Jordan Taylor on 1m21.817s towards the end of the session.

In GTD, Madison Snow led the way in his Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan at 1m24.237s, a couple of tenths ahead of Trent Hindman’s Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R on 1m24.455s. Zacharie Robichon was third fastest in the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche, who lapped in 1m24.479s, just ahead of Robby Foley’s Turner Motorsports BMW M6 on 1m24.537s.

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap	km/h
1	Oliver Jarvis Harry Tincknell	DPi	Mazda DPi	34	1'14.552		108.070
2	Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	37	1'14.554	0.002	108.067
3	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Acura DPi	33	1'14.680	0.128	107.884
4	Dane Cameron Olivier Pla	DPi	Acura DPi	28	1'14.908	0.356	107.556
5	Tristan Vautier Loic Duval	DPi	Cadillac DPi	35	1'15.065	0.513	107.331
6	Renger van der Zande Kevin Magnussen	DPi	Cadillac DPi	38	1'15.380	0.828	106.882
7	Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	33	1'17.065	2.513	104.546
8	Ben Keating Mikkel Jensen	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	34	1'17.258	2.706	104.284
9	John Farano Gabriel Aubry	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	39	1'18.012	3.460	103.276
10	Thomas Steven Tristan Nunez	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	29	1'18.212	3.660	103.012
11	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	31	1'21.680	7.128	98.639
12	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	33	1'21.817	7.265	98.473
13	Cooper MacNeil Matt Campbell	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	39	1'21.914	7.362	98.357
14	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	35	1'24.237	9.685	95.644
15	Trent Hindman Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	34	1'24.455	9.903	95.398
16	Zacharie Robichon Laurens Vanthoor	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	36	1'24.479	9.927	95.370
17	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	26	1'24.537	9.985	95.305
18	Aaron Telitz Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	30	1'24.551	9.999	95.289
19	Roman De Angelis Ross Gunn	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	35	1'24.786	10.234	95.025
20	Richard Heistand Jeff Westphal	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	31	1'25.072	10.520	94.706
21	Rob Ferriol Katherine Legge	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	33	1'25.167	10.615	94.600
22	Frankie Montecalvo Zach Veach	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	33	1'25.211	10.659	94.551
23	Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	34	1'25.244	10.692	94.515
24	Mario Farnbacher Jacob Abel	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	39	1'25.244	10.692	94.515
25	Ian James Alex Riberas	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	30	1'25.349	10.797	94.398
26	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	33	1'25.849	11.297	93.849
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