Laguna Seca IMSA: Montoya edges Derani in second practice

Acura Team Penske’s Montoya set a best lap of 1min16.003sec around the 2.258-mile course to nudge past Derani, while morning pacesetter Oliver Jarvis was 0.4sec down in the best of the Mazda RT24-Ps.

Joao Barbosa (AXR) and Stephen Simpson (JDC-Miller) made it three Cadillacs in the top five, narrowly eclipsing Helio Castroneves’ best effort in the second Acura.

Colin Braun’s best effort in the Nissan DPi of CORE autosport was enough to remain within a second of pacesetter Montoya and also nip ahead of Jordan Taylor’s best in the Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac.

The LMP2 two-car battle saw Kyle Masson’s Performance Tech Motorsport Oreca outpace the similar machine of PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports’ Dalton Kellett by 0.45sec.

Corvette Racing, still seeking its 100th IMSA win and its first of 2019, topped the times in GT Le Mans, with the #3 of championship aspirants (and defending champions) Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen heading teammate Oliver Gavin by barely more than a tenth of a second.

Third was the Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Pilet, almost four-tenths slower but well ahead of Dirk Muller in the faster of the two Ford GTs, while Earl Bamber's Porsche, the two BMWs and Ryan Briscoe's Ford closed out the eight-car class.

The Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 of Bryan Sellers again led the GT Daytona ranks, but he had less than one tenth of a second margin over Matt Plumb’s Compass Racing McLaren 720S GT3 – while Andy Lally’s Magnus Racing Lambo was even closer behind.

Toni Vilander in the Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 was fourth, but Ben Keating’s best effort in the Riley Mercedes-AMG GT3 was restricted to sixth by Mario Farnbacher, who got the title-contending Acura NSX GT3 of Meyer Shank Racing into fifth.

Third practice begins at 8:45am local (Pacific) time on Saturday.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	6	Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya	DPi	Acura DPi	1'16.003
2	31	Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'16.081	0.078
3	77	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'16.421	0.418
4	5	Joao Barbosa Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'16.850	0.847
5	84	Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'16.871	0.868
6	7	Ricky Taylor Helio Castroneves	DPi	Acura DPi	1'16.907	0.904
7	54	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	DPi	Nissan DPi	1'16.929	0.926
8	10	Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'17.013	1.010
9	85	Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'17.176	1.173
10	55	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'17.262	1.259
11	38	Cameron Cassels Kyle Masson	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'18.208	2.205
12	52	Matt McMurry Dalton Kellett	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'18.687	2.684
13	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'22.833	6.830
14	4	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'22.963	6.960
15	911	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'23.351	7.348
16	66	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	1'23.730	7.727
17	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'23.737	7.734
18	25	Connor de Phillippi Tom Blomqvist	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'23.907	7.904
19	24	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'24.124	8.121
20	67	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	1'24.201	8.198
21	48	Bryan Sellers Corey Lewis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'25.246	9.243
22	76	Paul Holton Matt Plumb	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	1'25.323	9.320
23	44	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'25.395	9.392
24	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'25.578	9.575
25	86	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'25.622	9.619
26	33	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	1'25.726	9.723
27	73	Patrick Lindsey Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'25.773	9.770
28	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'25.863	9.860
29	57	Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'25.943	9.940
30	9	Scott Hargrove Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'26.521	10.518
31	12	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'26.884	10.881
32	14	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'27.223	11.220
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