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IMSA Laguna Seca
Laguna Seca IMSA: Montoya edges Derani in second practice
Juan Pablo Montoya wheeled his Acura ARX-05 to the top of the times in second practice for this weekend's Laguna Seca IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round, beating the Action Express Racing Cadillac of Pipo Derani by a mere 0.078sec.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Sep 14, 2019, 8:20 AM
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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 View full results
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