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Lime Rock IMSA: Garcia tops FP2 for Chevy, BMW leads GTD
The #3 Chevrolet Corvette of Antonio Garcia topped second practice for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s GT-only event at Lime Rock Park.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Jul 19, 2019, 7:38 PM
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Connor de Phillippi’s #25 BMW M8 swapped the fastest time with Jesse Krohn in the #24 RLL-run sister car early on, but they were both pipped by Garcia’s 50.302s lap of the 1.474-mile course in Connecticut, set in the closing four minutes of the hour-long second session.
This effort was some way short of the 50.065s laptime set by Nick Tandy’s #911 Porsche in the far cooler morning session.
The Ford GTs of Richard Westbrook and Joey Hand were next up, ahead of Marcel Fassler in the second Corvette. The Porsches were the slowest GTLM contenders in this session, with Tandy just outpacing Earl Bamber.
BMW clung to the fastest time in the GT Daytona class, with Bill Auberlen setting the quickest time of 51.715s in his #96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6.
The main drama of the session was Toni Vilander’s #63 Ferrari 488 losing a right-rear wheel in pitlane and grinding to a halt in the Porsche #912 pit. He recovered to set the second fastest GTD time of the session, under a tenth away from Auberlen.
Session results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 3 Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia
GTLM Corvette C7.R 50.302 2 25 Tom Blomqvist
Connor de Phillippi
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 50.320 0.018 3 24 Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 50.467 0.165 4 67 Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
GTLM Ford GT 50.523 0.221 5 66 Joey Hand
Dirk Muller
GTLM Ford GT 50.648 0.346 6 4 Oliver Gavin
Marcel Fassler
GTLM Corvette C7.R 50.943 0.641 7 911 Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 51.023 0.721 8 912 Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 51.063 0.761 9 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
GTD BMW M6 GT3 51.715 1.413 10 63 Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander
GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 51.808 1.506 11 9 Dennis Olsen
Zacharie Robichon
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 51.954 1.652 12 73 Marco Seefried
Patrick Long
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 52.034 1.732 13 91 Anthony Imperato
Matt Campbell
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 52.062 1.760 14 57 Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen
GTD Acura NSX GT3 52.085 1.783 15 14 Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 52.099 1.797 16 11 John Potter
Andy Lally
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 52.112 1.810 17 33 Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 52.228 1.926 18 48 Bryan Sellers
Corey Lewis
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 52.410 2.108 19 76 Paul Holton
Matt Plumb
GTD McLaren 720S GT3 52.544 2.242 20 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 52.600 2.298 21 86 Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman
GTD Acura NSX GT3 53.180 2.878 View full results
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