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Lime Rock IMSA: Corvette and Audi lead second practice

Corvette Racing’s Antonio Garcia sent the #3 C7.R to the top of the times by mere hundredths to edge Joey Hand’s Ford GT, as practice continued for IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's GT-only Northeast GP.

David Malsher-Lopez

Edited: Jul 20, 2018, 7:17 PM

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#3 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7.R, GTLM: Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen

Garcia’s time, like Dirk Muller’s top time from this morning, was in the 50.9sec bracket – but just 0.062sec faster than Hand’s #66 Ford GT around the 1.5-mile seven-turn track, both cars completing 46 laps.

Behind them, by just a tenth, was the #912 Porsche 911 RSR of Laurens Vanthoor, while Richard Westbrook (Ford) and Nick Tandy (Porsche) were just 0.003sec apart and within a quarter second of Garcia’s best.

The BMW M8s of John Edwards and Alexander Sims were sixth and seventh, beating the second Corvette of Tommy Milner who was 0.59sec behind his teammate Garcia.

Magnus Racing put 59 laps on its Audi R8, more than any other team, and snagged top time in GTD, 0.15sec ahead of Cooper MacNeil’s Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488, and more than three-tenths faster than the Lexus RC F of Dominik Baumann.

The top five was completed by Patrick Long in the Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 and the Riley Mercedes AMG GT of Jeroen Bleekemolen, as the Acura NSXs slipped to sixth and seventh.

Third practice begins at 4.55pm local (Eastern) time.

Lime Rock, IMSA second practice

ClaNumDriverClassChassisLapsTimeGapIntervalkm/h 1 3 denmark Jan Magnussen
spain Antonio Garcia GTLM Corvette C7.R 46 50.939 104.172 2 66 united_states Joey Hand
germany Dirk Müller GTLM Ford GT 46 51.001 0.062 0.062 104.045 3 912 new_zealand Earl Bamber
belgium Laurens Vanthoor GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 55 51.118 0.179 0.117 103.807 4 67 australia Ryan Briscoe
united_kingdom Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 32 51.145 0.206 0.027 103.752 5 911 Nick Tandy
france Patrick Pilet GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 59 51.148 0.209 0.003 103.746 6 24 united_states John Edwards
finland Jesse Krohn GTLM BMW M8 GTE 43 51.277 0.338 0.129 103.485 7 25 Connor de Phillippi
united_kingdom Alexander Sims GTLM BMW M8 GTE 19 51.321 0.382 0.044 103.396 8 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Corvette C7.R 43 51.529 0.590 0.208 102.979 9 44 united_states Andy Lally
John Potter GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 59 52.140 1.201 0.611 101.772 10 63 Cooper MacNeil
Gunnar Jeannette GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 47 52.298 1.359 0.158 101.465 11 14 canada Kyle Marcelli
austria Dominik Baumann GTD Lexus RC F GT3 27 52.468 1.529 0.170 101.136 12 58 united_states Patrick Long
denmark Christina Nielsen GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 57 52.570 1.631 0.102 100.940 13 33 netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen
Ben Keating GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 40 52.578 1.639 0.008 100.924 14 86 portugal Alvaro Parente
united_kingdom Katherine Legge GTD Acura NSX GT3 52 52.823 1.884 0.245 100.456 15 93 united_states Justin Marks
Lawson Aschenbach GTD Acura NSX GT3 49 52.831 1.892 0.008 100.441 16 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley GTD BMW M6 GT3 47 52.850 1.911 0.019 100.405 17 15 Jack Hawksworth
germany Mario Farnbacher GTD Lexus RC F GT3 33 53.005 2.066 0.155 100.111 18 48 united_states Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 0

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