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.
#3 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7.R, GTLM: Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen
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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
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | km/h |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 46 | 50.939 | 104.172 | ||
2 | 66 | Joey Hand Dirk Müller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 46 | 51.001 | 0.062 | 0.062 | 104.045 |
3 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 55 | 51.118 | 0.179 | 0.117 | 103.807 |
4 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 32 | 51.145 | 0.206 | 0.027 | 103.752 |
5 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 59 | 51.148 | 0.209 | 0.003 | 103.746 |
6 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 43 | 51.277 | 0.338 | 0.129 | 103.485 |
7 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi 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 | 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 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 27 | 52.468 | 1.529 | 0.170 | 101.136 |
12 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 57 | 52.570 | 1.631 | 0.102 | 100.940 |
13 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 40 | 52.578 | 1.639 | 0.008 | 100.924 |
14 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 52 | 52.823 | 1.884 | 0.245 | 100.456 |
15 | 93 | 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 Mario Farnbacher |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 33 | 53.005 | 2.066 | 0.155 | 100.111 |
18 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 0 |
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