Lime Rock IMSA: Milner, Robichon lead interrupted FP2

After 15 minutes, practice was red flagged for severe weather – although a hard rain was falling, the actual problem was lightning in the area which obliged teams to abandon pitlane, and spectators to leave grandstands.

Action resumed some 43mins later on a rain-soaked but rapidly-drying track, with no time added to the session and around 15mins to go. Initially the competitors went out on wet tires, until the GTLM cars got down to 5.5sec away from dry-track times around the 1.5-mile course.

At that point, Tommy Milner pitted the #4 Corvette C8.R for slick Michelins and over the course of three laps he had jumped to the top of the times with a 52.064sec lap which was only around 1.5sec off a dry time. His next flyer was a 51.117, and he eventually worked own to a 50.961sec lap.

That left him 0.329sec ahead of teammate Jordan Taylor, and 1.7sec ahead of Cooper MacNeil in the WeatherTech Racing Proton Porsche 911 RSR.

In GT Daytona, Robichon’s time from pre-rainfall kept the Pfaff 911 GT3 on top, ahead of the #14 Lexus RC F of Jack Hawksworth, the Wright Motorsports Porsche of Trent Hindman and Robby Foley in the Turner Motorsports BMW M6.

Qualifying is set to start at 5.15pm local (Eastern) time.

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	50.961
2	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	51.290	0.329
3	Zacharie Robichon Laurens Vanthoor	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	52.380	1.419
4	Aaron Telitz Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	52.425	1.464
5	Trent Hindman Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	52.433	1.472
6	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	52.451	1.490
7	Frankie Montecalvo Zach Veach	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	52.631	1.670
8	Richard Heistand Jeff Westphal	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	52.669	1.708
9	Cooper MacNeil Mathieu Jaminet	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	52.678	1.717
10	Jeff Kingsley Mario Farnbacher	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	52.693	1.732
11	Roman De Angelis Ross Gunn	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	52.821	1.860
12	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	53.012	2.051
13	Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	53.080	2.119
14	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	53.222	2.261
15	Mikhail Goikhberg Franck Perera	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	53.962	3.001
16	Rob Ferriol Katherine Legge	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	59.426	8.465
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