Practice report
IMSA Lime Rock
Lime Rock IMSA: Porsches dominate both classes in FP3
Porsche took top honors in third practice for IMSA’s Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock, as Patrick Pilet was almost half a second clear of the competition in GT Le Mans.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jul 22, 2018, 8:12 AM
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Pilet’s 911 RSR produced the best lap of the weekend by half a second – a 50.414sec tour of the 1.5-mile Lime Rock Park – and was 0.465sec clear of Dirk Muller’s best in the #66 Ford GT.
Jesse Krohn was third in one of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s BMW M8s, ahead of the second Porsche of Earl Bamber, which completed the most laps in the session [60].
Oliver Gavin was fifth for Corvette Racing ahead of the second Ford of Richard Westbrook.
In GT Daytona, Patrick Long’s best effort in the Wright Porsche 911 GT3 R was barely 0.3sec slower than Connor De Phillippi’s top time in the GTLM BMW, and was three tenths clear of the fastest of the two Acuras in second and third.
Bill Auberlen wound the BMW M6 up to a 52.252sec lap, a mere 0.003sec faster than Jeroen Bleekemolen’s Riley-run Mercedes.
The Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan, which missed session 2 due to its mechanical issues in the morning, clocked sixth fastest time in the hands of Bryan Sellers.
The 20-minute warm-up for qualifying begins tomorrow at 9.05am local [Eastern] time, with the qualifying session beginning at 9.35am. The 2hr40min race commences at 3.10pm.
Lime Rock, IMSA third practice
Pos.#DriversClassCarTimeGap 1 911 
Nick Tandy
Patrick Pilet GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 50.414 2 66 
Joey Hand
Dirk Müller GTLM Ford GT 50.879 0.465 3 24 John Edwards
Jesse Krohn GTLM BMW M8 GTE 50.934 0.520 4 912 
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 50.970 0.556 5 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Corvette C7.R 51.120 0.706 6 67 
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 51.200 0.786 7 3 
Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia GTLM Corvette C7.R 51.225 0.811 8 25 Connor de Phillippi
Alexander Sims GTLM BMW M8 GTE 51.429 1.015 9 58 Patrick Long
Christina Nielsen GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 51.754 1.340 10 93 Justin Marks
Lawson Aschenbach GTD Acura NSX GT3 52.051 1.637 11 86 
Alvaro Parente
Katherine Legge GTD Acura NSX GT3 52.136 1.722 12 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley GTD BMW M6 GT3 52.252 1.838 13 33 
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Ben Keating GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 52.255 1.841 14 48 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 52.470 2.056 15 15 Jack Hawksworth
Mario Farnbacher GTD Lexus RC F GT3 52.519 2.105 16 14 
Kyle Marcelli
Dominik Baumann GTD Lexus RC F GT3 52.634 2.220 17 44 Andy Lally
John Potter GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 52.832 2.418 18 63 Cooper MacNeil
Gunnar Jeannette GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 53.087 2.673
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