Lime Rock IMSA: Tandy leads for Porsche, Acura tops GTD

In the #911 Porsche, Tandy clocked a 50.065sec lap of the 1.474-mile course in Connecticut to beat Oliver Gavin’s time in the #4 Corvette C7.R by a healthy 0.333sec margin.

Gavin is again sharing with Marcel Fassler this weekend while regular partner Tommy Milner recuperates from his hand injury.

Just a whisker slower than the ’Vette was Connor de Phillippi in the #25 BMW M8, with defending champions Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia fourth in the second Corvette.

Richard Westbrook led the way for Ford in the #67 GT ahead of John Edwards (BMW), Dirk Muller (Ford) and Laurens Vanthoor (Porsche).

Mario Farnbacher in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX led the GT Daytona class but outpaced Jeroen Bleekemolen’s Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 by less than 0.1sec.

Bryan Sellers was third fastest in the Lamborghini Huracan of Paul Miller Racing, mere hundredths slower, while Pat Long narrowly edged the Porsche battle for fourth, his Park Place Motorsports entry a sliver faster than Matt Campbell in the returning Wright Motorsports entry.

Second practice begins at 2.20pm local (Eastern) time.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	911	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	50.065
2	4	Oliver Gavin Marcel Fassler	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	50.398	0.333
3	25	Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	50.416	0.351
4	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	50.533	0.468
5	67	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	50.545	0.480
6	24	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	50.610	0.545
7	66	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	50.655	0.590
8	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	50.950	0.885
9	86	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	51.813	1.748
10	33	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	51.886	1.821
11	48	Bryan Sellers Corey Lewis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	51.912	1.847
12	73	Marco Seefried Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	51.930	1.865
13	91	Anthony Imperato Matt Campbell	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	51.965	1.900
14	11	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	52.082	2.017
15	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	52.268	2.203
16	12	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	52.291	2.226
17	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	52.371	2.306
18	9	Dennis Olsen Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	52.462	2.397
19	14	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	52.553	2.488
20	57	Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	52.604	2.539
21	76	Paul Holton Matt Plumb	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	52.737	2.672
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