Lime Rock IMSA: Tandy leads Porsche sweep in FP3
Nick Tandy and Laurens Vanthoor were the only drivers to cut sub-50 second laps around Lime Rock Park track to send the Porsche 911 RSRs to the top of the times in third practice for tomorrow's IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race.
#911 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR, GTLM: Patrick Pilet, Nick Tandy
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Vanthoor, championship leader along with Earl Bamber, was the first to turn a 49sec lap, with a 49.938, but Tandy left it until the final minute to grab P1 with a 49.782, following it up with another lap under Vanthoor’s best.
This Porsche domination left Richard Westbrook’s Ford GT more than half a second adrift in third, although for many teams the session was about race-runs and pitstop practice.
Marcel Fassler, standing in for the still injured Tommy Milner, put the #4 Corvette C7.R in a tire barrier that left the car in need of new nose and fenders, but co-driver Oliver Gavin was fourth-fastest ahead of the second Ford of Dirk Muller and Joey Hand.
Second practice pacesetter Antonio Garcia in the #3 Corvette beat the two BMW M8s to sixth.
In GT Daytona, a late improvement by Bryan Sellers – who this weekend shares the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 with Corey Lewis rather than Ryan Hardwick – put the #48 at the top of the times with a 51.797 ahead of Pat Long in the Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R and the Acura NSX GT3 of Meyer Shank Racing’s Mario Farnbacher.
Andy Lally drove the Apollo 11-liveried Magnus Racing Lamborghini into fourth ahead of Zacharie Robichon’s Pfaff Motorsports Porsche.
Session results:
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 911 |
Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 49.782 | |
2 | 912 |
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 49.938 | 0.156 |
3 | 67 |
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 50.314 | 0.532 |
4 | 4 |
Oliver Gavin
Marcel Fassler |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 50.462 | 0.680 |
5 | 66 |
Joey Hand
Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 50.588 | 0.806 |
6 | 3 |
Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 50.626 | 0.844 |
7 | 24 |
Jesse Krohn
John Edwards |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 51.139 | 1.357 |
8 | 25 |
Tom Blomqvist
Connor de Phillippi |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 51.353 | 1.571 |
9 | 48 |
Bryan Sellers
Corey Lewis |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 51.797 | 2.015 |
10 | 73 |
Marco Seefried
Patrick Long |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 51.821 | 2.039 |
11 | 86 |
Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 51.874 | 2.092 |
12 | 11 |
John Potter
Andy Lally |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 51.974 | 2.192 |
13 | 9 |
Dennis Olsen
Zacharie Robichon |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 52.010 | 2.228 |
14 | 91 |
Anthony Imperato
Matt Campbell |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 52.215 | 2.433 |
15 | 33 |
Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 52.628 | 2.846 |
16 | 14 |
Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 52.637 | 2.855 |
17 | 63 |
Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 52.661 | 2.879 |
18 | 57 |
Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 53.066 | 3.284 |
19 | 12 |
Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 53.303 | 3.521 |
20 | 76 |
Paul Holton
Matt Plumb |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 53.495 | 3.713 |
21 | 96 |
Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | ||
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