Long Beach IMSA: Ganassi hits the front in second practice
Chip Ganassi Racing scored a 1-2 in second practice for Saturday’s third round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as Sebastien Bourdais’ Cadillac took charge.
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In temperatures around 100degF, Bourdais clocked a 70.913sec lap of the 1.9680-mile track, shading teammate Alex Lynn by a mere 0.077sec on his 47th of 50 laps.
Pipo Derani, this morning’s pacesetter, ensured a Cadillac 1-2-3 as the Action Express Racing car claimed third ahead of Tom Blomqvist in the faster of the two Acura ARX-05s. Blomqvist was only 0.13sec off the top spot, and 0.15sec ahead of the second Acura of Filipe Albuquerque, while Tristan Vautier in the slowest of the DPi cars was still within 0.4sec of P1.
Unlike this morning, the all-Pro cars took charge of the 21-car GT field, as Mathieu Jaminet slotted the Pfaff Porsche 911 GT3 R into the top spot on his final flyer, edging Connor De Phillippi in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW M4 by thousandths.
Jordan Taylor actually matched De Phillippi’s time to the thousandth in the Corvette C8.R, while Raffaele Marciello continued to impress in his first event in the WeatherTech Racing Mercedes AMG GT3.
Frederik Schandorff topped the GTD field in the McLaren 720S ahead of Mike Skeen’s Mercedes, Robby Foley’s Turner Motorsports BMW, and Alex Riberas who set the pace this morning in the Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage.
Unlike this morning, there were no red flags.
Qualifying begins at 5.10pm local (Pacific) time.
Cla | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Renger van der Zande
Sébastien Bourdais |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 50 | 1'10.913 | |
2 |
Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 44 | 1'10.990 | 0.077 |
3 |
Pipo Derani
Tristan Nunez |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 50 | 1'11.005 | 0.092 |
4 |
Oliver Jarvis
Tom Blomqvist |
DPi | Acura DPi | 56 | 1'11.043 | 0.130 |
5 |
Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque |
DPi | Acura DPi | 50 | 1'11.195 | 0.282 |
6 |
Tristan Vautier
Richard Westbrook |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 51 | 1'11.303 | 0.390 |
7 |
Matt Campbell
Mathieu Jaminet |
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 43 | 1'18.874 | 7.961 |
8 |
Connor de Phillippi
John Edwards |
GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 37 | 1'18.915 | 8.002 |
9 |
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor |
GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 50 | 1'18.915 | 8.002 |
10 |
Cooper MacNeil
Raffaele Marciello |
GTD PRO | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 46 | 1'19.096 | 8.183 |
11 |
Brendan Iribe
Frederik Schandorff |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 50 | 1'19.490 | 8.577 |
12 |
Mike Skeen
Stevan McAleer |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 50 | 1'19.543 | 8.630 |
13 |
Robby Foley
Bill Auberlen |
GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 48 | 1'19.624 | 8.711 |
14 |
Ross Gunn
Alex Riberas |
GTD PRO | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 52 | 1'19.829 | 8.916 |
15 |
Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow |
GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 40 | 1'19.844 | 8.931 |
16 |
Jack Hawksworth
Ben Barnicoat |
GTD PRO | Lexus RC F GT3 | 25 | 1'19.927 | 9.014 |
17 |
Roman De Angelis
Maxime Martin |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 59 | 1'19.973 | 9.060 |
18 |
Frankie Montecalvo
Aaron Telitz |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 49 | 1'19.979 | 9.066 |
19 |
Mario Farnbacher
Marc Miller |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 32 | 1'20.014 | 9.101 |
20 |
Ryan Hardwick
Jan Heylen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 53 | 1'20.232 | 9.319 |
21 |
Jon Miller
Paul Holton |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 51 | 1'20.253 | 9.340 |
22 |
Robert Megennis
Jeff Westphal |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 52 | 1'20.524 | 9.611 |
23 |
Rob Ferriol
Katherine Legge |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 51 | 1'20.570 | 9.657 |
24 |
Ryan Eversley
Aidan Read |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 50 | 1'20.895 | 9.982 |
25 |
Russell Ward
Philip Ellis |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 5 | 1'21.085 | 10.172 |
26 |
Kyle Washington
James Sofronas |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 49 | 1'21.642 | 10.729 |
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