Practice report
IMSA Long Beach
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.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Apr 9, 2022, 6:43 PM
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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 View full results
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