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Long Beach IMSA: Nasr tops final practice for AXR
Felipe Nasr’s Action Express Racing entry led a Cadillac 1-2-3 in opening practice for this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round at the Acura GP of Long Beach.
David Malsher-Lopez
Published: Sep 24, 2021, 10:02 PM
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The #31 Whelen Engineering car lapped the 1.968-mile course in 1min11.983sec, 0.162sec faster than Loic Duval in the JDC Miller MotorSports machine and 0.307sec ahead of Kevin Magnussen’s best effort in the Chip Ganassi Racing Caddy.
Even more significantly, the fourth fastest car, Filipe Albuquerque in the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05 was a full second adrift but 0.4sec ahead of the Mazda RT24-P of Oliver Jarvis and half a second up on Dane Cameron’s Meyer Shank Racing Acura.
Antonio Garcia’s #3 Corvette C8.R topped the GT Le Mans field, half a second faster than Tommy Milner in the sister car 1.1sec faster than Mathieu Jaminet’s WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 RSR.
In GT Daytona, predictably, times were far tighter, with the top five cars covered by a single tenth of a second. This quintet was led by the Porsche 911 GT3Rs of Pat Long (Wright Motorsports) and Laurens Vanthoor (Pfaff Motorsports), while Bryan Sellers was next up in the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan, ahead of Bill Auberlen’s Turner Motorsports BMW M6 and Aaron Telitz in the quicker of the two Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC Fs.
Qualifying begins at 4.45pm local (Pacific) time.
Cla Driver Class Chassis Laps Time Gap 1 Felipe Nasr
Pipo Derani
DPi Cadillac DPi 40 1'11.983 2 Tristan Vautier
Loic Duval
DPi Cadillac DPi 36 1'12.145 0.162 3 Renger van der Zande
Kevin Magnussen
DPi Cadillac DPi 38 1'12.290 0.307 4 Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
DPi Acura DPi 38 1'13.033 1.050 5 Oliver Jarvis
Harry Tincknell
DPi Mazda DPi 34 1'13.460 1.477 6 Dane Cameron
Olivier Pla
DPi Acura DPi 9 1'13.529 1.546 7 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
GTLM Corvette C8.R 38 1'17.516 5.533 8 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
GTLM Corvette C8.R 32 1'18.023 6.040 9 Cooper MacNeil
Mathieu Jaminet
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 37 1'18.589 6.606 10 Patrick Long
Trent Hindman
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 38 1'20.089 8.106 11 Zacharie Robichon
Laurens Vanthoor
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 33 1'20.115 8.132 12 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 38 1'20.130 8.147 13 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
GTD BMW M6 GT3 28 1'20.167 8.184 14 Aaron Telitz
Jack Hawksworth
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 36 1'20.187 8.204 15 Mikhail Goikhberg
Franck Perera
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 24 1'20.363 8.380 16 Richard Heistand
Jeff Westphal
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 35 1'20.428 8.445 17 Colin Braun
Daniel Mancinelli
GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 36 1'20.549 8.566 18 Roman De Angelis
Ross Gunn
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 38 1'20.618 8.635 19 Till Bechtolsheimer
Marc Miller
GTD Acura NSX GT3 39 1'20.634 8.651 20 Rob Ferriol
Katherine Legge
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 38 1'20.738 8.755 21 Steven Aghakhani
Jacob Eidson
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 34 1'20.879 8.896 22 Frankie Montecalvo
Zach Veach
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 37 1'20.962 8.979 23 Matt McMurry
Mario Farnbacher
GTD Acura NSX GT3 38 1'21.033 9.050 24 Ian James
Alex Riberas
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 33 1'21.366 9.383 25 John Potter
Andy Lally
GTD Acura NSX GT3 37 1'21.811 9.828 26 Kyle Washington
James Sofronas
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 39 1'22.108 10.125 View full results
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