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.
#31: Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi, DPi: Felipe Nasr, Pipo Derani
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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 |
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