Sebring 12 Hours: Tincknell maintains Mazda advantage in FP3
Harry Tincknell drove the #55 Mazda RT24-P into first place during third practice for IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship’s second round, the Sebring 12 Hours.
#55 Mazda Team Joest Mazda DPi, DPi: Jonathan Bomarito, Harry Tincknell, Olivier Pla
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Tincknell lapped the 3.74-mile course in 1min46.953sec, beating Felipe Nasr’s best in the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R by 0.212sec, and going 0.6sec clear of the second Mazda of Timo Bernhard.
Dane Cameron was fastest of the Acura Team Penske drivers, almost nine-tenths slower than P1, while Colin Braun was mere thousandths slower in CORE autosport’s Nissan DPi, and Renger van der Zande a similar distance behind in the Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac.
In P2, Matt McMurry was comfortably – 2.2sec – faster for PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports than Kyle Masson in the Performance Tech Motorsports machine.
Antonio Garcia was fastest in GT Le Mans in the #3 Corvette C7.R, overcoming an earlier alternator issue to lap 0.136sec quicker than the Ford GT of Richard Westbrook - which was in turn a quarter second ahead of its sister car piloted by Dirk Muller.
Laurens Vanthoor was fourth in the #912 Porsche 911 RSR, split from the other 911 by Jesse Krohn in the faster of the two BMW M8s. Colton Herta had a couple of offs on one lap in the #25 BMW which wound up slowest but within 1.5sec of top spot.
The Magnus Racing Lamborghini Huracan of Andy Lally edged Trent Hindman’s Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX by a mere 0.061sec to grab P1 in GT Daytona, yet was even closer to the third fastest driver, Mirko Bortolotti in the Grasser Racing Huracan, which was only 0.016sec behind.
Robbie Foley took P4 in the Turner Motorsport BMW M6 as Pat Long was sixth in the Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R and the faster of the two AIM Vasser-Sullivan Lexus RC Fs, driven by ex-IndyCar pilot Jack Hawksworth.
Practice times:
Pos. | No. | Drivers | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 55 | Harry Tincknell Olivier Pla Jonathan Bomarito |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 1'46.953 | |
2 | 31 | Pipo Derani Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'47.165 | 0.212 |
3 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Timo Bernhard Tristan Nunez |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 1'47.559 | 0.606 |
4 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron |
DPi | Acura DPi | 1'47.846 | 0.893 |
5 | 54 | Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
DPi | Nissan DPi | 1'47.857 | 0.904 |
6 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande Matthieu Vaxiviere |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'47.908 | 0.955 |
7 | 7 | Alexander Rossi Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
DPi | Acura DPi | 1'48.133 | 1.180 |
8 | 5 | Brendon Hartley Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'48.199 | 1.246 |
9 | 85 | Juan Piedrahita Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'48.890 | 1.937 |
10 | 50 | Rene Binder Will Owen Agustin Canapino |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'48.937 | 1.984 |
11 | 84 | Simon Trummer Chris Miller Stephen Simpson |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'49.356 | 2.403 |
12 | 52 | Matt McMurry Anders Fjordbach Gabriel Aubry |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 1'51.766 | 4.813 |
13 | 38 | Kyle Masson Cameron Cassels Andrew Evans |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 1'53.966 | 7.013 |
14 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'56.954 | 10.001 |
15 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'57.090 | 10.137 |
16 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'57.364 | 10.411 |
17 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'57.485 | 10.532 |
18 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn Philipp Eng |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'57.919 | 10.966 |
19 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'58.114 | 11.161 |
20 | 4 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'58.120 | 11.167 |
21 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi Tom Blomqvist Colton Herta |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 1'58.424 | 11.471 |
22 | 44 | Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly John Potter |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'00.947 | 13.994 |
23 | 86 | Justin Marks Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'01.008 | 14.055 |
24 | 11 | Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Rik Breukers |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'01.024 | 14.071 |
25 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 2'01.119 | 14.166 |
26 | 73 | Patrick Long Patrick Lindsey Nicholas Boulle |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'01.322 | 14.369 |
27 | 14 | Jack Hawksworth Philipp Frommenwiler Richard Heistand |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'01.434 | 14.481 |
28 | 9 | Scott Hargrove Lars Kern Zacharie Robichon |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'01.500 | 14.547 |
29 | 63 | Toni Vilander Cooper MacNeil Jeff Westphal |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'01.506 | 14.553 |
30 | 19 | Andrew Davis Will Hardeman Alex Riberas |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 2'01.550 | 14.597 |
31 | 71 | Fabian Schiller Maximilian Buhk JC Perez |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'01.617 | 14.664 |
32 | 48 | Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Ryan Hardwick |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'01.651 | 14.698 |
33 | 29 | Daniel Morad Christopher Mies Richard Feller |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 2'01.851 | 14.898 |
34 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Felipe Fraga |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'01.872 | 14.919 |
35 | 57 | Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen Ana Beatriz |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'01.898 | 14.945 |
36 | 12 | Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'02.287 | 15.334 |
37 | 8 | Ryan Dalziel Parker Chase Ezequiel Perez Companc |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 2'02.317 | 15.364 |
38 | 47 | Brandon Gdovic Lawson Aschenbach Don Yount |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 |
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