Practice report
IMSA Mid-Ohio
Mid-Ohio IMSA: Albuquerque fastest in opening practice
Filipe Albuquerque produced the fastest time in the first practice session for this weekend’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round at Mid-Ohio in an Acura 1-2.
Charles Bradley
Edited: May 14, 2022, 7:38 AM
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Albuquerque set the early bar at 1m12.008s in the 90-minute practice, before lowering his time to 1m11.828s in his Wayne Taylor Racing Acura. Tom Blomqvist rose to P2 in the Meyer Shank Racing ARX-05 with 1m11.904s, 0.076s off his pace.
Earl Bamber was the fastest of the Cadillacs for Chip Ganassi Racing, setting 1m12.330s – just over half a second away from the quickest time. Pipo Derani was next up for Action Express, leading fellow Caddy drivers Sebastien Bourdais (CGR) and Tristan Vautier (JDC-Miller).
A red flag in the final five minutes of the session halted any hopes of late improvements.
Ryan Dalziel (Era Motorsport) was fastest in LMP2, ahead of Jonathan Bomarito (PR1 Mathiasen) and ex-F1 racer Will Stevens, who’s in for a one-off with Tower Motorsports.
Colin Braun led LMP3 for CORE autosport.
In GTD, where there is no Pro class this weekend, Robby Foley set the pace in the Turner Motorsports BMW M4 on 1m21.220s.
Jack Hawksworth was second in the extra #17 Lexus RC F entry that he shares with Richard Heistand on 1m21.428s, ahead of Bryan Sellars (BMW) and Aaron Telitz (Lexus).
Cla Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
DPi Acura DPi 1'11.828 2 Oliver Jarvis
Tom Blomqvist
DPi Acura DPi 1'11.904 0.076 3 Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.330 0.502 4 Pipo Derani
Tristan Nunez
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.357 0.529 5 Renger van der Zande
Sébastien Bourdais
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.794 0.966 6 Tristan Vautier
Richard Westbrook
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'12.914 1.086 7 Dwight Merriman
Ryan Dalziel
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'13.478 1.650 8 Steven Thomas
Jonathan Bomarito
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'13.885 2.057 9 John Farano
Will Stevens
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'14.465 2.637 10 Dennis Andersen
Anders Fjordbach
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'14.588 2.760 11 Josh Pierson
Patrick Kelly
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'14.876 3.048 12 Jon Bennett
Colin Braun
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'17.603 5.775 13 Henrik Hedman
Juan Pablo Montoya
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'17.957 6.129 14 Ari Balogh
Garett Grist
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'17.968 6.140 15 Gar Robinson
Felipe Fraga
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'18.013 6.185 16 Joao Barbosa
Lance Willsey
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'18.228 6.400 17 Dakota Dickerson
Josh Sarchet
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'18.276 6.448 18 Daniel Goldburg
Rasmus Lindh
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'18.360 6.532 19 Orey Fidani
Kuno Wittmer
LMP3 Duqueine D08 1'20.966 9.138 20 Robby Foley
Bill Auberlen
GTD BMW M4 GT3 1'21.220 9.392 21 Jack Hawksworth
Richard Heistand
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'21.428 9.600 22 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
GTD BMW M4 GT3 1'21.649 9.821 23 Frankie Montecalvo
Aaron Telitz
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'21.667 9.839 24 Ryan Hardwick
Jan Heylen
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'22.046 10.218 25 Mike Skeen
Stevan McAleer
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'22.214 10.386 26 Russell Ward
Philip Ellis
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'22.228 10.400 27 Ryan Eversley
Aidan Read
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'22.359 10.531 28 Brendan Iribe
Jordan Lee Pepper
GTD McLaren 720S GT3 1'22.359 10.531 29 Robert Megennis
Jeff Westphal
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'22.527 10.699 30 Roman De Angelis
Maxime Martin
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'22.550 10.722 31 Jarett Andretti
Gabby Chaves
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 0.000 View full results
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