Mid-Ohio IMSA: Castroneves beats Cameron to pole
A titanic fight between the Acura Team Penske ARX-05 drivers saw Helio Castroneves nudge aside Cameron by 0.147sec to put the #7 car on pole for tomorrow’s appropriately named Acura Sports Car Challenge.
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The Brazilian and the American kept trimming tenths from each other’s best laps, with Castroneves finally putting the matter beyond dispute with his 11th lap – a 1min11.834sec.
Although the Acuras left their rivals gasping, the gap closed substantially from the morning session when they were 1sec adrift. Oliver Jarvis and Jonathan Bomarito put the Mazda RT24-Ps into third and fourth with best laps 0.5 and 0.76sec off top spot.
Renger van der Zande was fastest of the Cadillacs, putting the Wayne Taylor Racing entry fifth, 0.35ahead of Joao Barbosa in the Action Express Racing Cadillac #5.
PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports’ Gustavo Yacaman led a quartet of Global P2 cars, all of which outperformed the ESM Nissans and Eric Curran’s #31 AXR Cadillac.
GT Le Mans saw a fabulous scrap between the two RLL BMW M8s of John Edwards and Alexander Sims and the two Porsche 911 RSRs of Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber. It was eventually resolved in Edwards’ favor ahead of Tandy, the pair separated by 0.066sec, with Sims only 0.013sec further back!
Bamber was fourth, one-tenth ahead of Antonio Garcia in the #3 Corvette C7.R, ahead of the Ford GTs of Dirk Muller and Ryan Briscoe, the latter of whom had a quick spin. Tommy Milner was eighth in the #4 Corvette.
In GT Daytona, Jack Hawksworth led teammate Kyle Marcelli in a hugely impressive 1-2 for the 3GT Lexus RC Fs. They were only 0.053sec apart yet over half a second better than Madison Snow’s third placed Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan.
The Michael Shank Racing Acura NSXs of Katherine Legge and Justin Marks were separated by the Turner Motorsport BMW M6 of Dillon Machavern.
Christina Nielsen will roll off seventh in class in the Wright Motorsports Porsche ahead of Cooper MacNeil driving the Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488.
IMSA Mid-Ohio, qualifying
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | km/h |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 11 | 1'11.837 | 113.156 | ||
2 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 9 | 1'11.984 | 0.147 | 0.147 | 112.925 |
3 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 12 | 1'12.339 | 0.502 | 0.355 | 112.371 |
4 | 55 | Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito |
P | Mazda DPi | 12 | 1'12.596 | 0.759 | 0.257 | 111.973 |
5 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 12 | 1'12.600 | 0.763 | 0.004 | 111.967 |
6 | 5 | Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
P | Cadillac DPi | 12 | 1'12.943 | 1.106 | 0.343 | 111.440 |
7 | 52 | Gustavo Yacaman Sebastian Saavedra |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 12 | 1'12.982 | 1.145 | 0.039 | 111.381 |
8 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 12 | 1'13.035 | 1.198 | 0.053 | 111.300 |
9 | 85 | Simon Trummer Robert Alon |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 12 | 1'13.156 | 1.319 | 0.121 | 111.116 |
10 | 38 | James French Kyle Masson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 11 | 1'13.365 | 1.528 | 0.209 | 110.799 |
11 | 22 | Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek |
P | Nissan DPi | 12 | 1'13.532 | 1.695 | 0.167 | 110.548 |
12 | 31 | Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 12 | 1'13.583 | 1.746 | 0.051 | 110.471 |
13 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel |
P | Nissan DPi | 12 | 1'14.347 | 2.510 | 0.764 | 109.336 |
14 | 54 | Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 12 | 1'14.351 | 2.514 | 0.004 | 109.330 |
15 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 6 | 1'17.853 | 6.016 | 3.502 | 104.412 |
16 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 11 | 1'17.919 | 6.082 | 0.066 | 104.324 |
17 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 9 | 1'17.932 | 6.095 | 0.013 | 104.306 |
18 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 11 | 1'18.021 | 6.184 | 0.089 | 104.187 |
19 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 12 | 1'18.114 | 6.277 | 0.093 | 104.063 |
20 | 66 | Joey Hand Dirk Müller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 11 | 1'18.207 | 6.370 | 0.093 | 103.940 |
21 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 10 | 1'18.333 | 6.496 | 0.126 | 103.772 |
22 | 4 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 10 | 1'18.452 | 6.615 | 0.119 | 103.615 |
23 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 8 | 1'19.317 | 7.480 | 0.865 | 102.485 |
24 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 8 | 1'19.370 | 7.533 | 0.053 | 102.417 |
25 | 48 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 10 | 1'19.882 | 8.045 | 0.512 | 101.760 |
26 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 11 | 1'19.933 | 8.096 | 0.051 | 101.695 |
27 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 10 | 1'20.339 | 8.502 | 0.406 | 101.181 |
28 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 12 | 1'20.477 | 8.640 | 0.138 | 101.008 |
29 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 9 | 1'20.748 | 8.911 | 0.271 | 100.669 |
30 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Alessandro Balzan |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 12 | 1'20.846 | 9.009 | 0.098 | 100.547 |
31 | 16 | Wolf Henzler Michael Schein |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 11 | 1'21.043 | 9.206 | 0.197 | 100.302 |
32 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 11 | 1'21.244 | 9.407 | 0.201 | 100.054 |
33 | 44 | Andy Lally John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 12 | 1'21.379 | 9.542 | 0.135 | 99.888 |
34 | 75 | Kenny Habul Maro Engel |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 |
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