Practice report
IMSA Mid-Ohio
IMSA Mid-Ohio: Montoya puts Acura on top in first practice
Acura Team Penske’s Juan Pablo Montoya’s was fastest in opening practice for this weekend's Mid-Ohio IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round, almost a quarter of a second up on the Action Express Racing Cadillac of Pipo Derani.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Sep 26, 2020, 4:42 PM
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The #6 Acura ARX-05 of reigning IMSA champions Montoya and Dane Cameron lapped the 2.358-mile road course in 1min13.057sec to beat the #31 Cadillac by 0.236sec, while Ricky Taylor was just 0.009sec further back in the second Acura.
A late improvement from Harry Tincknell saw him beat Mazda teammate Oliver Jarvis by 0.02sec to land P4, albeit over half a second off the lead Acura.
Meanwhile the two JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillacs sandwiched the similar car of championship leader Renger van der Zande in the Wayne Taylor Racing entry.
In GT Le Mans, which comprises just four cars following Porsche’s withdrawal, Antonio Garcia was 0.3sec faster than Corvette Racing teammate Tommy Milner. The two BMW M8s were 0.84 and 1.28sec were off the pace.
In fact, Bruno Spengler’s M8 was less than 1sec faster than the Turner Motorsports BMW M6 of Bill Auberlen which topped GT Daytona.
Behind Auberlen by a mere 0.056sec was Jack Hawksworth in the faster of the two AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC Fs, with Alvaro Parente third in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura ahead of Pat Long’s Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R and Lawson Aschenbach in the Riley Motorsports Mercedes AMG GT3.
The #30 Audi R8 of Hardpoint Racing, driven by Rob Ferriol and Spencer Pumpelly, did not take part in the session due to a technical problem.
Tomorrow’s practice session begins at 10.55am local (Eastern) time, with qualifying not being held until Sunday (raceday) morning.
Session results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 6 Juan Pablo Montoya
Dane Cameron
DPi Acura DPi 1'13.057 2 31 Felipe Nasr
Pipo Derani
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'13.293 0.236 3 7 Helio Castroneves
Ricky Taylor
DPi Acura DPi 1'13.302 0.245 4 55 Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell
DPi Mazda DPi 1'13.598 0.541 5 77 Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez
DPi Mazda DPi 1'13.618 0.561 6 5 Joao Barbosa
Sébastien Bourdais
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'13.739 0.682 7 10 Renger van der Zande
Ryan Briscoe
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'13.950 0.893 8 85 Tristan Vautier
Gabriel Aubry
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'14.561 1.504 9 3 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'19.690 6.633 10 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'19.991 6.934 11 24 Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'20.527 7.470 12 25 Bruno Spengler
Connor de Phillippi
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'20.966 7.909 13 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'21.861 8.804 14 14 Jack Hawksworth
Aaron Telitz
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'21.917 8.860 15 57 Alvaro Parente
Mikhail Goikhberg
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'21.993 8.936 16 16 Ryan Hardwick
Patrick Long
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'22.224 9.167 17 74 Gar Robinson
Lawson Aschenbach
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'22.226 9.169 18 86 Mario Farnbacher
Matt McMurry
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'22.271 9.214 19 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'22.278 9.221 20 76 Corey Fergus
Paul Holton
GTD McLaren 720S GT3 1'22.315 9.258 21 44 Andy Lally
John Potter
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'22.325 9.268 22 23 Ian James
Roman De Angelis
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'23.038 9.981 23 22 Till Bechtolsheimer
Marc Miller
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'23.284 10.227 24 30 Rob Ferriol
Spencer Pumpelly
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 0.000 View full results
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