Practice report
IMSA Mid-Ohio
Mid-Ohio IMSA: Montoya tops wet opening practice
Appropriately the Acura Team Penske ARX-05 of Juan Pablo Montoya set fastest time in the opening session for this weekend’s Acura Sports Car Challenge, the fourth round of the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
David Malsher-Lopez
Published: May 3, 2019, 3:36 PM
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With off-and-on rain keeping the 2.258-mile road course soaked, the Prototype’s laps were around half a minute off Helio Castroneves’ pole position time from 2018, but a lap of 1min41.568sec kept Montoya ahead of the best of the GT Le Mans class cars which enjoyed a rare moment of prominence. However, Montoya did stop on track just before the Prototypes received the checkered flag.
Earl Bamber was second overall in the #912 Porsche 911RSR, ahead of the BMW M8 of Tom Blomqvist.
Thus Colin Braun was second in class but only fourth overall in the CORE autosport-run Nissan DPi, some 3sec off Montoya’s benchmark, but ahead of the second Acura of Ricky Taylor.
Oliver Gavin’s third place in GTLM was enough to place him sixth overall for Corvette Racing ahead of the second Porsche of Patrick Pilet.
Fastest of the GT Daytona runners and eighth overall was Trent Hindman in the #86 Acura NSX run by Meyer Shank Racing, 0.4sec ahead of Zacharie Robichon’s best effort tin the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, and Alex Ribeiras in the Moorespeed Audi R8.
Jack Hawksworth ran the AIM Vasser-Sullivan Lexus RC F into fourth ahead of Bill Auberlen in the BMW M6 of Turner Motorsports.
Second practice is due to start at 3.15pm local (Eastern) time.
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval 1 6 
Dane Cameron
Juan Pablo Montoya DPi Acura DPi 18 1'41.568 2 912 
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 23 1'42.230 0.662 0.662 3 25 
Tom Blomqvist
Connor de Phillippi GTLM BMW M8 GTE 22 1'44.438 2.870 2.208 4 54 Jon Bennett
Colin Braun DPi Nissan DPi 15 1'44.615 3.047 0.177 5 7 
Helio Castroneves
Ricky Taylor DPi Acura DPi 19 1'45.426 3.858 0.811 6 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Corvette C7.R 20 1'46.263 4.695 0.837 7 911 
Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 23 1'46.604 5.036 0.341 8 86 
Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman GTD Acura NSX GT3 6 1'46.649 5.081 0.045 9 9 
Scott Hargrove
Zacharie Robichon GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 12 1'47.047 5.479 0.398 10 19 Will Hardeman
Alex Riberas GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 21 1'47.051 5.483 0.004 11 14 Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth GTD Lexus RC F GT3 24 1'47.532 5.964 0.481 12 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley GTD BMW M6 GT3 25 1'47.640 6.072 0.108 13 76 Paul Holton
Matt Plumb GTD McLaren 720S GT3 18 1'48.260 6.692 0.620 14 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell GTD Lexus RC F GT3 22 1'48.739 7.171 0.479 15 48 Bryan Sellers
Ryan Hardwick GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 21 1'49.577 8.009 0.838 16 44 John Potter
Andy Lally GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 5 1'49.709 8.141 0.132 17 63 Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 17 1'50.616 9.048 0.907 18 74 Gar Robinson
Lawson Aschenbach GTD Mercedes-AMG 16 1'52.262 10.694 1.646 19 8 Parker Chase
Ryan Dalziel GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 4 1'54.092 12.524 1.830 20 57 Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen GTD Acura NSX GT3 6 1'54.120 12.552 0.028 21 3 Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia GTLM Corvette C7.R 6 1'55.261 13.693 1.141 22 77 Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez DPi Mazda DPi 4 1'57.821 16.253 2.560 23 5 
Joao Barbosa
Filipe Albuquerque DPi Cadillac DPi 24 10 
Renger van der Zande
Jordan Taylor DPi Cadillac DPi 25 24 Jesse Krohn
John Edwards GTLM BMW M8 GTE 2 26 31 Felipe Nasr
Pipo Derani DPi Cadillac DPi 27 33 Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 28 38 Kyle Masson
Cameron Cassels LMP2 ORECA LMP2 29 50 Will Owen
Kyle Kaiser DPi Cadillac DPi 30 52 Matt McMurry
Eric Lux LMP2 ORECA LMP2 31 55 Jonathan Bomarito
Ryan Hunter-Reay DPi Mazda DPi 2 32 66 Sébastien Bourdais
Dirk Muller GTLM Ford GT 2 33 67 
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 1 34 73 Patrick Long
Marco Seefried GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 3 35 84 
Simon Trummer
Stephen Simpson DPi Cadillac DPi 36 85 Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier DPi Cadillac DPi
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