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.
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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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