Petit Le Mans: Jarvis puts Mazda on top in FP4, Corvettes lead GTLM
Oliver Jarvis edged Filipe Albuquerque by just 0.015sec to slot the Mazda Team Joest RT24-P into the lead in fourth practice for the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship finale.
#77 Mazda Team Joest Mazda DPi, P: Oliver Jarvis, Tristan Nunez, Lucas Di Grassi
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Jarvis lapped the 2.54-mile course in 1min10.786sec to beat Albuquerque’s best in the #5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R, but amazingly the next two cars were also within one-tenth of a second of top time.
Felipe Nasr in the second AXR Caddy turned in a 1min10.831, and the Acura Team Penske ARX-05 of Ricky Taylor ran a 1min10.857.
Next up were the two ESM Nissans of Norman Nato and Pipo Derani, followed by Jonathan Bomarito in the second Mazda and Renger van der Zande in Wayne Taylor Racing’s Cadillac.
Colin Braun and Simon Trummer completed the Top 10 in the first two P2 cars, the Orecas of CORE autosport and JDC-Miller Motorsports respectively.
Tommy Milner and Antonio Garcia made it a Corvette 1-2 in GT Le Mans, with John Edwards just a few hundredths behind in the impressive BMW M8. The two Ford GTs of Richard Westbrook and Joey Hand were fourth and sixth, split by Earl Bamber’s Porsche 911 RSR.
Sheldon van der Linde put the Land Motorsport Audi R8 on top of GT Daytona again, while Katherine Legge’s co-driver Alvaro Parente was second in the Acura NSX of Meyer Shank Racing.
Their teammate Mario Farnbacher was fourth, the Acuras searated by Jack Hawksowrth’s 3 GT Racing Lexus RC F, while Magnus Racing’s Andrew Davis made it two Audis in the top five.
Qualifying begins 3.55pm local (Eastern) time, starting with GTD.
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval | km/h |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 77 | Lucas di Grassi Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 40 | 1'10.786 | 129.178 | ||
2 | 5 | Christian Fittipaldi Filipe Albuquerque Tristan Vautier |
P | Cadillac DPi | 42 | 1'10.801 | 0.015 | 0.015 | 129.151 |
3 | 31 | Eric Curran Gabby Chaves Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 37 | 1'10.831 | 0.045 | 0.030 | 129.096 |
4 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Graham Rahal Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 31 | 1'10.857 | 0.071 | 0.026 | 129.049 |
5 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel Norman Nato |
P | Nissan DPi | 33 | 1'10.923 | 0.137 | 0.066 | 128.929 |
6 | 22 | Timo Bernhard Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek |
P | Nissan DPi | 34 | 1'10.959 | 0.173 | 0.036 | 128.863 |
7 | 55 | Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito Marino Franchitti |
P | Mazda DPi | 30 | 1'11.003 | 0.217 | 0.044 | 128.783 |
8 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Ryan Hunter-Reay Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 30 | 1'11.260 | 0.474 | 0.257 | 128.319 |
9 | 54 | Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 36 | 1'11.506 | 0.720 | 0.246 | 127.877 |
10 | 85 | Simon Trummer Robert Alon Devlin DeFrancesco |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 33 | 1'11.620 | 0.834 | 0.114 | 127.674 |
11 | 52 | Jose Gutierrez Sebastian Saavedra Will Owen |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 40 | 1'11.628 | 0.842 | 0.008 | 127.660 |
12 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 19 | 1'11.771 | 0.985 | 0.143 | 127.405 |
13 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Chris Miller Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 34 | 1'11.921 | 1.135 | 0.150 | 127.140 |
14 | 38 | James French Nicholas Boulle Kyle Masson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 36 | 1'12.268 | 1.482 | 0.347 | 126.529 |
15 | 4 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 40 | 1'17.341 | 6.555 | 5.073 | 118.230 |
16 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Marcel Fassler Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 35 | 1'17.359 | 6.573 | 0.018 | 118.202 |
17 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn Chaz Mostert |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 36 | 1'17.386 | 6.600 | 0.027 | 118.161 |
18 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 33 | 1'17.494 | 6.708 | 0.108 | 117.996 |
19 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 33 | 1'17.575 | 6.789 | 0.081 | 117.873 |
20 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 28 | 1'17.749 | 6.963 | 0.174 | 117.609 |
21 | 62 | Toni Vilander Andrea Bertolini Miguel Molina |
GTLM | Ferrari 488 GTE | 34 | 1'17.800 | 7.014 | 0.051 | 117.532 |
22 | 25 | Bill Auberlen Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 29 | 1'17.911 | 7.125 | 0.111 | 117.365 |
23 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 33 | 1'17.929 | 7.143 | 0.018 | 117.338 |
24 | 29 | Daniel Morad Christopher Mies Sheldon Van Der Linde |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 36 | 1'19.384 | 8.598 | 1.455 | 115.187 |
25 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 25 | 1'19.737 | 8.951 | 0.353 | 114.677 |
26 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth Sean Rayhall |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 34 | 1'19.882 | 9.096 | 0.145 | 114.469 |
27 | 93 | Justin Marks Lawson Aschenbach Mario Farnbacher |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 31 | 1'19.897 | 9.111 | 0.015 | 114.447 |
28 | 44 | Andy Lally Andrew Davis John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 39 | 1'20.141 | 9.355 | 0.244 | 114.099 |
29 | 63 | Daniel Serra Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 36 | 1'20.187 | 9.401 | 0.046 | 114.033 |
30 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Luca Stolz |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 34 | 1'20.235 | 9.449 | 0.048 | 113.965 |
31 | 48 | Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 31 | 1'20.368 | 9.582 | 0.133 | 113.777 |
32 | 64 | Matteo Cressoni Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 37 | 1'20.463 | 9.677 | 0.095 | 113.642 |
33 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann Philipp Frommenwiler |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 31 | 1'20.464 | 9.678 | 0.001 | 113.641 |
34 | 71 | Maximilian Buhk JC Perez Felipe Fraga |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 39 | 1'20.500 | 9.714 | 0.036 | 113.590 |
35 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen Robert Renauer |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 34 | 1'20.576 | 9.790 | 0.076 | 113.483 |
36 | 96 | Don Yount Markus Palttala Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 31 | 1'20.680 | 9.894 | 0.104 | 113.337 |
37 | 73 | Wolf Henzler Tim Pappas Spencer Pumpelly |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 35 | 1'20.961 | 10.175 | 0.281 | 112.943 |
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