IMSA Road America: Acura leads Nissan in opening practice
Dane Cameron drove the #6 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 to the top of the times in first practice for Sunday’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship round at Road America.
Photo by: Peter Burke / Motorsport Images
The championship leader (along with co-driver Juan Pablo Montoya) lapped the 4.048-mile track in 1min50.007sec to go 0.023sec than Colin Braun’s best effort in the Nissan DPi run by the CORE autosport team, and precisely 0.1sec clear of teammate Ricky Taylor in the #7 Acura.
The closest rivals to Cameron/Montoya on the points table are Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani of Action Express Racing and they were fourth fastest this morning, but the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs have been left gasping by the pace of their Prototype rivals, Nasr lapping some 1.2sec off the pace.
Tristan Vautier in the JDC Miller Motorsports Caddy was fifth, a further few hundreths behind.
Harry Tincknell was fastest Mazda driver, but his #55 RT24-P was over 1.5sec in arrears, marginally faster than Joao Barbosa in the second AXR Cadillac, who was in turn 0.15sec ahead of Oliver Jarvis in the second Mazda.
James French outpaced Matt McMurry by a surprising 1.2sec in the all-Oreca LMP2 battle.
In GT Le Mans, Nick Tandy’s #911 Porsche 911 RSR was fastest by 0.4sec ahead of the #4 Corvette C7.R of Oliver Gavin, who has been rejoined by Tommy Milner this weekend after the American had to sit out the last two races with a hand injury.
Tom Blomqvist was an encouraging third fastest in the BMW M8 ahead of the second Corvette of Antonio Garcia and the second Porsche of Laurens Vanthoor.
GT Daytona saw Jeroen Bleekemolen’s Riley Mercedes-AMG GT3 finish the session P1 but just half a tenth faster than Bryan Sellers in the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan, which in turn was 0.3sec up on Pat Long’s best in the Park Place Motorsport Porscher 911 GT3 R.
Second practice commences at 4.25pm local (Central) time.
Session results:
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 6 |
Dane Cameron
Juan Pablo Montoya |
DPi | Acura DPi | 1'50.007 | |
2 | 54 |
Jon Bennett
Colin Braun |
DPi | Nissan DPi | 1'50.030 | 0.023 |
3 | 7 |
Ricky Taylor
Helio Castroneves |
DPi | Acura DPi | 1'50.107 | 0.100 |
4 | 31 |
Felipe Nasr
Pipo Derani |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'51.241 | 1.234 |
5 | 85 |
Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'51.276 | 1.269 |
6 | 55 |
Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 1'51.578 | 1.571 |
7 | 5 |
Joao Barbosa
Filipe Albuquerque |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'51.586 | 1.579 |
8 | 77 |
Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 1'51.737 | 1.730 |
9 | 84 |
Simon Trummer
Stephen Simpson |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'52.123 | 2.116 |
10 | 10 |
Renger van der Zande
Jordan Taylor |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'52.916 | 2.909 |
11 | 38 |
Cameron Cassels
James French |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 1'53.808 | 3.801 |
12 | 52 |
Matt McMurry
Patrick Kelly |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 1'55.012 | 5.005 |
13 | 911 |
Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 2'02.147 | 12.140 |
14 | 4 |
Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 2'02.544 | 12.537 |
15 | 25 |
Tom Blomqvist
Connor de Phillippi |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 2'02.585 | 12.578 |
16 | 3 |
Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 2'02.611 | 12.604 |
17 | 912 |
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 2'03.074 | 13.067 |
18 | 24 |
Jesse Krohn
John Edwards |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 2'03.255 | 13.248 |
19 | 66 |
Joey Hand
Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 2'03.281 | 13.274 |
20 | 67 |
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 2'03.344 | 13.337 |
21 | 33 |
Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'06.060 | 16.053 |
22 | 48 |
Bryan Sellers
Corey Lewis |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'06.102 | 16.095 |
23 | 73 |
Patrick Lindsey
Patrick Long |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'06.415 | 16.408 |
24 | 14 |
Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'06.465 | 16.458 |
25 | 91 |
Anthony Imperato
Dennis Olsen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'06.545 | 16.538 |
26 | 96 |
Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 2'06.569 | 16.562 |
27 | 44 |
John Potter
Andy Lally |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'06.692 | 16.685 |
28 | 74 |
Gar Robinson
Lawson Aschenbach |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG | 2'06.922 | 16.915 |
29 | 9 |
Matt Campbell
Zacharie Robichon |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'06.958 | 16.951 |
30 | 86 |
Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'07.078 | 17.071 |
31 | 76 |
Paul Holton
Matt Plumb |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 2'07.965 | 17.958 |
32 | 63 |
Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'07.972 | 17.965 |
33 | 12 |
Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'08.085 | 18.078 |
34 | 8 |
Parker Chase
Ryan Dalziel |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 2'08.241 | 18.234 |
35 | 57 |
Katherine Legge
Ana Beatriz |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'09.344 | 19.337 |
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