Road America IMSA: Acura Team Penske unmatchable in FP3

Cameron’s 1min49.590sec lap of the 4.014-mile course near Elkhart Lake, WI, stood 1sec clear of the field for most of the session, until teammate and three-time Indy 500 winner Castroneves closed to within two-tenths of a second late in the session.

A late effort from Oliver Jarvis saw the #77 Mazda RT24-P finish third but he was 0.679sec from the ultimate pace, while Colin Braun’s best effort in the Nissan DPi left him a full second away.

Jonathan Bomarito was fifth in the second Mazda, just ahead of the fastest Cadillac DPi-V.R, that of Action Express Racing’s Pipo Derani who was mere hundredths faster than fellow Caddy pilot Renger van der Zande (Wayne Taylor Racing).

In GT Le Mans, a very late effort from Laurens Vanthoor in the #912 Porsche saw him displace the BMW M8 of John Edwards by just 0.004sec, while the second BMW was around 0.2sec adrift in third.

The Ford GTs of Ryan Briscoe and Dirk Muller were very close by in fourth and fifth, while Oliver Gavin’s #4 Corvette outpaced the second Porsche and second ’Vette.

Ben Keating topped GT Daytona in the Riley Motorsports-run Mercedes-AMG GT3 ahead of the impressive McLaren 720S of Compass Racing, wheeled by Paul Holton.

Robby Foley’s best effort in the Turner Motorsports BMW M6 left him third ahead of Dennis Olsen in the Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R.

Qualifying begins at 12.35pm local (Central) time.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	6	Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya	DPi	Acura DPi	1'49.590
2	7	Ricky Taylor Helio Castroneves	DPi	Acura DPi	1'49.783	0.193
3	77	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'50.269	0.679
4	54	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	DPi	Nissan DPi	1'50.600	1.010
5	55	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'50.813	1.223
6	31	Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'50.875	1.285
7	10	Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'50.886	1.296
8	84	Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'51.171	1.581
9	5	Joao Barbosa Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'51.260	1.670
10	52	Matt McMurry Patrick Kelly	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'52.137	2.547
11	85	Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'52.294	2.704
12	38	Cameron Cassels James French	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'53.632	4.042
13	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	2'01.644	12.054
14	24	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	2'01.648	12.058
15	25	Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	2'01.867	12.277
16	67	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	2'01.880	12.290
17	66	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	2'01.932	12.342
18	4	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	2'02.172	12.582
19	911	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	2'02.299	12.709
20	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	2'03.113	13.523
21	33	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	2'05.485	15.895
22	76	Paul Holton Matt Plumb	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	2'05.897	16.307
23	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	2'06.253	16.663
24	91	Anthony Imperato Dennis Olsen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'06.315	16.725
25	14	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	2'06.497	16.907
26	48	Bryan Sellers Corey Lewis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'06.502	16.912
27	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	2'06.792	17.202
28	86	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	2'06.810	17.220
29	12	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	2'06.883	17.293
30	57	Katherine Legge Ana Beatriz	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	2'06.975	17.385
31	9	Matt Campbell Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'07.206	17.616
32	44	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'07.463	17.873
33	8	Parker Chase Ryan Dalziel	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	2'07.507	17.917
34	73	Patrick Lindsey Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'07.748	18.158
35	74	Gar Robinson Lawson Aschenbach	GTD	Mercedes-AMG	2'08.872	19.282
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