Road America IMSA: Montoya keeps Acura Team Penske on top

Montoya turned a 1min50.256sec lap to edge Taylor by a mere 0.028sec, the pair of ARX-05s a quarter-second faster than Oliver Jarvis in the quickest of the two Mazda RT24-Ps.

Harry Tincknell was a further 0.3sec in arrears in the second Mazda while Colin Braun slotted the CORE autosport-run Nissan DPi into fifth.

Again, ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Nasr was the swiftest Cadillac driver, but his Action Express Racing entry was off the ultimate pace by more than one second. Gary Nelson’s AXR crew did occupy the top two spots in this Prototype sub division, with Joao Barbosa running 0.4sec slower than his teammate, and just ahead of Renger van der Zande in the Wayne Taylor Racing Caddy.

Matt McMurry turned the tables on James French in LMP2’s FP2 to grab top spot for Performance Tech Motorsports.

In GT Le Mans, a last minute surge from Earl Bamber saw the #912 Porsche 911 RSR edge ahead of the two Ford GTs of Ryan Briscoe and Dirk Muller.

Jan Magnussen was less than 0.3sec off top spot in the #3 Corvette C7.R, and ahead of Porsche's Nick Tandy, Corvette's Tommy Milner, who is returning from injury after a two-race hiatus, and the two BMW M8s.

Jack Hawksworth’s AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F was a highly impressive 0.45sec quicker than its nearest rival in GT Daytona, the Corey Lewis-piloted Lamborghini Huracan of Paul Miller Racing.

The Riley Mercedes AMG-GT3 of Ben Keating and the Turner Motorsports BMW M6 of Bill Auberlen were next up, while Trent Hindman’s fifth-placed Meyer Shank Racing Acura was a second adrift.

Third practice starts at 8.55am local (Central) time tomorrow with qualifying at 12.35pm.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	6	Dane Cameron Juan Pablo Montoya	DPi	Acura DPi	1'50.256
2	7	Ricky Taylor Helio Castroneves	DPi	Acura DPi	1'50.284	0.028
3	77	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'50.531	0.275
4	55	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'50.837	0.581
5	54	Jon Bennett Colin Braun	DPi	Nissan DPi	1'50.971	0.715
6	31	Felipe Nasr Pipo Derani	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'51.285	1.029
7	5	Joao Barbosa Filipe Albuquerque	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'51.681	1.425
8	10	Renger van der Zande Jordan Taylor	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'51.702	1.446
9	85	Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'51.702	1.446
10	84	Simon Trummer Stephen Simpson	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'51.978	1.722
11	52	Matt McMurry Patrick Kelly	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'52.792	2.536
12	38	Cameron Cassels James French	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'53.538	3.282
13	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	2'02.489	12.233
14	67	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	2'02.563	12.307
15	66	Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	2'02.680	12.424
16	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	2'02.757	12.501
17	911	Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	2'02.871	12.615
18	4	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	2'03.392	13.136
19	25	Tom Blomqvist Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	2'03.782	13.526
20	24	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	2'04.084	13.828
21	14	Richard Heistand Jack Hawksworth	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	2'05.162	14.906
22	48	Bryan Sellers Corey Lewis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'05.609	15.353
23	33	Ben Keating Jeroen Bleekemolen	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	2'05.813	15.557
24	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	2'06.075	15.819
25	86	Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	2'06.151	15.895
26	73	Patrick Lindsey Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'06.366	16.110
27	12	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	2'06.442	16.186
28	91	Anthony Imperato Dennis Olsen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'06.554	16.298
29	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	2'06.583	16.327
30	9	Matt Campbell Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'06.819	16.563
31	76	Paul Holton Matt Plumb	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	2'07.160	16.904
32	8	Parker Chase Ryan Dalziel	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	2'07.190	16.934
33	44	John Potter Andy Lally	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'07.462	17.206
34	57	Katherine Legge Ana Beatriz	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	2'07.608	17.352
35	74	Gar Robinson Lawson Aschenbach	GTD	Mercedes-AMG	2'07.633	17.377
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