Rolex 24: Bourdais leads final practice in Ganassi Cadillac
Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac driver Sebastien Bourdais set the fastest time of the week in the last of the four sessions for the Rolex 24, season-opener for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Photo by: Art Fleischmann
Bourdais posted a 1m34.732s to head the times 15 minutes from the end of the one-hour session, eclipsing his 1m34.949s that put the #01 Cadillac DPi-V.R at top of the timesheets early in another session affected by rain.
The track was slightly damp when the green flag was waved and there were further spots of rain mid-session, but times were coming down when the session was red-flagged with just under 10 minutes remaining.
The session yielded the first representative times of the week ahead of a race that will be held in dry but cold conditions according to weather forecasts.
Bourdais's lap compared with the fastest practice lap of 1m34.351s from last weekend's pre-race Roar test and the 1m34.034s that gave JDC-Miller driver Tristan Vautier pole position for the grid-setting 100-mile qualifying race
Loic Duval had just gone second in the JDC-Miller Caddy when the interruption came, the Frenchman posting a 1m35.095s.
Jose Maria Lopez ended up third fastest quickest in the best of the Action Express Racing Cadillacs with a 1m35.235.
Earl Bamber took fourth with a 1m35.587s in the second Ganassi car and Action Express driver Pipo Derani fifth with a 1m35.959s as Cadillac locked out the top five positions.
The two Acuras jumped up the order straight after the session restarted with five minutes left on the clock.
A 1m36.049s from Alex Rossi put the Wayne Taylor Racing Acrua ARX-05 sixth, while Tom Blomqvist improved to 1m36.347s to end up seventh.
The late run from the Acuras demoted Phil Hanson in the fastest of the LMP2s to eighth position overall. The Briton's 1m37.639s in the United Autosports Oreca put him just five hundredths ahead of Ferdinand Habsburg's 1m37.689s in the Tower Motorsport entry.
Harry Tincknell was a further two tenths back and third in class in the PR1/Mathiasen Oreca.
Mirko Bortolotti led the GT Daytona Pro field in his TR3 Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo. The Italian's 1m46.085s put him two tenths up on Matteo Cairoli's 1m46.334s in the Proton-run WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R.
Jack Hawksworth took third in the best of the Vasser Sullivan Lexus R CF GT3s. The Briton's 1m46.372s was just a couple of hundredths faster than Jan Heylen managed in the Wright Motorsports Porsche to head the GTD pro-am class times.
Andretti Autosport led the way in LMP3, Rasmus Lindh's 1m44.015s in his Ligier JS P320 giving him nearly a half-second margin on Moritz Kranz in the fastest of the Muehlner Motorsport Duqueine D08.
The session was the final time the 61-car field will take to the track ahead of the race, which starts at 1:40pm local (Eastern) time on Saturday.
Practice times:
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 01 |
Renger van der Zande
Sébastien Bourdais Scott Dixon Alex Palou |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'34.732 | |
2 | 5 |
Tristan Vautier
Richard Westbrook Loic Duval Ben Keating |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'35.095 | 0.363 |
3 | 48 |
Mike Rockenfeller
Kamui Kobayashi Jimmie Johnson Jose Maria Lopez |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'35.235 | 0.503 |
4 | 02 |
Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn Marcus Ericsson Kevin Magnussen |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'35.587 | 0.855 |
5 | 31 |
Pipo Derani
Tristan Nunez Mike Conway |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'35.959 | 1.227 |
6 | 10 |
Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque Alexander Rossi Will Stevens |
DPi | Acura DPi | 1'36.049 | 1.317 |
7 | 60 |
Oliver Jarvis
Tom Blomqvist Helio Castroneves Simon Pagenaud |
DPi | Acura DPi | 1'36.347 | 1.615 |
8 | 22 |
Jim McGuire
Guy Smith Philip Hanson Will Owen |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'37.639 | 2.907 |
9 | 8 |
John Farano
Louis Deletraz Rui Pinto Ferdinand Habsburg |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'37.689 | 2.957 |
10 | 11 |
Thomas Steven
Josh Pierson Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'37.864 | 3.132 |
11 | 52 |
Ben Keating
Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker Nicolas Lapierre |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'37.938 | 3.206 |
12 | 29 |
Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde Murry Dylan Rinus van Kalmthout |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'38.186 | 3.454 |
13 | 69 |
John Falb
James Allen Luca Ghiotto Tijmen van |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'38.214 | 3.482 |
14 | 81 |
Eric Lux
Devlin DeFrancesco Patricio O'Ward Colton Herta |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'38.286 | 3.554 |
15 | 18 |
Dwight Merriman
Kyle Tilley Ryan Dalziel Paul-Loup Chatin |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'38.362 | 3.630 |
16 | 20 |
Dennis Andersen
Anders Fjordbach Fabio Scherer Nico Mueller |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'39.046 | 4.314 |
17 | 68 |
François Heriau
Oliver Rasmussen Ed Jones René Rast |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'39.359 | 4.627 |
18 | 36 |
Jarett Andretti
Josh Burdon Rasmus Lindh Gabby Chaves |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'43.594 | 8.862 |
19 | 6 |
Efrin Castro
Moritz Kranz Ori Ayrton Joel Miller |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'44.384 | 9.652 |
20 | 26 |
Nolan Siegel
Cameron Shields Charles Crews Ugo De |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'44.465 | 9.733 |
21 | 7 |
Mark Kvamme
Austin McCusker Trenton Estep Antoine Doquin |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'44.605 | 9.873 |
22 | 33 |
Joao Barbosa
Malthe Jakobsen Seb Priaulx Lance Willsey |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'44.879 | 10.147 |
23 | 13 |
Orey Fidani
Kuno Wittmer Lars Kern Matthew Bell |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'45.229 | 10.497 |
24 | 63 |
Marco Mapelli
Andrea Caldarelli Mirko Bortolotti Rolf Ineichen |
GTD PRO | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'46.085 | 11.353 |
25 | 79 |
Cooper MacNeil
Julien Andlauer Matteo Cairoli Alessio Picariello |
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'46.334 | 11.602 |
26 | 14 |
Jack Hawksworth
Ben Barnicoat Kyle Kirkwood |
GTD PRO | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'46.372 | 11.640 |
27 | 16 |
Ryan Hardwick
Zacharie Robichon Jan Heylen Richard Lietz |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'46.399 | 11.667 |
28 | 97 |
Cooper MacNeil
Daniel Juncadella Maro Engel Jules Gounon |
GTD PRO | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'46.534 | 11.802 |
29 | 15 |
Dirk Muller
Patrick Assenheimer Austin Cindric |
GTD PRO | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'46.595 | 11.863 |
30 | 9 |
Matt Campbell
Mathieu Jaminet Felipe Nasr |
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'46.622 | 11.890 |
31 | 75 |
Kenny Habul
Luca Stolz Raffaele Marciello Fabian Schiller |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'46.685 | 11.953 |
32 | 2 |
Laurens Vanthoor
Patrick Pilet Dennis Olsen Alexandre Imperatori |
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'46.730 | 11.998 |
33 | 28 |
Michael de Quesada
Daniel Morad Linus Lundqvist Maximillian Goetz |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'46.856 | 12.124 |
34 | 32 |
Mike Skeen
Guy Cosmo Stevan McAleer Scott Andrews |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'46.930 | 12.198 |
35 | 66 |
Kyffin Simpson
Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller Mario Farnbacher |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'46.936 | 12.204 |
36 | 71 |
Franck Perera
LLarena Mateo Paul Maximilian Mikhail Goikhberg |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'46.942 | 12.210 |
37 | 64 |
Ted Giovanis
Hugh Plumb Matt Plumb Owen Trinkler |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'47.037 | 12.305 |
38 | 62 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado Daniel Serra Davide Rigon |
GTD PRO | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'47.120 | 12.388 |
39 | 38 |
Dan Goldburg
Hikaru Abe Garett Grist Nicolas Pino |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'47.125 | 12.393 |
40 | 4 |
Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy Marco Sorensen |
GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 1'47.167 | 12.435 |
41 | 99 |
Rob Ferriol
Katherine Legge Stefan Wilson Nicholas Boulle |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'47.199 | 12.467 |
42 | 34 |
Kyle Washington
James Sofronas Jeroen Bleekemolen Klaus Bachler |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'47.204 | 12.472 |
43 | 12 |
Frankie Montecalvo
Aaron Telitz Richard Heistand Townsend Bell |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'47.269 | 12.537 |
44 | 23 |
Ross Gunn
Alex Riberas Maxime Martin |
GTD PRO | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'47.294 | 12.562 |
45 | 96 |
Robby Foley
Bill Auberlen Michael Dinan Jens Klingmann |
GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'47.360 | 12.628 |
46 | 25 |
Connor de Phillippi
John Edwards Augusto Farfus Jesse Krohn |
GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'47.363 | 12.631 |
47 | 27 |
Roman De Angelis
Ian James Darren Turner Tom Gamble |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'47.371 | 12.639 |
48 | 57 |
Russell Ward
Philip Ellis Mikael Grenier Lucas Auer |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'47.416 | 12.684 |
49 | 70 |
Brendan Iribe
Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy Jordan Lee Pepper |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1'47.443 | 12.711 |
50 | 47 |
Roberto Lacorte
Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco Alessio Rovera |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'47.559 | 12.827 |
51 | 59 |
Lance Bergstein
Jon Miller Patrick Gallagher Paul Holton |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1'47.569 | 12.837 |
52 | 98 |
Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard Charlie Eastwood Nicki Thiim |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'47.780 | 13.048 |
53 | 44 |
John Potter
Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Jonathan Adam |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'47.878 | 13.146 |
54 | 3 |
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg |
GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 1'47.924 | 13.192 |
55 | 39 |
Robert Megennis
Corey Lewis Sandy Mitchell Jeff Westphal |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'48.580 | 13.848 |
56 | 21 |
Mann Simon
Luis Perez Companc Nicklas Nielsen Toni Vilander |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'48.766 | 14.034 |
57 | 24 |
Philipp Eng
Marco Wittmann Nick Yelloly Sheldon Van Der Linde |
GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'48.873 | 14.141 |
58 | 42 |
Don Yount
Benja Hites Jaden Conwright Markus Palttala |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'49.166 | 14.434 |
59 | 19 |
Bill Sweedler
John Megrue Giacomo Altoè Jeff Segal |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'49.191 | 14.459 |
60 | 54 |
Jon Bennett
Colin Braun George Kurtz Nic Jönsson |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 0.000 | |
61 | 74 |
Gar Robinson
Felipe Fraga Kay van Berlo Michael Cooper |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 0.000 | |
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