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IMSA Daytona 24 Hours
Rolex 24: Westbrook’s Ganassi Cadillac tops second practice
Richard Westbrook ensured Cadillac’s new V-LMDh snagged top spot in second practice for the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jan 27, 2023, 12:30 AM
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With an hour to go, Westbrook and Scott Dixon held the top two spots in the #02 and #01 Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-LMDh entries ahead of the third Caddy of Jack Aitken and Action Express Racing.
Good news was that the Porsche 963s were both in action in this session, Matthieu Jaminet in the #6 car a hair ahead of the #7 of Matt Campbell, who in turn was one-thousandth faster than Brendon Hartley’s best effort in the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-06.
Nick Yelloly had set a representative time, too, with a best lap 0.726sec from top spot in the #25 BMW M Hybrid V8 that had missed most of the morning session. The final red flag (caused by a dead LMP3 car) ate into the GTP/GTD Pro-only part of the session, but eight of the cars hit the track. The one that did not was the #24 BMW which ran only nine laps in the session, due to it having a faulty fire extinguisher.
Renger van der Zande trimmed his deficit to teammate Westbrook’s pacesetting time to 0.242sec, which looked like he had done enough to earn second fastest, but then Louis Deletraz in the Wayne Taylor Acura snipped 0.04sec from that time.
Pipo Derani in the AXR Caddy improved his time to also draw within 0.28sec of Westbrook’s 1min35.185sec.
Nasr and Jaminet ensured the Porsches were within 0.4sec of top spot, while Colin Braun was half a second down in the polesitting MSR Acura, while Yelloly was 0.726sec away.
LMP2
Nicolas Lapierre worked down to a 1min38.615sec, a satisfying 0.7ec ahead of Matthieu Vaxiviere in the AF Corse, who was around a tenth swifter than Scott Huffaker and Job van Uitert in the TDS Racing machines.
Van Uitert cut the deficit to Lapierre down to 0.42sec before handing off the #35 to Josh Pierson, while Christian Rasmussen slotted the Era Motorsport entry into third ahead of Huffaker.
Francesco Pizzi shunted the Proton Competition car just before the 45min mark in the LMP2’s session, bringing out the second red flag, 10mins after the first.
LMP3
The Riley Motorsports Ligier of Glenn van Berlo was the early pacesetter, 0.15sec faster than Lars Kern’s best effort in the #13 Duqueine of AWA, and Antonio Serravalle of FastMD Racing.
Till Bechtolsheimer caused the first red flag when his JDC Miller Duqueine stopped at Turn 2, and Orey Fidani caused another one when he took over the AWA car whose best time now belonged to Matthew Bell.
Sadly, as the action resumed, Nolan Siegel brought the Sean Creech Motorsport to a halt at Turn 6, leaking fluids, bringing out the red once more. However, it wasn’t before Nico Varrone managed to sling the second AWA car into second, three tenths behind Fraga, and mere hundredths ahead of teammate Bell.
GTD Pro and GTD
Kerong Li’s #42 NTE Sport Lamborghini Huracan incurred right-front damage in an impact with the tires at Turn 7 after one hour, obliging him to limp it back to the pits. It was a particularly sorry situation because Jaden Conwright had gotten the car up into third in GTD pro-am, fourth in GTD overall.
Mikael Grenier was the fastest of the GTD drivers after the one-hour mark, wheeling the Team Korthoff Motorsports Mercedes AMG GT3 in 1min46.282sec, 0.136sec ahead of Ryan Briscoe in the Racers Edge/WTR/AA Acura NSX. Daniel Juncadella was a further 0.2sec down in the WeatherTech Racing Mercedes, which was leading the GTD Pro category.
When the green flew after Li’s shunt, Kenny Habul jumped the SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes into third fastest GTD runner, while just before the GTD portion of the session ended, Jules Gounon improved the GTD Pro WeatherTech Racing Mercedes’ time to 0.12sec behind Grenier’s best in the GTD Korthoff car.
Second through fifth fastest in GTD Pro were only ninth through twelfth of the GT3 machineray, Alex Riberas second in the Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage just ahead of Jordan Taylor in the Corvette C8.R.
Third practice, a 1hr45min session, begins at 7.15pm local (Eastern) time.
Rolex 24 at Daytona - Free Practice 2 results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 02 Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn
Richard Westbrook
GTP Cadillac V-LMDh 1'35.185 2 10 Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
Louis Deletraz
Brendon Hartley
GTP Acura ARX-06 1'35.423 0.238 3 01 Sébastien Bourdais
Renger van der Zande
Scott Dixon
GTP Cadillac V-LMDh 1'35.427 0.242 4 31 Pipo Derani
Alexander Sims
Jack Aitken
GTP Cadillac V-LMDh 1'35.465 0.280 5 7 Matt Campbell
Felipe Nasr
Michael Christensen
GTP Porsche 963 1'35.542 0.357 6 6 Mathieu Jaminet
Nick Tandy
Dane Cameron
GTP Porsche 963 1'35.564 0.379 7 60 Tom Blomqvist
Colin Braun
Helio Castroneves
Simon Pagenaud
GTP Acura ARX-06 1'35.692 0.507 8 25 Connor de Phillippi
Nick Yelloly
Sheldon Van Der Linde
Colton Herta
GTP BMW M Hybrid V8 1'35.911 0.726 9 24 Philipp Eng
Augusto Farfus
Marco Wittmann
Colton Herta
GTP BMW M Hybrid V8 1'38.127 2.942 10 52 Ben Keating
Paul-Loup Chatin
Alex Quinn
Nicolas Lapierre
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'38.615 3.430 11 35 François Heriau
Giedo van der Garde
Josh Pierson
Job Van Uitert
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'39.036 3.851 12 18 Dwight Merriman
Ryan Dalziel
Christian Rasmussen
Oliver Jarvis
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'39.044 3.859 13 11 Thomas Steven
Mikkel Jensen
Scott Huffaker
Rinus van Kalmthout
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'39.056 3.871 14 88 François Perrodo
Matthieu Vaxiviere
Julien Canal
Nicklas Nielsen
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'39.314 4.129 15 04 George Kurtz
Ben Hanley
Matt McMurry
Esteban Gutierrez
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'39.448 4.263 16 51 Eric Lux
Devlin DeFrancesco
Austin Cindric
Pietro Fittipaldi
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'39.705 4.520 17 20 Dennis Andersen
Ed Jones
Anders Fjordbach
Raffaele Marciello
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'39.899 4.714 18 55 Fred Poordad
Francesco Pizzi
James Allen
Gianmaria Bruni
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'40.503 5.318 19 8 John Farano
Scott McLaughlin
Josef Newgarden
Kyffin Simpson
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'41.062 5.877 20 74 Gar Robinson
Felipe Fraga
Glenn van Berlo
Josh Burdon
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'42.491 7.306 21 17 Anthony Mantella
Wayne Boyd
Nico Varrone
Thomas Merrill
LMP3 Duqueine D08 1'42.799 7.614 22 13 Orey Fidani
Matthew Bell
Lars Kern
Moritz Kranz
LMP3 Duqueine D08 1'42.856 7.671 23 87 Yu Kanamaru
James Vance
Serravalle Antonio
Nicholas Boulle
LMP3 Duqueine D08 1'42.860 7.675 24 33 Lance Willsey
Joao Barbosa
Nicolas Pino
Nolan Siegel
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'43.033 7.848 25 85 Till Bechtolsheimer
Tijmen van der Helm
Luca Mars
Mason Filippi
LMP3 Duqueine D08 1'43.742 8.557 26 38 John DeAngelis
Christopher Allen
Cameron Shields
Connor Bloum
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'44.780 9.595 27 43 Sebastian Alvarez
Danial Frost
James French
Guilherme de
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'46.122 10.937 28 32 Mike Skeen
Mikael Grenier
Kenton Koch
Maximillian Goetz
GTD Mercedes AMG GT3 1'46.282 11.097 29 79 Cooper MacNeil
Daniel Juncadella
Jules Gounon
Maro Engel
GTD PRO Mercedes AMG GT3 1'46.400 11.215 30 93 Ashton Harrison
Danny Formal
Kyle Marcelli
Ryan Briscoe
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'46.418 11.233 31 75 Kenny Habul
Luca Stolz
Fabian Schiller
Axcil Jefferies
GTD Mercedes AMG GT3 1'46.642 11.457 32 42 Don Yount
Jaden Conwright
Kerong Li
Alessio Deledda
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 1'46.704 11.519 33 44 John Potter
Andy Lally
Spencer Pumpelly
Nicki Thiim
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'46.715 11.530 34 70 Brendan Iribe
Frederik Schandorff
Ollie Millroy
Marvin Kirchhofer
GTD McLaren 720S GT3 1'46.751 11.566 35 78 Mikhail Goikhberg
Loris Spinelli
Benja Hites
Marco Mapelli
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 1'46.869 11.684 36 23 Ross Gunn
Alex Riberas
David Pittard
GTD PRO Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'46.871 11.686 37 3 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
Tommy Milner
GTD PRO Corvette C8.R GTD 1'46.937 11.752 38 64 Ted Giovanis
Hugh Plumb
Matt Plumb
Owen Trinkler
GTD PRO Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'47.039 11.854 39 14 Jack Hawksworth
Ben Barnicoat
Mike Conway
GTD PRO Lexus RC F GT3 1'47.057 11.872 40 12 Aaron Telitz
Frankie Montecalvo
Kyle Kirkwood
Parker Thompson
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'47.097 11.912 41 27 Roman De Angelis
Marco Sorensen
Ian James
Darren Turner
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'47.246 12.061 42 66 Sheena Monk
Katherine Legge
Mario Farnbacher
Marc Miller
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'47.439 12.254 43 1 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
Corey Lewis
Maxime Martin
GTD BMW M4 GT3 1'47.527 12.342 44 19 Raffaele Giammaria
Franck Perera
Claudio Schiavoni
Rolf Ineichen
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 1'47.570 12.385 45 47 Roberto Lacorte
Giorgio Sernagiotto
Antonio Fuoco
Alessandro Balzan
GTD Ferrari 296 GT3 1'47.586 12.401 46 63 Andrea Caldarelli
Mirko Bortolotti
Jordan Lee Pepper
Romain Grosjean
GTD PRO Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 1'47.705 12.520 47 95 Bill Auberlen
Chandler Hull
Bruno Spengler
John Edwards
GTD PRO BMW M4 GT3 1'47.854 12.669 48 62 Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado
Daniel Serra
Davide Rigon
GTD PRO Ferrari 296 GT3 1'48.126 12.941 49 21 Mann Simon
Luis Perez Companc
Miguel Molina
Francesco Castellacci
GTD Ferrari 296 GT3 1'48.257 13.072 50 77 Alan Brynjolfsson
Trent Hindman
Max Root
Kevin Estre
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'48.275 13.090 51 96 Patrick Gallagher
Robby Foley
Michael Dinan
Jens Klingmann
GTD BMW M4 GT3 1'48.353 13.168 52 83 Rahel Frey
Sarah Bovy
Michelle Gatting
Doriane Pin
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 1'48.354 13.169 53 023 Onofrio Triarsi
Charles Scardina
Alessio Rovera
Andrea Bertolini
GTD Ferrari 296 GT3 1'48.396 13.211 54 80 PJ Hyett
Seb Priaulx
Gunnar Jeannette
Harry Tincknell
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'48.467 13.282 55 53 Mark Kvamme
Trenton Estep
Jan Magnussen
Jason Hart
GTD PRO Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'48.539 13.354 56 9 Klaus Bachler
Patrick Pilet
Laurens Vanthoor
GTD PRO Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'48.577 13.392 57 92 David Brule
Alec Udell
Andrew Davis
Jeroen Bleekemolen
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'48.601 13.416 58 16 Ryan Hardwick
Jan Heylen
Zacharie Robichon
Dennis Olsen
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'48.663 13.478 59 91 Alan Metni
Kay van Berlo
Jaxon Evans
Julien Andlauer
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) 1'48.696 13.511 60 36 Jarett Andretti
Gabby Chaves
Dakota Dickerson
Rasmus Lindh
LMP3 Ligier JS P320 1'49.188 14.003 61 57 Russell Ward
Philip Ellis
Indy Dontje
Lucas Auer
GTD Mercedes AMG GT3 View full results
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