Rolex 24: Taylor’s Acura leads Mazdas in FP2

Taylor’s #7 Acura ARX-05 lapped the 3.56-mile course in 1min34.904sec which left him 0.215sec clear of Oliver Jarvis’ best effort in the #77 Mazda RT24-P, with Harry Tincknell third in the second Mazda a further 0.3sec in arrears.

Ryan Briscoe’s best effort in the top Cadillac DPi-V.R, the Wayne Taylor Racing entry, left him fourth ahead of the Filipe Albuquerque’s Action Express Racing Caddy, and the similar JDC-Miller MotorSports cars of Matheus Leist and Loic Duval.

Team Penske focused on practicing driver changes and scrubbing in tires, and while Taylor topped the times, the #6 sister car set no representative lap times.

Ben Hanley led LMP2 for DragonSpeed with a time 2.5sec off Taylor’s best but 0.9sec better than the best effort of David Heinemeier Hansson, second quickest in the Tower Motorsport by Starworks entry.

The two Porsche 911 RSR-19s again topped GT Le Mans thanks to Laurens Vanthoor and Nick Tandy, while the two new Corvette C8.Rs of Antonio Garcia and Tommy Milner were third and fourth.

Alessandro Pier Guidi in the Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 split the two Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW M8s to take sixth.

Robby Foley is continuing the strong form he showed in 2019 for Turner Motorsports, his BMW M6 GT3 leading GT Daytona ahead of Zacharie Robichon in the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, Franck Perera’s #11 Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan and the similar Lambo of Bryan Sellers of Paul Miller Racing.

However, both the #11 Grasser car and the #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage will be held on pitlane for 5mins during the third practice session as penalty for rejoining the race track after the GTD practice period had ended.

Qualifying begins at 4.15pm local (Eastern) time.

Session results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	7	Ricky Taylor Helio Castroneves Alexander Rossi	DPi	Acura DPi	1'34.904
2	77	Oliver Jarvis Tristan Nunez Olivier Pla	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'35.119	0.215
3	55	Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell Ryan Hunter-Reay	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'35.430	0.526
4	10	Renger van der Zande Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Kamui Kobayashi	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'35.467	0.563
5	31	Mike Conway Pipo Derani Filipe Albuquerque Felipe Nasr	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'35.522	0.618
6	85	Juan Piedrahita Matheus Leist Chris Miller Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'35.843	0.939
7	5	Sébastien Bourdais Loic Duval Joao Barbosa	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'36.157	1.253
8	81	Ben Hanley Henrik Hedman Colin Braun Harrison Newey	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'37.418	2.514
9	8	Ryan Dalziel David Heinemeier Hansson John Farano Nicolas Lapierre	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'38.371	3.467
10	52	Ben Keating Simon Trummer Nicholas Boulle Gabriel Aubry	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'38.578	3.674
11	38	Cameron Cassels Robert Masson Kyle Masson Don Yount	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'38.663	3.759
12	18	Kyle Tilley Dwight Merriman Ryan Lewis Nicolas Minassian	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'39.308	4.404
13	912	Laurens Vanthoor Earl Bamber Mathieu Jaminet	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'42.508	7.604
14	911	Matt Campbell Nick Tandy Frédéric Makowiecki	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'43.150	8.246
15	3	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	1'43.410	8.506
16	4	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Marcel Fassler	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	1'43.477	8.573
17	24	John Edwards Augusto Farfus Chaz Mostert Jesse Krohn	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'44.204	9.300
18	62	James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi Daniel Serra Davide Rigon	GTLM	Ferrari 488 GTE	1'44.639	9.735
19	25	Connor de Phillippi Philipp Eng Bruno Spengler Colton Herta	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'44.780	9.876
20	96	Robby Foley Jens Klingmann Bill Auberlen Dillon Machavern	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	1'45.921	11.017
21	9	Dennis Olsen Zacharie Robichon Lars Kern Patrick Pilet	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'46.093	11.189
22	11	Richard Heistand Steijn Schothorst Franck Perera Albert Costa	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'46.503	11.599
23	48	Madison Snow Bryan Sellers Corey Lewis Andrea Caldarelli	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'46.725	11.821
24	63	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander Jeff Westphal Alessandro Balzan	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	1'46.785	11.881
25	57	Alvaro Parente Mikhail Goikhberg Trent Hindman A.J. Allmendinger	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'46.819	11.915
26	16	Ryan Hardwick Patrick Long Anthony Imperato Klaus Bachler	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1'46.917	12.013
27	12	Frankie Montecalvo Shane van Gisbergen Aaron Telitz Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'46.926	12.022
28	86	Mario Farnbacher Matt McMurry Shinya Michimi Jules Gounon	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'46.986	12.082
29	88	Mirko Bortolotti Rolf Ineichen Daniel Morad Dries Vanthoor	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	1'47.031	12.127
30	98	Pedro Lamy Ross Gunn Mathias Lauda Andrew Watson	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'47.087	12.183
31	74	Lawson Aschenbach Ben Keating Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	1'47.136	12.232
32	44	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Marco Mapelli	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'47.410	12.506
33	47	Brandon Gdovic Eric Lux Mark Kvamme Jonathan Hoggard	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'47.671	12.767
34	19	Christina Nielsen Katherine Legge Tatiana Calderon Rahel Frey	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	1'47.774	12.870
35	23	Ian James Nicki Thiim Roman De Angelis Alex Riberas	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'47.909	13.005
36	6	Dane Cameron Simon Pagenaud Juan Pablo Montoya	DPi	Acura DPi
37	14	Parker Chase Jack Hawksworth Michael de Quesada Kyle Busch	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3
38	54	Tim Pappas Jeroen Bleekemolen Sven Muller Trenton Estep	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R
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