Sebring 12 Hours: Mazda Team Joest 1-2 in night practice
Rene Rast and Harry Tincknell put the Joest-run Mazda RT24-Ps on top of the times at Sebring during third practice for Saturday’s Sebring 12 Hours.
Photo by: Michael L. Levitt / Motorsport Images
Rast’s #77 lapped the 3.74-mile 17-turn track in 1min48.233 on his ninth tour to claim top spot 0.457sec ahead of Tincknell, who in turn was 0.11sec faster than the quickest Cadillac, the #31 Action Express machine of Felipe Nasr.
Olivier Pla was fourth for ESM Nissan, with Romain Dumas claiming fifth for CORE autosport’s Oreca and Filipe Albuquerque sixth in the second AXR Caddy. Those six entries were covered by one second.
Dane Cameron ‘s #6 Penske-Acura was seventh ahead of Johannes van Overbeek in the second ESM car, while Tristan Vautier and Jordan Taylor completed the Top 10 in the Cadillacs of Spirit of Daytona and Wayne Taylor Racing respectively.
Dirk Muller and Richard Westbrook were first and fourth for the Ganassi-run Ford GTs, while their co-drivers Sebastien Bourdais and Scott Dixon were able to join them in the #67 and #66 cars after flying in from Firestone testing at Texas Motor Speedway where strong winds had curtailed track time.
In between the Fords on the timing screens were Alexander Sims in the #25 BMW M8 and Laurens Vanthoor in the #912 Porsche 911 RSR.
Markus Palttala put the Turner Motorsport BMW M6 at the head of the GT Daytona ranking, ahead of Daniel Serra’s Spirit of Race Ferrari 488, and the Montaplast by Land Audi R8.
Third practice results:
Pos. | No. | Drivers | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis René Rast Tristan Nunez |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'48.233 | |
2 | 55 | Harry Tincknell Spencer Pigot Jonathan Bomarito |
P | Mazda DPi | 1'48.690 | 0.457 |
3 | 31 | Mike Conway Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'48.799 | 0.566 |
4 | 2 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel Olivier Pla |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'48.836 | 0.603 |
5 | 54 | Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'49.083 | 0.850 |
6 | 5 | Christian Fittipaldi Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'49.155 | 0.922 |
7 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron |
P | Acura DPi | 1'49.302 | 1.069 |
8 | 22 | Pipo Derani Johannes van Overbeek Nicolas Lapierre |
P | Nissan DPi | 1'49.404 | 1.171 |
9 | 90 | Matt McMurry Tristan Vautier Eddie Cheever III |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'49.938 | 1.705 |
10 | 10 | Jordan Taylor Ryan Hunter-Reay Renger van der Zande |
P | Cadillac DPi | 1'49.999 | 1.766 |
11 | 52 | Gustavo Yacaman Roberto Gonzalez Sebastian Saavedra |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'50.004 | 1.771 |
12 | 7 | Helio Castroneves Graham Rahal Ricky Taylor |
P | Acura DPi | 1'50.111 | 1.878 |
13 | 32 | Paul di Resta Alex Brundle Phil Hanson |
P | Ligier LMP2 | 1'50.713 | 2.480 |
14 | 99 | Mikhail Goikhberg Chris Miller Stephen Simpson |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'51.135 | 2.902 |
15 | 38 | James French Kyle Masson Patricio O'Ward |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'51.336 | 3.103 |
16 | 85 | Simon Trummer Nelson Panciatici Robert Alon |
P | ORECA LMP2 | 1'51.548 | 3.315 |
17 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Müller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'57.371 | 9.138 |
18 | 25 | Bill Auberlen Connor de Phillippi Alexander Sims |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTLM | 1'57.654 | 9.421 |
19 | 912 | Gianmaria Bruni Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'57.843 | 9.610 |
20 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 1'58.034 | 9.801 |
21 | 62 | James Calado Toni Vilander Alessandro Pier Guidi |
GTLM | Ferrari 488 GTE | 1'58.108 | 9.875 |
22 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn Nick Catsburg |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTLM | 1'58.563 | 10.330 |
23 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'58.660 | 10.427 |
24 | 4 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 1'58.748 | 10.515 |
25 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 1'58.762 | 10.529 |
26 | 96 | Don Yount Markus Palttala Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 2'00.970 | 12.737 |
27 | 51 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda Daniel Serra |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'01.052 | 12.819 |
28 | 29 | Alessio Picariello Christopher Mies Sheldon Van Der Linde |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 2'01.065 | 12.832 |
29 | 44 | Andy Lally Andrew Davis John Potter |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 2'01.102 | 12.869 |
30 | 58 | Patrick Long Christina Nielsen Robert Renauer Mathieu Jaminet |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'01.159 | 12.926 |
31 | 15 | David Heinemeier Hansson Jack Hawksworth Sean Rayhall |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'01.202 | 12.969 |
32 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Luca Stolz |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'01.250 | 13.017 |
33 | 14 | Kyle Marcelli Dominik Baumann Philipp Frommenwiler |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'01.408 | 13.175 |
34 | 63 | Cooper MacNeil Gunnar Jeannette Alessandro Balzan |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'01.439 | 13.206 |
35 | 64 | Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo Bill Sweedler |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'01.567 | 13.334 |
36 | 86 | Alvaro Parente Katherine Legge Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'01.582 | 13.349 |
37 | 75 | Kenny Habul Thomas Jäger Mikael Grenier |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'01.620 | 13.387 |
38 | 71 | Kenton Koch Loris Spinelli JC Perez |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'01.721 | 13.488 |
39 | 48 | Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Madison Snow |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'02.139 | 13.906 |
40 | 36 | Marc Miller Kuno Wittmer Till Bechtolsheimer |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'02.398 | 14.165 |
41 | 69 | Ryan Eversley Tom Dyer Chad Gilsinger |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'02.427 | 14.194 |
42 | 73 | Jörg Bergmeister Tim Pappas Patrick Lindsey |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'02.815 | 14.582 |
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