Sebring 12H: AXR Cadillac leads Porsche in disrupted night session

GTP

Alexander Sims was the first driver to duck under the 1m50s barrier with a 1:49.256 on his seventh lap in the Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R and worked down to a 1:48.820.

By then his nearest competitor was Nick Tandy in the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsports 963, 0.152s behind, with Louis Deletraz third for Wayne Taylor Racing Andretti another 0.06s down.

Then the Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 expired on its 10th lap, bringing out the red, and with half hour to go, the WTR Acura also stopped on course with Filipe Albuquerque at the wheel.

Philipp Eng’s best lap in the #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 was, encouragingly, within half a second of the top spot.

By the time of the final red flag, all eight GTP cars were lined up ready to roll, but the tire wall repairs necessary at Turn 17 for a shunt from a GTD Porsche left no time to get more laps in.

LMP2

Josh Pierson and Scott Huffaker put their two TDS Racing Orecas top ahead of Christian Rasmussen of Era Motorsport, before Rasmussen split the pair, albeit still three-tenths of a second behind Pierson’s benchmark.

LMP3

The battle between Jr III Racing and Riley Motorsports looks set to be an entertaining one, but Garett Grist’s top time for Jr III this evening was almost a full second faster than Felipe Fraga’s best for Riley – largely a result of traffic and unhelpful red flags.

Tonis Kasemets of Ave Motorsports made it a Ligier 1-2-3, with Nico Varrone fastest Duqueine driver for AWA in fourth.

GTD Pro/GTD

Jordan Taylor’s GTD Pro Corvette C8.R led the way for the GT3 cars for most of the session, while his closest challenger was Indy Dontje in the Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3.

Ben Barnicoat was second in GTD Pro, third overall, in the #14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 followed by Daniel Juncadella’s WeatherTech Racing Mercedes and Patrick Pilet in the Pfaff Porsche 911 GT3 R. Another Porsche, that of Seb Priaulx of AO Racing, was fifth overall, second in GTD.

The #66 Acura NSX GT3 of Gradient Racing was in the wars, Sheena Monk being tapped by the Crowdstrike Racing by APR LMP2 car of Georg Kurtz that was recovering from a spin. Then Monk’s co-driver Marc Miller caused a red flag by going off at Turn 3.

Another unfortunate team was Kellymoss with Riley, since there was a red flag within two minutes of the start of the session when David Brule’s #92 Porsche went into the tire wall at Turn 5. Then with barely a dozen minutes remaining, the sister car, the #91 driven by Kay van Berlo, completed a 360deg spin under braking for Turn 17 and went hard into the tire wall.

Qualifying starts on Friday morning at 9.15am local (Eastern) time, preceded by 10 minutes for the GTP cars to run a systems check.

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap
1	31	Pipo Derani Alexander Sims Jack Aitken	GTP	Cadillac V-Series.R	23	1'48.820
2	6	Nick Tandy Mathieu Jaminet Dane Cameron	GTP	Porsche 963	24	1'48.972	0.152
3	10	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque Louis Deletraz	GTP	Acura ARX-06	19	1'49.034	0.214
4	24	Philipp Eng Augusto Farfus Marco Wittmann	GTP	BMW M Hybrid V8	20	1'49.292	0.472
5	01	Sébastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Scott Dixon	GTP	Cadillac V-Series.R	19	1'49.531	0.711
6	25	Connor de Phillippi Nick Yelloly Sheldon Van Der Linde	GTP	BMW M Hybrid V8	25	1'49.851	1.031
7	7	Matt Campbell Felipe Nasr Michael Christensen	GTP	Porsche 963	21	1'50.106	1.286
8	60	Tom Blomqvist Colin Braun Helio Castroneves	GTP	Acura ARX-06	20	1'50.899	2.079
9	35	François Heriau Giedo van der Garde Josh Pierson	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	25	1'51.543	2.723
10	18	Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel Christian Rasmussen	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	24	1'51.842	3.022
11	11	Steven Thomas Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	25	1'51.951	3.131
12	20	Dennis Andersen Ed Jones Anders Fjordbach	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	23	1'52.389	3.569
13	04	George Kurtz Ben Hanley Nolan Siegel	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	19	1'53.023	4.203
14	52	Ben Keating Paul-Loup Chatin Alex Quinn	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	21	1'53.936	5.116
15	8	John Farano Scott McLaughlin Kyffin Simpson	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	24	1'54.151	5.331
16	51	Eric Lux Devlin DeFrancesco Pietro Fittipaldi	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	22	1'55.897	7.077
17	30	Ari Balogh Garett Grist Dakota Dickerson	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	23	1'56.595	7.775
18	74	Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga Josh Burdon	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	20	1'57.552	8.732
19	4	Seth Lucas Tonis Kasemets Trenton Estep	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	22	1'57.974	9.154
20	17	Anthony Mantella Wayne Boyd Nico Varrone	LMP3	Duqueine D08	23	1'58.624	9.804
21	36	Jarett Andretti Gabby Chaves Glenn van	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	20	1'58.682	9.862
22	13	Orey Fidani Matthew Bell Lars Kern	LMP3	Duqueine D08	22	1'58.733	9.913
23	85	Till Bechtolsheimer Tijmen van der Helm Daniel Goldburg	LMP3	Duqueine D08	24	1'59.397	10.577
24	33	Lance Willsey Joao Barbosa Nicolas Pino	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	20	1'59.592	10.772
25	38	Christopher Allen Robert Mau Tristan Nunez	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	20	2'00.123	11.303
26	3	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Tommy Milner	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	20	2'01.290	12.470
27	57	Russell Ward Philip Ellis Indy Dontje	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	17	2'01.360	12.540
28	14	Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat Kyle Kirkwood	GTD PRO	Lexus RC F GT3	24	2'01.375	12.555
29	79	Daniel Juncadella Jules Gounon Maro Engel	GTD PRO	Mercedes AMG GT3	19	2'01.407	12.587
30	9	Klaus Bachler Patrick Pilet Laurens Vanthoor	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	20	2'01.635	12.815
31	80	PJ Hyett Seb Priaulx Gunnar Jeannette	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	20	2'01.646	12.826
32	27	Roman De Angelis Marco Sorensen Ian James	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	19	2'01.771	12.951
33	93	Ashton Harrison Danny Formal Kyle Marcelli	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	23	2'01.879	13.059
34	63	Frank Perera Jordan Lee Pepper Romain Grosjean	GTD PRO	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	20	2'01.994	13.174
35	91	Alan Metni Kay van Berlo Jaxon Evans	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	18	2'02.045	13.225
36	16	Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	21	2'02.068	13.248
37	62	Daniel Serra Davide Rigon Gabriel Casagrande	GTD PRO	Ferrari 296 GT3	18	2'02.169	13.349
38	78	Mikhail Goikhberg Loris Spinelli Benjamin Hites	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	23	2'02.209	13.389
39	23	Ross Gunn Alex Riberas David Pittard	GTD PRO	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	20	2'02.228	13.408
40	1	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	19	2'02.240	13.420
41	92	David Brule Alec Udell Julien Andlauer	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	15	2'02.288	13.468
42	12	Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz Parker Thompson	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	24	2'02.288	13.468
43	44	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	19	2'02.406	13.586
44	32	Mike Skeen Mikael Grenier Kenton Koch	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	17	2'02.476	13.656
45	023	Onofrio Triarsi Charles Scardina Alessio Rovera	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	21	2'02.566	13.746
46	96	Patrick Gallagher Robby Foley Michael Dinan	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	21	2'02.719	13.899
47	83	Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	17	2'03.116	14.296
48	47	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	20	2'03.263	14.443
49	21	Simon Mann Miguel Molina Francesco Castellacci	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	19	2'03.603	14.783
50	70	Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	21	2'03.612	14.792
51	66	Sheena Monk Katherine Legge Marc Miller	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	10	2'03.930	15.110
52	95	Bill Auberlen Chandler Hull John Edwards	GTD PRO	BMW M4 GT3	22	2'04.194	15.374
53	77	Alan Brynjolfsson Trent Hindman Maxwell Root	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	22	2'05.495	16.675
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