Practice report

IMSA Sebring

Sebring 12h: Cadillac 1-2-3 in second practice

Balance of Performance mods have blunted the fangs of the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs but they still have serious bite, as Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing dominated the times during second practice for the 65th 12 Hours of Sebring.

David Malsher-Lopez

Edited: Mar 16, 2017, 10:18 PM

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#10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac DPi: Ricky Taylor, Jordan Taylor, Alex Lynn

#5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi: Joao Barbosa, Christian Fittipaldi, Filipe Albuquerque

#3 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7.R: Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen, Mike Rockenfeller

#13 Rebellion Racing ORECA 07: Neel Jani, Sébastien Buemi, Nick Heidfeld

#911 Porsche Team North America Porsche 911 RSR: Patrick Pilet, Dirk Werner, Frédéric Makowiecki

#4 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7.R: Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner, Marcel Fässler

#73 Park Place Motorsports Porsche GT3 R: Patrick Lindsey, Jörg Bergmeister, Matt McMurry

#68 Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT: Billy Johnson, Stefan Mücke, Olivier Pla

#31 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi: Eric Curran, Dane Cameron, Mike Conway

The Action Express Cadillacs of first Mike Conway and then Joao Barbosa hit the top of the Prototype times, despite Albuquerque briefly suffering a broken throttle.

However, this pair were shoved aside by the similar Wayne Taylor Racing Caddy as Jordan Taylor became the first and only driver in this session to crack the 1min50sec barrier, ringing up a 1m49.888s.

That put him 0.215 ahead of Barbosa’s best in the #5 car, and almost half a second clear of Conway’s time in the entry of reigning champions Dane Cameron/Eric Curran.

Reigning WEC champion Neel Jani eventually whittled the Rebellion Racing Oreca’s deficit down to seven tenths of a second, with Tristan Nunez in the #55 Mazda a further 0.7sec behind. Brendon Hartley spun the #22 Extreme Speed Motorsport Nissan-Ligier in the closing minutes and wound up sixth.

GT Le Mans saw Corvette Racing back where it belongs, the defending Sebring winner Tommy Milner putting the #4 at the top, and Antonio Garcia grabbing third. The yellow pair were split by last week’s St. Petersburg IndyCar winner Sebastien Bourdais in the #66 Ford GT which was less than two-tenths off top spot.

Patrick Pilet drove his #911 Porsche 911 RSR to fourth, just ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella’s best in the Risi Competizione Ferrari 488, and the other two Fords of Stefan Mucke and Scott Dixon.

GT Daytona continued to see the Audi R8 LMS machines of Stevenson Motorsports and Land-Motorsport looking strong, with Andrew Davis putting the #57 car some 0.2sec clear at the head of the charts. However, this time the R8s were split by a superlative effort from Austin Cindric in the #15 Lexus RC F of 3GT Racing. Behind Christopher Mies in the Land-Motorsport car was Patrick Lindsey in the Park Place Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R, Spencer Pumpelly in Alegra Motorsport’s similar Porsche and Sage Karam in the second Lexus.

Colin Thompson put BAR1 on top in Prototype Challenge, 0.13sec up on Pato O’Ward’s Performance Tech entry.

Sebring FP2 times

PosDriverClassChassisLapsTimeGap 1 united_states Jordan Taylor
Ricky Taylor
united_kingdom Alex Lynn P Cadillac DPi 21 1'49.888 2 brazil Christian Fittipaldi
portugal Filipe Albuquerque
Joao Barbosa P Cadillac DPi 23 1'50.103 0.215 3 Mike Conway
Dane Cameron
Eric Curran P Cadillac DPi 17 1'50.370 0.482 4 germany Nick Heidfeld
switzerland Sébastien Buemi
Neel Jani P ORECA 27 1'50.602 0.714 5 united_states Spencer Pigot
Jonathan Bomarito
Tristan Nunez P Mazda DPi 22 1'51.281 1.393 6 brazil Bruno Senna
new_zealand Brendon Hartley
Ed Brown
Johannes van Overbeek P Nissan DPi 23 1'51.610 1.722 7 canada Mikhail Goikhberg
Chris Miller
south_africa Stephen Simpson P ORECA 22 1'51.786 1.898 8 united_states Tom Long
Joel Miller
united_kingdom Marino Franchitti P Mazda DPi 21 1'52.233 2.345 9 Tom Kimber-Smith
mexico Jose Gutierrez
Mike Guasch P Ligier 25 1'52.549 2.661 10 germany René Rast
belgium Marc Goossens
netherlands Renger van der Zande P Multimatic/Riley 20 1'53.062 3.174 11 colombia Gustavo Yacaman
united_states Colin Thompson
Marc Drumwright
Chapman Ducote PC ORECA FLM09 23 1'54.741 4.853 12 James French
Kyle Masson
Patricio O'Ward PC ORECA FLM09 23 1'54.875 4.987 13 switzerland Marcel Fassler
united_kingdom Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Corvette C7.R 23 1'57.206 7.318 14 france Sébastien Bourdais
united_states Joey Hand
germany Dirk Müller GTLM Ford GT 20 1'57.372 7.484 15 denmark Jan Magnussen
spain Antonio Garcia
germany Mike Rockenfeller GTLM Corvette C7.R 21 1'57.433 7.545 16 france Patrick Pilet
france Frédéric Makowiecki
germany Dirk Werner GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 14 1'57.441 7.553 17 italy Giancarlo Fisichella
united_kingdom James Calado
finland Toni Vilander GTLM Ferrari 488 GTE 22 1'57.501 7.613 18 germany Stefan Mücke
france Olivier Pla
united_states Billy Johnson GTLM Ford GT 25 1'57.528 7.640 19 australia Ryan Briscoe
new_zealand Scott Dixon
Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 17 1'57.571 7.683 20 canada Garett Grist
Max Hanratty
canada James Dayson PC ORECA FLM09 22 1'57.817 7.929 21 Don Yount
united_states Buddy Rice
canada Daniel Burkett PC ORECA FLM09 22 1'58.246 8.358 22 austria Richard Lietz
france Kevin Estre
belgium Laurens Vanthoor GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 23 1'58.330 8.442 23 John Edwards
netherlands Nicky Catsburg
germany Martin Tomczyk GTLM BMW M6 GTLM 20 1'58.475 8.587 24 united_states Bill Auberlen
canada Kuno Wittmer
united_kingdom Alexander Sims GTLM BMW M6 GTLM 26 1'59.765 9.877 25 Lawson Aschenbach
Andrew Davis
Matt Bell GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 24 2'01.449 11.561 26 Austin Cindric
Jack Hawksworth
Robert Alon GTD Lexus RCF GT3 20 2'01.676 11.788 27 united_states Connor de Phillippi
france Jules Gounon
germany Christopher Mies GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 22 2'01.692 11.804 28 germany Jörg Bergmeister
Patrick Lindsey
Matt McMurry GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 24 2'01.705 11.817 29 denmark Michael Christensen
canada Daniel Morad
united_states Spencer Pumpelly
Michael de Quesada GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 23 2'01.751 11.863 30 Scott Pruett
united_kingdom Ian James
Sage Karam GTD Lexus RCF GT3 16 2'01.816 11.928 31 italy Matteo Cressoni
denmark Christina Nielsen
italy Alessandro Balzan GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 24 2'01.866 11.978 32 united_states Justin Marks
germany Jens Klingmann
finland Jesse Krohn GTD BMW M6 GT3 25 2'01.961 12.073 33 Townsend Bell
Frankie Montecalvo
Bill Sweedler GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 22 2'01.988 12.100 34 Boris Said
australia Kenny Habul
france Tristan Vautier GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 18 2'02.039 12.151 35 netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen
united_states Ben Keating
germany Mario Farnbacher GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 23 2'02.101 12.213 36 Cooper MacNeil
Gunnar Jeannette
new_zealand Shane van Gisbergen GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 18 2'02.278 12.390 37 Andy Lally
united_kingdom Katherine Legge
canada Mark Wilkins GTD Acura NSX GT3 20 2'02.455 12.567 38 south_africa Dion von Moltke
united_states Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 21 2'02.611 12.723 39 france Emmanuel Collard
italy Fabio Babini
italy Emanuele Busnelli
italy Michele Beretta GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 24 2'02.849 12.961 40 Jeff Segal
brazil Oswaldo Negri Jr.
united_states Tom Dyer GTD Acura NSX GT3 20 2'03.553 13.665 41 italy Paolo Ruberti
Lawrence DeGeorge
monaco Cedric Sbirrazzuoli GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 21 2'03.830 13.942 42 sweden Niclas Jönsson
Jon Bennett
Colin Braun GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 19 2'04.652 14.764 43 united_states Brandon Gdovic
Anthony Massari
canada Emmanuel Anassis GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 22 2'05.970 16.082 44 Brett Sandberg
Corey Lewis
netherlands Jeroen Mul GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 5 2'06.046 16.158 45 italy Richard Antinucci
switzerland Rolf Ineichen
italy Mirko Bortolotti
germany Christian Engelhart GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 3 2'36.376 46.488

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