Practice report
IMSA Watkins Glen
Watkins Glen IMSA: Mazda leads wet-but-drying practice
Oliver Jarvis put the #77 Mazda RT24-P at the top of the times in the last practice before qualifying for the Sahlen’s 6 Hours of Watkins Glen, grabbing a set of slicks in the final minutes to go fastest by almost 3.5sec.
David Malsher-Lopez
Published: Jun 29, 2019, 1:26 PM
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The Mazda Team Joest driver lapped the 11-turn 3.4-mile course in 1min43.279sec to beat Will Owen’s best in the Juncos Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R by 3.459sec. Renger van der Zande was next up in the Wayne Taylor Racing Caddy followed by the second Mazda steered by Olivier Pla.
Simon Trummer, who suffered an off yesterday, today beat JDC Miller Cadillac teammate Misha Goikhberg to fifth fastest, while Dane Cameron headed up Acura Team Penske’s effort but wasn’t lapping in the drier conditions at the end of th session.
Another team to take it easy in this session was Action Express Racing, whose Cadillacs turned only a total of 11 laps, compared with the 25 of the lead Mazda.
In GT Le Mans, Laurens Vanthoor and Patrick Pilet held sway in the two Porsche 911 RSRs until the dying moments when John Edwards took advantage of the dry track to slot his RLL BMW M8 into second place.
Richard Westbrook was fastest of the Ford GT drivers in fourth, ahead of the two Corvette C7.Rs.
In GT Daytona, Jack Hawksworth made a late jump to the top in his AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F, beating Parker Chase’s impressive effort in the Starworks Motorsport Audi R8 by just under 0.3sec, as open-wheel ace Aaron Telitz put both Lexus cars in the top three.
Christopher Mies was fourth in the Montaplast by Land Audi, while Corey Lewis turned the fastest Lamborghini lap for Paul Miller Racing, and Scott Hargrove was the fastest of the Porsche 911 GT3R runners.
Qualifying starts at 11.35am local (Eastern) time.
Cla Driver Class Chassis Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez
Timo Bernhard
DPi Mazda DPi 1'43.279 118.514 2 Will Owen
Rene Binder
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'46.738 3.459 3.459 114.673 3 Renger van der Zande
Jordan Taylor
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'46.909 3.630 0.171 114.490 4 Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell
Olivier Pla
DPi Mazda DPi 1'47.126 3.847 0.217 114.258 5 Simon Trummer
Stephen Simpson
Chris Miller
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'47.815 4.536 0.689 113.528 6 Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier
Juan Piedrahita
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'48.421 5.142 0.606 112.893 7 Juan Pablo Montoya
Dane Cameron
DPi Acura DPi 1'49.506 6.227 1.085 111.775 8 Joao Barbosa
Mike Conway
Filipe Albuquerque
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'50.870 7.591 1.364 110.400 9 Ricky Taylor
Helio Castroneves
DPi Acura DPi 1'52.290 9.011 1.420 109.003 10 Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'54.280 11.001 1.990 107.105 11 Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'54.842 11.563 0.562 106.581 12 Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'54.915 11.636 0.073 106.514 13 Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
GTLM Ford GT 1'55.024 11.745 0.109 106.413 14 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'55.184 11.905 0.160 106.265 15 Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia
GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'55.362 12.083 0.178 106.101 16 Tom Blomqvist
Connor de Phillippi
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'55.431 12.152 0.069 106.037 17 Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth
Philipp Frommenwiler
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'57.445 14.166 2.014 104.219 18 Parker Chase
Ryan Dalziel
Mike Skeen
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'57.719 14.440 0.274 103.976 19 Joey Hand
Dirk Muller
GTLM Ford GT 1'57.895 14.616 0.176 103.821 20 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
Aaron Telitz
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'57.990 14.711 0.095 103.738 21 Christopher Mies
Richard Feller
Daniel Morad
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'58.729 15.450 0.739 103.092 22 Felipe Nasr
Eric Curran
Pipo Derani
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'58.943 15.664 0.214 102.906 23 Bryan Sellers
Ryan Hardwick
Corey Lewis
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'59.002 15.723 0.059 102.855 24 Scott Hargrove
Zacharie Robichon
Lars Kern
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'59.107 15.828 0.105 102.765 25 Marc Miller
Marco Seefried
Dirk Werner
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'59.360 16.081 0.253 102.547 26 Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman
Justin Marks
GTD Acura NSX GT3 2'00.428 17.149 1.068 101.637 27 Patrick Lindsey
Patrick Long
Nicholas Boulle
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 2'01.044 17.765 0.616 101.120 28 John Potter
Andy Lally
Spencer Pumpelly
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 2'04.010 20.731 2.966 98.702 29 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
Dillon Machavern
GTD BMW M6 GT3 2'04.020 20.741 0.010 98.694 30 Brandon Gdovic
Don Yount
Jacob Eidson
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 2'05.957 22.678 1.937 97.176 31 Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen
Ana Beatriz
GTD Acura NSX GT3 2'05.973 22.694 0.016 97.164 32 Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander
Jeff Westphal
GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 2'06.106 22.827 0.133 97.061 33 Andrew Davis
Alex Riberas
Will Hardeman
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 0.000 34 Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Felipe Fraga
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 0.000 35 Cameron Cassels
Andrew Evans
Kyle Masson
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 0.000 36 Matt McMurry
Gabriel Aubry
Eric Lux
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 0.000 37 Jon Bennett
Colin Braun
Romain Dumas
DPi Nissan DPi 0.000 View full results
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