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.
#77 Mazda Team Joest Mazda DPi, DPi: Oliver Jarvis, Tristan Nunez, Timo Bernhard
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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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