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Watkins Glen IMSA: Jarvis lands brilliant pole for Mazda
A sensational battle between the Mazda RT24-Ps and Acura ARX-05s saw Oliver Jarvis take pole for the Sahlen’s 6 Hours of Watkins Glen by 0.223sec ahead of Dane Cameron’s best effort for Acura Team Penske.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jun 29, 2019, 10:21 PM
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Jarvis’ 1min29.639sec which landed Mazda’s third pole of the season, beat the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship track record for the class by two seconds, as four cars ducked under the 90sec barrier.
Ricky Taylor in the second Acura was just 0.066sec slower than teammate Cameron while Harry Tincknell in the second Mazda was a mere 0.055sec further back.
By comparison to that quartet, the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs were left gasping, and it was Renger van der Zande in the Wayne Taylor Racing machine who emerged the best of the GM cars, fifth but over one second adrift of P1. Filipe Albuquerque beat Felipe Nasr in the all-Action Express Racing battle for sixth, by just 0.007sec.
Gabriel Aubry was an impressive eighth fastest overall in the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca to outpace the two JDC Miller Motorsports Cadillacs and his only LMP2 rival, Kyle Masson in the Performance Tech Motorsports machine.
GT Le Mans
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Reigning GT Le Mans class champion Antonio Garcia produced an outstanding lap in the #3 Corvette C7.R he shares with Jan Magnussen to beat the Ford GTs of Richard Westbrook and Joey Hand by a clear margin, even before Hand got pinged for a track limit violation that saw him demoted to fifth. Westbrook was 0.317sec off Garcia’s 1min40.799sec benchmark.
Hand’s demise left Tommy Milner in the #4 Corvette in third, albeit half a second slower than his teammate, and only 0.01sec faster than John Edwards’ well-driven BMW M8.
The Porsche 911 RSRs of Nick Tandy and Laurens Vanthoor brought up the rear, 0.75 and 1.4sec slower respectively.
GT Daytona
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The two Meyer Shank Racing-run Acura NSXs locked out the front row of the 16-car GTD class with Trent Hindman setting a 1min44.978sec, three tenths clear of Christina Nielsen in the Heinricher Racing machine.
Dillon Machavern set the fastest opening sector in Turner Motorsports’ venerable BMW M6 but bled away six tenths in the middle sector to wind up half a second off the ultimate pace, and just 0.089sec ahead of Jeff Westphal in the Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488.
Ricky Feller was the fastest of the Audi R8s by a huge margin, the Montaplast by Land Motorsport entry grabbing fifth ahead of the quickest Porsche 911 GT3R, the Pfaff Motorsports machine of Zacharie Robichon.
Ben Keating in Riley Motorsports’ Mercedes AMG GT was seventh but will have been alarmed to wind up almost a second slower than P1. Richard Heistand was eighth in the AIM Vasser Sullivan-run Lexus RC F, but teammate Frankie Montecalvo missed the session as the #12 car had an engine change.
Cla Driver Class Chassis Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez
Timo Bernhard
DPi Mazda DPi 1'29.639 136.548 2 Juan Pablo Montoya
Dane Cameron
DPi Acura DPi 1'29.862 0.223 0.223 136.209 3 Ricky Taylor
Helio Castroneves
DPi Acura DPi 1'29.928 0.289 0.066 136.109 4 Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell
Olivier Pla
DPi Mazda DPi 1'29.983 0.344 0.055 136.026 5 Renger van der Zande
Jordan Taylor
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'30.758 1.119 0.775 134.864 6 Joao Barbosa
Mike Conway
Filipe Albuquerque
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'31.170 1.531 0.412 134.255 7 Felipe Nasr
Eric Curran
Pipo Derani
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'31.177 1.538 0.007 134.244 8 Matt McMurry
Gabriel Aubry
Eric Lux
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'31.735 2.096 0.558 133.428 9 Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier
Juan Piedrahita
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'32.316 2.677 0.581 132.588 10 Simon Trummer
Stephen Simpson
Chris Miller
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'32.409 2.770 0.093 132.455 11 Cameron Cassels
Andrew Evans
Kyle Masson
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'32.459 2.820 0.050 132.383 12 Will Owen
Rene Binder
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'33.134 3.495 0.675 131.424 13 Jon Bennett
Colin Braun
Romain Dumas
DPi Nissan DPi 1'33.466 3.827 0.332 130.957 14 Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia
GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'40.799 11.160 7.333 121.430 15 Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
GTLM Ford GT 1'41.116 11.477 0.317 121.049 16 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'41.291 11.652 0.175 120.840 17 Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'41.301 11.662 0.010 120.828 18 Joey Hand
Dirk Muller
GTLM Ford GT 1'41.304 11.665 0.003 120.824 19 Tom Blomqvist
Connor de Phillippi
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'41.414 11.775 0.110 120.693 20 Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'41.545 11.906 0.131 120.538 21 Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'42.206 12.567 0.661 119.758 22 Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman
Justin Marks
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'44.978 15.339 2.772 116.596 23 Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen
Ana Beatriz
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'45.295 15.656 0.317 116.245 24 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
Dillon Machavern
GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'45.506 15.867 0.211 116.012 25 Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander
Jeff Westphal
GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 1'45.595 15.956 0.089 115.915 26 Christopher Mies
Richard Feller
Daniel Morad
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'45.597 15.958 0.002 115.912 27 Scott Hargrove
Zacharie Robichon
Lars Kern
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'45.842 16.203 0.245 115.644 28 Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Felipe Fraga
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'45.961 16.322 0.119 115.514 29 Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth
Philipp Frommenwiler
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'46.066 16.427 0.105 115.400 30 Marc Miller
Marco Seefried
Dirk Werner
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'46.100 16.461 0.034 115.363 31 Brandon Gdovic
Don Yount
Jacob Eidson
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'46.388 16.749 0.288 115.051 32 Bryan Sellers
Ryan Hardwick
Corey Lewis
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'46.620 16.981 0.232 114.800 33 John Potter
Andy Lally
Spencer Pumpelly
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'47.041 17.402 0.421 114.349 34 Parker Chase
Ryan Dalziel
Mike Skeen
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'48.041 18.402 1.000 113.290 35 Patrick Lindsey
Patrick Long
Nicholas Boulle
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'48.923 19.284 0.882 112.373 36 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
Aaron Telitz
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 0.000 37 Andrew Davis
Alex Riberas
Will Hardeman
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 0.000 View full results
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