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