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Watkins Glen IMSA: Tincknell puts Mazda top in first practice
Mazda's Harry Tincknell lapped Watkins Glen in 1min30.690sec to beat Helio Castroneves’ best efforts for Acura Team Penske by just 0.112sec in opening practice for this weekend’s Sahlen’s 6 Hours.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jun 29, 2019, 7:26 AM
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Castroneves’ co-driver in the #7 Acura ARX-05 Ricky Taylor had set the fastest lap until the ex-IndyCar star chipped two-tenths off that time. But with just a couple of minutes to go, Tincknell’s #55 Mazda Team Joest entry went just over 0.1sec faster to grab P1.
With Will Hardeman bringing out a red flag for a shunt in the #19 Moorespeed Audi R8, Tincknell’s time went unchallenged.
Behind Castroneves was teammate Dane Cameron who, along with Juan Pablo Montoya, has won the last two rounds of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. He was one-tenth quicker than last year’s polesitter, CORE autosport’s Colin Braun in the Nissan DPi.
Felipe Nasr was fastest of the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs, his top time in the #31 Action Express Racing entry being almost 1sec off Ticknell’s benchmark, but faster than Tristan Nunez in the second Mazda.
Mike Conway, preparing for his first IMSA race of the year after visa trouble left him unable to compete in the Rolex 24 at Daytona, put the #5 AXR Cadillac into seventh, just ahead of Renger van der Zande in the Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac.
The two Ford GTs of Richard Westbrook and Dirk Muller topped the GT Le Mans class ahead of Oliver Gavin/Tommy Milner in the only Corvette C7.R to hit the track, while Laurens Vanthoor slotted the best Porsche ahead of the two BMWs.
The other Porsche had to go back to the paddock for rectification of a power steering problem.
Andy Lally’s Magnus Racing Lamborghini Huracan topped GT Daytona ahead of the Bill Auberlen-piloted BMW M6 of Turner Motorsports and Dirk Werner in the Black Swan Racing Porsche.
Session results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 55 Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell
Olivier Pla
DPi Mazda DPi 1'30.690 2 7 Ricky Taylor
Helio Castroneves
DPi Acura DPi 1'30.802 0.112 3 6 Juan Pablo Montoya
Dane Cameron
DPi Acura DPi 1'31.224 0.534 4 54 Jon Bennett
Colin Braun
Romain Dumas
DPi Nissan DPi 1'31.334 0.644 5 31 Felipe Nasr
Eric Curran
Pipo Derani
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'31.677 0.987 6 77 Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez
Timo Bernhard
DPi Mazda DPi 1'31.841 1.151 7 5 Joao Barbosa
Mike Conway
Filipe Albuquerque
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'31.871 1.181 8 10 Renger van der Zande
Jordan Taylor
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'31.910 1.220 9 85 Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier
Juan Piedrahita
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'32.904 2.214 10 50 Will Owen
Rene Binder
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'34.046 3.356 11 52 Matt McMurry
Gabriel Aubry
Eric Lux
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'34.373 3.683 12 84 Simon Trummer
Stephen Simpson
Chris Miller
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'34.508 3.818 13 38 Cameron Cassels
Andrew Evans
Kyle Masson
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'34.846 4.156 14 67 Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
GTLM Ford GT 1'42.673 11.983 15 66 Joey Hand
Dirk Muller
GTLM Ford GT 1'42.716 12.026 16 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'42.923 12.233 17 912 Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'42.948 12.258 18 24 Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'43.447 12.757 19 25 Tom Blomqvist
Connor de Phillippi
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'43.466 12.776 20 44 John Potter
Andy Lally
Spencer Pumpelly
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'45.406 14.716 21 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
Dillon Machavern
GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'45.652 14.962 22 540 Marc Miller
Marco Seefried
Dirk Werner
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'45.696 15.006 23 48 Bryan Sellers
Ryan Hardwick
Corey Lewis
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'45.827 15.137 24 29 Christopher Mies
Richard Feller
Daniel Morad
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'46.117 15.427 25 19 Andrew Davis
Alex Riberas
Will Hardeman
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'46.439 15.749 26 14 Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth
Philipp Frommenwiler
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'46.473 15.783 27 73 Patrick Lindsey
Patrick Long
Nicholas Boulle
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'46.594 15.904 28 33 Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Felipe Fraga
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'46.637 15.947 29 86 Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman
Justin Marks
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'46.679 15.989 30 9 Scott Hargrove
Zacharie Robichon
Lars Kern
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'46.856 16.166 31 63 Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander
Jeff Westphal
GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 1'47.350 16.660 32 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
Aaron Telitz
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'48.024 17.334 33 57 Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen
Ana Beatriz
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'48.177 17.487 34 8 Parker Chase
Ryan Dalziel
Mike Skeen
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'49.267 18.577 35 47 Brandon Gdovic
Don Yount
Jacob Eidson
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'49.752 19.062 36 3 Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia
GTLM Corvette C7.R 37 911 Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR View full results
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