Practice report
IMSA Road Atlanta
Petit Le Mans: AXR Cadillacs continue their rebound in FP3
Action Express Racing continued to look strong in third practice at Road Atlanta, as Felipe Nasr clings to hopes of retaining the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Prototype crown he earned with Eric Curran.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Oct 11, 2019, 4:36 PM
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While Acura Team Penske’s Dane Cameron and Juan Pablo Montoya need only finish in the top eight in Saturday’s Petit Le Mans to earn the title, Pipo Derani – new to the AXR squad this year – ensured the team topped two of today’s sessions at the 2.54-mile Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
Derani sent the #31 Whelen Engineering-backed Cadillac DPi-V.R around in 69.455sec to eclipse teammate Filipe Albuquerque by approximately 0.2sec.
Helio Castroneves grabbed third Acura in the car he will share with Ricky Taylor and Graham Rahal this weekend. Teammate Montoya set the fastest time in the #6 ARX-05 but it was good enough for only ninth.
Tristan Vautier again put JDC-Miller in the spotlight by clocking fourth in the #85 Cadillac ahead of Oliver Jarvis’ #77 Mazda and the Colin Braun-steered CORE autosport-run Nissan DPi.
Returning after its big shunt is the Juncos Racing team, for whom Spencer Pigot was 10th-fastest.
In GT Le Mans, the Ford GTs were again fast and finished 1-3, split by Tom Blomqvist’s best effort in the BMW M8 GTE and chased hard by Mike Rockenfeller in the #3 Corvette C7.R.
IMSA Radio reported that Daniel Serra’s reduced number of laps in the Ferrari 488 GTE of the returning Risi Competizione squad was due to a drivetrain issue that saw the car – not seen in IMSA since the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January – taken back behind the wall for much of the session.
For the second time in three sessions, Bill Auberlen sent Turner Motorsports’ trusty BMW M6 GT3 to the top of the GT Daytona times, albeit less than a tenth of a second quicker than Jeroen Bleekemolen’s Mercedes AMG-GT3 run by Riley Motorsport, and Spencer Pumpelly’s Magnus Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3.
Fourth practice begins at 11.15am local (Eastern) time on Friday, with qualifying commencing at 3.55pm.
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Session results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 31 Felipe Nasr
Eric Curran
Pipo Derani DPi Cadillac DPi 1'09.455 2 5
Joao Barbosa
Mike Conway
Filipe Albuquerque DPi Cadillac DPi 1'09.653 0.198 3 7
Ricky Taylor
Helio Castroneves
Graham Rahal DPi Acura DPi 1'09.728 0.273 4 85
Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier
Juan Piedrahita DPi Cadillac DPi 1'09.935 0.480 5 77
Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez
Timo Bernhard DPi Mazda DPi 1'09.941 0.486 6 54
Jon Bennett
Colin Braun
Romain Dumas DPi Nissan DPi 1'09.992 0.537 7 10
Renger van der Zande
Jordan Taylor
Matthieu Vaxiviere DPi Cadillac DPi 1'09.998 0.543 8 55
Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell
Olivier Pla DPi Mazda DPi 1'10.253 0.798 9 6
Dane Cameron
Juan Pablo Montoya
Simon Pagenaud DPi Acura DPi 1'10.294 0.839 10 50
Will Owen
Rene Binder
Spencer Pigot DPi Cadillac DPi 1'10.555 1.100 11 84
Simon Trummer
Stephen Simpson
Chris Miller DPi Cadillac DPi 1'10.813 1.358 12 52
Matt McMurry
Gabriel Aubry
Dalton Kellett LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'11.689 2.234 13 38
Cameron Cassels
Kyle Masson
Andrew Evans LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'11.731 2.276 14 66 Joey Hand
Dirk Muller
Sébastien Bourdais GTLM Ford GT 1'16.552 7.097 15 25
Tom Blomqvist
Connor de Phillippi
Colton Herta GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'16.789 7.334 16 67
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
Scott Dixon GTLM Ford GT 1'16.808 7.353 17 3
Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia
Mike Rockenfeller GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'16.869 7.414 18 62
James Calado
Alessandro Pier Guidi
Daniel Serra GTLM Ferrari 488 GTE 1'16.936 7.481 19 912
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
Mathieu Jaminet GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'17.113 7.658 20 24
Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
Philipp Eng GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'17.123 7.668 21 911
Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy
Frédéric Makowiecki GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'17.151 7.696 22 4
Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
Marcel Fassler GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'17.165 7.710 23 96
Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
Dillon Machavern GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'19.311 9.856 24 33
Ben Keating
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Felipe Fraga GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'19.375 9.920 25 44
John Potter
Andy Lally
Spencer Pumpelly GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'19.408 9.953 26 48
Bryan Sellers
Corey Lewis
Marco Seefried GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'19.732 10.277 27 29
Christopher Mies
Richard Feller
Daniel Morad GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'19.856 10.401 28 63
Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander
Jeff Westphal GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 1'19.897 10.442 29 14 Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth
Parker Chase GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'20.065 10.610 30 86
Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman
Justin Marks GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'20.081 10.626 31 9
Scott Hargrove
Zacharie Robichon
Lars Kern GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'20.319 10.864 32 57
Katherine Legge
Ana Beatriz
Christina Nielsen GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'20.530 11.075 33 47
Brandon Gdovic
Don Yount
Shinya Michimi GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'20.804 11.349 34 12
Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
Aaron Telitz GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'20.865 11.410 View full results
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