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Laguna Seca IMSA: Taylor leads Montoya in Acura 1-2

Ricky Taylor beat Acura teammate Juan Pablo Montoya to pole for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's Laguna Seca round, as BMW headed GTLM and Paul Miller Racing grabbed GTD honors.

David Malsher-Lopez

Edited: Sep 15, 2019, 7:23 AM

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Pole award winner #7 Acura Team Penske Acura DPi, DPi: Helio Castroneves, Ricky Taylor

Taylor set a superb 1min15.035sec lap in the #7 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 to eclipse Montoya by more than 0.3sec and clinch his first pole position of the year.

Brother Jordan Taylor was fastest of the Cadillacs, slotting the Wayne Taylor Racing DPi-V.R into third ahead of the quicker of the two Mazdas, the #77 driven by Tristan Nunez.

The second RT24-P of local boy Jonathan Bomarito will start sixth, on the outside of Action Express Racing’s faster Cadillac entry, driven by Felipe Nasr. Filipe Albuquerque was seventh in the other AXR Caddy, well clear of the two JDC-Miller Motorsports entries.

Jon Bennett's effort in the CORE autosport Nissan DPi was slower than both of the two LMP2 entries, the quickest of which was the Performance Tech Motorsports Oreca of Kyle Masson.

GT Le Mans

#24 BMW Team RLL BMW M8 GTE, GTLM: Jesse Krohn, John Edwards

Photo by: Richard Dole / LAT Images

Jesse Krohn set a 1min21.557sec lap in the #24 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing-run BMW M8 GTE that survived Dirk Muller’s attempts to displace him, the German's Ford GT coming up 0.127sec short.

Krohn’s teammate Blomqvist got to third place, 0.334sec away, before pitting his BMW, while Laurens Vanthoor will start fourth in the #912 Porsche 911 RSR after setting a time 0.385sec from P1.

Ryan Briscoe ran off the road at the Corkscrew on what should have been his best lap in the second Ford, but his previous best was still enough to eclipse both Corvette C7.Rs.

Nick Tandy spun the #911 Porsche out of the Corkscrew and then reversed down the hill so he could rejoin in a safe place without causing any disruption to his rivals. However, he will start last in class.

GT Daytona

#73 Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, GTD: Patrick Long, Patrick Lindsey

Photo by: Charles Bradley

Patrick Lindsey had a nasty off in the Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R with eight minutes to go in the GTD session, and that brought out the red flags.

The #73 car clipped the inside curb at Turn 10, drifted out to the exit curb and then spun across the track where it made heavy contact with a concrete barrier. Lindsey walked to the rescue vehicle unaided but the car appeared that it would be difficult to repair in time for Sunday's race.

At the time the session was stopped, Trent Hindman had just set fastest time in the #86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3, edging Cooper MacNeil’s Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 by 0.055sec, with Zacharie Robichon’s Pfaff Porsche and Robby Foley’s Turner Motorsports BMW M6 GT3 on identical times in third and fourth.

However, the session was reset with four minutes on the clock, and a great final lap by Corey Lewis saw him jump his Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 to the top of the times by 0.101sec.

Matt Plumb clocked sixth in Compass Racing’s McLaren 720S ahead of the second Acura of Christina Nielsen and the Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Ben Keating.

Session results:

Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 7 United States Ricky Taylor
Brazil Helio Castroneves DPi Acura DPi 1'15.035 2 6 Dane Cameron
Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya DPi Acura DPi 1'15.343 0.308 3 10 Netherlands Renger van der Zande
Jordan Taylor DPi Cadillac DPi 1'15.488 0.453 4 77 United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez DPi Mazda DPi 1'15.517 0.482 5 31 Brazil Felipe Nasr
Brazil Pipo Derani DPi Cadillac DPi 1'15.610 0.575 6 55 United States Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell DPi Mazda DPi 1'15.728 0.693 7 5 Portugal Joao Barbosa
Filipe Albuquerque DPi Cadillac DPi 1'15.757 0.722 8 85 Canada Mikhail Goikhberg
France Tristan Vautier DPi Cadillac DPi 1'16.176 1.141 9 84 Switzerland Simon Trummer
South Africa Stephen Simpson DPi Cadillac DPi 1'16.348 1.313 10 38 Canada Cameron Cassels
United States Kyle Masson LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'16.817 1.782 11 52 Matt McMurry
Canada Dalton Kellett LMP2 ORECA LMP2 1'17.618 2.583 12 54 Jon Bennett
Colin Braun DPi Nissan DPi 1'17.661 2.626 13 24 Finland Jesse Krohn
John Edwards GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'21.557 6.522 14 66 Joey Hand
Germany Dirk Muller GTLM Ford GT 1'21.684 6.649 15 25 United States Connor de Phillippi
United Kingdom Tom Blomqvist GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'21.891 6.856 16 912 New Zealand Earl Bamber
Belgium Laurens Vanthoor GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'21.942 6.907 17 67 Australia Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 1'21.999 6.964 18 3 Denmark Jan Magnussen
Spain Antonio Garcia GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'22.026 6.991 19 4 United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United States Tommy Milner GTLM Corvette C7.R 1'22.161 7.126 20 911 France Patrick Pilet
Nick Tandy GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'22.295 7.260 21 48 Bryan Sellers
Corey Lewis GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'24.962 9.927 22 86 Germany Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'25.063 10.028 23 63 United States Cooper MacNeil
Finland Toni Vilander GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 1'25.118 10.083 24 9 Canada Scott Hargrove
Canada Zacharie Robichon GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'25.165 10.130 25 96 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'25.165 10.130 26 76 Paul Holton
Matt Plumb GTD McLaren 720S GT3 1'25.204 10.169 27 57 United Kingdom Katherine Legge
Denmark Christina Nielsen GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'25.311 10.276 28 33 United States Ben Keating
Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'25.678 10.643 29 14 Richard Heistand
Jack Hawksworth GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'26.180 11.145 30 44 John Potter
Andy Lally GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'26.414 11.379 31 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'26.466 11.431 32 73 United States Patrick Lindsey
Patrick Long GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 0.000 View full results

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