Practice report
IMSA Sebring 12 Hours
Sebring 12 Hours: Van der Zande’s WTR Cadillac fastest in FP2
Renger van der Zande lapped Sebring Raceway in 1min47.478sec to put Wayne Taylor Racing’s Cadillac DPi-V.R on top in second practice for the Sebring 12 Hours.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Nov 13, 2020, 7:49 AM
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As WTR prepares to battle for not only race honors but also the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship on Saturday, van der Zande led a Cadillac 1-2-3, just 0.167sec ahead of Sebastien Bourdais in the JDC Miller Motorsports car, but 0.6sec faster than defending race-winner Pipo Derani in the Action Express Racing machine.
Oliver Jarvis was fastest of the turbocharged DPi cars, 0.86sec slower in the #77 Mazda RT24-P, ahead of Alexander Rossi’s best effort in the #7 Acura Team Penske ARX-05 he’ll be sharing with championship leaders Helio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor.
The second Acura, in the hands of another IndyCar star Simon Pagenaud, was fast enough to beat Jonathan Bomarito’s Mazda and the second JDC-Miller Caddy of Matheus Leist.
Despite the Starworks entry causing a red flag when it ground to a halt on track, Mikkel Jensen was able to lap in 1min51.667sec to turn fastest LMP2 time of the session, a quarter second faster than Simon Trummer in the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports entry.
The two Porsche 911 RSRs of Laurens Vanthoor and Fred Makowiecki were 0.2sec apart but a further quarter second faster than their closest GT Le Mans opposition. That took the form of Jordan Taylor’s title-winning #3 Corvette C8.R, with Jesse Krohn and Colton Herta fourth and fifth in the BMW M8s ahead of Oliver Gavin in the #4 Corvette.
Steijn Schothorst led a Lamborghini Huracan 1-2 in GT Daytona, the Dutchman setting a 2min02.352sec in the Grasser Racing Team entry to shade Bryan Sellers’ best effort in the Paul Miller Racing machine by just 0.098sec.
No less impressive was Jan Heylen’s best effort in the Porsche 911 GT3R of Wright Motorsports which was just a further 0.126sec in arrears, ahead of Aaron Telitz and Frankie Montecalvo in the two AIM Vasser-Sullivan Lexus RC Fs.
Title hopeful Mario Farnbacher in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX edged Robby Foley’s Turner Motorsports BMW M6 for P6.
The 90min evening session begins at 6.15pm local (Eastern) time.
Session results:
Pos. # Drivers Class Car Laps Time Gap mph 1 10 
Renger van der Zande
Ryan Briscoe
Scott Dixon DPi Cadillac DPi 23 1'47.478 125.272 2 5 
Sebastien Bourdais
Tristan Vautier
Loïc Duval DPi Cadillac DPi 25 1'47.645 0.167 125.078 3 31 
Felipe Nasr
Pipo Derani
Gabby Chaves DPi Cadillac DPi 27 1'48.241 0.763 124.389 4 77 
Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez
Olivier Pla DPi Mazda DPi 24 1'48.335 0.857 124.281 5 7 Hélio Castroneves
Ricky Taylor
Alexander Rossi DPi Acura DPi 21 1'48.458 0.980 124.140 6 6 Juan Pablo Montoya
Dane Cameron
Simon Pagenaud DPi Acura DPi 23 1'48.857 1.379 123.685 7 55 Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell
Ryan Hunter-Reay DPi Mazda DPi 24 1'49.055 1.577 123.461 8 85
Matheus Leist
Stephen Simpson
Scott Andrews
DPi Cadillac DPi 25 1'49.178 1.700 123.322 9 8 
John Farano
Mikkel Jensen
David Heinemeier Hansson (LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 19 1'51.667 4.189 120.573 10 52 Patrick Kelly
Simon Trummer
Scott Huffaker (LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 22 1'51.931 4.453 120.288 11 51 
Jakub Smiechowski
Naveen Rao
Matthew Bell (LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 29 1'52.951 5.473 119.202 12 38 Don Yount
Patrick Byrne
Guy Cosmo (LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 26 1'56.253 8.775 115.816 13 912 Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
Neel Jani GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 26 1'57.975 10.497 114.126 14 911
Nick Tandy
Frédéric Makowiecki
Earl Bamber
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR - 19 23 1'58.172 10.694 113.936 15 3 
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
Nicky Catsburg GTLM Corvette C8.R 27 1'58.444 10.966 113.674 16 24 
Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
Augusto Farfus GTLM BMW M8 GTE 22 1'58.606 11.128 113.519 17 25 Bruno Spengler
Connor de Phillippi
Colton Herta GTLM BMW M8 GTE 25 1'59.143 11.665 113.007 18 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
Marcel Fässler GTLM Corvette C8.R 24 1'59.544 12.066 112.628 19 11 Richard Heistand
Steijn Schothorst
Franck Perera GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 26 2'02.352 14.874 110.043 20 48 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
Corey Lewis GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 21 2'02.450 14.972 109.955 21 16 Ryan Hardwick
Patrick Long
Jan Heylen GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 25 2'02.478 15.000 109.930 22 14 Jack Hawksworth
Aaron Telitz
Kyle Kirkwood GTD Lexus RC F GT3 23 2'02.591 15.113 109.829 23 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
Michael de Quesada GTD Lexus RC F GT3 26 2'02.957 15.479 109.502 24 86 
Mario Farnbacher
Matthew McMurry
Shinya Michimi GTD Acura NSX GT3 22 2'03.065 15.587 109.406 25 96 Nick Yelloly
Robby Foley
Dillon Machavern GTD BMW M6 GT3 24 2'03.235 15.757 109.255 26 23 Ian James
Roman De Angelis
Darren Turner GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 22 2'03.284 15.806 109.211 27 74 Gar Robinson
Lawson Aschenbach
Marc Miller GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 24 2'03.321 15.843 109.178 28 63 Cooper MacNeil
Alessandro Balzan
Jeff Westphal GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 22 2'03.374 15.896 109.132 29 44 Andy Lally
John Potter
Spencer Pumpelly GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 22 2'03.666 16.188 108.874 30 57 Trent Hindman
Mikhail Goikhberg
Joey Hand GTD Acura NSX GT3 24 2'03.811 16.333 108.746 31 30 Rob Ferriol
Andrew Davis
Pierre Kaffer GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 24 2'04.536 17.058 108.11
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