Daytona 24: Westbrook’s Ganassi Cadillac tops second practice

Westbrook and Scott Dixon held the top two spots in the #02 and #01 Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac entries ahead of the third Caddy of Jack Aitken and Action Express Racing in the early stages.

The Porsche 963s were both in action in the session, Matthieu Jaminet in the #6 car just ahead of the #7 of Matt Campbell, who in turn was one-thousandth faster than Brendon Hartley’s best effort in the WTR Acura ARX-06.

Nick Yelloly had set a representative time, too, with a best lap 0.726s from top spot in the #25 BMW M Hybrid V8 that had missed most of the morning session. The final red flag (caused by a stopped LMP3 car) ate into the GTP/GTD Pro-only part of the session, but eight of the cars hit the track. The one that did not was the #24 BMW which ran only nine laps in the session, due to it having a faulty fire extinguisher.

Renger van der Zande trimmed his deficit to team-mate Westbrook’s pacesetting time to 0.242s, which looked like he had done enough to earn second fastest, before Louis Deletraz in the WTR Acura snipped 0.04s from that time.

Pipo Derani in the AXR Caddy improved his time to also draw within 0.28s of Westbrook’s 1m35.185s.

Felipe Nasr and Jaminet ensured the Porsches were within 0.4s of top spot, while Colin Braun was half a second down in the polesitting MSR Acura, while Yelloly was 0.726s away.

Nicolas Lapierre worked down to a 1m38.615s in the LMP2 class, a satisfying 0.7s ahead of Matthieu Vaxiviere in the AF Corse machine, who was around a tenth faster than Scott Huffaker and Job van Uitert in the TDS Racing machines.

Van Uitert cut the deficit to Lapierre down to 0.42s before handing off the #35 to Josh Pierson, while Christian Rasmussen slotted the Era Motorsport entry into third ahead of Huffaker.

Francesco Pizzi shunted the Proton Competition car just before the 45-minute mark in the LMP2’s session, bringing out the second red flag, just 10 minutes after the first.

Felipe Fraga was fastest in the LMP3 class in FP2 for the Daytona 24 Hours (Photo by: Motorsport Images)

In LMP3, the Riley Motorsports Ligier of Glenn van Berlo was the early pacesetter, 0.15s faster than Lars Kern’s best effort in the #13 Duqueine of AWA, and Antonio Serravalle of FastMD Racing.

Till Bechtolsheimer caused the first red flag when his JDC Miller Duqueine stopped at Turn 2, and Orey Fidani caused another one when he took over the AWA car whose best time now belonged to Matthew Bell.

Sadly, as the action resumed, Nolan Siegel brought the Sean Creech Motorsport car to a halt at Turn 6, leaking fluids, bringing out the red once more. However, it wasn’t before Nico Varrone managed to sling the second AWA car into the runner-up spot, three tenths behind Fraga, and mere hundredths ahead of team-mate Bell.

In GTD Pro and GTD, Kerong Li’s #42 NTE Sport Lamborghini Huracan incurred right-front damage in an impact with the tyres at Turn 7 after one hour, obliging him to limp it back to the pits.

It was a particularly sorry situation as Jaden Conwright had gotten the car up into third in GTD Pro-Am, fourth in GTD overall.

Mikael Grenier was the fastest of the GTD drivers after the one-hour mark, wheeling the Team Korthoff Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 in 1m46.282s, 0.136s ahead of Ryan Briscoe in the Racers Edge/WTR/AA Acura NSX. Daniel Juncadella was a further 0.2s down in the WeatherTech Racing Mercedes, which was leading the GTD Pro category.

When the green flew after Li’s shunt, Kenny Habul jumped the SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes into third fastest GTD runner, while just before the GTD portion of the session ended, Jules Gounon improved the GTD Pro WeatherTech Racing Mercedes’ time to 0.12s behind Grenier’s best in the GTD Korthoff car.

Daytona 24 Hours FP2 results

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook	GTP	Cadillac V-LMDh	30	1'35.185
2	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque Louis Deletraz Brendon Hartley	GTP	Acura ARX-06	36	1'35.423	0.238
3	Sébastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Scott Dixon	GTP	Cadillac V-LMDh	28	1'35.427	0.242
4	Pipo Derani Alexander Sims Jack Aitken	GTP	Cadillac V-LMDh	35	1'35.465	0.280
5	Matt Campbell Felipe Nasr Michael Christensen	GTP	Porsche 963	30	1'35.542	0.357
6	Mathieu Jaminet Nick Tandy Dane Cameron	GTP	Porsche 963	35	1'35.564	0.379
7	Tom Blomqvist Colin Braun Helio Castroneves Simon Pagenaud	GTP	Acura ARX-06	29	1'35.692	0.507
8	Connor de Phillippi Nick Yelloly Sheldon Van Der Linde Colton Herta	GTP	BMW M Hybrid V8	23	1'35.911	0.726
9	Philipp Eng Augusto Farfus Marco Wittmann Colton Herta	GTP	BMW M Hybrid V8	9	1'38.127	2.942
10	Ben Keating Paul-Loup Chatin Alex Quinn Nicolas Lapierre	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	38	1'38.615	3.430
11	François Heriau Giedo van der Garde Josh Pierson Job Van Uitert	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	41	1'39.036	3.851
12	Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel Christian Rasmussen Oliver Jarvis	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	38	1'39.044	3.859
13	Thomas Steven Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker Rinus van Kalmthout	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	38	1'39.056	3.871
14	François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxiviere Julien Canal Nicklas Nielsen	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	37	1'39.314	4.129
15	George Kurtz Ben Hanley Matt McMurry Esteban Gutierrez	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	42	1'39.448	4.263
16	Eric Lux Devlin DeFrancesco Austin Cindric Pietro Fittipaldi	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	33	1'39.705	4.520
17	Dennis Andersen Ed Jones Anders Fjordbach Raffaele Marciello	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	35	1'39.899	4.714
18	Fred Poordad Francesco Pizzi James Allen Gianmaria Bruni	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	20	1'40.503	5.318
19	John Farano Scott McLaughlin Josef Newgarden Kyffin Simpson	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	12	1'41.062	5.877
20	Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga Glenn van Berlo Josh Burdon	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	32	1'42.491	7.306
21	Anthony Mantella Wayne Boyd Nico Varrone Thomas Merrill	LMP3	Duqueine D08	38	1'42.799	7.614
22	Orey Fidani Matthew Bell Lars Kern Moritz Kranz	LMP3	Duqueine D08	35	1'42.856	7.671
23	Yu Kanamaru James Vance Serravalle Antonio Nicholas Boulle	LMP3	Duqueine D08	36	1'42.860	7.675
24	Lance Willsey Joao Barbosa Nicolas Pino Nolan Siegel	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	37	1'43.033	7.848
25	Till Bechtolsheimer Tijmen van der Helm Luca Mars Mason Filippi	LMP3	Duqueine D08	17	1'43.742	8.557
26	John DeAngelis Christopher Allen Cameron Shields Connor Bloum	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	34	1'44.780	9.595
27	Sebastian Alvarez Danial Frost James French Guilherme de	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	16	1'46.122	10.937
28	Mike Skeen Mikael Grenier Kenton Koch Maximillian Goetz	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	35	1'46.282	11.097
29	Cooper MacNeil Daniel Juncadella Jules Gounon Maro Engel	GTD PRO	Mercedes AMG GT3	30	1'46.400	11.215
30	Ashton Harrison Danny Formal Kyle Marcelli Ryan Briscoe	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	32	1'46.418	11.233
31	Kenny Habul Luca Stolz Fabian Schiller Axcil Jefferies	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	37	1'46.642	11.457
32	Don Yount Jaden Conwright Kerong Li Alessio Deledda	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	22	1'46.704	11.519
33	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Nicki Thiim	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	35	1'46.715	11.530
34	Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy Marvin Kirchhofer	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	37	1'46.751	11.566
35	Mikhail Goikhberg Loris Spinelli Benja Hites Marco Mapelli	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	37	1'46.869	11.684
36	Ross Gunn Alex Riberas David Pittard	GTD PRO	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	29	1'46.871	11.686
37	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Tommy Milner	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	33	1'46.937	11.752
38	Ted Giovanis Hugh Plumb Matt Plumb Owen Trinkler	GTD PRO	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	16	1'47.039	11.854
39	Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat Mike Conway	GTD PRO	Lexus RC F GT3	31	1'47.057	11.872
40	Aaron Telitz Frankie Montecalvo Kyle Kirkwood Parker Thompson	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	33	1'47.097	11.912
41	Roman De Angelis Marco Sorensen Ian James Darren Turner	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	32	1'47.246	12.061
42	Sheena Monk Katherine Legge Mario Farnbacher Marc Miller	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	35	1'47.439	12.254
43	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis Maxime Martin	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	38	1'47.527	12.342
44	Raffaele Giammaria Franck Perera Claudio Schiavoni Rolf Ineichen	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	32	1'47.570	12.385
45	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco Alessandro Balzan	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	18	1'47.586	12.401
46	Andrea Caldarelli Mirko Bortolotti Jordan Lee Pepper Romain Grosjean	GTD PRO	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	34	1'47.705	12.520
47	Bill Auberlen Chandler Hull Bruno Spengler John Edwards	GTD PRO	BMW M4 GT3	32	1'47.854	12.669
48	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra Davide Rigon	GTD PRO	Ferrari 296 GT3	24	1'48.126	12.941
49	Mann Simon Luis Perez Companc Miguel Molina Francesco Castellacci	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	32	1'48.257	13.072
50	Alan Brynjolfsson Trent Hindman Max Root Kevin Estre	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	30	1'48.275	13.090
51	Patrick Gallagher Robby Foley Michael Dinan Jens Klingmann	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	29	1'48.353	13.168
52	Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Doriane Pin	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	36	1'48.354	13.169
53	Onofrio Triarsi Charles Scardina Alessio Rovera Andrea Bertolini	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	28	1'48.396	13.211
54	PJ Hyett Seb Priaulx Gunnar Jeannette Harry Tincknell	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	35	1'48.467	13.282
55	Mark Kvamme Trenton Estep Jan Magnussen Jason Hart	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	31	1'48.539	13.354
56	Klaus Bachler Patrick Pilet Laurens Vanthoor	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	30	1'48.577	13.392
57	David Brule Alec Udell Andrew Davis Jeroen Bleekemolen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	17	1'48.601	13.416
58	Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen Zacharie Robichon Dennis Olsen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	34	1'48.663	13.478
59	Alan Metni Kay van Berlo Jaxon Evans Julien Andlauer	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	33	1'48.696	13.511
60	Jarett Andretti Gabby Chaves Dakota Dickerson Rasmus Lindh	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	3	1'49.188	14.003
61	Russell Ward Philip Ellis Indy Dontje Lucas Auer	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	0
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