For much of the session, the top five Prototypes were covered by just 0.11sec, with Renger van der Zande in the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac setting a 70.264sec, leading the stablemate #02 car’s endurance extra Ryan Hunter-Reay by 0.061sec. Loic Duval in the JDC Miller Motorsports entry made it a Caddy 1-2-3, mere hundredths behind, the team having fixed its faulty brake-bias lever which had caused the car to have an off in FP1.
At this point, Helio Castroneves of Meyer Shank Racing was fourth fastest in the quickest of the Acura ARX-05s ahead of Mike Conway in the Action Express Racing Cadillac.
Then with 37mins of the session remaining, the LMP2 championship-leading Tower Motorsports entry of Rui Pinto de Andrade plowed off the track at Turn 1, and hit the tire wall, while lying second in class behind Ryan Dalziel in the Era Motorsports machine. Thankfully the damage wasn’t hard enough to prevent Andrade to head back to the pits under his own power.
With 20mins to go, Bamber shaved a couple of hundredths off Hunter-Reay’s time to edge slightly closer to van der Zande’s benchmark, before getting pushed back to the paddock for a checkover after slight contact with a GT car. Tom Blomqvist also moved the MSR Acura up into third.
Then, with 15mins remaining, championship leader Ricky Taylor delivered the first lap of the session under the 70sec barrier with a 69.858sec for Wayne Taylor Racing. With seven minutes remaining, Blomqvist put this into perspective, working down to a 69.342sec, a quarter second ahead of the impressive Tristan Vautier of JDC Miller and a further tenth up on Sebastien Bourdais in the #01 Ganassi Caddy.
Once Blomqvist pitted, Kamui Kobayashi in the ‘extra’ Action Express Cadillac and Vautier both trimmed their deficit to the MSR Acura to under one-tenth. But Bourdais wasn’t done yet, taking a full three tenths out of Blomqvist to end the session on top with a 69.040.
Dalziel’s 1min11.656sec flyer remained the top of the LMP2 times, three-tenths ahead of Juan Pablo Montoya in the DragonSpeed machine and Anders Fjordbach of High Class Racing.
The PR1/Mathiasen LMP2 car that Scott Huffaker crashed this morning gained no laps until the last five minutes of the LMP2 class’s track time, with Mikkel Jensen at least able to shake down the car.
Kay van Berlo put Riley Motorsports on top in LMP3 ahead of Gabby Chaves of Andretti Autosport and Nolan Siegel in the Garett Grist of the Jr III team.
GTD Pro was led by Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F of Jack Hawksworth, a shocking 0.645se faster than Jesse Krohn in the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW M4, while Antonio Garcia’s final flyer sent the Corvette C8.R into third, a further 0.15sec adrift.
Vasser Sullivan Lexus also topped GTD, Richard Heistand delivering an excellent 79.853sec to beat Erik Johanasson in the Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 by just 0.006sec!
Third in class was Russell Ward’s Winward Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 ahead of the similar car of Stevan McAleer in the Team Korthoff machine. Then came the Cetilar Racing Ferrari 488 of Ulysse de Pauw ahead of Simon Mann’s AF Corse Ferrari.
Magnus Racing’s GTD Aston Martin required an engine change and missed the session.
The third, 90-minute practice session will commence at 7.30pm local (Eastern) time.
Petit Le Mans - FP2 results:
| Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01 |
 Renger van der Zande  Sébastien Bourdais  Scott Dixon |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'09.040 | |
| 2 | 60 |
 Oliver Jarvis Tom Blomqvist  Helio Castroneves |
DPi | Acura DPi | 1'09.342 | 0.302 |
| 3 | 48 |
 Mike Rockenfeller  Kamui Kobayashi  Jimmie Johnson |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'09.425 | 0.385 |
| 4 | 5 |
Tristan Vautier Richard Westbrook Loic Duval |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'09.438 | 0.398 |
| 5 | 31 |
Olivier Pla Pipo Derani Mike Conway |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'09.772 | 0.732 |
| 6 | 10 |
Ricky Taylor  Filipe Albuquerque Brendon Hartley |
DPi | Acura DPi | 1'09.858 | 0.818 |
| 7 | 02 |
Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Ryan Hunter-Reay |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'10.307 | 1.267 |
| 8 | 18 |
Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel Christian Rasmussen |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'11.656 | 2.616 |
| 9 | 81 |
 Henrik Hedman  Juan Pablo Montoya Sebastian Montoya |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'11.987 | 2.947 |
| 10 | 20 |
 Dennis Andersen Anders Fjordbach  Fabio Scherer |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'11.991 | 2.951 |
| 11 | 8 |
 John Farano Louis Deletraz Rui Andrade |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'12.132 | 3.092 |
| 12 | 11 |
Steven Thomas Josh Pierson Tristan Nunez |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'12.254 | 3.214 |
| 13 | 52 |
Ben Keating Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'14.894 | 5.854 |
| 14 | 74 |
Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga Kay van Berlo |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'15.569 | 6.529 |
| 15 | 36 |
Jarett Andretti Gabby Chaves Josh Burdon |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'15.798 | 6.758 |
| 16 | 30 |
Ari Balogh Garett Grist Nolan Siegel |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'16.260 | 7.220 |
| 17 | 13 |
Orey Fidani Matthew Bell Lars Kern |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'16.321 | 7.281 |
| 18 | 33 |
Joao Barbosa Malthe Jakobsen Nicolas Pino |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'16.560 | 7.520 |
| 19 | 38 |
Daniel Goldburg  Cameron Shields Tyler Maxson |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'17.445 | 8.405 |
| 20 | 76 |
Anthony Mantella Kyle Marcelli Josh Sarchet |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'17.793 | 8.753 |
| 21 | 54 |
Jon Bennett Colin Braun George Kurtz |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'18.107 | 9.067 |
| 22 | 14 |
Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat Kyle Kirkwood |
GTD PRO | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'18.912 | 9.872 |
| 23 | 25 |
Connor de Phillippi John Edwards  Jesse Krohn |
GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'19.557 | 10.517 |
| 24 | 3 |
 Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg |
GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 1'19.718 | 10.678 |
| 25 | 12 |
Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz Richard Heistand |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'19.853 | 10.813 |
| 26 | 1 |
Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Erik Johansson |
GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'19.859 | 10.819 |
| 27 | 62 |
Daniel Serra  Davide Rigon James Calado |
GTD PRO | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'20.038 | 10.998 |
| 28 | 23 |
Ross Gunn Alex Riberas Tom Gamble |
GTD PRO | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'20.078 | 11.038 |
| 29 | 9 |
Matt Campbell Mathieu Jaminet Felipe Nasr |
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'20.175 | 11.135 |
| 30 | 57 |
Russell Ward Philip Ellis Marvin Dienst |
GTD | Mercedes AMG GT3 | 1'20.189 | 11.149 |
| 31 | 32 |
Mike Skeen Stevan McAleer Dirk Muller |
GTD | Mercedes AMG GT3 | 1'20.204 | 11.164 |
| 32 | 47 |
Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Ulysse De |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'20.269 | 11.229 |
| 33 | 21 |
Simon Mann  Luis Perez Companc Toni Vilander |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'20.292 | 11.252 |
| 34 | 96 |
Robby Foley Bill Auberlen Michael Dinan |
GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'20.299 | 11.259 |
| 35 | 16 |
Ryan Hardwick Zacharie Robichon  Jan Heylen |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'20.311 | 11.271 |
| 36 | 79 |
Maximilian Buhk Mikael Grenier Maximillian Goetz |
GTD PRO | Mercedes AMG GT3 | 1'20.439 | 11.399 |
| 37 | 70 |
Brendan Iribe  Jordan Lee Pepper Sebastian Priaulx |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1'20.659 | 11.619 |
| 38 | 27 |
Roman De Angelis Maxime Martin Ian James |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'20.672 | 11.632 |
| 39 | 39 |
Robert Megennis Corey Lewis Jeff Westphal |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'20.675 | 11.635 |
| 40 | 42 |
Jaden Conwright Marco Holzer Don Yount |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'20.723 | 11.683 |
| 41 | 66 |
Kyffin Simpson Till Bechtolsheimer Mario Farnbacher |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'20.785 | 11.745 |
| 42 | 99 |
Rob Ferriol Katherine Legge Nicholas Boulle |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'21.727 | 12.687 |
| 43 | 44 |
John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | ||
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