Sebring 12H: Blomqvist Acura beats Bourdais Cadillac by 0.026s in FP2

Amid a flurry of new-tired times at the end of the session, Blomqvist’s 1m47.049s was just 0.026s faster than Sebastien Bourdais in Chip Ganassi Racing’s Cadillac.

GTP

Filipe Albuquerque’s fastest time of 1m48.303s from FP1 in the Wayne Taylor Racing-Andretti Acura ARX-06 was immediately eclipsed by Alexander Sims in the Action Express-run Cadillac V-Series.R, who turned 1m47.732s and then 1m47.659s straight out of the box. Matt Campbell was three tenths off that in the #7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963, lapping in 1m47.974s, ahead of the Acuras of Ricky Taylor (WTR) and Colin Braun (MSR Acura) that remained in the 1m48s bracket to begin with.

AXR’s day went from good to bad, as Jack Aitken locked up and nosed the #31 into the tires at Turn 3, causing a red flag. After the resumption, Taylor unleashed 1m47.378s to wrest P1 away.

The times came thick and fast at the end of the session, as Blomqvist took the top spot with 1m47.049s. Bourdais snatched P2 in his CGR Cadillac with 1m47.075s, just 0.026s off Blomqvist.

Louis Deletraz then grabbed third spot for WTR with a last-gasp 1m47.197s. Pipo Derani, in the repaired AXR Caddy, was fourth quickest on 1m47.311s, but aborted a far quicker final lap, ahead of the Porsches of Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy, and the BMWs of Sheldon van der Linde and Philipp Eng.

The #25 BMW needed a new torque sensor, that was unrelated to its crash in FP1, and only ran at the end of the session.

LMP2

In the all-ORECA 07 class, Christian Rasmussen set the early pace for Era Motorsport, unleashing a blistering series of laps that ended with 1m50.506s, ahead of Alex Quinn (PR1 Mathiasen) and IndyCar racer Devlin DeFrancesco for Rick Ware Racing.

Nobody could beat that time, with Nolan Siegel being second quickest for Crowdstrike by APR, ahead of Paul-Loup Chatin (PR1 Mathiasen) and ex-F1 racer Giedo van der Garde’s TDS car.

LMP3

Nico Pino was the pacemaker for Sean Creech Motorsport with a lap of 1m57.020s in his Ligier JS P320. Then Dakota Dickerson (Jr III Racing Ligier) took P1 away with 1m56.607s, just 0.032s faster than Nico Varrone’s AWA-run Duqueine D08.

The session was halted briefly around the halfway point, as Josh Burdon stopped in his Riley-run Ligier. Once mended, Burdon rejoined and set the fastest time of the session so far with 1m56.564s.

Dickerson wouldn’t be denied, however, and grabbed the top spot back with 1m56.382s.

#57 Winward Racing, Mercedes AMG GT3, GTD: Russell Ward, Philip Ellis, Indy Dontje (Photo by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Images)

GTD Pro / GTD

As in FP1, the 992-shape Porsches were back in the hunt here after being way off pace in January’s Daytona 24 Hours. Alec Udell set the initial benchmark with 2m01.875s in the Kellymoss with Riley-run 911 GT3 R.

Aaron Telitz took over at the top in Vasser Sullivan’s #12 Lexus RC F, lapping in 2m01.373s, which in turn was eclipsed by Russell Ward’s Winward Racing Mercedes on 2m01.218s. Seb Priaulx was second fastest in AO Racing’s Porsche, just 0.034s off Ward’s pace.

Tommy Milner was fastest GTD Pro runner for Corvette Racing with a lap of 2m01.260s.

Practice 3, which is held in the dark, starts at 19:45 and runs to 21:15 local time.

Cla	Driver	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Tom Blomqvist Colin Braun Helio Castroneves	Acura ARX-06	27	1'47.049			125.774
2	Sébastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Scott Dixon	Cadillac V-Series.R	31	1'47.075	0.026	0.026	125.744
3	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque Louis Deletraz	Acura ARX-06	28	1'47.197	0.148	0.122	125.601
4	Pipo Derani Alexander Sims Jack Aitken	Cadillac V-Series.R	26	1'47.311	0.262	0.114	125.467
5	Matt Campbell Felipe Nasr Michael Christensen	Porsche 963	29	1'47.693	0.644	0.382	125.022
6	Nick Tandy Mathieu Jaminet Dane Cameron	Porsche 963	28	1'48.076	1.027	0.383	124.579
7	Connor de Phillippi Nick Yelloly Sheldon Van Der Linde	BMW M Hybrid V8	8	1'48.512	1.463	0.436	124.078
8	Philipp Eng Augusto Farfus Marco Wittmann	BMW M Hybrid V8	22	1'48.790	1.741	0.278	123.761
9	Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel Christian Rasmussen	ORECA LMP2 07	34	1'50.506	3.457	1.716	121.840
10	George Kurtz Ben Hanley Nolan Siegel	ORECA LMP2 07	35	1'51.273	4.224	0.767	121.000
11	Ben Keating Paul-Loup Chatin Alex Quinn	ORECA LMP2 07	29	1'51.802	4.753	0.529	120.427
12	François Heriau Giedo van der Garde Josh Pierson	ORECA LMP2 07	30	1'52.426	5.377	0.624	119.759
13	Eric Lux Devlin DeFrancesco Pietro Fittipaldi	ORECA LMP2 07	32	1'52.817	5.768	0.391	119.344
14	Dennis Andersen Ed Jones Anders Fjordbach	ORECA LMP2 07	33	1'52.940	5.891	0.123	119.214
15	John Farano Scott McLaughlin Kyffin Simpson	ORECA LMP2 07	25	1'53.454	6.405	0.514	118.674
16	Steven Thomas Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker	ORECA LMP2 07	35	1'53.939	6.890	0.485	118.168
17	Ari Balogh Garett Grist Dakota Dickerson	Ligier JS P320	30	1'56.382	9.333	2.443	115.688
18	Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga Josh Burdon	Ligier JS P320	26	1'56.564	9.515	0.182	115.507
19	Anthony Mantella Wayne Boyd Nico Varrone	Duqueine D08	33	1'56.640	9.591	0.076	115.432
20	Lance Willsey Joao Barbosa Nicolas Pino	Ligier JS P320	30	1'57.020	9.971	0.380	115.057
21	Jarett Andretti Gabby Chaves Glenn van	Ligier JS P320	29	1'57.096	10.047	0.076	114.983
22	Seth Lucas Tonis Kasemets Trenton Estep	Ligier JS P320	30	1'57.438	10.389	0.342	114.648
23	Orey Fidani Matthew Bell Lars Kern	Duqueine D08	30	1'57.697	10.648	0.259	114.395
24	Till Bechtolsheimer Tijmen van der Helm Daniel Goldburg	Duqueine D08	27	1'57.855	10.806	0.158	114.242
25	Christopher Allen Robert Mau Tristan Nunez	Ligier JS P320	29	1'59.690	12.641	1.835	112.491
26	Russell Ward Philip Ellis Indy Dontje	Mercedes AMG GT3	25	2'01.218	14.169	1.528	111.073
27	PJ Hyett Seb Priaulx Gunnar Jeannette	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	24	2'01.252	14.203	0.034	111.041
28	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Tommy Milner	Corvette C8.R GTD	28	2'01.260	14.211	0.008	111.034
29	Ross Gunn Alex Riberas David Pittard	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	28	2'01.313	14.264	0.053	110.986
30	Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz Parker Thompson	Lexus RC F GT3	32	2'01.373	14.324	0.060	110.931
31	Daniel Serra Davide Rigon Gabriel Casagrande	Ferrari 296 GT3	30	2'01.397	14.348	0.024	110.909
32	Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat Kyle Kirkwood	Lexus RC F GT3	25	2'01.410	14.361	0.013	110.897
33	Klaus Bachler Patrick Pilet Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	26	2'01.556	14.507	0.146	110.764
34	Patrick Gallagher Robby Foley Michael Dinan	BMW M4 GT3	27	2'01.559	14.510	0.003	110.761
35	Daniel Juncadella Jules Gounon Maro Engel	Mercedes AMG GT3	29	2'01.563	14.514	0.004	110.757
36	Ashton Harrison Danny Formal Kyle Marcelli	Acura NSX GT3	28	2'01.676	14.627	0.113	110.655
37	Roman De Angelis Marco Sorensen Ian James	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	29	2'01.755	14.706	0.079	110.583
38	Mike Skeen Mikael Grenier Kenton Koch	Mercedes AMG GT3	28	2'01.818	14.769	0.063	110.526
39	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis	BMW M4 GT3	26	2'01.856	14.807	0.038	110.491
40	David Brule Alec Udell Julien Andlauer	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	26	2'01.875	14.826	0.019	110.474
41	Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen Zacharie Robichon	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	30	2'01.969	14.920	0.094	110.389
42	Alan Metni Kay van Berlo Jaxon Evans	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	30	2'02.130	15.081	0.161	110.243
43	Mikhail Goikhberg Loris Spinelli Benjamin Hites	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	30	2'02.301	15.252	0.171	110.089
44	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	28	2'02.334	15.285	0.033	110.059
45	Frank Perera Jordan Lee Pepper Romain Grosjean	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	22	2'02.372	15.323	0.038	110.025
46	Sheena Monk Katherine Legge Marc Miller	Acura NSX GT3	25	2'02.421	15.372	0.049	109.981
47	Alan Brynjolfsson Trent Hindman Maxwell Root	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	29	2'02.519	15.470	0.098	109.893
48	Bill Auberlen Chandler Hull John Edwards	BMW M4 GT3	30	2'02.551	15.502	0.032	109.864
49	Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	27	2'02.703	15.654	0.152	109.728
50	Onofrio Triarsi Charles Scardina Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 296 GT3	7	2'02.710	15.661	0.007	109.722
51	Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy	McLaren 720S GT3	28	2'03.009	15.960	0.299	109.455
52	Simon Mann Miguel Molina Francesco Castellacci	Ferrari 296 GT3	15	2'03.649	16.600	0.640	108.889
53	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari 296 GT3	0
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