Sebring 12 Hours: Tincknell maintains Mazda advantage in FP3

Tincknell lapped the 3.74-mile course in 1min46.953sec, beating Felipe Nasr’s best in the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R by 0.212sec, and going 0.6sec clear of the second Mazda of Timo Bernhard.

Dane Cameron was fastest of the Acura Team Penske drivers, almost nine-tenths slower than P1, while Colin Braun was mere thousandths slower in CORE autosport’s Nissan DPi, and Renger van der Zande a similar distance behind in the Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac.

In P2, Matt McMurry was comfortably – 2.2sec – faster for PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports than Kyle Masson in the Performance Tech Motorsports machine.

Antonio Garcia was fastest in GT Le Mans in the #3 Corvette C7.R, overcoming an earlier alternator issue to lap 0.136sec quicker than the Ford GT of Richard Westbrook - which was in turn a quarter second ahead of its sister car piloted by Dirk Muller.

Laurens Vanthoor was fourth in the #912 Porsche 911 RSR, split from the other 911 by Jesse Krohn in the faster of the two BMW M8s. Colton Herta had a couple of offs on one lap in the #25 BMW which wound up slowest but within 1.5sec of top spot.

The Magnus Racing Lamborghini Huracan of Andy Lally edged Trent Hindman’s Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX by a mere 0.061sec to grab P1 in GT Daytona, yet was even closer to the third fastest driver, Mirko Bortolotti in the Grasser Racing Huracan, which was only 0.016sec behind.

Robbie Foley took P4 in the Turner Motorsport BMW M6 as Pat Long was sixth in the Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R and the faster of the two AIM Vasser-Sullivan Lexus RC Fs, driven by ex-IndyCar pilot Jack Hawksworth.

Practice times:

Pos.	No.	Drivers	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	55	Harry Tincknell Olivier Pla Jonathan Bomarito	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'46.953
2	31	Pipo Derani Eric Curran Felipe Nasr	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'47.165	0.212
3	77	Oliver Jarvis Timo Bernhard Tristan Nunez	DPi	Mazda DPi	1'47.559	0.606
4	6	Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron	DPi	Acura DPi	1'47.846	0.893
5	54	Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun	DPi	Nissan DPi	1'47.857	0.904
6	10	Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande Matthieu Vaxiviere	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'47.908	0.955
7	7	Alexander Rossi  Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	DPi	Acura DPi	1'48.133	1.180
8	5	Brendon Hartley Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'48.199	1.246
9	85	Juan Piedrahita Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'48.890	1.937
10	50	Rene Binder Will Owen Agustin Canapino	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'48.937	1.984
11	84	Simon Trummer Chris Miller Stephen Simpson	DPi	Cadillac DPi	1'49.356	2.403
12	52	Matt McMurry Anders Fjordbach Gabriel Aubry	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'51.766	4.813
13	38	Kyle Masson Cameron Cassels Andrew Evans	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	1'53.966	7.013
14	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'56.954	10.001
15	67	Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	1'57.090	10.137
16	66	Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	1'57.364	10.411
17	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'57.485	10.532
18	24	John Edwards Jesse Krohn Philipp Eng	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'57.919	10.966
19	911	Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	1'58.114	11.161
20	4	Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	1'58.120	11.167
21	25	Connor de Phillippi Tom Blomqvist Colton Herta	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	1'58.424	11.471
22	44	Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly John Potter	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'00.947	13.994
23	86	Justin Marks Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	2'01.008	14.055
24	11	Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Rik Breukers	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'01.024	14.071
25	96	Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Dillon Machavern	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	2'01.119	14.166
26	73	Patrick Long Patrick Lindsey Nicholas Boulle	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'01.322	14.369
27	14	Jack Hawksworth Philipp Frommenwiler Richard Heistand	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	2'01.434	14.481
28	9	Scott Hargrove Lars Kern Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	2'01.500	14.547
29	63	Toni Vilander Cooper MacNeil Jeff Westphal	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	2'01.506	14.553
30	19	Andrew Davis Will Hardeman Alex Riberas	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	2'01.550	14.597
31	71	Fabian Schiller Maximilian Buhk JC Perez	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	2'01.617	14.664
32	48	Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Ryan Hardwick	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	2'01.651	14.698
33	29	Daniel Morad Christopher Mies Richard Feller	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	2'01.851	14.898
34	33	Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Felipe Fraga	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	2'01.872	14.919
35	57	Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen Ana Beatriz	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	2'01.898	14.945
36	12	Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	2'02.287	15.334
37	8	Ryan Dalziel Parker Chase Ezequiel Perez Companc	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	2'02.317	15.364
38	47	Brandon Gdovic Lawson Aschenbach Don Yount	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3