VIR IMSA: Porsche outpaces Corvette and BMW in practice

Vanthoor outpaced 911 RSR teammate Nick Tandy by 0.386s in the dry morning session at VIR, as the afternoon’s second period was wet.

Antonio Garcia led the Corvette challenge, lapping exactly a tenth off Tandy’s best time. Tommy Milner was 0.07s slower in the second C8.R, whose teammate Oliver Gavin topped the wet session, lapping almost seventh tenths faster than Vanthoor.

Connor di Phillippi was fastest of the BMWs, 0.065s faster than Jesse Krohn in the sister M8.

In GTD, Jack Hawksworth was fastest for Lexus, ahead of the Porsche of Patrick Long and Lamborghini of Bryan Sellars. Hawksworth’s teammate Aaron Telitz was also fastest in class in the wet session too, but only two GTD cars set a time.

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	20	1'41.550			115.923
2	Nick Tandy Frédéric Makowiecki	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	19	1'41.936	0.386	0.386	115.484
3	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	12	1'42.036	0.486	0.100	115.371
4	Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C8.R	19	1'42.106	0.556	0.070	115.292
5	Bruno Spengler Connor de Phillippi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	25	1'42.118	0.568	0.012	115.278
6	Jesse Krohn John Edwards	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	29	1'42.183	0.633	0.065	115.205
7	Jack Hawksworth Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	21	1'45.264	3.714	3.081	111.833
8	Ryan Hardwick Patrick Long	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	26	1'45.340	3.790	0.076	111.752
9	Madison Snow Bryan Sellers	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	23	1'45.412	3.862	0.072	111.676
10	Cooper MacNeil Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	26	1'45.517	3.967	0.105	111.565
11	Robby Foley Bill Auberlen	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	26	1'45.607	4.057	0.090	111.470
12	Gar Robinson Lawson Aschenbach	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	22	1'45.691	4.141	0.084	111.381
13	Mario Farnbacher Matt McMurry	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	23	1'45.705	4.155	0.014	111.367
14	Rob Ferriol Spencer Pumpelly	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	24	1'45.780	4.230	0.075	111.288
15	Alvaro Parente Mikhail Goikhberg	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	20	1'45.889	4.339	0.109	111.173
16	Frankie Montecalvo Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	23	1'45.962	4.412	0.073	111.096
17	Corey Fergus Paul Holton	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	24	1'46.075	4.525	0.113	110.978
18	Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	25	1'46.427	4.877	0.352	110.611
19	Roman De Angelis Ian James	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	24	1'46.959	5.409	0.532	110.061
20	Andy Lally John Potter	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	4	0.000
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