The #60 Meyer Shank Acura ARX-06 tops the timesheets again with Helio Castroneves setting a 1:35.210 in the second practice session of the Roar Before the 24.
With no red flags or prolonged yellow flag periods, drivers got to take advantage of all the allotted time for the session. However, it wasn’t until the last lap of the session that Castroneves took the fastest time.
The first 15 minutes were for GTD, LMP3, and LMP2 classes only, before being joined for the rest of the session by the GTD Pro and GTP classes. The Pro classes got their 15 minutes of track time alone at the end of the session.
Elsewhere in the GTP class, the second fastest was the #10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-06 driven by Felipe Albuquerque, setting a 1:35.320. Less than two-tenths behind came Scott Dixon in the #01 Cadillac Racing V-LMDh.
Good enough for fourth, Matt Cambell set a 1:35.974 in his #7 Porsche Penske Motorsports Porsche 963. Meanwhile, Earl Bamber came in under five-hundredths the #7 behind to take fifth in the #02 Cadillac Racing V-LMDh.
Sixth came Sheldon Van der Linde with a 1:36.032 in the #25 BMW M Team RLL, the faster of their two GTP entires. The #24 BMW M Team RLL piloted by Marco Wittman came home seventh with a 1:36.547.
Brit Nick Tandy brought his #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 home in eighth with a 1:36.754.
After limited running in Practice One, the #31 Cadillac run by Action Express continued to languish at the bottom of the class with a 1:37.128 set by Jack Aitken.
In LMP2, Mikkel Jensen was the quickest in the TDS Racing Oreca 07-Gibson, setting a 1:38.730. The second fastest was Matthieu Vaxiviere for the #88 AF Corse team, followed closely in third place by Ben Keating in the #52 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports entry.
In LMP3, Andretti Autosport topped the class with their #36 Liger JS P320 thanks to a 1:42.926 set by Gabby Chaves. Second in class was Joao Barbosa in the #33 Sean Creech Motorsport Liger JS P320 and third was Felipe Fraga in the #74 Riley entry.
Onto GTD Pro and Ben Barnicoat tool his #14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 to top of the class with a 1:47.040. Within a second came #23 Heart of Racing’s Alex Riberas in the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 and Mirko Bortolotti in the #63 Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2.
In the GTD class, Fabian Schiller ended the session fastest in the #75 Sun Energy 1 Mercedes-AMG GT3 closely followed by the #12 VasserSullivan Lexus RC F GT3 entry driven by Parker Thompson.
Coming in third was the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 of the #44 Magnus racing entry with their quickest lap set by Nicki Thiim.
The action continues tomorrow with three sessions taking place, the first kicking off at 11:15 local time.
