Nasr Tops Opening IMSA Practice at Long Beach

Felipe Nasr
Felipe Nasr

Felipe Nasr topped opening practice for tomorrow’s Bubba Burger Sports Car Grand Prix of Long Beach, the Brazilian reeling off a 1:12.394 lap time in the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R to edge out the pair of Team Penske Acura ARX-05 entries in the two-hour session.

Ricky Taylor was second on the time sheets in the No. 7 Acura DPi, followed by teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, with the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Racing Cadillac DPi fourth in the hands of Joao Barbosa.

Porsche 1-2 in GTLM

Porsche GT Team dominated the GT Le Mans class, with the pair of CORE autosport-run Porsche 911 RSRs ending the session 1-2 on the time charts.

Nick Tandy turned a 1:17.549 in the No. 911 Porsche to edge out teammate Earl Bamber by 0.244 seconds.

The No. 4 Corvette C7.R of Oliver Gavin was third quickest in class, followed by Jesse Krohn’s No. 24 Team RLL BMW M8 GTE in fourth.

Practice 1 Results

Pos Pic No.. Class Drivers Team Car Time
1 1 31 DPi F. Nasr / P. Derani Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi 1:12.394
2 2 7 DPi R. Taylor / H. Castroneves Acura Team Penske Acura DPi 1:12.535
3 3 6 DPi J. Montoya / D. Cameron Acura Team Penske Acura DPi 1:12.569
4 4 5 DPi J. Barbosa / F. Albuquerque Mustang Sampling Racing Cadillac DPi 1:12.583
5 5 54 DPi J. Bennett / C. Braun CORE autosport Nissan DPi 1:12.755
6 6 55 DPi J. Bomarito / H. Tincknell Mazda Team Joest Mazda DPi 1:12.861
7 7 10 DPi R. Van Der Zande / J. Taylor Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R. Cadillac DPi 1:12.973
8 8 77 DPi O. Jarvis / T. Nunez Mazda Team Joest Mazda DPi 1:13.101
9 9 85 DPi M. Goikhberg / T. Vautier JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillac DPi 1:13.338
10 10 84 DPi S. Trummer / S. Simpson JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillac DPi 1:13.339
11 11 50 DPi W. Owen / K. Kaiser Juncos Racing Cadillac DPi 1:13.399
12 1 911 GTLM P. Pilet / N. Tandy Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR 1:17.549
13 2 912 GTLM E. Bamber / L. Vanthoor Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR 1:17.793
14 3 4 GTLM O. Gavin / T. Milner Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 1:18.091
15 4 24 GTLM J. Krohn / J. Edwards BMW Team RLL BMW M8 GTE 1:18.124
16 5 3 GTLM J. Magnussen / A. Garcia Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 1:18.324
17 6 67 GTLM R. Briscoe / R. Westbrook Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT 1:18.433
18 7 66 GTLM D. Mueller / S. Bourdais Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT 1:18.555
19 8 25 GTLM T. Blomqvist / C. De Phillippi BMW Team RLL BMW M8 GTE 1:18.685