IMSA Daytona: Mazda’s Jarvis tops second practice

Mazda’s Oliver Jarvis finished second practice for the IMSA WeatherTech 240 at Daytona with a quarter-second margin over his nearest pursuer.

The second round of the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, a 2hour40min event, is likely to see one of the turbocharged cars – a Mazda RT24-P or an Acura ARX-05 – start from pole, as these four seem to have a very clear margin over the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs.

And Jarvis, the Rolex 24 Hour pole-winner, appears to be favorite of all, lapping the course this morning in 1min34.398sec to head Helio Castroneves’ Acura by 0.248sec. That was despite the #77 Mazda failing to record a laptime in Friday’s first practice session.

A last-lap effort from Jonathan Bomarito in the #55 Mazda saw him fall some 0.3sec short of P1, although he did edge the second Acura Team Penske entry of Juan Pablo Montoya.

The fastest Cadillac was the Action Express Racing #31 car piloted by Gabby Chaves, a late stand-in for Felipe Nasr who has contracted COVID-19.

He headed the JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillacs and the three-time Rolex 24 Hours winning Caddy of Wayne Taylor Racing which stopped at Turn 1, bringing out the red flag.

In the GT Le Mans class, we look set for a battle royal in qualifying between Porsche and Corvette Racing, after Nick Tandy’s 911 RSR-19 edged Oliver Gavin’s C8.R to top spot in practice by less than one-tenth of a second.

Just one tenth further back was the second Corvette of Jordan Taylor, ahead of the BMWs of Jesse Krohn and Bruno Spengler.

Aaron Telitz, new full-time recruit for the #14 AIM Vasser-Sullivan Lexus RC F, was fastest in GT Daytona by over 0.4sec, heading Corey Fergus’ McLaren 720S GT3, Toni Vilander’s Ferrari 488 GT3 and Pat Long’s Porsche 911 GT3 R.

Qualifying starts at 1.55pm local (Eastern) time.

Session results:

ClaNumDriverClassChassisTimeGap
177 Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez
DPiMazda DPi1’34.398 
27 Helio Castroneves
Ricky Taylor
DPiAcura DPi1’34.6460.248
355 Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell
DPiMazda DPi1’34.6890.291
46 Dane Cameron
Juan Pablo Montoya
DPiAcura DPi1’34.7410.343
531 Gabby Chaves
Pipo Derani
DPiCadillac DPi1’35.5851.187
685 Chris Miller
Tristan Vautier
DPiCadillac DPi1’35.6741.276
75 Joao Barbosa
Sébastien Bourdais
DPiCadillac DPi1’35.7071.309
810 Renger van der Zande
Ryan Briscoe
DPiCadillac DPi1’35.7991.401
9911 Nick Tandy
Frédéric Makowiecki
GTLMPorsche 911 RSR – 191’42.9908.592
104 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
GTLMCorvette C8.R1’43.0498.651
113 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
GTLMCorvette C8.R1’43.1508.752
1224 Jesse Krohn
John Edwards
GTLMBMW M8 GTE1’43.3778.979
1325 Bruno Spengler
Connor de Phillippi
GTLMBMW M8 GTE1’43.5059.107
14912 Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
GTLMPorsche 911 RSR – 191’43.6899.291
1514 Jack Hawksworth
Aaron Telitz
GTDLexus RC F GT31’46.69412.296
1676 Corey Fergus
Paul Holton
GTDMcLaren 720S GT31’47.16612.768
1763 Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander
GTDFerrari 488 GT31’47.45113.053
1816 Ryan Hardwick
Patrick Long
GTDPorsche 911 GT3 R1’47.47713.079
1986 Mario Farnbacher
Matt McMurry
GTDAcura NSX GT31’47.56413.166
2012 Frankie Montecalvo
Townsend Bell
GTDLexus RC F GT31’47.83313.435
2157 Alvaro Parente
Mikhail Goikhberg
GTDAcura NSX GT31’47.88913.491
2296 Robby Foley
Bill Auberlen
GTDBMW M6 GT31’47.93013.532
2374 Gar Robinson
Lawson Aschenbach
GTDMercedes-AMG GT31’48.16213.764
2444 Andy Lally
John Potter
GTDLamborghini Huracan GT31’48.27613.878
2530 Rob Ferriol
Spencer Pumpelly
GTDAudi R8 LMS GT31’48.85814.460
2622 Till Bechtolsheimer
Marc Miller
GTDAcura NSX GT31’49.01414.616

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