Two practice sessions are in the books at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (formerly Mosport), and the #52 Bryan Herta Autosport with PR1/Mathiasen ORECA 07-Gibson has led both after pacing Practice 2 this morning.
Just as he did yesterday afternoon, regular Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing driver Ricky Taylor set the fastest time in LMP2, improving on yesterday’s benchmark with a lap of 1:07.812 less than halfway into today’s 90-minute practice. It positions Taylor and co-driver Misha Goikhberg well heading into Sunday afternoon’s two-hour, 40-minute race.
Also in the sub-78 second bracket was the #43 Inter Europol Competition ORECA in second place, Tom Dillmann set a 1:07.953. Mathias Beche leapt up to third place towards the end in the #11 TDS Racing ORECA (1:08.405), past championship leader Alex Quinn in the #04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR car in fourth.
Dane Cameron in the #99 AO Racing car rounded out the top five in LMP2.
The #14 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F GT3 finished on top in GTD PRO; Jack Hawksworth’s best lap of 1:15.090, set in the closing minutes, put him narrowly ahead of a very close top four – by only 0.013 seconds.
Right behind the Lexus was the #64 Ford Racing Mustang GT3 with Ben Barker in second place, with the two Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports cars in third and fourth to match their respective car numbers: Alexander Sims in the #3 Corvette, followed by Nicky Catsburg in the #4.
And Sandy Mitchell put local favorite Pfaff Motorsports’ #9 Lamborghini Temerario GT3 up into fifth place in class.
Lorenzo Patrese and Conquest Racing bounced back after their small accident at Moss Corner yesterday to lead GTD; Patrese set a 1:15.514 in the #34 Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo.
He was a tenth ahead of the best time set by Benjamin Pedersen in the #12 Vasser Sullivan Lexus. Rounding out the top three was Danny Formal in the #45 Wayne Taylor Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2.
Further down, the #27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin (Eduardo Barrichello) was fourth, the #36 DXDT Racing Corvette (Mason Filippi) was fifth, and the rebuilt #120 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R (Callum Ilott) was sixth.
Qualifying starts this afternoon at 4:00 PM ET.
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