Through two practice sessions at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Tower Motorsports and super-sub Renger van der Zande continue to lead the way.
As they were in Practice 1 yesterday, the #8 Tower ORECA 07 of van der Zande set the fastest time in LMP2 – a 1:08.175, a new unofficial LMP2 course record by just a few hundredths of a second.
But heading into Qualifying this afternoon, the #22 United Autosports USA ORECA looks like a strong contender. Daniel Goldburg, the team’s Bronze driver, actually set the car’s best lap time at 1:08.500 to put the car in second place.
Felipe Fraga in the #74 Riley ORECA was third, followed by the #43 Inter Europol Competition and #99 AO Racing cars.
Both Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3s led their respective GT classes, and both had Chevrolet Corvettes in second and third behind them.
In GTD PRO, the #14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus of Aaron Telitz turned in a 1m15.270s to lead the way, with the two Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports cars in second and third behind him. Antonio Garcia led the duo in the #3 Corvette Z06 GT3.R, followed by teammate Tommy Milner in the #4.
Jack Hawksworth set a late flyer to drive the #12 Vasser Sullivan Lexus to first in GTD, with a 1:15.597.
He displaced local hero Robert Wickens and his hand-controlled #36 DXDT Racing Corvette from the top spot. Wickens set a 1:15.985 that would hold up for second-best, an improvement from 10th in Practice 1 yesterday.
Matt Bell in the maple leaf-liveried #13 AWA Corvette was third-quickest.
The session was interrupted once by a red flag; at half-time, Casper Stevenson in the #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 went off at turn nine, hit the barrier, and sustained damage to the left front.
JDC-Miller MotorSports’ #79 ORECA LMP2 suffered an engine failure after turning just nine laps, and now there will be work done to get the engine changed before Qualifying starts at 4:00 PM ET.
Qualifying for the Chevrolet Grand Prix will air live on the official IMSA YouTube channel and IMSA.TV in most other countries worldwide, and Peacock in the United States.
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