Alex Lynn Fastest In Road America WeatherTech Practice

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Lynn was fastest overall in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship practice Friday (Aug. 5) at Road America with a lap at 133.303 mph.  For comparison purposes, this lap was a little more than four seconds slower than the best lap in practice during the INDYCAR weekend back in June.

Practice No. 1

In the early afternoon practice session, there was quite a bit of activity on track.  During the session, there were two red flags.  The first occurred 49 minutes in when VasserSullivan’s Jack Hawksworth stalled on course in Canada Corner.  A few minutes after the session resumed, High Class Racing’s Dennis Andersen crashed exiting the Kink, a scary proposition.  Luckily, Andersen was able to drive his ORECA 07-Gibson back to the pits, but not before the red was displayed again.

At the beginning of the session, PR1 Mathaisen Motorsports’ Steven Thomas and Malthe Jakobsen collided at turn 8.  Thomas slid off and stopped briefly, but was able to resume.

The Cadillacs were quick at the very beginning of the session.  Action Express Racing’s Pipo Derani was quick early, then Chip Ganassi Racing’s Earl Bamber went to the top.  However, Wayne Taylor Racing’s Ricky Taylor turned in a lap at 131.834 mph to top the session.

Taylor’s lap was three-tenths of a second faster than Bamber.  Derani was third fastest, then Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian’s Tom Blomqvist.  Sebastien Bourdais was fifth.

In LMP2, Era Motorsport’s Ryan Dalziel was fastest with a lap at 129.944 mph, good for seventh overall and less than two-tenths of a second slower than the DPi of JDC-Miller MotorSports’ Tristan Vautier.  Dalziel’s lap was .732 seconds faster than Tristan Nunez in the No. 11 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports entry.  DragonSpeed’s Juan Pablo Montoya was third fastest, then Tower Motorsport’s Louis Deletraz and Nunez’s teammate Josh Pierson.

Despite the issues at the very beginning of the session, Jakobsen ended up fastest in LMP3 with a lap at 120.997 mph, 13th overall.  Jakobsen was three-tenths of a second faster than Riley Motorsports’ Felipe Fraga.  Scott Andrews was third in JDC-Miller Motorsports’ new Duqueine No. 90.  MLT Motorsports’ Dakota Dickerson was fourth, while CORE autosport’s Colin Braun was fifth.

CarBahn Motorsports with Peregrine Racing’s Robert Megennis was fastest in not just GTD, but of all the GT drivers with a lap at 115.322 mph, good for 22nd overall.  Megennis’ lap…