Sebring 12 Hours: Oliver Pla quickest in second USC practice
Olivier Pla went fastest in second practice for Saturday's second round of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship at Sebring aboard the Krohn Racing Ligier LMP2 coupe
The Frenchman, who is sharing the Krohn Ligier-Judd/BMW JSP2 with team owner Tracy Krohn and Nic Jonsson, topped the times with 1m52.731s over the course of the one-hour session.
That put him eight tenths up on Oswaldo Negri Jr's 1m53.554s best in the Honda-powered Ligier entered by Michael Shank Racing.
Pla said: "We had a good two days of testing here last week and have been going in the right directions to deal with the bumps.
"We are pretty happy, but I don't think everyone else has shown their potential so far."
The lead Action Express Racing Coyote-Chevrolet Corvette DP, which had gone fastest in the opening session, was third in Christian Fittipaldi's hands on a 1m53.818s.
Joey Hand took fourth for Chip Ganassi Racing, setting a 1m54.098s aboard the team's solo Riley-Ford EcoBoost DP
The Rahal BMW team again led the way in GT Le Mans, this time with John Edwards going fastest in the #24 Z4 GTE with a 1m59.879s.
That put him less than a tenth ahead of Richard Lietz in the fastest of the CORE-run factory Porsche 911 RSRs.
Tom Kimber-Smith was quickest in the Prototype Challenge class for the PR1/Mathiasen squad, while Andrew Davis topped the GT Daytona division in his Alex Job Racing Porsche 911 GT America.
Leading second practice times:
Pos | Class | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Laps | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | P | T.Krohn, N.Jonsson, O.Pla | Krohn Racing | Ligier/Judd | 1m52.731s | 20 | - |
2 | P | J.Pew, O.Negri, J.Wilson | Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian | Ligier/HPD | 1m53.554s | 22 | 0.823s |
3 | P | J.Barbosa, C.Fittipaldi, S.Bourdais | Action Express Racing | Corvette/Chevrolet | 1m53.818s | 20 | 1.087s |
4 | P | J.Hand, S.Pruett, S.Dixon | Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates | Riley/Ford | 1m54.098s | 18 | 1.367s |
5 | P | R.Taylor, J.Taylor, M.Angelelli | Wayne Taylor Racing | Corvette/Chevrolet | 1m54.254s | 20 | 1.523s |
6 | P | S.Sharp, R.Dalziel, D.H.Hansson | Tequila Patron ESM | HPD | 1m54.385s | 20 | 1.654s |
7 | P | R.Westbrook, M.Valiante, M.Rockenfeller | visitflorida.com Racing | Corvette/Chevrolet | 1m54.698s | 22 | 1.967s |
8 | P | E.Curran, D.Cameron, M.Papis | Action Express Racing | Corvette/Chevrolet | 1m54.716s | 23 | 1.985s |
9 | P | E.Brown, J.van Overbeek, J.Fogarty | Tequila Patron ESM | HPD | 1m54.880s | 20 | 2.149s |
10 | PC | M.Guasch, A.Palmer, T.K.-Smith | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | ORECA/Chevrolet | 1m57.130s | 22 | 4.399s |
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