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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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