IMSA: OAK Racing Ligier dominates FP2 at Circuit of The Americas

Alex Brundle stamped his authority on the second practice session for this weekend's TUDOR Championship race at Circuit Americas, crashing through the 2min barrier with 1min58.292sec on his 13th lap.

Driving OAK Racing's handsome Ligier JSP2 HPD, the Briton was 3.3sec faster than his nearest opposition when he set the time although eventually Action Express Racing's Joao Barbosa carved that margin down to 1.7sec in his Corvette DP.

The similar machine of Wayne Taylor Racing was third fastest, 0.8sec adrift of Barbosa, with Johannes van Overbeek fourth for ESM Racing in the HPD ARX-03b, but three seconds off top spot.

Renger van der Zande did his usual fine job for Starworks Motorsport, eclipsing by 0.1sec yesterday's PC pacesetter, PR1/Mathiasen's Gunnar Jeannette, with Jack Hawksworth and Bruno Junqueira in third and fourth for RSR Racing.

Porsche was again the dominant marque in GT Le Mans class, and again, it was the Frederic Makowiecki/Patrick Pilet No. 910 car that was top by 0.2sec, ahead of the Nick Tandy/Jorg Bergmeister car.

Only the Risi Competizione Ferrari 458 Italia of Pierre Kaffer prevented a Porsche 1-2-3, while the No. 3 Corvette of Antonio Garcia was fifth and the Andy Priaulx No. 55 BMW Z4 GTE sixth. When the track was still wet from overnight and morning rain at the start of the session, Marc Goossens was quickest in the Dodge Viper SRT, the two Vipers had slipped to eighth and 11th by the end of the session.

GT Daytona, like GT Le Mans, was a major Porsche benefit, with Park Place Motorsports' Norbert Siedler heading Leh Keen in the similar 911 GT America of Alex Job Racing. And again it was a Ferrari that threw the greatest opposition at the Stuttgart marque, with Townsend Bell third quickest in the AIM Autosport Ferrari 458 Italia.