Hanson lapped the three.56-mile street course in 1m35.216s in his GTP class JDC-Miller MotorSports Porsche 963 in excellent monitor circumstances for this one-hour session.
Brendon Hartley was quickest out of the blocks, the ex-F1 driver and three-time Le Mans winner setting a benchmark of 1m36.197s within the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-06 within the early minutes of the session.
He was quickly topped by Connor De Phillippi’s #25 RLL-run BMW M Hybrid V8 with a lap of 1m35.468s, which was 0.038s faster than Tom Blomqvist in Motion Categorical Racing’s Cadillac V-Sequence.R managed across the identical time.
Neel Jani then took over on the high of the occasions with a 1m35.329s in Proton Competitors’s Porsche 963, set throughout a brief run that was possible a qualifying simulation forward of tomorrow.
Fast occasions continued thick and quick after the midway level, with De Phillippi enhancing to 1m35.399s, 0.070s away from Jani, after which matched his time to the thousandth of a second at 1m35.329s.
However Hanson unleashed the quickest time of the Roar to date with 20 minutes to go in JDC-Miller’s 963, his 1m35.216s pipping Pipo Derani’s greatest time from Friday within the AXR Caddy by 0.001s.
Sebastien Bourdais was fourth quickest in Chip Ganassi Racing’s Cadillac V-Sequence.R, forward of Blomqvist.
Augusto Farfus was sixth within the second BMW from Hartley, Felipe Nasr (Penske Porsche), Jenson Button (WTR Acura) and Kevin Estre (Penske Porsche).
Photograph by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Pictures
#2 United Autosports ORECA LMP2-Gibson: Ben Keating, Nico Pino, Ben Hanley, Patricio O’Ward
United Autosports grabs 1-2 in LMP2
Joao Barbosa led the best way early on within the sole Ligier in an ORECA-packed LMP2 class for Sean Creech Motorsport, simply head of Ben Keating’s #2 United Autosports machine.
Keating turned the tables by enhancing his time to a category-topping 1m39.047s, 0.047s quicker than Paul di Resta in United’s #22 entry. They have been three tenths up on Mikkel Jensen’s #11 TDS-run ORECA, who lapped in 1m39.414s.
Photograph by: Artwork Fleischmann
#86 MDK Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R: Kerong Li, Anders Fjordbach, Larry ten Voorde, Klaus Bachler, #20 MDK by Excessive Class Racing ORECA LMP2-Gibson: Dennis Andersen, Seth Lucas, Laurents Hoerr, Scott Huffaker
Porsche sweeps to 1-2-3 in GTD
Frederic Makowiecki set the early tempo in his #120 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, the automotive that’s the topic of the Brad Pitt System 1 film filming. His early lap was quickly overwhelmed by Klaus Bachler within the #86 MDK Motorsports 911, with 1m46.229s to Mako’s 1m45.999s.
Trent Hindman (Kellymoss with Riley) jumped as much as second within the closing minutes, producing a 1m45.990s to make it a Porsche 1-2-3 – an unlimited enchancment on final 12 months’s disastrous exhibiting right here for the marque.
Mario Farnbacher was better of the remainder for Aston Martin, his #23 Coronary heart of Racing-run Vantage the very best positioned GTD Professional entry. Dennis Olsen led the US muscle vehicles in his Proton-run Ford Mustang GT3 in fifth, forward of Mike Rockenfeller’s Multimatic model.
Former IndyCar star James Hinchcliffe suffered a difficulty on his first flying lap together with his Pfaff Motorsports McLaren 720S and was stranded out on the monitor’s backstretch. However he rejoined the session later, ending 42nd total after getting simply eight laps in.
