Muscle Milk, Marino, Marcelli and Lizards Fly in the Night

October 18, 2012

Muscle Milk, Marino, Marcelli and Lizards Fly in the Night

October 18, 2012

Lucas Luhr kept the Muscle Milk Honda atop the timing screen during the night practice for Saturday’s 10 Hour/1000 Mile Petit Le Mans.

Luhr posted a 1:11.545 as the Muscle Milk squad reeled off a field high 63 laps in the two hour session on a perfect evening at Road Atlanta. That time edged past the #12 Rebellion Racing Toyota of Neel Jani was a slim 0.098 seconds. Dyson Racing’s Guy Smith was third quickest at 1:12.653.

Marino Franchitti took family and P2 class honors with a 1:13.853 to top brother Dario’s best time and place the #055 Level 5 Honda fourth overall.

Kyle Marcelli put the #8 Merchant Services at the head of the PC times with a 1:16.227.

The Nissan DeltaWing returned to the track and ran a trouble free program with Lucas Ordonez posting a 1:17.292 time in his six lap stint.

In GT it was Joerg Bergmeister in the #45 Flying Lizard Porsche squeezing out 0.035 seconds edge over 2012 GT champion Oliver Gavin’s #4 Corvette.

Extreme Speed Ferrari’s #02 of Guy Cosmo was third quickest with the #55 BMW of Bill Auberlen fourth followed by Jan Magnussen in the #3 Corvette and Marco Holzer in the #44 Flying Lizard Porsche.

The top seven GT cars were with 0.41 seconds.

Practice and qualifying continue Friday for Saturday’s race.

Latest Photos

Latest Video

A memorable IMSA season ended with the excitement of Motul Petit Le Mans

Wednesday October 18, 2023
[/et_pb_section]
[/et_pb_section]