Taylor Tops Rain‑Soaked Practice 2 as Red Flags Threaten Qualifying Order
A wet, incident-filled session at Road America produced four red flags with lap deletions that will alter the qualifying grid.
Overview
- Saturday’s Practice 2 at Road America ran wet and saw numerous spins and crashes that brought out four red flags and triggered the rule that the cars causing those stoppages will lose their fastest qualifying laps.
- Jordan Taylor put the No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V‑Series.R on top of the timesheets with a 2:07.647 lap set late in the session, edging Sheldon van der Linde’s Team WRT BMW.
- Several notable drivers damaged cars or stalled running in the rain, including Brendon Iribe, Marco Wittmann, Jack Hawksworth, George Kurtz and Devlin DeFrancesco, and some teams face repair work before qualifying.
- GTD Pro and GTD running also shifted in the wet with Christopher Mies’s No. 65 Ford Mustang fastest in GTD Pro and Casper Stevenson’s No. 81 DragonSpeed Corvette quickest in GTD, both posting late laps as conditions improved.
- Off track, teams are weighing cost and program changes ahead of the weekend after reports that the Corvette Z06 GT3.R Evo kit costs $190,000, Lamborghini opened a tender for its GTD Pro operator, and IMSA highlighted growing international broadcast reach.