McDonald Continues Form in Practice 2 at Sebring

Photo: Jonathan Grace

Blake McDonald set the pace in the second and final GT America powered by AWS practice session of the weekend at Sebring International Raceway.

The DXDT Racing driver, who also set the fastest lap time in yesterday’s Practice 1, outpaced Memo Gidley by 0.662 seconds with his 2:01.084 benchmark time aboard the No. 11 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R.

As was the case yesterday, McDonald continued to improve on his best SRO3 class time once at the top of the time sheets, with his best time recorded on his tenth of 12 laps.

Kyle Washington was third fastest in the No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R ahead of Justin Rothberg, who finished in fourth after not turning any laps during yesterday’s Practice 1.

The No. 70 Mishumotors Callaway Corvette C7 GT3-R of Mirco Schultis, meanwhile, rounded out the overall top five.

Anthony McIntosh once again took his No. 69 JTR Motorsports Engineering Toyota Supra GT4 EVO2 to the top of the GT4 class times, slotting ahead of Michael Fitzpatrick by a comfortable 1.442 seconds.

At the start of the session, both Ross Chouest and Fitzpatrick served five-minute hold penalties for “track exit procedure violations” committed during Thursday’s first practice session, while Farhan Siddiqi served a drive-through for a pit stop infraction.

Qualifying for the field of nine GT America drivers takes place on Saturday morning at 8:10 a.m. EST ahead of Race 1 at 11:55 a.m. later that morning, which will be streamed live on SRO’s GT World YouTube channel and on Twitch.

RESULTS: Practice 2