van Berlo tops rain-interrupted second practice at Sebring

Kay van Berlo topped the timesheets for the final session ahead of qualifying for the season-opening race at Sebring International Raceway for the 2022 Porsche Carrera Cup North America.

Following the damp start to the day for first practice that say van Berlo at the front, the rain came down once again between the sessions, this meant that track time was limited as competitors chose to limit their running on the bumpy Sebring circuit until the track started to dry.

The Dutchman only took part in fifteen minutes of the session but this was enough for him to set the pace, finishing the final practice with a time of 2:03.441 good enough for the fastest lap and 0.657 seconds ahead of Kelly-Moss Road and Race teammate Riley Dickinson, who had topped the pre-season testing at the Florida track. Trenton Estep brought the MDK Motorsports Porsche home in third place.

“It was good session, we only did 15 minutes out of 30 because it started raining heavy before the session started,” explained van Berlo. “But the sun came out straight away, so the track started to drying quickly. We thought it would be a good time to go out when slicks were faster than the rain tyres. I was able to put a pretty good lap down and at the end we were fastest.

“We had a good feeling in the car, we haven’t done many setup changes compared to first practice, just considering the track conditions were not perfect to make a change and then draw any conclusions from that. I don’t know if I would change anything at the moment, I think we’re ready for qualifying.

“Qualifying is going to be important considering the fact that we have 43 cars ad you just don’t want to start in the middle of the pack or a couple of rows back as it’s always a mess around there.” he added.

In the Pro-Am class it was a carbon copy of the first session for the top-three drivers, Kelly-Moss Road and Race teammates Efrin Castro and Alan Metni topped the class with Peter Atwater in third place. Castro’s lap was good enough for twelfth overall with a time of 2:06.163.

Mark Kvamme paced the Am class again, setting a time of 2:07.275 in the MDK Motorsports car. Wright Motorspots John Goetz finished the session in second while Octavio Tequila Racing’s Bob Mueller was third.

Qualifying gets underway at 3:05pm local time.

Pos.	#	CLASS	Driver	Time
1	3	Pro	Kay van Berlo	2:03.441
2	53	Pro	Riley Dickinson	2:04.098
3	6	Pro	Trenton Estep	2:04.317
4	9	Pro	Parker Thompson	2:04.558
5	11	Pro	Dimitri Dimakos	2:04.934
6	12	Pro	Leh Keen	2:04.948
7	58	Pro	TJ Fischer	2:05.461
8	8	Pro	Michael McCann	2:05.586
9	7	Pro	Michael McCarthy	2:05.744
10	88	Pro	Hutton McKenna	2:06.061
11	2	Pro	Sean Varwig	2:06.089
12	65	Pro-Am	Efrin Castro	2:06.163
13	77	Pro	Travis Wiley	2:06.284
14	99	Pro-Am	Alan Metni	2:06.444
15	13	Pro	Varun Choksey	2:06.513
16	81	Pro	Grant Talkie	2:06.617
17	26	Pro-Am	Peter Atwater	2:06.872
18	47	Pro-Am	Justin Oakes	2:07.036
19	69	Pro-Am	Thomas Collingwood	2:07.117
20	55	Pro-Am	Matt Halcome	2:07.175
21	43	Am	Mark Kvamme	2:07.275
22	22	Pro-Am	Carlos De Quesada	2:07.422
23	57	Am	John Goetz	2:07.439
24	16	Pro-Am	Pedro Torres	2:07.480
25	44	Pro-Am	Moisey Uretsky	2:07.566
26	28	Am	Bob Mueller	2:07.629
27	56	Pro-Am	Jeff Mosing	2:07.773
28	24	Pro	Adam Adelson	2:07.869
29	10	Am	Vernon McClure	2:07.899
30	17	Pro-Am	Curt Swearingin	2:07.925
31	29	Am	Jeffrey Majkrzak	2:08.179
32	84	Pro-Am	Marco Cirone	2:08.202
33	95	Pro	Conor Flynn	2:08.740
34	18	Pro-Am	Richard Edge	2:08.950
35	4	Am	Robert Hanley	2:09.023
36	89	Pro-Am	Mike Zoi	2:09.110
37	42	Am	Bill Smith	2:09.348
38	92	Am	Joseph Lombardo	2:09.962
39	30	Pro-Am	Dominique Lequeux	2:11.072
40	80	Am	Joe Still	2:12.068
41	21	Am	Grady Willingham	2:12.129
42	97	Pro-Am	Craig Conway	2:13.561
43	19	Am	Tom Balames	2:17.462

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