Qualifying report
IMSA Daytona 24
Daytona 24 Hours: Cadillacs dominate qualifying, Jani stars
Action Express scored an impressive 1-2 on the grid with their pair of Cadillac DPi-V.Rs, but WEC champion Neel Jani took a brilliant third in Rebellion Racing’s Oreca-Gibson.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jan 27, 2017, 12:00 AM
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Two-time series champion Joao Barbosa earned his first pole position for over two years, as he wound the AXR Cadillac around the 3.56-mile Daytona road course in just 1min36.903sec on his sixth and final lap in the Prototypes’ 15min segment.
His reigning champion teammate Dane Cameron fell just 0.07sec short of beating him, but more impressive still was Jani’s time, just 0.22sec from pole for Rebellion.
That was just enough to break up the Cadillac trio, as Wayne Taylor Racing’s Ricky Taylor scored fourth on the grid.
WTR’s Caddy was almost half a second clear of the Patron ESM Racing Nissan Onroaks DPis, Brendon Hartley 0.6sec ahead of Ryan Dalziel.
Stephen Simpson was seventh in the JDC-Miller Motorsports Oreca, with Tom Kimber-Smith eighth in the Ligier of PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports.
The two Mazda DPis of Jonathan Bomarito and Joel Miller completed the top 10, three seconds off pole-winning time, while Marc Goossens was the final qualifier in VisitFlorida Racing’s Multimatic Riley.
Loic Duval, who shunted the DragonSpeed Oreca in practice, did not make it to pitlane for a qualifying run.
James French prevailed to grab Prototype Challenge pole for what will probably prove to be the last time PC cars are seen in the Rolex 24 Hours.
French threw the Performance Tech Motorsports Oreca around the course in 1min42.559sec to decimate his nearest opponent by over eight tenths of a second.
That rival was the “unretired” Johnny Mowlem in BAR1 Motorsports’ #26 car, edging Indy 500 winner Buddy Rice by 0.12sec.
Chris Cumming was four seconds slower than French, but still managed to beat his Starworks teammate Alex Popow by a full second.
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ClaNumDriverClassChassisLapsTimeGap 1 5 
Christian Fittipaldi
Filipe Albuquerque
Joao Barbosa P Cadillac DPi 6 1'36.903 2 31 
Mike Conway
Dane Cameron
Eric Curran
Seb Morris P Cadillac DPi 7 1'36.973 0.070 3 13 
Stéphane Sarrazin
Nick Heidfeld
Sébastien Buemi
Neel Jani P ORECA 9 1'37.123 0.220 4 10 Jeff Gordon
Jordan Taylor
Ricky Taylor
Max Angelelli P Cadillac DPi 6 1'37.169 0.266 5 22 Bruno Senna
Brendon Hartley
Ed Brown
Johannes van Overbeek P Nissan DPi 9 1'37.609 0.706 6 2 Brendon Hartley
Pipo Derani
Scott Sharp
Ryan Dalziel P Nissan DPi 9 1'38.251 1.348 7 85 Mathias Beche
Mikhail Goikhberg
Chris Miller
Stephen Simpson P ORECA 9 1'38.915 2.012 8 52 R.C. Enerson
Tom Kimber-Smith
Jose Gutierrez
Mike Guasch P Ligier 9 1'39.149 2.246 9 55 Spencer Pigot
Jonathan Bomarito
Tristan Nunez P Mazda DPi 7 1'39.940 3.037 10 70 James Hinchcliffe
Tom Long
Joel Miller P Mazda DPi 8 1'39.973 3.070 11 90 René Rast
Marc Goossens
Renger van der Zande P Multimatic/Riley 7 1'40.532 3.629 12 38 James French
Nicholas Boulle
Kyle Masson
Patricio O'Ward PC ORECA FLM09 10 1'42.559 5.656 13 26 Johnny Mowlem
Adam Merzon
Trent Hindman
Tom Papadopoulos PC ORECA FLM09 9 1'43.396 6.493
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