Daytona 24 Hours: Cadillacs remain top in FP2, Ford leads GTLM
Cadillac maintained its 1-2-3 at the top of the leaderboard in Daytona, with Joao Barbosa slotting the #5 Action Express Racing entry in at P1.
Photo by: Alexander Trienitz
The former champion set a fastest time of 1min38.549sec around the 3.56-mile course to go 0.177s clear of Ricky Taylor in the Wayne Taylor Racing machine, with reigning champion Dane Cameron some 1.6sec adrift in third, driving the second AXR machine.
That was still enough to lift him clear of three Orecas – DragonSpeed (Loic Duval), JDC-Miller (Stephen Simpson) and Rebellion (Neel Jani).
However, Duval ended the session about five minutes early with a spin and collision, causing significant left-side damage.
In seventh and ninth the two ESM Racing Nissan DPis were split by the fastest of the two Mazdas, driven by Tom Long, which was 3.8sec off the ultimate pace.
In GT Le Mans, Olivier Pla was the pacesetter in the #68 Ford GT, chased by ex-F1 winner Giancarlo Fisichella in Risi Competizione’s Ferrari 488, and Patrick Pilet’s new Porsche 911 RSR.
Bill Auberlen was an encouraging fourth for BMW Team RLL, half a second off Pla’s best, with Joey Hand and Harry Tincknell fifth and sixth in Fords. Defending Rolex 24 winner Oliver Gavin was seventh in the fastest of the Corvette C7.Rs.
In GT Daytona, Matthew McMurry turned heads for Park Place Motorsports, going quickest in the #73 Porsche 911 GT3 R, ahead of Alessandro Pier Guidi’s Ferrari 488 (Spirit of Race), and Scuderia Corsa's 488 driven by Alessandro Balzan.
Pedro Lamy was fastest of the Aston Martin drivers in fourth, ahead of Michael Christensen’ s Alegra Motorsport Porsche, and the similar car of Manthey Racing, wheeled by Matteoi Cairoli,
Fastest Lamborghini Huracan was that of Christian Engelhart in the #11 Grasser Racing Team machine, while Jeroen Bleekemolen clocked eighth in the Riley Motorsports-Team AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3, around 1.6sec off fastest in class.
Tom Papadopoulos led Prototype Challenge in the BAR1 Motorsports entry.
2017 Daytona 24 free practice 2
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