Rolex 24: Bomarito puts Mazda on top in second practice

After the opening session of the Rolex 24 weekend was held on a damp track, second practice was dry, albeit with laptimes still some way slower than those set in the Roar test earlier in the month.

CORE autosport's sole Nissan DPi led the session for much of the way after Colin Braun posted a 1m35.338s with 41 minutes remaining, and that wasn't beaten until Filipe Albuquerque set a 1m35.446s in the #5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R with less than 10 minutes on the clock.

But with five minutes left of the session, Bomarito knocked some six tenths off Albuquerque's benchmark with a 1m34.743s, which he followed up with a 1m34.672s on the following lap - putting the #55 Mazda seven tenths up on the competition.

Braun's earlier time was good enough to keep the #54 Nissan third, while Acura Team Penske's Ricky Taylor ensured it was four different makes in the top four with a 1m35.539s effort in the #7 Acura ARX-05.

IMSA rookie Augustin Canapino turned an impressive lap to go fifth fastest in the #50 Juncos Racing Cadillac, followed by Felipe Nasr in the #31 AXR Cadillac.

Fernando Alonso set the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac's best time of 1m35.924s to earn P7, one place ahead of the #77 Mazda RT24-P driven by Timo Bernhard.

The LMP2 contingent was headed up by James Allen in the #81 DragonSpeed Oreca-Gibson, the young Australian's 1m37.255s effort putting him three tenths clear of PR1/Mathiasen driver Gabriel Aubry.

Nick Tandy left it late to send the retro-liveried Porsche 911 RSR to the top of the times in GT Le Mans with a best time of 1m43.475s, demoting Corvette driver Jan Magnussen to second by just 0.086s.

Ryan Briscoe was the best of the Ford GT drivers in the #66 machine, taking third place, a further two tenths back, followed by the sole Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE and the second of the Ganassi-run Fords.

BMW propped up the GTLM order with its pair of M8 GTEs managing only eighth and ninth places.

In GT Daytona, Spirit of Race Ferrari driver Daniel Serra was the sole driver to breach the 1m46s barrier with a 1m45.936s, enough to top the class by 0.248s from the leading Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX driven by Trent Hindman.

Third in class was Ben Keating in the Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3, a further 0.060s behind.

Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, Practice 2:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap
1	55	Harry Tincknell Olivier Pla Jonathan Bomarito	DPi	Mazda DPi	27	1'34.672
2	5	Christian Fittipaldi Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa	DPi	Cadillac DPi	29	1'35.383	0.711
3	54	Loic Duval Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun	DPi	Nissan DPi	24	1'35.538	0.866
4	7	Alexander Rossi Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor	DPi	Acura DPi	25	1'35.539	0.867
5	50	Kyle Kaiser Rene Binder Will Owen Agustin Canapino	DPi	Cadillac DPi	21	1'35.550	0.878
6	31	Pipo Derani Eric Curran Felipe Nasr	DPi	Cadillac DPi	25	1'35.694	1.022
7	10	Fernando Alonso Kamui Kobayashi Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande	DPi	Cadillac DPi	26	1'35.924	1.252
8	77	Oliver Jarvis Timo Bernhard René Rast Tristan Nunez	DPi	Mazda DPi	21	1'36.102	1.430
9	6	Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron	DPi	Acura DPi	9	1'36.346	1.674
10	84	Simon Trummer Juan Piedrahita Chris Miller Stephen Simpson	DPi	Cadillac DPi	27	1'36.485	1.813
11	85	Rubens Barrichello Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier Devlin DeFrancesco	DPi	Cadillac DPi	22	1'36.657	1.985
12	81	Nicolas Lapierre Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley James Allen	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	25	1'37.255	2.583
13	52	Matt McMurry Mark Kvamme Enzo Guibbert Gabriel Aubry	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	27	1'37.512	2.840
14	18	Pastor Maldonado Roberto Gonzalez Sebastian Saavedra Ryan Cullen	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	25	1'38.228	3.556
15	38	Kris Wright Kyle Masson Cameron Cassels Robert Masson	LMP2	ORECA LMP2	24	1'39.784	5.112
16	911	Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	25	1'43.475	8.803
17	3	Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	25	1'43.561	8.889
18	67	Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon  Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	21	1'43.755	9.083
19	62	James Calado Davide Rigon Alessandro Pier Guidi Miguel Molina	GTLM	Ferrari 488 GTE	22	1'43.758	9.086
20	66	Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Muller	GTLM	Ford GT	19	1'43.906	9.234
21	4	Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	21	1'44.017	9.345
22	912	Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	21	1'44.219	9.547
23	25	Connor de Phillippi Augusto Farfus Philipp Eng Colton Herta	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	22	1'44.249	9.577
24	24	John Edwards Jesse Krohn Chaz Mostert Alex Zanardi	GTLM	BMW M8 GTE	22	1'44.301	9.629
25	51	Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda Daniel Serra	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	27	1'45.936	11.264
26	86	A.J. Allmendinger Justin Marks Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	20	1'46.184	11.512
27	33	Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Luca Stolz Felipe Fraga	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	20	1'46.244	11.572
28	96	Bill Auberlen Jens Klingmann Robby Foley Dillon Machavern	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	23	1'46.295	11.623
29	13	Andrea Bertolini Victor Franzoni Chico Longo Marcos Gomes	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	28	1'46.295	11.623
30	48	Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Andrea Caldarelli Ryan Hardwick	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	24	1'46.337	11.665
31	9	Scott Hargrove Lars Kern Dennis Olsen Zacharie Robichon	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	24	1'46.567	11.895
32	63	Toni Vilander Dominik Farnbacher Cooper MacNeil Jeff Westphal	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	23	1'46.574	11.902
33	11	Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Rik Breukers Christian Engelhart	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	27	1'46.579	11.907
34	73	Patrick Long Patrick Lindsey Nicholas Boulle Matt Campbell	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	23	1'46.642	11.970
35	44	Andy Lally Marco Mapelli Spencer Pumpelly John Potter	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	24	1'46.692	12.020
36	14	Austin Cindric Jack Hawksworth Richard Heistand Nick Cassidy	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	23	1'46.739	12.067
37	12	Townsend Bell Jeff Segal Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	25	1'46.781	12.109
38	57	Simona de Silvestro Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen Ana Figueiredo	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	24	1'46.829	12.157
39	29	Daniel Morad Dries Vanthoor Christopher Mies Richard Feller	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	24	1'46.935	12.263
40	46	Fabio Babini Emanuele Busnelli Taylor Proto Giacomo Altoè	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	27	1'47.234	12.562
41	99	Klaus Bachler Sven Muller Alfred Renauer Juergen Haering Steffen Goerig	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	27	1'47.444	12.772
42	540	Marco Seefried Tim Pappas Dirk Werner Matteo Cairoli	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	25	1'47.453	12.781
43	47	Don Yount Milos Pavlovic Steve Dunn Linus Lundqvist	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	27	1'47.527	12.855
44	71	Fabian Schiller Dominik Baumann Maximilian Buhk JC Perez	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	20	1'47.534	12.862
45	88	Ian James Frederic Vervisch Kelvin van der Linde Roman DeAngelis	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	24	1'47.593	12.921
46	8	Ryan Dalziel Parker Chase Ezequiel Perez Companc Chris Haase	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	21	1'47.673	13.001
47	19	Markus Winkelhock Andrew Davis Will Hardeman Alex Riberas	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	24	1'47.724	13.052