Rolex 24: Porsche leads Acura in night practice at Daytona

GTP

The Penske-run #7 Porsche 963 of Campbell was the first car to duck below the 1min36 barrier, turning a 1min35.802sec after 20mins to eclipse the Cadillac V-LMDh cars of Alex Lynn and Alexander Sims by over 0.4sec. Ricky Taylor moved up to also shade the Caddys, but was still over 0.33 sec off top spot.

His full-time partner Albuquerque cut the deficit back to 0.172sec with half an hour to go, pulling clear of the Ganassi and Action Express Racing Cadillacs.

Colton Herta took the #25 BMW M Hybrid V8 to within 0.66sec of the top spot, ahead of the second Porsche, the Meyer Shank Racing Acura and the #24 BMW which turned the fewest laps.

LMP2

Oliver Jarvis of Era Motorsport and Rinus VeeKay in the #11 TDS Racing car were the early pacesetters, but after the first red flag, Ben Hanley in the Crowdstrike Racing by APR machine jumped to the top with a 1min38.801sec effort.

Then Alex Quinn in the PR1/Mathiasen entry took quarter-second off that time although Hanley sliced that down to 0.108sec, with Scott McLaughlin’s Tower Motorsport car a further 0.33sec behind that, ahead of Jarvis’s early pacesetting effort.

Matthieu Vaxiviere in the #88 AF Corse car moved up to fourth in the closing stages of the session and then moved ahead of McLaughlin by a mere four-hundredths, but found a clear enough lap to bounce into top spot by 0.139sec in the dying minutes.

Mikkel Jensen improved the #11 TDS car’s time in the final stages but remained sixth.

LMP3

Rasmus Lindh in the Andretti Autosport Ligier delivered 1min42.559sec with less than 25mins to go, 0.325sec ahead of Wayne Boyd in the #17 AWA Duqueine, with the other AWA of Matthew Bell third.

GTD Pro and GTD

The new Ferrari 296 of Cetilar Racing caused the first red flag of the session when it went off at Turn 5 in the hands of Roberto Lacorte.

Halfway through the session, Daniel Juncadella was sitting top of the GTD Pro pile in the WeatherTech Racing Mercedes AMG GT3, and that was the fastest GT3 car overall, until Frederik Schandorff in the Inception Racing McLaren 720S clipped a mere 0.003sec off that time.

Parker Thompson in the GTD Lexus RC F was within the same tenth, ahead of Luca Stolz in the SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 and Danny Formal in the Racers Edge Acura NSX.

Mikael Grenier moved to the top of GTD by 0.002sec in the Team Korthoff Mercedes, and he had just been beaten by Jules Gounon in the WeatherTech car, before Grenier pulled a quarter-second clear. Maro Engel in the WeatherTech car got the gap down to under 0.2sec, and then finally went top with a 1min46.011sec, the car having also turned the most number of laps (48) out of all the GT3 machines.

Mario Farnbacher gave Gradient Racing a strong showing with its Acura NSX less than 0.4sec behind Grenier, splitting the two Vasser Sullivan Lexus of Parker Thompson and Jack Hawksworth.

As usual Spencer Pumpelly did a fine job to get the Magnus Racing Aston Martin Vantage into fifth in GTD, seventh overall in GTs.

Rolex 24 at Daytona - Free Practice 3 results:

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Time	Gap
1	7	Matt Campbell Felipe Nasr Michael Christensen	GTP	Porsche 963	1'35.802
2	10	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque Louis Deletraz Brendon Hartley	GTP	Acura ARX-06	1'35.974	0.172
3	02	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook	GTP	Cadillac V-LMDh	1'36.179	0.377
4	01	Sébastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Scott Dixon	GTP	Cadillac V-LMDh	1'36.214	0.412
5	31	Pipo Derani Alexander Sims Jack Aitken	GTP	Cadillac V-LMDh	1'36.270	0.468
6	25	Connor de Phillippi Nick Yelloly Sheldon Van Der Linde Colton Herta	GTP	BMW M Hybrid V8	1'36.462	0.660
7	6	Mathieu Jaminet Nick Tandy Dane Cameron	GTP	Porsche 963	1'36.498	0.696
8	60	Tom Blomqvist Colin Braun Helio Castroneves Simon Pagenaud	GTP	Acura ARX-06	1'36.909	1.107
9	24	Philipp Eng Augusto Farfus Marco Wittmann Colton Herta	GTP	BMW M Hybrid V8	1'37.152	1.350
10	88	François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxiviere Julien Canal Nicklas Nielsen	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'38.416	2.614
11	52	Ben Keating Paul-Loup Chatin Alex Quinn Nicolas Lapierre	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'38.555	2.753
12	04	George Kurtz Ben Hanley Matt McMurry Esteban Gutierrez	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'38.663	2.861
13	8	John Farano Scott McLaughlin Josef Newgarden Kyffin Simpson	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'38.997	3.195
14	18	Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel Christian Rasmussen Oliver Jarvis	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'39.112	3.310
15	11	Thomas Steven Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker Rinus van Kalmthout	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'39.167	3.365
16	20	Dennis Andersen Ed Jones Anders Fjordbach Raffaele Marciello	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'39.257	3.455
17	35	François Heriau Giedo van der Garde Josh Pierson Job Van Uitert	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'39.491	3.689
18	36	Jarett Andretti Gabby Chaves Dakota Dickerson Rasmus Lindh	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	1'42.559	6.757
19	17	Anthony Mantella Wayne Boyd Nico Varrone Thomas Merrill	LMP3	Duqueine D08	1'42.884	7.082
20	51	Eric Lux Devlin DeFrancesco Austin Cindric Pietro Fittipaldi	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	1'43.004	7.202
21	13	Orey Fidani Matthew Bell Lars Kern Moritz Kranz	LMP3	Duqueine D08	1'43.053	7.251
22	43	Sebastian Alvarez Danial Frost James French Guilherme de	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	1'43.370	7.568
23	74	Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga Glenn van Berlo Josh Burdon	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	1'43.480	7.678
24	85	Till Bechtolsheimer Tijmen van der Helm Luca Mars Mason Filippi	LMP3	Duqueine D08	1'43.663	7.861
25	87	Yu Kanamaru James Vance Serravalle Antonio Nicholas Boulle	LMP3	Duqueine D08	1'44.048	8.246
26	38	John DeAngelis Christopher Allen Cameron Shields Connor Bloum	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	1'45.366	9.564
27	79	Cooper MacNeil Daniel Juncadella Jules Gounon Maro Engel	GTD PRO	Mercedes AMG GT3	1'46.011	10.209
28	32	Mike Skeen Mikael Grenier Kenton Koch Maximillian Goetz	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	1'46.177	10.375
29	70	Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy Marvin Kirchhofer	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	1'46.433	10.631
30	12	Aaron Telitz Frankie Montecalvo Kyle Kirkwood Parker Thompson	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	1'46.481	10.679
31	66	Sheena Monk Katherine Legge Mario Farnbacher Marc Miller	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'46.514	10.712
32	14	Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat Mike Conway	GTD PRO	Lexus RC F GT3	1'46.577	10.775
33	44	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Nicki Thiim	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'46.600	10.798
34	75	Kenny Habul Luca Stolz Fabian Schiller Axcil Jefferies	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3	1'46.626	10.824
35	93	Ashton Harrison Danny Formal Kyle Marcelli Ryan Briscoe	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	1'46.638	10.836
36	63	Andrea Caldarelli Mirko Bortolotti Jordan Lee Pepper Romain Grosjean	GTD PRO	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	1'46.741	10.939
37	3	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Tommy Milner	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	1'46.776	10.974
38	64	Ted Giovanis Hugh Plumb Matt Plumb Owen Trinkler	GTD PRO	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'46.862	11.060
39	23	Ross Gunn Alex Riberas David Pittard	GTD PRO	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'47.015	11.213
40	27	Roman De Angelis Marco Sorensen Ian James Darren Turner	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	1'47.077	11.275
41	96	Patrick Gallagher Robby Foley Michael Dinan Jens Klingmann	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	1'47.244	11.442
42	47	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco Alessandro Balzan	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	1'47.281	11.479
43	78	Mikhail Goikhberg Loris Spinelli Benja Hites Marco Mapelli	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	1'47.305	11.503
44	83	Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Doriane Pin	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	1'47.308	11.506
45	62	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra Davide Rigon	GTD PRO	Ferrari 296 GT3	1'47.320	11.518
46	21	Mann Simon Luis Perez Companc Miguel Molina Francesco Castellacci	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	1'47.485	11.683
47	19	Raffaele Giammaria Franck Perera Claudio Schiavoni Rolf Ineichen	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	1'47.656	11.854
48	1	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis Maxime Martin	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	1'48.013	12.211
49	023	Onofrio Triarsi Charles Scardina Alessio Rovera Andrea Bertolini	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	1'48.147	12.345
50	16	Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen Zacharie Robichon Dennis Olsen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'48.319	12.517
51	95	Bill Auberlen Chandler Hull Bruno Spengler John Edwards	GTD PRO	BMW M4 GT3	1'48.460	12.658
52	91	Alan Metni Kay van Berlo Jaxon Evans Julien Andlauer	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'48.546	12.744
53	77	Alan Brynjolfsson Trent Hindman Max Root Kevin Estre	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'48.594	12.792
54	92	David Brule Alec Udell Andrew Davis Jeroen Bleekemolen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'48.752	12.950
55	53	Mark Kvamme Trenton Estep Jan Magnussen Jason Hart	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'48.911	13.109
56	80	PJ Hyett Seb Priaulx Gunnar Jeannette Harry Tincknell	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	1'49.110	13.308
57	9	Klaus Bachler Patrick Pilet Laurens Vanthoor	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)
58	33	Lance Willsey Joao Barbosa Nicolas Pino Nolan Siegel	LMP3	Ligier JS P320
59	42	Don Yount Jaden Conwright Kerong Li Alessio Deledda	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2
60	55	Fred Poordad Francesco Pizzi James Allen Gianmaria Bruni	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07
61	57	Russell Ward Philip Ellis Indy Dontje Lucas Auer	GTD	Mercedes AMG GT3
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