Rolex 24: WTR heads Acura 1-2 in opening practice at Daytona
Defending winners Wayne Taylor Racing clocked the fastest time in first practice at the Roar before the 60th Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona.
#10 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05 Acura DPi: Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, Alexander Rossi, Will Stevens
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A lap of 1min35.309sec from Ricky Taylor on his 10th lap put WTR's Acura ARX-05 just under three-tenths of a second clear of the similar car of Meyer Shank Racing and over six-tenths ahead of Sebastien Bourdais in the quickest Cadillac DPi-V.R, the #01 of Chip Ganassi Racing.
Bourdais’ teammate in CGR’s new #02 entry, Kevin Magnussen, was a mere two-hundredths shy in what is set to be his final event in a Cadillac before switching his attention to the Peugeot WEC project.
The endurance-only Action Express Racing Caddy entry, the #48, wound up ahead of the full-time #31 car, the pair split by Tristan Vautier’s best effort in the JDC-Miller MotorSports machine.
Racing Team Nederland #29 Oreca led LMP2 thanks to Giedo van der Garde's best effort, a 1m36.262sec – less than a tenth slower than the slowest DPi time. That put the Dutch car over one second ahead of Tower Motorsports whose best time was set by Ferdinand Habsburg, and High Class Racing’s Anders Fjordbach.
Jonathan Bomarito in his first LMP2 outing was fourth fastest for PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, while the DragonSpeed entry to be shared by Colton Herta, Pato O’Ward, Devlin DeFrancesco and Eric Lux was fifth.
Garett Grist topped LMP3 for Performance Tech Motorsports and Ligier, chased by the Muehlner Motorsports America #6 Duqueine. Josh Burdon turned the best time for Andretti Autosport to lift its #36 Ligier into third ahead Colin Braun in the CORE autosport entry.
Marco Mapelli was fastest of the GTD Pro drivers in the TR3 Racing Lamborghini Huracan, but he was not the quickest GT driver – that honor went to a pro driver in a GTD car, namely, Jan Heylen in the Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R.
Third was the other TR3 Lamborghini, ahead of the GTD Pro Porsche of Pfaff Motorsports, whose fastest lap was turned by Matt Campbell.
Second practice begins at 4.15pm local (Eastern) time.
Cla | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque Alexander Rossi Will Stevens |
DPi | Acura DPi | 31 | 1'35.309 | |
2 |
Oliver Jarvis
Tom Blomqvist Helio Castroneves Simon Pagenaud |
DPi | Acura DPi | 26 | 1'35.602 | 0.293 |
3 |
Renger van der Zande
Sébastien Bourdais Scott Dixon Alex Palou |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 29 | 1'35.942 | 0.633 |
4 |
Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn Marcus Ericsson Kevin Magnussen |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 29 | 1'35.962 | 0.653 |
5 |
Jimmie Johnson
Kamui Kobayashi Mike Rockenfeller Jose Maria Lopez |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 29 | 1'36.171 | 0.862 |
6 |
Tristan Vautier
Richard Westbrook Loic Duval Ben Keating |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 29 | 1'36.177 | 0.868 |
7 |
Pipo Derani
Tristan Nunez Mike Conway |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 30 | 1'36.188 | 0.879 |
8 |
Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde Murry Dylan Rinus van Kalmthout |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 32 | 1'36.262 | 0.953 |
9 |
John Farano
Louis Deletraz Rui Pinto Ferdinand Habsburg |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 30 | 1'37.334 | 2.025 |
10 |
Dennis Andersen
Anders Fjordbach Fabio Scherer Nico Mueller |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 34 | 1'37.592 | 2.283 |
11 |
Thomas Steven
Josh Pierson Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 30 | 1'37.717 | 2.408 |
12 |
Eric Lux
Devlin DeFrancesco Patricio O'Ward Colton Herta |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 31 | 1'37.960 | 2.651 |
13 |
Ben Keating
Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker Nicolas Lapierre |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 31 | 1'37.964 | 2.655 |
14 |
Dwight Merriman
Kyle Tilley Ryan Dalziel Paul-Loup Chatin |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 29 | 1'38.125 | 2.816 |
15 |
John Falb
James Allen Luca Ghiotto Tijmen van |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 33 | 1'38.568 | 3.259 |
16 |
François Heriau
Oliver Rasmussen Ed Jones René Rast |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 29 | 1'38.981 | 3.672 |
17 |
Jim McGuire
Guy Smith Philip Hanson Will Owen |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 28 | 1'40.056 | 4.747 |
18 |
Dan Goldburg
Hikaru Abe Garett Grist Nicolas Pino |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 27 | 1'43.413 | 8.104 |
19 |
Efrin Castro
Moritz Kranz Ori Ayrton Joel Miller |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 28 | 1'44.064 | 8.755 |
20 |
Jarett Andretti
Josh Burdon Rasmus Lindh Gabby Chaves |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 24 | 1'44.163 | 8.854 |
21 |
Jon Bennett
Colin Braun George Kurtz Nic Jönsson |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 26 | 1'44.297 | 8.988 |
22 |
Joao Barbosa
Malthe Jakobsen Seb Priaulx Lance Willsey |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 28 | 1'44.400 | 9.091 |
23 |
Nolan Siegel
Cameron Shields Charles Crews Ugo De |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 18 | 1'44.419 | 9.110 |
24 |
Gar Robinson
Felipe Fraga Kay van Berlo Michael Cooper |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 31 | 1'44.519 | 9.210 |
25 |
Orey Fidani
Kuno Wittmer Lars Kern Matthew Bell |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 29 | 1'44.654 | 9.345 |
26 |
Mark Kvamme
Austin McCusker Trenton Estep Antoine Doquin |
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 14 | 1'45.664 | 10.355 |
27 |
Ryan Hardwick
Zacharie Robichon Jan Heylen Richard Lietz |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 28 | 1'46.483 | 11.174 |
28 |
Marco Mapelli
Andrea Caldarelli Mirko Bortolotti Rolf Ineichen |
GTD PRO | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 29 | 1'46.829 | 11.520 |
29 |
Bill Sweedler
John Megrue Giacomo Altoè Jeff Segal |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 29 | 1'46.882 | 11.573 |
30 |
Matt Campbell
Mathieu Jaminet Felipe Nasr |
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 24 | 1'46.942 | 11.633 |
31 |
Kyle Washington
James Sofronas Jeroen Bleekemolen Klaus Bachler |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 29 | 1'47.006 | 11.697 |
32 |
Philipp Eng
Marco Wittmann Nick Yelloly Sheldon Van Der Linde |
GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 28 | 1'47.065 | 11.756 |
33 |
Cooper MacNeil
Daniel Juncadella Maro Engel Jules Gounon |
GTD PRO | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 9 | 1'47.216 | 11.907 |
34 |
Jack Hawksworth
Ben Barnicoat Kyle Kirkwood |
GTD PRO | Lexus RC F GT3 | 21 | 1'47.305 | 11.996 |
35 |
Kenny Habul
Luca Stolz Raffaele Marciello Fabian Schiller |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 26 | 1'47.354 | 12.045 |
36 |
Ted Giovanis
Hugh Plumb Matt Plumb Owen Trinkler |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 27 | 1'47.368 | 12.059 |
37 |
Frankie Montecalvo
Aaron Telitz Richard Heistand Townsend Bell |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 26 | 1'47.374 | 12.065 |
38 |
John Potter
Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Jonathan Adam |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 19 | 1'47.459 | 12.150 |
39 |
Franck Perera
LLarena Mateo Paul Maximilian Mikhail Goikhberg |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 30 | 1'47.462 | 12.153 |
40 |
Dirk Muller
Patrick Assenheimer Austin Cindric |
GTD PRO | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 29 | 1'47.463 | 12.154 |
41 |
Kyffin Simpson
Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller Mario Farnbacher |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 31 | 1'47.469 | 12.160 |
42 |
Laurens Vanthoor
Patrick Pilet Dennis Olsen Alexandre Imperatori |
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 26 | 1'47.514 | 12.205 |
43 |
Cooper MacNeil
Julien Andlauer Matteo Cairoli Alessio Picariello |
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 30 | 1'47.526 | 12.217 |
44 |
Roberto Lacorte
Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco Alessio Rovera |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 33 | 1'47.681 | 12.372 |
45 |
Ross Gunn
Alex Riberas Maxime Martin |
GTD PRO | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 29 | 1'47.697 | 12.388 |
46 |
Russell Ward
Philip Ellis Mikael Grenier Lucas Auer |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 32 | 1'47.760 | 12.451 |
47 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado Daniel Serra Davide Rigon |
GTD PRO | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 29 | 1'47.772 | 12.463 |
48 |
Mike Skeen
Guy Cosmo Stevan McAleer Scott Andrews |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 28 | 1'47.892 | 12.583 |
49 |
Lance Bergstein
Jon Miller Patrick Gallagher Paul Holton |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 28 | 1'48.017 | 12.708 |
50 |
Michael de Quesada
Daniel Morad Linus Lundqvist Maximillian Goetz |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 27 | 1'48.030 | 12.721 |
51 |
Robert Megennis
Corey Lewis Sandy Mitchell Jeff Westphal |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 26 | 1'48.079 | 12.770 |
52 |
Mann Simon
Luis Perez Companc Nicklas Nielsen Toni Vilander |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 34 | 1'48.212 | 12.903 |
53 |
Brendan Iribe
Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy Jordan Lee Pepper |
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 28 | 1'48.348 | 13.039 |
54 |
Don Yount
Benja Hites Jaden Conwright Markus Palttala |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 25 | 1'48.437 | 13.128 |
55 |
Roman De Angelis
Ian James Darren Turner Tom Gamble |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 25 | 1'48.449 | 13.140 |
56 |
Rob Ferriol
Katherine Legge Stefan Wilson Nicholas Boulle |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 20 | 1'48.803 | 13.494 |
57 |
Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard Charlie Eastwood Nicki Thiim |
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 20 | 1'48.926 | 13.617 |
58 |
Connor de Phillippi
John Edwards Augusto Farfus Jesse Krohn |
GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 7 | 1'49.015 | 13.706 |
59 |
Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy Marco Sorensen |
GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 23 | 1'49.961 | 14.652 |
60 |
Robby Foley
Bill Auberlen Michael Dinan Jens Klingmann |
GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 28 | 1'50.139 | 14.830 |
61 |
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg |
GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 16 | 1'50.228 | 14.919 |
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