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IMSA Daytona 24
Rolex 24: Albuquerque leads final practice for AXR
Defending Rolex 24 Hours winners, the #5 Action Express Racing team, topped the last practice session at Daytona with its Cadillac 0.4sec ahead of its nearest rival.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jan 26, 2019, 4:24 PM
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Filipe Albuquerque yesterday suffered a brake fire in the AXR Cadillac DPi-V.R that prevented him from setting a qualifying time but had no such issues this morning on his way to a 1min34.358sec lap of the 3.56-mile road course.
Earlier this morning, it was announced that due to a travel issue for Mike Conway, the #5 Cadillac will be shared between just three drivers, the winning combo from 2018 – Albuquerque, fellow full-timer Joao Barbosa and the retiring Christian Fittipaldi.
Precisely four-tenths behind the Caddy in this last practice was the #55 Mazda of Olivier Pla, who in turn was over three-tenths up on the second AXR entry of Pipo Derani.
Former IndyCar champion Simon Pagenaud slotted his Acura ARX-05 into fourth spot ahead of the second Mazda of Rene Rast, while Stephen Simpson took sixth for JDC-Miller Motorsports ahead of the team’s first race with a DPi car.
Enzo Guibbert produced fastest LMP2 time for PR1/Mathiasen Motorsport, approximately 2.3sec off the fastest DPi.
Frederic Makowiecki grabbed top spot in GT Le Mans with the polesitting #911 Porsche 911 RSR, 0.134sec ahead of the #66 Ford GT of Dirk Muller, which ground to a halt on course in the hands of Sebastien Bourdais and caused the session’s only red flag.
Jan Magnussen was third fastest in the #3 Corvette which will roll off from the front row of the GTLM field tomorrow afternoon, while Richard Westbrook produced the fourth best time this morning in the second Ford.
Pedro Lamy in the Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 was quickest of the GT Daytona entries, while Nick Cassidy put his AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus into second spot ahead of two Porsche 911 GT3 Rs from Black Swan Racing and Park Place Motorsports.
Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, Practice 4:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Laps Time Gap 1 5 
Christian Fittipaldi
Filipe Albuquerque
Joao Barbosa DPi Cadillac DPi 24 1'34.358 2 55 
Harry Tincknell
Olivier Pla
Jonathan Bomarito DPi Mazda DPi 15 1'34.758 0.400 3 31 
Pipo Derani
Eric Curran
Felipe Nasr DPi Cadillac DPi 27 1'35.087 0.729 4 6 
Juan Pablo Montoya
Simon Pagenaud
Dane Cameron DPi Acura DPi 24 1'35.182 0.824 5 77 
Oliver Jarvis
Timo Bernhard
René Rast
Tristan Nunez DPi Mazda DPi 15 1'35.430 1.072 6 84 
Simon Trummer
Juan Piedrahita
Chris Miller
Stephen Simpson DPi Cadillac DPi 28 1'35.467 1.109 7 7 
Alexander Rossi
Helio Castroneves
Ricky Taylor DPi Acura DPi 19 1'35.610 1.252 8 50 Kyle Kaiser
Rene Binder
Will Owen
Agustin Canapino DPi Cadillac DPi 24 1'36.017 1.659 9 85 
Rubens Barrichello
Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier
Devlin DeFrancesco DPi Cadillac DPi 18 1'36.043 1.685 10 52 Matt McMurry
Mark Kvamme
Enzo Guibbert
Gabriel Aubry LMP2 ORECA LMP2 26 1'36.433 2.075 11 81 
Nicolas Lapierre
Henrik Hedman
Ben Hanley
James Allen LMP2 ORECA LMP2 26 1'36.998 2.640 12 18 
Pastor Maldonado
Roberto Gonzalez
Sebastian Saavedra
Ryan Cullen LMP2 ORECA LMP2 28 1'37.127 2.769 13 10 
Fernando Alonso
Kamui Kobayashi
Jordan Taylor
Renger van der Zande DPi Cadillac DPi 17 1'37.228 2.870 14 38 Kris Wright
Kyle Masson
Cameron Cassels
Robert Masson LMP2 ORECA LMP2 27 1'38.464 4.106 15 911 
Nick Tandy
Patrick Pilet
Frédéric Makowiecki GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 21 1'42.478 8.120 16 66 Sébastien Bourdais
Joey Hand
Dirk Muller GTLM Ford GT 11 1'42.612 8.254 17 3 
Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia
Mike Rockenfeller GTLM Corvette C7.R 23 1'42.644 8.286 18 67 
Ryan Briscoe
Scott Dixon
Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 22 1'42.845 8.487 19 24 John Edwards
Jesse Krohn
Chaz Mostert
Alex Zanardi GTLM BMW M8 GTE 24 1'43.175 8.817 20 912 
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
Mathieu Jaminet GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 22 1'43.191 8.833 21 25 Connor de Phillippi
Augusto Farfus
Philipp Eng
Colton Herta GTLM BMW M8 GTE 21 1'43.210 8.852 22 62 James Calado
Davide Rigon
Alessandro Pier Guidi
Miguel Molina GTLM Ferrari 488 GTE 25 1'43.360 9.002 23 4 
Marcel Fassler
Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Corvette C7.R 23 1'43.425 9.067 24 51 
Pedro Lamy
Paul Dalla Lana
Mathias Lauda
Daniel Serra GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 26 1'44.632 10.274 25 14 Austin Cindric
Jack Hawksworth
Richard Heistand
Nick Cassidy GTD Lexus RC F GT3 23 1'44.846 10.488 26 540 
Marco Seefried
Tim Pappas
Dirk Werner
Matteo Cairoli GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 23 1'45.073 10.715 27 73 Patrick Long
Patrick Lindsey
Nicholas Boulle
Matt Campbell GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 27 1'45.100 10.742 28 71 Fabian Schiller
Dominik Baumann
Maximilian Buhk
JC Perez GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 24 1'45.108 10.750 29 46 
Fabio Babini
Emanuele Busnelli
Taylor Proto
Giacomo Altoè GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 27 1'45.128 10.770 30 12 Townsend Bell
Jeff Segal
Frankie Montecalvo
Aaron Telitz GTD Lexus RC F GT3 24 1'45.153 10.795 31 11 Rolf Ineichen
Mirko Bortolotti
Rik Breukers
Christian Engelhart GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 21 1'45.299 10.941 32 86 A.J. Allmendinger
Justin Marks
Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman GTD Acura NSX GT3 20 1'45.330 10.972 33 99 
Klaus Bachler
Sven Muller
Alfred Renauer
Juergen Haering
Steffen Goerig GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 25 1'45.358 11.000 34 29 Daniel Morad
Dries Vanthoor
Christopher Mies
Richard Feller GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 22 1'45.383 11.025 35 63 
Toni Vilander
Dominik Farnbacher
Cooper MacNeil
Jeff Westphal GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 23 1'45.495 11.137 36 88 Ian James
Frederic Vervisch
Kelvin van der Linde
Roman De Angelis GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 21 1'45.505 11.147 37 44 Andy Lally
Marco Mapelli
Spencer Pumpelly
John Potter GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 19 1'45.554 11.196 38 96 Bill Auberlen
Jens Klingmann
Robby Foley
Dillon Machavern GTD BMW M6 GT3 26 1'45.634 11.276 39 13 Andrea Bertolini
Victor Franzoni
Chico Longo
Marcos Gomes GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 25 1'45.756 11.398 40 57 Simona de Silvestro
Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen
Ana Beatriz GTD Acura NSX GT3 23 1'45.996 11.638 41 8 Ryan Dalziel
Parker Chase
Ezequiel Perez Companc
Christopher Haase GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 21 1'46.174 11.816 42 19 Markus Winkelhock
Andrew Davis
Will Hardeman
Alex Riberas GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 17 1'46.275 11.917 43 47 Don Yount
Milos Pavlovic
Steve Dunn
Linus Lundqvist GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 26 1'46.284 11.926 44 9 
Scott Hargrove
Lars Kern
Dennis Olsen
Zacharie Robichon GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 25 1'46.602 12.244 45 33 
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Ben Keating
Luca Stolz
Felipe Fraga GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 3 1'48.173 13.815 46 48 Corey Lewis
Bryan Sellers
Andrea Caldarelli
Ryan Hardwick GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 2 1'51.289 16.931 47 54 
Loic Duval
Romain Dumas
Jon Bennett
Colin Braun DPi Nissan DPi
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