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Rolex 24: Jarvis and Mazda beat Acuras to pole
Oliver Jarvis put the #77 Mazda RT24-P on pole for the 57th Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, but the battle was closer than anticipated as Ricky Taylor was only two tenths slower in the lead Acura ARX-05.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jan 26, 2019, 4:25 PM
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Jarvis turned three sub-1min34sec laps to eventually set a 1min33.685sec which was fast enough to eclipse teammate Jonathan Bomarito in the #55 Mazda by half a second.
But in the waning minutes, Acura Team Penske showed its hand, with Taylor and Juan Pablo Montoya filling that gap, the former whittling down to a 1min33.873sec lap, and JPM coming up a further 0.222sec short.
Bomarito retained fourth, while reigning IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Prototype champion Felipe Nasr produced a 1m34.433s to top the Cadillac DPi-V.R. contingent in the #31 Action Express Racing car.
Jordan Taylor in the Wayne Taylor Racing Caddy was precisely 0.2sec faster than the similar car of Juncos Racing in the hands of impressive IMSA debutant Agustin Canapino.
Action Express Racing’s defending Rolex 24-winning car suffered a brake fire in the hands of Filipe Albuquerque and will start from the back of the DPi field.
James Allen took LMP2 pole by over half a second for DragonSpeed ahead of Gabriel Aubry in the PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, the pair both qualifying ahead of Jon Bennett’s CORE autosport Nissan DPi.
GT Le Mans
Nick Tandy grabbed pole for Porsche by over 0.3sec as four different brands filled the top four places in the category.
The #911 911 RSR eclipsed the best effort of reigning IMSA GTLM champion Jan Magnussen of Corvette Racing by 0.326sec, while Ryan Briscoe in the #67 Ford GT, Risi Competizione’s Ferrari 488 driven by Davide Rigon and Earl Bamber in the #912 Porsche were mere hundredths apart in second through fifth.
Joey Hand was sixth in the second Ford ahead of both BMW M8s and the Corvette of 2016 Rolex 24 winner Oliver Gavin.
GT Daytona
Marcos Gomes put Via Italia’s Ferrari 488 on pole by a mere 0.067sec as the top four Silver and Bronze drivers battled hard for pre-eminence, each one split by less than one tenth of a second.
Ben Keating was second best in the Mercedes AMG GT run by Riley Motorsports, just ahead of Trent Hindman in the #86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX, and Giacomo Altoe in Ebimotors’ Lamborghini Huracan.
Over half a second off the pace was the Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini of Rolf Ineichen, the Spirit of Race Ferrari of Mathias Lauda, and Spencer Pumpelly’s Magnus Racing Lambo completing the top seven.
The top two Porsche 911 GT3 Rs of Lars Kern (Pfaff Motorsports) and Patrick Lindsey (Park Place Motorsports) were split by Corey Lewis in the Huracan of GTD champions Paul Miller Racing.
Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, Qualifying:
Pos. # Drivers Class Chassis Laps Time Gap 1 77 
Oliver Jarvis
Timo Bernhard
René Rast
Tristan Nunez DPi Mazda DPi 5 1'33.685 2 7 
Alexander Rossi
Helio Castroneves
Ricky Taylor DPi Acura DPi 4 1'33.873 0.188 3 6 
Juan Pablo Montoya
Simon Pagenaud
Dane Cameron DPi Acura DPi 6 1'34.095 0.410 4 55 
Harry Tincknell
Olivier Pla
Jonathan Bomarito DPi Mazda DPi 4 1'34.212 0.527 5 31 
Pipo Derani
Eric Curran
Felipe Nasr DPi Cadillac DPi 5 1'34.433 0.748 6 10 
Fernando Alonso
Kamui Kobayashi
Jordan Taylor
Renger van der Zande DPi Cadillac DPi 5 1'34.479 0.794 7 50 
Kyle Kaiser
Rene Binder
Will Owen
Agustin Canapino DPi Cadillac DPi 8 1'34.679 0.994 8 85 
Rubens Barrichello
Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier
Devlin DeFrancesco DPi Cadillac DPi 8 1'35.369 1.684 9 84 
Simon Trummer
Juan Piedrahita
Chris Miller
Stephen Simpson DPi Cadillac DPi 8 1'35.442 1.757 10 81 
Nicolas Lapierre
Henrik Hedman
Ben Hanley
James Allen LMP2 ORECA LMP2 9 1'35.904 2.219 11 52 
Matt McMurry
Mark Kvamme
Enzo Guibbert
Gabriel Aubry LMP2 ORECA LMP2 8 1'36.427 2.742 12 54 
Loic Duval
Romain Dumas
Jon Bennett
Colin Braun DPi Nissan DPi 8 1'36.686 3.001 13 18 
Pastor Maldonado
Roberto Gonzalez
Sebastian Saavedra
Ryan Cullen LMP2 ORECA LMP2 9 1'37.377 3.692 14 38 Kris Wright
Kyle Masson
Cameron Cassels
Robert Masson LMP2 ORECA LMP2 8 1'38.121 4.436 15 911 
Nick Tandy
Patrick Pilet
Frédéric Makowiecki GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 7 1'42.257 8.572 16 3 
Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia
Mike Rockenfeller GTLM Corvette C7.R 8 1'42.583 8.898 17 67 Ryan Briscoe
Scott Dixon
Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 7 1'42.634 8.949 18 62 
James Calado
Davide Rigon
Alessandro Pier Guidi
Miguel Molina GTLM Ferrari 488 GTE 6 1'42.712 9.027 19 912 
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
Mathieu Jaminet GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 8 1'42.796 9.111 20 66 Sébastien Bourdais
Joey Hand
Dirk Muller GTLM Ford GT 6 1'42.920 9.235 21 24 John Edwards
Jesse Krohn
Chaz Mostert
Alex Zanardi GTLM BMW M8 GTE 5 1'42.953 9.268 22 25 Connor de Phillippi
Augusto Farfus
Philipp Eng
Colton Herta GTLM BMW M8 GTE 5 1'42.986 9.301 23 4 Marcel Fassler
Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Corvette C7.R 8 1'43.239 9.554 24 13 
Andrea Bertolini
Victor Franzoni
Chico Longo
Marcos Gomes GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 7 1'45.257 11.572 25 33 Jeroen Bleekemolen
Ben Keating
Luca Stolz
Felipe Fraga GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 4 1'45.324 11.639 26 86 A.J. Allmendinger
Justin Marks
Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman GTD Acura NSX GT3 6 1'45.396 11.711 27 46 Fabio Babini
Emanuele Busnelli
Taylor Proto
Giacomo Altoè GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 8 1'45.475 11.790 28 11 
Rolf Ineichen
Mirko Bortolotti
Rik Breukers
Christian Engelhart GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 6 1'45.816 12.131 29 51 
Pedro Lamy
Paul Dalla Lana
Mathias Lauda
Daniel Serra GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 8 1'45.852 12.167 30 44 Andy Lally
Marco Mapelli
Spencer Pumpelly
John Potter GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 8 1'45.855 12.170 31 9 
Scott Hargrove
Lars Kern
Dennis Olsen
Zacharie Robichon GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 6 1'45.945 12.260 32 48 Corey Lewis
Bryan Sellers
Andrea Caldarelli
Ryan Hardwick GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 8 1'46.040 12.355 33 73 Patrick Long
Patrick Lindsey
Nicholas Boulle
Matt Campbell GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 7 1'46.103 12.418 34 57 Simona de Silvestro
Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen
Ana Figueiredo GTD Acura NSX GT3 7 1'46.116 12.431 35 14 Austin Cindric
Jack Hawksworth
Richard Heistand
Nick Cassidy GTD Lexus RC F GT3 6 1'46.214 12.529 36 540 Marco Seefried
Tim Pappas
Dirk Werner
Matteo Cairoli GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 5 1'46.231 12.546 37 12 Townsend Bell
Jeff Segal
Frankie Montecalvo
Aaron Telitz GTD Lexus RC F GT3 6 1'46.270 12.585 38 29 
Daniel Morad
Dries Vanthoor
Christopher Mies
Richard Feller GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 6 1'46.309 12.624 39 63 
Toni Vilander
Dominik Farnbacher
Cooper MacNeil
Jeff Westphal GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 7 1'46.321 12.636 40 99 Klaus Bachler
Sven Muller
Alfred Renauer
Juergen Haering
Steffen Goerig GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 7 1'46.669 12.984 41 8 Ryan Dalziel
Parker Chase
Ezequiel Perez Companc
Chris Haase GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 7 1'46.710 13.025 42 19 Markus Winkelhock
Andrew Davis
Will Hardeman
Alex Riberas GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 8 1'46.781 13.096 43 88 Ian James
Frederic Vervisch
Kelvin van der Linde
Roman DeAngelis GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 8 1'47.368 13.683 44 71 Fabian Schiller
Dominik Baumann
Maximilian Buhk
JC Perez GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 7 1'47.447 13.762 45 47 Don Yount
Milos Pavlovic
Steve Dunn
Linus Lundqvist GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 8 1'47.809 14.124 46 5 Christian Fittipaldi
Filipe Albuquerque
Joao Barbosa DPi Cadillac DPi 47 96 Bill Auberlen
Jens Klingmann
Robby Foley
Dillon Machavern GTD BMW M6 GT3 5
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