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.
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Prototype
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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