Rolex 24: Jarvis and Mazda beat Acuras to pole

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