Practice report
IMSA Daytona 24
Rolex 24: Taylor’s Acura leads Mazdas in FP2
Despite completing just two flying laps, Ricky Taylor topped second practice for the first race of the 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Jan 24, 2020, 12:22 AM
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Taylor’s #7 Acura ARX-05 lapped the 3.56-mile course in 1min34.904sec which left him 0.215sec clear of Oliver Jarvis’ best effort in the #77 Mazda RT24-P, with Harry Tincknell third in the second Mazda a further 0.3sec in arrears.
Ryan Briscoe’s best effort in the top Cadillac DPi-V.R, the Wayne Taylor Racing entry, left him fourth ahead of the Filipe Albuquerque’s Action Express Racing Caddy, and the similar JDC-Miller MotorSports cars of Matheus Leist and Loic Duval.
Team Penske focused on practicing driver changes and scrubbing in tires, and while Taylor topped the times, the #6 sister car set no representative lap times.
Ben Hanley led LMP2 for DragonSpeed with a time 2.5sec off Taylor’s best but 0.9sec better than the best effort of David Heinemeier Hansson, second quickest in the Tower Motorsport by Starworks entry.
The two Porsche 911 RSR-19s again topped GT Le Mans thanks to Laurens Vanthoor and Nick Tandy, while the two new Corvette C8.Rs of Antonio Garcia and Tommy Milner were third and fourth.
Alessandro Pier Guidi in the Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 split the two Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW M8s to take sixth.
Robby Foley is continuing the strong form he showed in 2019 for Turner Motorsports, his BMW M6 GT3 leading GT Daytona ahead of Zacharie Robichon in the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, Franck Perera’s #11 Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan and the similar Lambo of Bryan Sellers of Paul Miller Racing.
However, both the #11 Grasser car and the #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage will be held on pitlane for 5mins during the third practice session as penalty for rejoining the race track after the GTD practice period had ended.
Qualifying begins at 4.15pm local (Eastern) time.
Session results:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Time Gap 1 7 Ricky Taylor
Helio Castroneves
Alexander Rossi
DPi Acura DPi 1'34.904 2 77 Oliver Jarvis
Tristan Nunez
Olivier Pla
DPi Mazda DPi 1'35.119 0.215 3 55 Jonathan Bomarito
Harry Tincknell
Ryan Hunter-Reay
DPi Mazda DPi 1'35.430 0.526 4 10 Renger van der Zande
Ryan Briscoe
Scott Dixon
Kamui Kobayashi
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'35.467 0.563 5 31 Mike Conway
Pipo Derani
Filipe Albuquerque
Felipe Nasr
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'35.522 0.618 6 85 Juan Piedrahita
Matheus Leist
Chris Miller
Tristan Vautier
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'35.843 0.939 7 5 Sébastien Bourdais
Loic Duval
Joao Barbosa
DPi Cadillac DPi 1'36.157 1.253 8 81 Ben Hanley
Henrik Hedman
Colin Braun
Harrison Newey
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'37.418 2.514 9 8 Ryan Dalziel
David Heinemeier Hansson
John Farano
Nicolas Lapierre
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'38.371 3.467 10 52 Ben Keating
Simon Trummer
Nicholas Boulle
Gabriel Aubry
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'38.578 3.674 11 38 Cameron Cassels
Robert Masson
Kyle Masson
Don Yount
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'38.663 3.759 12 18 Kyle Tilley
Dwight Merriman
Ryan Lewis
Nicolas Minassian
LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 1'39.308 4.404 13 912 Laurens Vanthoor
Earl Bamber
Mathieu Jaminet
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'42.508 7.604 14 911 Matt Campbell
Nick Tandy
Frédéric Makowiecki
GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 1'43.150 8.246 15 3 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
Nick Catsburg
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'43.410 8.506 16 4 Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner
Marcel Fassler
GTLM Corvette C8.R 1'43.477 8.573 17 24 John Edwards
Augusto Farfus
Chaz Mostert
Jesse Krohn
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'44.204 9.300 18 62 James Calado
Alessandro Pier Guidi
Daniel Serra
Davide Rigon
GTLM Ferrari 488 GTE 1'44.639 9.735 19 25 Connor de Phillippi
Philipp Eng
Bruno Spengler
Colton Herta
GTLM BMW M8 GTE 1'44.780 9.876 20 96 Robby Foley
Jens Klingmann
Bill Auberlen
Dillon Machavern
GTD BMW M6 GT3 1'45.921 11.017 21 9 Dennis Olsen
Zacharie Robichon
Lars Kern
Patrick Pilet
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'46.093 11.189 22 11 Richard Heistand
Steijn Schothorst
Franck Perera
Albert Costa
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'46.503 11.599 23 48 Madison Snow
Bryan Sellers
Corey Lewis
Andrea Caldarelli
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'46.725 11.821 24 63 Cooper MacNeil
Toni Vilander
Jeff Westphal
Alessandro Balzan
GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 1'46.785 11.881 25 57 Alvaro Parente
Mikhail Goikhberg
Trent Hindman
A.J. Allmendinger
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'46.819 11.915 26 16 Ryan Hardwick
Patrick Long
Anthony Imperato
Klaus Bachler
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 1'46.917 12.013 27 12 Frankie Montecalvo
Shane van Gisbergen
Aaron Telitz
Townsend Bell
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 1'46.926 12.022 28 86 Mario Farnbacher
Matt McMurry
Shinya Michimi
Jules Gounon
GTD Acura NSX GT3 1'46.986 12.082 29 88 Mirko Bortolotti
Rolf Ineichen
Daniel Morad
Dries Vanthoor
GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 1'47.031 12.127 30 98 Pedro Lamy
Ross Gunn
Mathias Lauda
Andrew Watson
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'47.087 12.183 31 74 Lawson Aschenbach
Ben Keating
Gar Robinson
Felipe Fraga
GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 1'47.136 12.232 32 44 John Potter
Andy Lally
Spencer Pumpelly
Marco Mapelli
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'47.410 12.506 33 47 Brandon Gdovic
Eric Lux
Mark Kvamme
Jonathan Hoggard
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'47.671 12.767 34 19 Christina Nielsen
Katherine Legge
Tatiana Calderon
Rahel Frey
GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 1'47.774 12.870 35 23 Ian James
Nicki Thiim
Roman De Angelis
Alex Riberas
GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 1'47.909 13.005 36 6 Dane Cameron
Simon Pagenaud
Juan Pablo Montoya
DPi Acura DPi 37 14 Parker Chase
Jack Hawksworth
Michael de Quesada
Kyle Busch
GTD Lexus RC F GT3 38 54 Tim Pappas
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Sven Muller
Trenton Estep
GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R View full results
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