IMSA Roar: Conway edges Montoya for top spot in second session
Mike Conway’s Action Express Racing Whelen Engineering Cadillac stole fastest time from Juan Pablo Montoya’s Meyer Shank Racing Acura by just 0.006sec in the second Roar Before the 24 session.
Conway’s Cadillac DPi-V.R lapped the course in 1min36.225sec, setting fastest first sector, while Montoya’s best effort in the #60 Acura ARX-05 saw him claim fastest time in the third sector.
Scott Dixon was Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing’s fastest driver, just over a quarter second behind AXR’s similar car, while fellow IndyCar ace Alexander Rossi was fastest of Wayne Taylor Racing’s Acura drivers and took fourth fastest.
JDC Miller Motorsports’ Loic Duval was less than 0.6sec slower than fastest time and lapped faster than the Mazda of Harry Tincknell.
Jimmie Johnson impressed with a 1min37.061sec in the #48 AXR car, just 0.836sec behind teammate Conway.
In LMP2, Giedo van der Garde put Racing Team Nederland on top with a 1min37.991sec lap, just a hair quicker than Mikkel Jensen’s best effort in the PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry. Matthieu Vaxiviere was almost half a second down in the Tower Motorsports by Starkworks car.
Moritz Kranz kept the Muelhner Motorsports Duqueine on top of the LMP3 category, with former P1 ace Joao Barbosa second in the Sean Creech Motorsports Ligier in second, half a second up on Oliver Askew’s Riley Motorsports entry.
Tommy Milner drove the #4 Corvette C8.R to the top of the GT Le Mans times, just 0.045sec ahead of Augusto Farfus in the fastest of the BMW M8s. The pair were only half a second behind Kranz’s top LMP3 time and ahead of all the other of the slowest category of prototypes.
Scuderia Corsa’s Ferrari 488, driven by Marcos Gomes, topped GT Daytona with a 1min46.731sec lap. Philip Ellis was second in Winward Racing’s Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3 and Mikael Grenier third in Sun Energy1 similar car.
Albert Costa’s Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini was fourth.
Saturday's action begins at 10.30am local (Eastern) time.
| Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 |  Felipe Nasr  Mike Conway Pipo Derani  Chase Elliott | DPi | Cadillac DPi | 27 | 1'36.225 | |
| 2 | 60 | Dane Cameron  Olivier Pla  Juan Pablo Montoya A.J. Allmendinger | DPi | Acura DPi | 22 | 1'36.231 | 0.006 |
| 3 | 01 |  Renger van der Zande  Kevin Magnussen  Scott Dixon  Marcus Ericsson | DPi | Cadillac DPi | 31 | 1'36.502 | 0.271 |
| 4 | 10 | Ricky Taylor  Filipe Albuquerque Alexander Rossi Helio Castroneves | DPi | Acura DPi | 28 | 1'36.662 | 0.160 |
| 5 | 5 | Tristan Vautier Loic Duval Sébastien Bourdais | DPi | Cadillac DPi | 24 | 1'36.788 | 0.126 |
| 6 | 55 | Oliver Jarvis Harry Tincknell Jonathan Bomarito | DPi | Mazda DPi | 25 | 1'37.038 | 0.250 |
| 7 | 48 | Jimmie Johnson  Kamui Kobayashi Simon Pagenaud  Mike Rockenfeller | DPi | Cadillac DPi | 28 | 1'37.061 | 0.023 |
| 8 | 29 | Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Job Van Uitert Charles Milesi | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 24 | 1'37.991 | 0.930 |
| 9 | 52 | Ben Keating Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker Nicolas Lapierre | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 28 | 1'38.055 | 0.064 |
| 10 | 8 |  John Farano Gabriel Aubry Timothé Buret Matthieu Vaxiviere | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 28 | 1'38.473 | 0.418 |
| 11 | 18 | Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley Ryan Dalziel Paul-Loup Chatin | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 31 | 1'39.009 | 0.536 |
| 12 | 11 | Thomas Steven Tristan Nunez Thomas Merrill Matthew Bell | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 26 | 1'39.225 | 0.216 |
| 13 | 47 |  Roberto Lacorte Antonio Fuoco Andrea Belicchi Giorgio Sernagiotto | LMP2 | Dallara LMP2 | 31 | 1'39.527 | 0.302 |
| 14 | 81 | Rob Hodes Garett Grist Rinus van Kalmthout Ben Hanley | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 22 | 1'40.071 | 0.544 |
| 15 | 20 | Dennis Andersen  Ferdinand Habsburg Anders Fjordbach  Robert Kubica | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 30 | 1'40.350 | 0.279 |
| 16 | 82 | Eric Lux Devlin DeFrancesco Fabian Schiller Christopher Mies | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 26 | 1'40.996 | 0.646 |
| 17 | 51 | Cody Ware  Salih Yoluc Austin Dillon Mathieu Jaminet | LMP2 | Ligier LMP2 | 27 | 1'41.374 | 0.378 |
| 18 | 6 | Moritz Kranz Hoerr Laurents | LMP3 | Duqueine M30-D08 | 26 | 1'43.500 | 2.126 |
| 19 | 4 | Nick Tandy Alexander Sims Tommy Milner | GTLM | Corvette C8.R | 27 | 1'44.062 | 0.562 |
| 20 | 24 | Augusto Farfus Marco Wittmann John Edwards  Jesse Krohn | GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 20 | 1'44.107 | 0.045 |
| 21 | 33 | Lance Willsey Joao Barbosa Wayne Boyd Yann Clairay | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 23 | 1'44.223 | 0.116 |
| 22 | 62 | James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi Jules Gounon Davide Rigon | GTLM | Ferrari 488 GTE | 30 | 1'44.434 | 0.211 |
| 23 | 3 | Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg  Antonio Garcia | GTLM | Corvette C8.R | 30 | 1'44.449 | 0.015 |
| 24 | 25 | Philipp Eng Timo Glock Connor de Phillippi Bruno Spengler | GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 19 | 1'44.460 | 0.011 |
| 25 | 74 | Gar Robinson Spencer Pigot  Scott Andrews Oliver Askew | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 27 | 1'44.715 | 0.255 |
| 26 | 79 | Cooper MacNeil Kevin Estre Richard Lietz Gianmaria Bruni | GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | 26 | 1'44.813 | 0.098 |
| 27 | 91 | Cox Jim Murry Dylan Austin McCusker Jeroen Bleekemolen | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 27 | 1'45.116 | 0.303 |
| 28 | 7 | Mark Kvamme Ryan Norman Gabby Chaves Charles Finelli | LMP3 | Duqueine M30-D08 | 22 | 1'45.507 | 0.391 |
| 29 | 54 | Jon Bennett George Kurtz Colin Braun Matt McMurry | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 29 | 1'46.208 | 0.701 |
| 30 | 38 | Rasmus Lindh Cameron Cassels LLarena Mateo Ori Ayrton | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 27 | 1'46.377 | 0.169 |
| 31 | 63 |  Ed Jones Bret Curtis Ryan Briscoe Marcos Gomes | GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 28 | 1'46.731 | 0.354 |
| 32 | 57 | Russell Ward Philip Ellis Indy Dontje Maro Engel | GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 10 | 1'46.897 | 0.166 |
| 33 | 75 | Kenny Habul Raffaele Marciello Mikael Grenier Luca Stolz | GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 29 | 1'46.919 | 0.022 |
| 34 | 19 | Mikhail Goikhberg Franck Perera Albert Costa Tim Zimmermann | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 29 | 1'46.973 | 0.054 |
| 35 | 9 | Zacharie Robichon  Laurens Vanthoor Lars Kern Matt Campbell | GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 22 | 1'46.976 | 0.003 |
| 36 | 21 | Mann Simon Nicklas Nielsen Daniel Serra Matteo Cressoni | GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 30 | 1'47.007 | 0.031 |
| 37 | 111 |  Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Steijn Schothorst Marco Mapelli | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 23 | 1'47.080 | 0.073 |
| 38 | 16 | Ryan Hardwick Patrick Long Jan Heylen Klaus Bachler | GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 27 | 1'47.094 | 0.014 |
| 39 | 1 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis Andrea Caldarelli | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 25 | 1'47.232 | 0.138 |
| 40 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Aidan Read Colton Herta | GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 23 | 1'47.249 | 0.017 |
| 41 | 12 | Robert Megennis Zach Veach Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo | GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 24 | 1'47.380 | 0.131 |
| 42 | 14 | Aaron Telitz Oliver Gavin Kyle Kirkwood Jack Hawksworth | GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 25 | 1'47.386 | 0.006 |
| 43 | 28 | Daniel Morad Michael de Quesada Billy Johnson Maxi Buhk | GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 23 | 1'47.446 | 0.060 |
| 44 | 88 | Rob Ferriol Earl Bamber Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen | GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 30 | 1'47.839 | 0.393 |
| 45 | 44 | John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Mario Farnbacher | GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 20 | 1'48.070 | 0.231 |
| 46 | 23 | Ian James Roman De Angelis Darren Turner Ross Gunn | GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 29 | 1'48.587 | 0.517 |
| 47 | 64 | Ted Giovanis Owen Trinkler Hugh Plumb Matt Plumb | GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 24 | 1'48.676 | 0.089 |
| 48 | 97 | Maxwell Root  Charles Eastwood Ben Keating Richard Westbrook | GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 27 | 1'48.818 | 0.142 |
| 49 | 42 | Alan Metni Andrew Davis J.R. Hildebrand Don Yount | GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 31 | 1'50.313 | 1.495 |
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