Rolex 24: Action Express dominates opening session
Reigning IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Prototype champion Felipe Nasr led defending Rolex 24 Hours winner Filipe Albuquerque in an Action Express Racing 1-2 in first practice at Daytona.
Photo by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Images
On a wet but drying track, only four prototypes set a reasonably representative times, Nasr lapping the course in 1min36.108sec in his #31 AXR Cadillac DPi-V.R.
That put him 0.599sec clear of teammate Albuquerque, while Tristan Vautier in the #85 JDC-Miller Motorsports entry made it a Cadillac 1-2-3. Jonathan Bomarito was fourth in the #55 Mazda RT24-P of Mazda Team Joest.
The relative lack of hot laps from the Prototypes allowed GT Le Mans to rise to prominence, and it was Frederic Makowiecki and Mathieu Jaminet who put the Porsche 911 RSRs at the top of the times, ahead of Rene Binder in Juncos Racing’s Cadillac Prototype.
Three GT Daytona cars completed the Top 10 overall times, Corey Lewis in the Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan edging Kelvin van der Linde in the WRT Audi R8 and Aaron Telitz in the new AIM Vasser-Sullivan-run Lexus RC F.
Henrik Hedman was top of the LMP2 cars, wheeling the DragonSpeed Oreca to a 1:46.657.
The two Acura Team Penske Acura ARX-05s set only sighting laps, as did Markus Winkelhock in the Moorespeed Audi R8 in the GTD class.
Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, Practice 1:
Pos. | # | Drivers | Class | Chassis | Laps | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 31 | Pipo Derani Eric Curran Felipe Nasr |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 20 | 1'36.108 | |
2 | 5 | Christian Fittipaldi Filipe Albuquerque Joao Barbosa |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 15 | 1'36.707 | 0.599 |
3 | 85 | Rubens Barrichello Mikhail Goikhberg Tristan Vautier Devlin DeFrancesco |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 11 | 1'37.595 | 1.487 |
4 | 55 | Harry Tincknell Olivier Pla Jonathan Bomarito |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 12 | 1'38.561 | 2.453 |
5 | 911 | Nick Tandy Patrick Pilet Frédéric Makowiecki |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 19 | 1'45.334 | 9.226 |
6 | 912 | Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Mathieu Jaminet |
GTLM | Porsche 911 RSR | 20 | 1'46.156 | 10.048 |
7 | 50 | Kyle Kaiser Rene Binder Will Owen Agustin Canapino |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 19 | 1'46.191 | 10.083 |
8 | 48 | Corey Lewis Bryan Sellers Andrea Caldarelli Ryan Hardwick |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 9 | 1'46.577 | 10.469 |
9 | 88 | Ian James Frederic Vervisch Kelvin van der Linde Roman DeAngelis |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 21 | 1'46.592 | 10.484 |
10 | 12 | Townsend Bell Jeff Segal Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 20 | 1'46.651 | 10.543 |
11 | 81 | Nicolas Lapierre Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley James Allen |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 18 | 1'46.657 | 10.549 |
12 | 96 | Bill Auberlen Jens Klingmann Robby Foley Dillon Machavern |
GTD | BMW M6 GT3 | 21 | 1'46.854 | 10.746 |
13 | 33 | Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Luca Stolz Felipe Fraga |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 26 | 1'46.871 | 10.763 |
14 | 63 | Toni Vilander Dominik Farnbacher Cooper MacNeil Jeff Westphal |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 21 | 1'46.911 | 10.803 |
15 | 86 | A.J. Allmendinger Justin Marks Mario Farnbacher Trent Hindman |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 12 | 1'47.015 | 10.907 |
16 | 11 | Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Rik Breukers Christian Engelhart |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 21 | 1'47.240 | 11.132 |
17 | 66 | Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Muller |
GTLM | Ford GT | 4 | 1'47.259 | 11.151 |
18 | 51 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda Daniel Serra |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 28 | 1'47.306 | 11.198 |
19 | 14 | Austin Cindric Jack Hawksworth Richard Heistand Nick Cassidy |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 17 | 1'47.310 | 11.202 |
20 | 3 | Jan Magnussen Antonio Garcia Mike Rockenfeller |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 7 | 1'47.435 | 11.327 |
21 | 18 | Pastor Maldonado Roberto Gonzalez Sebastian Saavedra Ryan Cullen |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 21 | 1'47.488 | 11.380 |
22 | 71 | Fabian Schiller Dominik Baumann Maximilian Buhk JC Perez |
GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 7 | 1'47.626 | 11.518 |
23 | 9 | Scott Hargrove Lars Kern Dennis Olsen Zacharie Robichon |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 25 | 1'47.696 | 11.588 |
24 | 57 | Simona de Silvestro Katherine Legge Christina Nielsen Ana Beatriz |
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 12 | 1'47.719 | 11.611 |
25 | 8 | Ryan Dalziel Parker Chase Ezequiel Perez Companc Chris Haase |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 18 | 1'48.122 | 12.014 |
26 | 62 | James Calado Davide Rigon Alessandro Pier Guidi Miguel Molina |
GTLM | Ferrari 488 GTE | 15 | 1'48.191 | 12.083 |
27 | 44 | Andy Lally Marco Mapelli Spencer Pumpelly John Potter |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 22 | 1'48.340 | 12.232 |
28 | 77 | Oliver Jarvis Timo Bernhard René Rast Tristan Nunez |
DPi | Mazda DPi | 9 | 1'48.595 | 12.487 |
29 | 10 | Fernando Alonso Kamui Kobayashi Jordan Taylor Renger van der Zande |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 9 | 1'48.608 | 12.500 |
30 | 73 | Patrick Long Patrick Lindsey Nicholas Boulle Matt Campbell |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 24 | 1'48.782 | 12.674 |
31 | 540 | Marco Seefried Tim Pappas Dirk Werner Matteo Cairoli |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 23 | 1'48.912 | 12.804 |
32 | 13 | Andrea Bertolini Victor Franzoni Chico Longo Marcos Gomes |
GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 27 | 1'49.029 | 12.921 |
33 | 54 | Loic Duval Romain Dumas Jon Bennett Colin Braun |
DPi | Nissan DPi | 13 | 1'50.278 | 14.170 |
34 | 99 | Klaus Bachler Sven Muller Alfred Renauer Juergen Haering Steffen Goerig |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 23 | 1'51.379 | 15.271 |
35 | 4 | Marcel Fassler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
GTLM | Corvette C7.R | 17 | 1'52.187 | 16.079 |
36 | 25 | Connor de Phillippi Augusto Farfus Philipp Eng Colton Herta |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 16 | 1'52.598 | 16.490 |
37 | 24 | John Edwards Jesse Krohn Chaz Mostert Alex Zanardi |
GTLM | BMW M8 GTE | 13 | 1'52.739 | 16.631 |
38 | 67 | Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook |
GTLM | Ford GT | 3 | 1'53.504 | 17.396 |
39 | 47 | Don Yount Milos Pavlovic Steve Dunn Linus Lundqvist |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 7 | 1'54.065 | 17.957 |
40 | 29 | Daniel Morad Dries Vanthoor Christopher Mies |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 22 | 1'54.369 | 18.261 |
41 | 46 | Fabio Babini Emanuele Busnelli Taylor Proto |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 12 | 1'54.705 | 18.597 |
42 | 19 | Markus Winkelhock Andrew Davis Will Hardeman Alex Riberas |
GTD | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | 14 | 2'15.656 | 39.548 |
43 | 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Dane Cameron |
DPi | Acura DPi | 6 | ||
44 | 7 | Alexander Rossi Helio Castroneves Ricky Taylor |
DPi | Acura DPi | 5 | ||
45 | 38 | Kris Wright Kyle Masson Cameron Cassels Robert Masson |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | 1 | ||
46 | 52 | Matt McMurry Mark Kvamme Enzo Guibbert Gabriel Aubry |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 | |||
47 | 84 | Simon Trummer Juan Piedrahita Chris Miller Stephen Simpson |
DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1 |
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