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The Mexican 21-year-old turned a 1min49.251sec lap of the 3.56-mile course and then promptly spun, but he had done enough to ensure a P2 car was on top by 0.016sec.
The DragonSpeed car turned 33 laps in the 90-minute session, some 1.5sec ahead of next fastest LMP2 runner Nico Muller in the High Class Racing machine, with Frits Van Eerd third for Racing Team Nederland ahead of Paul-Loup Chatin.
In the DPi class, Earl Bamber’s 1min49.267sec lap in the #02 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R gave him a similar margin as O’Ward over the nearest opposition, Filipe Albuquerque in the 2021 Rolex 24-winning Acura ARX-05 of Wayne Taylor Racing.
Next up was Oliver Jarvis of Meyer Shank Racing, the #60 Acura being the only DPi car to turn more than a dozen laps in the session, as teams expect the damp conditions at the moment to be unrepresentative of how Daytona will be this weekend. Forecasts suggest instead that it will be extremely cold, with temperatures hovering around freezing point.
Only four LMP3 cars turned laps in FP1, with Matt Bell topping the times in AWA’s Duqueine ahead of Muehlner Motorsports’ similar car in the hands of Cameron Shields.
Mathieu Jaminet led GTD Pro by a country mile in the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R, 1.7sec and 1.9sec faster than Dirk Muller and Daniel Juncadella in the two Proton-run Mercedes-AMG GT3 entries.
Laurens Vanthoor was fourth in KCMG’s Porsche, with reigning IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTLM champ Antonio Garcia fifth in the Corvette C8.R and James Calado sixth in Risi Competizione’s Ferrari 488.
GTD was led by Luca Stolz in the SunEnergy1 Mercedes, and his time put him second in the 33-car GT field overall, as well as half a second faster than Jordan Pepper’s best effort in the Inception McLaren 720S.
Maxi Goetz was third fastest despite spinning the Alegra Motorsports Mercedes, while Katherine Legge slotted the Hardpoint Porsche into fourth.
Second practice begins at 3.20pm local (Eastern) time and will last 1hr45mins.
Practice results:
Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 81 |
| LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'49.251 | |
2 | 02 |
| DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'49.267 | 0.016 |
3 | 10 |
| DPi | Acura DPi | 1'50.781 | 1.530 |
4 | 20 |
Nico Mueller | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'50.789 | 1.538 |
5 | 60 |
| DPi | Acura DPi | 1'51.246 | 1.995 |
6 | 29 |
Murry Dylan | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'51.478 | 2.227 |
7 | 18 |
Dwight Merriman | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'51.765 | 2.514 |
8 | 69 |
Tijmen van | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'51.829 | 2.578 |
9 | 68 |
Oliver Rasmussen | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'52.383 | 3.132 |
10 | 8 |
Rui Pinto | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'52.949 | 3.698 |
11 | 01 |
| DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'52.989 | 3.738 |
12 | 31 |
| DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'53.324 | 4.073 |
13 | 48 |
| DPi | Cadillac DPi | 1'53.650 | 4.399 |
14 | 22 |
| LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'54.036 | 4.785 |
15 | 9 |
| GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'56.784 | 7.533 |
16 | 75 |
| GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'58.419 | 9.168 |
17 | 15 |
| GTD PRO | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'58.510 | 9.259 |
18 | 97 |
| GTD PRO | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'58.658 | 9.407 |
19 | 2 |
| GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'58.936 | 9.685 |
20 | 70 |
Brendan Iribe | GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1'58.964 | 9.713 |
21 | 28 |
Linus Lundqvist Maximillian Goetz | GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 1'59.001 | 9.750 |
22 | 99 |
Rob Ferriol | GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 1'59.115 | 9.864 |
23 | 3 |
| GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 1'59.173 | 9.922 |
24 | 71 |
LLarena Mateo | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'59.195 | 9.944 |
25 | 98 |
David Pittard | GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'59.215 | 9.964 |
26 | 13 |
| LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'59.223 | 9.972 |
27 | 26 |
Nolan Siegel Charles Crews Ugo De | LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'59.224 | 9.973 |
28 | 62 |
| GTD PRO | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'59.656 | 10.405 |
29 | 25 |
| GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'59.682 | 10.431 |
30 | 19 |
John Megrue | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 1'59.767 | 10.516 |
31 | 4 |
| GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 1'59.945 | 10.694 |
32 | 21 |
Mann Simon | GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 1'59.963 | 10.712 |
33 | 42 |
Benja Hites | GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'00.067 | 10.816 |
34 | 47 |
| GTD | Ferrari 488 GT3 | 2'00.123 | 10.872 |
35 | 66 |
Kyffin Simpson | GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 2'00.431 | 11.180 |
36 | 32 |
| GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 2'00.589 | 11.338 |
37 | 96 |
Michael Dinan | GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 2'00.663 | 11.412 |
38 | 6 |
Efrin Castro Ori Ayrton | LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 2'00.800 | 11.549 |
39 | 59 |
Lance Bergstein Jon Miller | GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 2'00.960 | 11.709 |
40 | 44 |
| GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 2'01.223 | 11.972 |
41 | 63 |
| GTD PRO | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'01.246 | 11.995 |
42 | 39 |
| GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | 2'01.376 | 12.125 |
43 | 74 |
| LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 2'01.865 | 12.614 |
44 | 24 |
| GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 2'01.906 | 12.655 |
45 | 34 |
Kyle Washington | GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'04.673 | 15.422 |
46 | 12 |
| GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 2'09.973 | 20.722 |
47 | 64 |
| GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 2'11.813 | 22.562 |
48 | 5 |
| DPi | Cadillac DPi | 0.000 | |
49 | 7 |
Antoine Doquin | LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 0.000 | |
50 | 11 |
Thomas Steven | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 0.000 | |
51 | 14 |
| GTD PRO | Lexus RC F GT3 | 0.000 | |
52 | 16 |
| GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 0.000 | |
53 | 23 |
| GTD PRO | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 0.000 | |
54 | 27 |
Tom Gamble | GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 0.000 | |
55 | 33 |
Malthe Jakobsen Seb Priaulx | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 0.000 | |
56 | 36 |
Josh Burdon | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 0.000 | |
57 | 38 |
Dan Goldburg Hikaru Abe Nicolas Pino | LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 0.000 | |
58 | 52 |
Scott Huffaker | LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 0.000 | |
59 | 54 |
| LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 0.000 | |
60 | 57 |
| GTD | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | 0.000 | |
61 | 79 |
Julien Andlauer | GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 0.000 | |
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