Rolex 24: Taylor edges Dixon in evening practice

The #10 Acura ARX-05 completed 38 laps, its best coming on Lap 31, resulting in a time of 1min34.592sec around the 3.56-mile Daytona road course. The car did suffer damage from an unidentified GTD runner near the start of the session, however.

Still, in the final half hour, Taylor proved quick enough to shade Dixon by 0.019sec, who in turn was a tenth faster than the Action Express Racing Cadillac of Mike Conway and the Meyer Shank Racing Acura of Helio Castroneves, the latter of which suffered a mechanical issue after just 18 laps and didn’t return to the track.

Jose Maria Lopez set the best time in the #48 AXR Ally Racing Caddy ahead of Loic Duval in the JDC Miller MotorSports car and the #02 Ganassi Cadillac which turned 57 laps.

In LMP2, Rene Rast led the way in a G-Drive by APR entry ahead of Mikkel Jensen of PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports and Nico Muller in the High Class Racing car.

Trenton Estep put Forty7 Motorsport, which runs the Duqueine car, on top of the LMP3 class, ahead of a trio of Ligiers – Sean Creech Motorsport, Riley Motorsports and Performance Tech Motorsports.

The GTD Pro class saw Mirko Bortolotti top proceedings in the Lamborghini Huracan of TR3 Racing although this car was involved in a coming together with Inception Racing’s McLaren. Two Porsche 911 GT3 Rs were next up – Laurens Vanthoor in the KCMG car followed my Matteo Cairoli in the WeatherTech Racing entry. Jack Hawksworth got the #14 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F into fourth ahead of Felipe Nasr’s Pfaff Porsche.

The GTD class was topped by a McLaren, Paul Holton putting the 720S of Crucial Motorsports at the top of the pile, ahead of Richard Lietz in the Wright Motorsports Porsche and Giacomo Altoe in the other TR3 Lambo.

There will be a 20min warm-up session at 10.00am ET followed by the qualifying race which begins at 2.05pm ET.

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque Alexander Rossi Will Stevens	DPi	Acura DPi	38	1'34.592
2	Renger van der Zande Sébastien Bourdais Scott Dixon Alex Palou	DPi	Cadillac DPi	52	1'34.611	0.019
3	Pipo Derani Tristan Nunez Mike Conway	DPi	Cadillac DPi	55	1'34.717	0.125
4	Oliver Jarvis Tom Blomqvist Helio Castroneves Simon Pagenaud	DPi	Acura DPi	18	1'34.799	0.207
5	Jimmie Johnson Kamui Kobayashi Mike Rockenfeller Jose Maria Lopez	DPi	Cadillac DPi	56	1'34.897	0.305
6	Tristan Vautier Richard Westbrook Loic Duval Ben Keating	DPi	Cadillac DPi	47	1'35.172	0.580
7	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Marcus Ericsson Kevin Magnussen	DPi	Cadillac DPi	57	1'35.328	0.736
8	François Heriau Oliver Rasmussen Ed Jones René Rast	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	57	1'35.874	1.282
9	Ben Keating Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker Nicolas Lapierre	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	48	1'36.062	1.470
10	Dennis Andersen Anders Fjordbach Fabio Scherer Nico Mueller	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	54	1'36.354	1.762
11	John Falb James Allen Luca Ghiotto Tijmen van	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	56	1'36.390	1.798
12	Thomas Steven Josh Pierson Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	54	1'36.482	1.890
13	Eric Lux Devlin DeFrancesco Patricio O'Ward Colton Herta	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	53	1'36.654	2.062
14	Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley Ryan Dalziel Paul-Loup Chatin	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	48	1'36.663	2.071
15	Jim McGuire Guy Smith Philip Hanson Will Owen	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	55	1'36.787	2.195
16	Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Murry Dylan Rinus van Kalmthout	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	56	1'37.232	2.640
17	John Farano Louis Deletraz Rui Pinto Ferdinand Habsburg	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	48	1'37.355	2.763
18	Mark Kvamme Austin McCusker Trenton Estep Antoine Doquin	LMP3	Duqueine D08	53	1'42.582	7.990
19	Joao Barbosa Malthe Jakobsen Seb Priaulx Lance Willsey	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	44	1'42.639	8.047
20	Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga Kay van Berlo Michael Cooper	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	55	1'42.926	8.334
21	Dan Goldburg Hikaru Abe Garett Grist Nicolas Pino	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	41	1'43.108	8.516
22	Orey Fidani Kuno Wittmer Lars Kern Matthew Bell	LMP3	Duqueine D08	45	1'43.229	8.637
23	Jon Bennett Colin Braun George Kurtz Nic Jönsson	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	34	1'43.285	8.693
24	Jarett Andretti Josh Burdon Rasmus Lindh Gabby Chaves	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	44	1'43.365	8.773
25	Efrin Castro Moritz Kranz Ori Ayrton Joel Miller	LMP3	Duqueine D08	49	1'43.372	8.780
26	Nolan Siegel Cameron Shields Charles Crews Ugo De	LMP3	Duqueine D08	42	1'44.102	9.510
27	Marco Mapelli Andrea Caldarelli Mirko Bortolotti Rolf Ineichen	GTD PRO	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	45	1'45.757	11.165
28	Laurens Vanthoor Patrick Pilet Dennis Olsen Alexandre Imperatori	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R	51	1'45.886	11.294
29	Lance Bergstein Jon Miller Patrick Gallagher Paul Holton	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	30	1'45.965	11.373
30	Cooper MacNeil Julien Andlauer Matteo Cairoli Alessio Picariello	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R	46	1'45.998	11.406
31	Ryan Hardwick Zacharie Robichon Jan Heylen Richard Lietz	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	51	1'46.012	11.420
32	Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat Kyle Kirkwood	GTD PRO	Lexus RC F GT3	45	1'46.102	11.510
33	Bill Sweedler John Megrue Giacomo Altoè Jeff Segal	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	41	1'46.201	11.609
34	Matt Campbell Mathieu Jaminet Felipe Nasr	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R	51	1'46.257	11.665
35	Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Charlie Eastwood Nicki Thiim	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	50	1'46.258	11.666
36	Michael de Quesada Daniel Morad Linus Lundqvist Maximillian Goetz	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	41	1'46.269	11.677
37	Mike Skeen Guy Cosmo Stevan McAleer Scott Andrews	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	46	1'46.274	11.682
38	Dirk Muller Patrick Assenheimer Austin Cindric	GTD PRO	Mercedes-AMG GT3	40	1'46.287	11.695
39	Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz Richard Heistand Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	56	1'46.325	11.733
40	Kenny Habul Luca Stolz Raffaele Marciello Fabian Schiller	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	37	1'46.410	11.818
41	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Jonathan Adam	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	52	1'46.444	11.852
42	Russell Ward Philip Ellis Mikael Grenier Lucas Auer	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	50	1'46.454	11.862
43	Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy Jordan Lee Pepper	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	26	1'46.504	11.912
44	Cooper MacNeil Daniel Juncadella Maro Engel Jules Gounon	GTD PRO	Mercedes-AMG GT3	48	1'46.643	12.051
45	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco Alessio Rovera	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	52	1'46.643	12.051
46	Kyle Washington James Sofronas Jeroen Bleekemolen Klaus Bachler	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	51	1'46.650	12.058
47	Mann Simon Luis Perez Companc Nicklas Nielsen Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	52	1'46.724	12.132
48	Robby Foley Bill Auberlen Michael Dinan Jens Klingmann	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	51	1'46.733	12.141
49	Ross Gunn Alex Riberas Maxime Martin	GTD PRO	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	34	1'46.789	12.197
50	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra Davide Rigon	GTD PRO	Ferrari 488 GT3	33	1'46.823	12.231
51	Rob Ferriol Katherine Legge Stefan Wilson Nicholas Boulle	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	50	1'46.838	12.246
52	Robert Megennis Corey Lewis Sandy Mitchell Jeff Westphal	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	40	1'46.946	12.354
53	Don Yount Benja Hites Jaden Conwright Markus Palttala	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	42	1'47.072	12.480
54	Connor de Phillippi John Edwards Augusto Farfus Jesse Krohn	GTD PRO	BMW M4 GT3	44	1'47.377	12.785
55	Franck Perera LLarena Mateo Paul Maximilian Mikhail Goikhberg	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	36	1'47.397	12.805
56	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Marco Sorensen	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	48	1'47.556	12.964
57	Philipp Eng Marco Wittmann Nick Yelloly Sheldon Van Der Linde	GTD PRO	BMW M4 GT3	50	1'47.570	12.978
58	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	45	1'47.602	13.010
59	Roman De Angelis Ian James Darren Turner Tom Gamble	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	35	1'47.607	13.015
60	Ted Giovanis Hugh Plumb Matt Plumb Owen Trinkler	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	0
61	Kyffin Simpson Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller Mario Farnbacher	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	0
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