Rolex 24: WTR heads Acura 1-2 in opening practice at Daytona

A lap of 1min35.309sec from Ricky Taylor on his 10th lap put WTR's Acura ARX-05 just under three-tenths of a second clear of the similar car of Meyer Shank Racing and over six-tenths ahead of Sebastien Bourdais in the quickest Cadillac DPi-V.R, the #01 of Chip Ganassi Racing.

Bourdais’ teammate in CGR’s new #02 entry, Kevin Magnussen, was a mere two-hundredths shy in what is set to be his final event in a Cadillac before switching his attention to the Peugeot WEC project.

The endurance-only Action Express Racing Caddy entry, the #48, wound up ahead of the full-time #31 car, the pair split by Tristan Vautier’s best effort in the JDC-Miller MotorSports machine.

Racing Team Nederland #29 Oreca led LMP2 thanks to Giedo van der Garde's best effort, a 1m36.262sec – less than a tenth slower than the slowest DPi time. That put the Dutch car over one second ahead of Tower Motorsports whose best time was set by Ferdinand Habsburg, and High Class Racing’s Anders Fjordbach.

Jonathan Bomarito in his first LMP2 outing was fourth fastest for PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, while the DragonSpeed entry to be shared by Colton Herta, Pato O’Ward, Devlin DeFrancesco and Eric Lux was fifth.

Garett Grist topped LMP3 for Performance Tech Motorsports and Ligier, chased by the Muehlner Motorsports America #6 Duqueine. Josh Burdon turned the best time for Andretti Autosport to lift its #36 Ligier into third ahead Colin Braun in the CORE autosport entry.

Marco Mapelli was fastest of the GTD Pro drivers in the TR3 Racing Lamborghini Huracan, but he was not the quickest GT driver – that honor went to a pro driver in a GTD car, namely, Jan Heylen in the Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R.

Third was the other TR3 Lamborghini, ahead of the GTD Pro Porsche of Pfaff Motorsports, whose fastest lap was turned by Matt Campbell.

Second practice begins at 4.15pm local (Eastern) time.

Cla	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque Alexander Rossi Will Stevens	DPi	Acura DPi	31	1'35.309
2	Oliver Jarvis Tom Blomqvist Helio Castroneves Simon Pagenaud	DPi	Acura DPi	26	1'35.602	0.293
3	Renger van der Zande Sébastien Bourdais Scott Dixon Alex Palou	DPi	Cadillac DPi	29	1'35.942	0.633
4	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Marcus Ericsson Kevin Magnussen	DPi	Cadillac DPi	29	1'35.962	0.653
5	Jimmie Johnson Kamui Kobayashi Mike Rockenfeller Jose Maria Lopez	DPi	Cadillac DPi	29	1'36.171	0.862
6	Tristan Vautier Richard Westbrook Loic Duval Ben Keating	DPi	Cadillac DPi	29	1'36.177	0.868
7	Pipo Derani Tristan Nunez Mike Conway	DPi	Cadillac DPi	30	1'36.188	0.879
8	Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Murry Dylan Rinus van Kalmthout	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	32	1'36.262	0.953
9	John Farano Louis Deletraz Rui Pinto Ferdinand Habsburg	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	30	1'37.334	2.025
10	Dennis Andersen Anders Fjordbach Fabio Scherer Nico Mueller	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	34	1'37.592	2.283
11	Thomas Steven Josh Pierson Jonathan Bomarito Harry Tincknell	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	30	1'37.717	2.408
12	Eric Lux Devlin DeFrancesco Patricio O'Ward Colton Herta	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	31	1'37.960	2.651
13	Ben Keating Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker Nicolas Lapierre	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	31	1'37.964	2.655
14	Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley Ryan Dalziel Paul-Loup Chatin	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	29	1'38.125	2.816
15	John Falb James Allen Luca Ghiotto Tijmen van	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	33	1'38.568	3.259
16	François Heriau Oliver Rasmussen Ed Jones René Rast	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	29	1'38.981	3.672
17	Jim McGuire Guy Smith Philip Hanson Will Owen	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	28	1'40.056	4.747
18	Dan Goldburg Hikaru Abe Garett Grist Nicolas Pino	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	27	1'43.413	8.104
19	Efrin Castro Moritz Kranz Ori Ayrton Joel Miller	LMP3	Duqueine D08	28	1'44.064	8.755
20	Jarett Andretti Josh Burdon Rasmus Lindh Gabby Chaves	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	24	1'44.163	8.854
21	Jon Bennett Colin Braun George Kurtz Nic Jönsson	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	26	1'44.297	8.988
22	Joao Barbosa Malthe Jakobsen Seb Priaulx Lance Willsey	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	28	1'44.400	9.091
23	Nolan Siegel Cameron Shields Charles Crews Ugo De	LMP3	Duqueine D08	18	1'44.419	9.110
24	Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga Kay van Berlo Michael Cooper	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	31	1'44.519	9.210
25	Orey Fidani Kuno Wittmer Lars Kern Matthew Bell	LMP3	Duqueine D08	29	1'44.654	9.345
26	Mark Kvamme Austin McCusker Trenton Estep Antoine Doquin	LMP3	Duqueine D08	14	1'45.664	10.355
27	Ryan Hardwick Zacharie Robichon Jan Heylen Richard Lietz	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	28	1'46.483	11.174
28	Marco Mapelli Andrea Caldarelli Mirko Bortolotti Rolf Ineichen	GTD PRO	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	29	1'46.829	11.520
29	Bill Sweedler John Megrue Giacomo Altoè Jeff Segal	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	29	1'46.882	11.573
30	Matt Campbell Mathieu Jaminet Felipe Nasr	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R	24	1'46.942	11.633
31	Kyle Washington James Sofronas Jeroen Bleekemolen Klaus Bachler	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	29	1'47.006	11.697
32	Philipp Eng Marco Wittmann Nick Yelloly Sheldon Van Der Linde	GTD PRO	BMW M4 GT3	28	1'47.065	11.756
33	Cooper MacNeil Daniel Juncadella Maro Engel Jules Gounon	GTD PRO	Mercedes-AMG GT3	9	1'47.216	11.907
34	Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat Kyle Kirkwood	GTD PRO	Lexus RC F GT3	21	1'47.305	11.996
35	Kenny Habul Luca Stolz Raffaele Marciello Fabian Schiller	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	26	1'47.354	12.045
36	Ted Giovanis Hugh Plumb Matt Plumb Owen Trinkler	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	27	1'47.368	12.059
37	Frankie Montecalvo Aaron Telitz Richard Heistand Townsend Bell	GTD	Lexus RC F GT3	26	1'47.374	12.065
38	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Jonathan Adam	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	19	1'47.459	12.150
39	Franck Perera LLarena Mateo Paul Maximilian Mikhail Goikhberg	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	30	1'47.462	12.153
40	Dirk Muller Patrick Assenheimer Austin Cindric	GTD PRO	Mercedes-AMG GT3	29	1'47.463	12.154
41	Kyffin Simpson Till Bechtolsheimer Marc Miller Mario Farnbacher	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	31	1'47.469	12.160
42	Laurens Vanthoor Patrick Pilet Dennis Olsen Alexandre Imperatori	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R	26	1'47.514	12.205
43	Cooper MacNeil Julien Andlauer Matteo Cairoli Alessio Picariello	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R	30	1'47.526	12.217
44	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco Alessio Rovera	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	33	1'47.681	12.372
45	Ross Gunn Alex Riberas Maxime Martin	GTD PRO	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	29	1'47.697	12.388
46	Russell Ward Philip Ellis Mikael Grenier Lucas Auer	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	32	1'47.760	12.451
47	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra Davide Rigon	GTD PRO	Ferrari 488 GT3	29	1'47.772	12.463
48	Mike Skeen Guy Cosmo Stevan McAleer Scott Andrews	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	28	1'47.892	12.583
49	Lance Bergstein Jon Miller Patrick Gallagher Paul Holton	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	28	1'48.017	12.708
50	Michael de Quesada Daniel Morad Linus Lundqvist Maximillian Goetz	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	27	1'48.030	12.721
51	Robert Megennis Corey Lewis Sandy Mitchell Jeff Westphal	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	26	1'48.079	12.770
52	Mann Simon Luis Perez Companc Nicklas Nielsen Toni Vilander	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	34	1'48.212	12.903
53	Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy Jordan Lee Pepper	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	28	1'48.348	13.039
54	Don Yount Benja Hites Jaden Conwright Markus Palttala	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	25	1'48.437	13.128
55	Roman De Angelis Ian James Darren Turner Tom Gamble	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	25	1'48.449	13.140
56	Rob Ferriol Katherine Legge Stefan Wilson Nicholas Boulle	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	20	1'48.803	13.494
57	Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Charlie Eastwood Nicki Thiim	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	20	1'48.926	13.617
58	Connor de Phillippi John Edwards Augusto Farfus Jesse Krohn	GTD PRO	BMW M4 GT3	7	1'49.015	13.706
59	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Marco Sorensen	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	23	1'49.961	14.652
60	Robby Foley Bill Auberlen Michael Dinan Jens Klingmann	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	28	1'50.139	14.830
61	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	16	1'50.228	14.919
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