Rolex 24: Duval leads Magnussen in final Rolex 24 practice

Loic Duval’s JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac edged to the top of the times by 0.012sec ahead of Kevin Magnussen of Chip Ganassi Racing in the final practice for the Rolex 24 Hours.

The top four cars – representing all three manufacturers involved in the DPi class –were covered by less than one-tenth of a second at the end of the one-hour final practice at Daytona for the season-opening round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

But it was JDC-Miller’s new fulltimer Loic Duval who emerged on top with a 1min35.085sec lap, beating F1 exile Kevin Magnussen in the similar Cadillac DPi-V.R of Ganassi.

They were just hundredths ahead of Oliver Jarvis in the Mazda RT24-P that ran only five laps today, having skipped almost all of last night’s practice while receiving scheduled maintenance of a new engine and gearbox. Filipe Albuquerque drove the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05 to its top time, just 0.053sec off top spot.

The two Action Express Cadillacs of Pipo Derani and Kamui Kobayashi were 0.6 and 0.7sec down respectively, with Dane Cameron completing the field in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura, but an unrepresentative 1.7sec off the pace.

In LMP2, Nicolas Lapierre had a red flag-causing off at Turn 5 in the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca which has looked to have an edge in speed throughout practice. That allowed John Farano to head the class in the Tower Motorsports by Starworks car, a tenth quicker than Ferdinand Habsburg-Lothringen in the High Class Racing entry and Tristan Nunez of WIN Autosport.

LMP3, as has come to be expected, was led by Jeroen Bleekemolen in the Riley Motorsports Ligier, while Rasmus Lindh finished the session in second for Performance Tech Motorsports. Third went to the highest-place Duqueine, that of Muelhner Motorsports and steered by Moritz Kranz.

Alessandro Pier Guidi slotted the Ferrari 488 of Risi Competizione marginally ahead of the WeatherTech Racing Proton Porsche 911 RSR to claim GTLM honors ahead of the Corvettes and BMWs.

The two Grasser Racing Lamborghini Huracans of Franck Perera and Mirko Bortolotti topped GT Daytona, ahead of the AF Corse Ferrari 488 of Daniel Serra, while Richard Westbrook gave TF Sport’s Aston Martin Vantage its most competitive showing of the week with fourth.

Pat Long was fifth in the Porsche 911 GT3 R of Wright Motorsports, ahead of the similar car of Team Hardpoint EBM, driven by Earl Bamber.

The 59th running of the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona begins at 3.40pm local (Eastern) time on Saturday.

ClaNumDriverClassChassisLapsTimeGap
15 Tristan Vautier
Loic Duval
Sébastien Bourdais
DPiCadillac DPi261’35.085 
201 Renger van der Zande
Kevin Magnussen
Scott Dixon
DPiCadillac DPi211’35.0970.012
355 Oliver Jarvis
Harry Tincknell
Jonathan Bomarito
DPiMazda DPi51’35.1320.047
410 Ricky Taylor
Filipe Albuquerque
Alexander Rossi
Helio Castroneves
DPiAcura DPi191’35.1380.053
531 Felipe Nasr
Mike Conway
Pipo Derani
Chase Elliott
DPiCadillac DPi191’35.7520.667
648 Jimmie Johnson
Kamui Kobayashi
Simon Pagenaud
Mike Rockenfeller
DPiCadillac DPi241’35.8170.732
78 John Farano
Gabriel Aubry
Timothé Buret
Matthieu Vaxiviere
LMP2ORECA LMP2 07241’36.4481.363
820 Dennis Andersen
Ferdinand Habsburg
Anders Fjordbach
Robert Kubica
LMP2ORECA LMP2 07271’36.5721.487
960 Dane Cameron
Olivier Pla
Juan Pablo Montoya
A.J. Allmendinger
DPiAcura DPi121’36.7541.669
1011 Thomas Steven
Tristan Nunez
Thomas Merrill
Matthew Bell
LMP2ORECA LMP2 07181’36.8711.786
1181 Rob Hodes
Garett Grist
Rinus van Kalmthout
Ben Hanley
LMP2ORECA LMP2 07261’37.1052.020
1247 Roberto Lacorte
Antonio Fuoco
Andrea Belicchi
Giorgio Sernagiotto
LMP2Dallara LMP2231’37.7552.670
1382 Eric Lux
Devlin DeFrancesco
Fabian Schiller
Christopher Mies
LMP2ORECA LMP2 07151’37.8922.807
1418 Dwight Merriman
Kyle Tilley
Ryan Dalziel
Paul-Loup Chatin
LMP2ORECA LMP2 07171’38.1043.019
1551 Cody Ware
Salih Yoluc
Austin Dillon
Sven Muller
LMP2Ligier LMP2271’38.7963.711
1629 Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde
Job Van Uitert
Charles Milesi
LMP2ORECA LMP2 07111’38.8033.718
1752 Ben Keating
Mikkel Jensen
Scott Huffaker
Nicolas Lapierre
LMP2ORECA LMP2 0741’39.1884.103
1862 James Calado
Alessandro Pier Guidi
Jules Gounon
Davide Rigon
GTLMFerrari 488 GTE261’42.5847.499
1979 Cooper MacNeil
Kevin Estre
Richard Lietz
Gianmaria Bruni
GTLMPorsche 911 RSR – 19191’42.6037.518
204 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
Alexander Sims
GTLMCorvette C8.R261’42.7267.641
2125 Connor de Phillippi
Philipp Eng
Timo Glock
Bruno Spengler
GTLMBMW M8 GTE241’42.9107.825
2224 John Edwards
Jesse Krohn
Augusto Farfus
Marco Wittmann
GTLMBMW M8 GTE121’42.9207.835
233 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
Nick Catsburg
GTLMCorvette C8.R241’43.0227.937
2491 Jim Cox
Dylan Murry
Austin McCusker
Jeroen Bleekemolen
LMP3Ligier JS P320191’43.0727.987
2538 Rasmus Lindh
Cameron Cassels
Mateo Llarena
Ayrton Ori
LMP3Ligier JS P320251’43.7098.624
266 Moritz Kranz
Hoerr Laurents
Kenton Koch
Stevan McAleer
LMP3Duqueine D08231’44.2009.115
2719 Mikhail Goikhberg
Franck Perera
Albert Costa
Tim Zimmermann
GTDLamborghini Huracan GT3251’45.58310.498
28111 Rolf Ineichen
Mirko Bortolotti
Steijn Schothorst
Marco Mapelli
GTDLamborghini Huracan GT3241’45.73710.652
2921 Simon Mann
Nicklas Nielsen
Daniel Serra
Matteo Cressoni
GTDFerrari 488 GT3221’45.98710.902
3097 Maxwell Root
Charles Eastwood
Ben Keating
Richard Westbrook
GTDAston Martin Vantage GT3181’46.01110.926
3116 Trent Hindman
Patrick Long
Jan Heylen
Klaus Bachler
GTDPorsche 911 GT3 R211’46.09411.009
3288 Rob Ferriol
Earl Bamber
Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen
GTDPorsche 911 GT3 R161’46.41111.326
331 Bryan Sellers
Madison Snow
Corey Lewis
Andrea Caldarelli
GTDLamborghini Huracan GT3231’46.42511.340
3412 Robert Megennis
Zach Veach
Townsend Bell
Frankie Montecalvo
GTDLexus RC F GT3121’46.47511.390
3544 John Potter
Andy Lally
Spencer Pumpelly
Mario Farnbacher
GTDAcura NSX GT3221’46.51111.426
3657 Russell Ward
Philip Ellis
Indy Dontje
Maro Engel
GTDMercedes-AMG GT3151’47.04611.961
3728 Daniel Morad
Michael de Quesada
Billy Johnson
Maximilian Buhk
GTDMercedes-AMG GT3131’47.06111.976
389 Zacharie Robichon
Laurens Vanthoor
Lars Kern
Matt Campbell
GTDPorsche 911 GT3 R151’47.27312.188
3996 Bill Auberlen
Robby Foley
Aidan Read
Colton Herta
GTDBMW M6 GT3141’47.77512.690
4023 Ian James
Roman De Angelis
Darren Turner
Ross Gunn
GTDAston Martin Vantage GT3111’48.75913.674
417 Mark Kvamme
Ryan Norman
Gabby Chaves
Charles Finelli
LMP3Duqueine D0841’48.80913.724
4274 Gar Robinson
Spencer Pigot
Scott Andrews
Oliver Askew
LMP3Ligier JS P320171’48.82513.740
4333 Lance Willsey
Joao Barbosa
Wayne Boyd
Yann Clairay
LMP3Ligier JS P320122’03.89728.812
4414 Aaron Telitz
Oliver Gavin
Kyle Kirkwood
Jack Hawksworth
GTDLexus RC F GT35  
4542 Alan Metni
Andrew Davis
J.R. Hildebrand
Don Yount
GTDAudi R8 LMS GT30  
4654 Jon Bennett
George Kurtz
Colin Braun
Matt McMurry
LMP3Ligier JS P3200  
4763 Ed Jones
Bret Curtis
Ryan Briscoe
Marcos Gomes
GTDFerrari 488 GT37  
4864 Ted Giovanis
Owen Trinkler
Hugh Plumb
Matt Plumb
GTDPorsche 911 GT3 R0  
4975 Kenny Habul
Raffaele Marciello
Mikael Grenier
Luca Stolz
GTDMercedes-AMG GT30  
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