Rolex 24: Tandy puts Porsche 963 on top in wet FP5 at Daytona Roar

GTP

Mathieu Jaminet was the first driver to set a representative time in damp conditions, getting down to a 1min46.370sec in the #6 Porsche 963 with just 40mins remaining. He then pitted to hand off the Penske-run car to Nick Tandy.

The Briton worked down into the 1min47s, and reset the session benchmark to 1min46.206sec before the return of rain with half an hour to go.

The only other GTP class car to set a time in the damp was the Action Express Racing Cadillac V-LMDh, in which Pipo Derani drove for nine laps but was six seconds off the lead Porsche. He then handed off to Jack Aitken, who cut the time down to 1min48.804sec, but that was 2.6sec off Tandy.

LMP2

Two-time IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden bravely headed out on track as the green flag waved around 20mins after the first red, and his Tower Motorsports entry cut down into the 1min56s although once he pitted and track conditions continued to improve, he was quickly displaced by Nicolas Lapierre in the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports machine and then George Kurtz of Crowdstrike Racing by APR.

When this pair pitted, Newgarden’s teammate Scott McLaughlin headed out once more with Lapierre’s mark at 1min55.083sec, but first Job van Uitert in the #35 TDS Racing lowered the P1 target to 1min52.727sec, with Ryan Dalziel of Era Motorsport second, 1.5sec away. McLaughlin chipped away at his time as he adapted to the damp conditions, and went fastest by 0.21sec.

He stretched his margin over his nearest opposition – Dalziel and Matthieu Vaxiviere of AF Corse – by 0.414 and 0.49sec respectively. However, Dalziel eventually worked down to a 1min50.756sec, 1.2sec ahead of McLaughlin.

LMP3

Antonio Serravalle clocked fastest time in the FastMD Racing Duqueine, a 1min55.387sec which left it 1.2sec faster than the MRS GT Racing car of Guilherme de Oliveira. These were the only LMP3 cars to hit the track in this session.

GTD Pro and GTD

Antonio Garcia looked very impressive in the Corvette C8.R in the damp conditions, with a 1min58.104sec, holding off Klaus Bachler in the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R to the tune of half a second. But Marvin Kirchhofer in the GTD Inception Racing McLaren 720S eclipsed that with a 1min57.353sec, and Jules Gounon’s WeatherTech Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 went top of the GTD Pro cars, albeit still 0.7sec off Kirchhofer.

However, with half an hour to go, Gounon landed a 1min57.084sec to lead the GTD field, just as the rain restarted.

Raffaele Giammaria then moved the Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracan up to second in GTD, ahead of Antonio Fuoco in the Cetilar Ferrari 296, while Jordan Pepper in Iron Lynx’s GTD Pro Lambo went two tenths faster than his stablemate to take third in class behind only Gounon and Garcia.

Qualifying for the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona commences at 1.25pm local (Eastern) time on Sunday.

Cla	Num	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap
1	6	Mathieu Jaminet Nick Tandy Dane Cameron	GTP	Porsche 963	29	1'46.206
2	31	Pipo Derani Alexander Sims Jack Aitken	GTP	Cadillac V-LMDh	18	1'48.804	2.598
3	18	Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel Christian Rasmussen Oliver Jarvis	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	30	1'50.756	4.550
4	8	John Farano Scott McLaughlin Josef Newgarden Kyffin Simpson	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	36	1'51.960	5.754
5	51	Eric Lux Devlin DeFrancesco Austin Cindric Pietro Fittipaldi	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	23	1'51.978	5.772
6	88	François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxiviere Julien Canal Nicklas Nielsen	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	39	1'52.213	6.007
7	04	George Kurtz Ben Hanley Matt McMurry Esteban Gutierrez	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	30	1'52.293	6.087
8	52	Ben Keating Paul-Loup Chatin Alex Quinn Nicolas Lapierre	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	27	1'52.604	6.398
9	35	François Heriau Giedo van der Garde Josh Pierson Job Van Uitert	LMP2	ORECA LMP2 07	13	1'52.691	6.485
10	87	Yu Kanamaru James Vance Antonio Serravalle Nicholas Boulle	LMP3	Duqueine D08	30	1'55.387	9.181
11	43	Sebastian Alvarez Danial Frost Alex Vogel Guilherme de	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	39	1'56.585	10.379
12	79	Cooper MacNeil Daniel Juncadella Jules Gounon Maro Engel	GTD PRO	Mercedes AMG GT3	21	1'57.084	10.878
13	70	Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy Marvin Kirchhofer	GTD	McLaren 720S GT3	20	1'57.353	11.147
14	3	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Tommy Milner	GTD PRO	Corvette C8.R GTD	23	1'58.104	11.898
15	63	Andrea Caldarelli Mirko Bortolotti Jordan Lee Pepper Romain Grosjean	GTD PRO	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	30	1'58.394	12.188
16	19	Raffaele Giammaria Frank Perera Claudio Schiavoni Rolf Ineichen	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	25	1'58.623	12.417
17	9	Klaus Bachler Patrick Pilet Laurens Vanthoor	GTD PRO	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	19	1'58.631	12.425
18	47	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco Alessandro Balzan	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	32	1'58.705	12.499
19	1	Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis Maxime Martin	GTD	BMW M4 GT3	24	1'58.759	12.553
20	44	John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Nicki Thiim	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	40	1'58.798	12.592
21	80	PJ Hyett Seb Priaulx Gunnar Jeannette Harry Tincknell	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	22	1'58.913	12.707
22	83	Rahel Frey Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Doriane Pin	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2	31	1'59.482	13.276
23	77	Alan Brynjolfsson Trent Hindman Max Root Kevin Estre	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	7	1'59.712	13.506
24	21	Mann Simon Luis Perez Companc Miguel Molina Francesco Castellacci	GTD	Ferrari 296 GT3	24	2'01.073	14.867
25	62	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra Davide Rigon	GTD PRO	Ferrari 296 GT3	7	2'03.342	17.136
26	16	Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen Zacharie Robichon Dennis Olsen	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)	5	2'03.420	17.214
27	24	Philipp Eng Augusto Farfus Marco Wittmann Colton Herta	GTP	BMW M Hybrid V8	4	2'07.700	21.494
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