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IMSA Daytona 24
Rolex 24: Bomarito puts Mazda on top in second practice
Mazda Team Joest moved to the top of the Rolex 24 at Daytona timesheets in second practice, courtesy of a late flyer from Jonathan Bomarito in the #55 Mazda RT24-P.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Jan 26, 2019, 4:27 PM
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After the opening session of the Rolex 24 weekend was held on a damp track, second practice was dry, albeit with laptimes still some way slower than those set in the Roar test earlier in the month.
CORE autosport's sole Nissan DPi led the session for much of the way after Colin Braun posted a 1m35.338s with 41 minutes remaining, and that wasn't beaten until Filipe Albuquerque set a 1m35.446s in the #5 Action Express Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R with less than 10 minutes on the clock.
But with five minutes left of the session, Bomarito knocked some six tenths off Albuquerque's benchmark with a 1m34.743s, which he followed up with a 1m34.672s on the following lap - putting the #55 Mazda seven tenths up on the competition.
Braun's earlier time was good enough to keep the #54 Nissan third, while Acura Team Penske's Ricky Taylor ensured it was four different makes in the top four with a 1m35.539s effort in the #7 Acura ARX-05.
IMSA rookie Augustin Canapino turned an impressive lap to go fifth fastest in the #50 Juncos Racing Cadillac, followed by Felipe Nasr in the #31 AXR Cadillac.
Fernando Alonso set the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac's best time of 1m35.924s to earn P7, one place ahead of the #77 Mazda RT24-P driven by Timo Bernhard.
The LMP2 contingent was headed up by James Allen in the #81 DragonSpeed Oreca-Gibson, the young Australian's 1m37.255s effort putting him three tenths clear of PR1/Mathiasen driver Gabriel Aubry.
Nick Tandy left it late to send the retro-liveried Porsche 911 RSR to the top of the times in GT Le Mans with a best time of 1m43.475s, demoting Corvette driver Jan Magnussen to second by just 0.086s.
Ryan Briscoe was the best of the Ford GT drivers in the #66 machine, taking third place, a further two tenths back, followed by the sole Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE and the second of the Ganassi-run Fords.
BMW propped up the GTLM order with its pair of M8 GTEs managing only eighth and ninth places.
In GT Daytona, Spirit of Race Ferrari driver Daniel Serra was the sole driver to breach the 1m46s barrier with a 1m45.936s, enough to top the class by 0.248s from the leading Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX driven by Trent Hindman.
Third in class was Ben Keating in the Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3, a further 0.060s behind.
Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, Practice 2:
Cla Num Driver Class Chassis Laps Time Gap 1 55 
Harry Tincknell
Olivier Pla
Jonathan Bomarito DPi Mazda DPi 27 1'34.672 2 5 
Christian Fittipaldi
Filipe Albuquerque
Joao Barbosa DPi Cadillac DPi 29 1'35.383 0.711 3 54 
Loic Duval
Romain Dumas
Jon Bennett
Colin Braun DPi Nissan DPi 24 1'35.538 0.866 4 7 
Alexander Rossi
Helio Castroneves
Ricky Taylor DPi Acura DPi 25 1'35.539 0.867 5 50 
Kyle Kaiser
Rene Binder
Will Owen
Agustin Canapino DPi Cadillac DPi 21 1'35.550 0.878 6 31 
Pipo Derani
Eric Curran
Felipe Nasr DPi Cadillac DPi 25 1'35.694 1.022 7 10 
Fernando Alonso
Kamui Kobayashi
Jordan Taylor
Renger van der Zande DPi Cadillac DPi 26 1'35.924 1.252 8 77 
Oliver Jarvis
Timo Bernhard
René Rast
Tristan Nunez DPi Mazda DPi 21 1'36.102 1.430 9 6 
Juan Pablo Montoya
Simon Pagenaud
Dane Cameron DPi Acura DPi 9 1'36.346 1.674 10 84 
Simon Trummer
Juan Piedrahita
Chris Miller
Stephen Simpson DPi Cadillac DPi 27 1'36.485 1.813 11 85 
Rubens Barrichello
Mikhail Goikhberg
Tristan Vautier
Devlin DeFrancesco DPi Cadillac DPi 22 1'36.657 1.985 12 81 Nicolas Lapierre
Henrik Hedman
Ben Hanley
James Allen LMP2 ORECA LMP2 25 1'37.255 2.583 13 52 Matt McMurry
Mark Kvamme
Enzo Guibbert
Gabriel Aubry LMP2 ORECA LMP2 27 1'37.512 2.840 14 18 
Pastor Maldonado
Roberto Gonzalez
Sebastian Saavedra
Ryan Cullen LMP2 ORECA LMP2 25 1'38.228 3.556 15 38 Kris Wright
Kyle Masson
Cameron Cassels
Robert Masson LMP2 ORECA LMP2 24 1'39.784 5.112 16 911 
Nick Tandy
Patrick Pilet
Frédéric Makowiecki GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 25 1'43.475 8.803 17 3 
Jan Magnussen
Antonio Garcia
Mike Rockenfeller GTLM Corvette C7.R 25 1'43.561 8.889 18 67 
Ryan Briscoe
Scott Dixon
Richard Westbrook GTLM Ford GT 21 1'43.755 9.083 19 62 
James Calado
Davide Rigon
Alessandro Pier Guidi
Miguel Molina GTLM Ferrari 488 GTE 22 1'43.758 9.086 20 66 
Sébastien Bourdais
Joey Hand
Dirk Muller GTLM Ford GT 19 1'43.906 9.234 21 4 
Marcel Fassler
Oliver Gavin
Tommy Milner GTLM Corvette C7.R 21 1'44.017 9.345 22 912 
Earl Bamber
Laurens Vanthoor
Mathieu Jaminet GTLM Porsche 911 RSR 21 1'44.219 9.547 23 25 Connor de Phillippi
Augusto Farfus
Philipp Eng
Colton Herta GTLM BMW M8 GTE 22 1'44.249 9.577 24 24 John Edwards
Jesse Krohn
Chaz Mostert
Alex Zanardi GTLM BMW M8 GTE 22 1'44.301 9.629 25 51 Pedro Lamy
Paul Dalla Lana
Mathias Lauda
Daniel Serra GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 27 1'45.936 11.264 26 86 A.J. Allmendinger
Justin Marks
Mario Farnbacher
Trent Hindman GTD Acura NSX GT3 20 1'46.184 11.512 27 33 
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Ben Keating
Luca Stolz
Felipe Fraga GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 20 1'46.244 11.572 28 96 Bill Auberlen
Jens Klingmann
Robby Foley
Dillon Machavern GTD BMW M6 GT3 23 1'46.295 11.623 29 13 
Andrea Bertolini
Victor Franzoni
Chico Longo
Marcos Gomes GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 28 1'46.295 11.623 30 48 Corey Lewis
Bryan Sellers
Andrea Caldarelli
Ryan Hardwick GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 24 1'46.337 11.665 31 9 
Scott Hargrove
Lars Kern
Dennis Olsen
Zacharie Robichon GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 24 1'46.567 11.895 32 63 
Toni Vilander
Dominik Farnbacher
Cooper MacNeil
Jeff Westphal GTD Ferrari 488 GT3 23 1'46.574 11.902 33 11 
Rolf Ineichen
Mirko Bortolotti
Rik Breukers
Christian Engelhart GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 27 1'46.579 11.907 34 73 Patrick Long
Patrick Lindsey
Nicholas Boulle
Matt Campbell GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 23 1'46.642 11.970 35 44 Andy Lally
Marco Mapelli
Spencer Pumpelly
John Potter GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 24 1'46.692 12.020 36 14 Austin Cindric
Jack Hawksworth
Richard Heistand
Nick Cassidy GTD Lexus RC F GT3 23 1'46.739 12.067 37 12 Townsend Bell
Jeff Segal
Frankie Montecalvo
Aaron Telitz GTD Lexus RC F GT3 25 1'46.781 12.109 38 57 
Simona de Silvestro
Katherine Legge
Christina Nielsen
Ana Figueiredo GTD Acura NSX GT3 24 1'46.829 12.157 39 29 Daniel Morad
Dries Vanthoor
Christopher Mies
Richard Feller GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 24 1'46.935 12.263 40 46 Fabio Babini
Emanuele Busnelli
Taylor Proto
Giacomo Altoè GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 27 1'47.234 12.562 41 99 Klaus Bachler
Sven Muller
Alfred Renauer
Juergen Haering
Steffen Goerig GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 27 1'47.444 12.772 42 540 
Marco Seefried
Tim Pappas
Dirk Werner
Matteo Cairoli GTD Porsche 911 GT3 R 25 1'47.453 12.781 43 47 Don Yount
Milos Pavlovic
Steve Dunn
Linus Lundqvist GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 27 1'47.527 12.855 44 71 Fabian Schiller
Dominik Baumann
Maximilian Buhk
JC Perez GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 20 1'47.534 12.862 45 88 
Ian James
Frederic Vervisch
Kelvin van der Linde
Roman DeAngelis GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 24 1'47.593 12.921 46 8 Ryan Dalziel
Parker Chase
Ezequiel Perez Companc
Chris Haase GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 21 1'47.673 13.001 47 19 Markus Winkelhock
Andrew Davis
Will Hardeman
Alex Riberas GTD Audi R8 LMS GT3 24 1'47.724 13.052
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