Loic Duval has set the fastest time in the night practice session ahead of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The Frenchman set a 01:34:786 in the #54 Nissan DPi.
Duval's time was 0.119s quicker than Filipe Albuquerque in the #5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac. The top four was rounded out by the Team Penske Acuras. Helio Castroneves put the #7 just 0.029s ahead of the #6, driven by Simon Pagenaud. Kamui Kobayashi was fifth in the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac, followed by the #31 Whelen Engineering machine of Pipo Derani and the #85 JDC-Miller Motorsports entry driven by Tristan Vautier.
Both Mazdas sat out the session, as Team Joest spent the time on fitting new engines to both the #55 and pole-sitting #77 machines.
Picking up where it left off in qualifying, the #81 Dragonspeed ORECA was fastest in LMP2. Ben Hanley set a time of 01:36:521, beating the #18 sister car by about half a second.
Both GT classes saw a BMW on top of the leaderboard. In GTLM, Augusto Farfus was fastest in the #25 M8 GTE, beating Patrick Pilet in the #911 Porsche by just 0.002s. Pilet was followed by Oliver Gavin in the #4 Corvette and the Fords of Scott Dixon and Joey Hand.
Veteran Bill Auberlen proved quickest in GTD, setting a 01:45:165 in the #96 Turner Motorsports BMW M6 GT3, beating 2018 pole man Daniel Serra in the #51 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GT3. Matt Campbell rounded out the top three in the #73 Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R.
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