Kamui Kobayashi topped the second free practice session for the Rolex 24 at Daytona during another rain-affected session.
The Japanese ace posted a 1m 35.470s in the #48 Ally Cadillac DPi-VR, which was 1,5 seconds faster than Toyota team-mate Mike Conway in the #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac.
Kobayashi and Conway posted their laptimes early in the session. After that, the session was halted due to a red flag as the #7 Forty7 Motorsports Duqueine D08-Nissan of Trenton Estep stopped on track.
By the time the session had resumed, the rain had worsened, meaning that no significant improvements were posted.
The #20 High Class Racing ORECA 07-Gibson of Nico Mueller went third overall and fastest in LMP2 with a best lap of 1m 37.012s. Ed Jones was second in class in the #68 G-Drive Racing ORECA with Devlin DeFrancesco third in class for DragonSpeed.
LMP3 was topped by Felipe Fraga in the #74 Riley Motorsports Ligier JS P320-Nissan.
Mercedes teams led the timesheets in the GT categories, with the first thirteen cars being GTD runners.
Mikael Grenier went fastest in the #57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo ahead of the Maxi Götz-driven #28 Alegra Motorsports Mercedes. Patrick Gallagher put the #59 Crucial Motorsports McLaren 720S GT3 third.
Jack Hawksworth was the quickest GTD Pro runner, fourteenth with a 1m 48.725s in the #14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3.
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