Action Express Ends Thursday On Top

Sébastien Bourdais set the fastest lap in Thursday night practice for the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona with a time of 1:38.964 seconds in the #5 Action Express Corvette DP. The #90 Spirit of Daytona Corvette DP had a good day and Michael Valiante put the car second fastest. Max Angelelli was third fastest in the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP with Brian Frisselle making it a Corvette DP sweep of the top four.

The #42 OAK Racing Morgan-Nissan was fifth with Gustavo Yacamán setting the fastest lap ahead of the #2 Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD ARX-03b driven by Simon Pagenaud. Marino Franchitti put the #02 Ganassi Ford-Riley in seventh position ahead of the #1 Extreme Speed Motorsports ARX-03b driven by David Brabham. Lucas Luhr was ninth in the #6 Muscle Milk Pickett Racing Oreca-Nissan with AJ Allmendinger rounding out the top in the #60 Michael Shank Racing Ford-Riley.

Alexander Rossi turned the fastest lap in the DeltaWing, good enough for eleventh. Jamie McMurray was the fastest in the #01 Ganassi Ford-Riley with Brandon Hartley in the #78 Starworks Dinan-Riley and the pole sitting #99 Gainsco/Bob Stallings Racing Corvette DP driven by Darren Law rounding out the top fourteen.

Sam Bird set the fastest time in the PC class driving the #8 Starworks entry. Mark Wilkins was second in the #54 CORE Autosport entry which won pole for Saturday. Raphael Matos was third fastest driving the #38 Performance Tech Oreca.

Viper continued their successful day with the #93 Viper driven by Rob Bell being fastest in GTLM just ahead of the #97 Aston Martin driven by Richie Stanaway. Defending GT world champion Gianmaria Bruni was third fastest driving the #62 Risi Competizione Ferrari. Marc Goossens put the #91 Viper fourth. Nick Tandy was fifth fastest in the #911 Porsche.

The #3 Corvette got back out on track after having electrically issue keep them from qualifying. Antonio García was sixth fastest with Tommy Milner seventh in the #4 Corvette. Patrick Long was eighth in the #912 Porsche ahead of the #56 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing BMW driven by John Edwards.

Alessandro Pier Guidi was fastest in GTD driving the #555 Level 5 Ferrari as Ferrari took five of the top six positions in class. Paolo Ruberti was second in the #49 Spirit of Race Ferrari with the #72 SMP Racing Ferrari ending up third with Mikhail Aleshin setting the time. Dane Cameron put the #94 Turner Motorsport BMW fourth with the #51 Spirit of Race Ferrari driven by Marco Cioci and #556 Level 5 Ferrari of Milo Valverde taking the next two positions.

Audis took the next three positions with #45 Flying Lizard of Spencer Pumpelly leading the way, ahead of factory Audi drivers Oliver Jarvis (#46 Fall-Line Motorsports) and Filipe Albuquerque (#35 Flying Lizard Motorsports).

Final practice will be a one hour session and take place tomorrow at 11:30 a.m.