Spirit of Daytona Fastest In Final Practice

For the third session of the weekend, the #90 Spirit of Daytona Corvette DP driven by Richard Westbrook was fastest in practice for the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona after setting a lap of 1:39.256 seconds. The pole sitting #99 Gainsco/Bob Stallings Racing Corvette DP was second quick with Alex Gurney behind the wheel. Christian Fittipaldi made it a Corvette DP 1-2-3 driving the #5 Action Express Corvette DP.

Ganassi Ford-Rileys took the next two positions with Scott Dixon in the #02 leading the five-time Daytona winner Scott Pruett in the #01. John Martin put the #9 Action Express Corvette DP in sixth positions ahead of Jordan Taylor and the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP.

Daytona rookie Alex Brundle was eighth fastest behind the wheel of the #6 Muscle Milk Pickett Racing Oreca-Nissan, leading three consecutive LMP2 cars on the time sheet. David Brabham was ninth in the #1 HPD ARX-03b for Extreme Speed Motorsports and the #42 OAK Racing Morgan-Nissan rounding out the top ten with Gustavo Yacamán driving.

Starworks Racing took the top two positions in the PC class with Sam Bird in the #8 leading Alex Popow in the #7. James Kovacic was third driving the #87 BAR1 Motorsports Oreca with Gunnar Jeannette in the #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca and Duncan Ende in the #09 RSR Racing entry rounding out the top five.

Matteo Malucelli was fastest in the GTLM class driving the #62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 458 Italia. Patrick Pilet was second in the #911 Porsche 911 RSR. Corvette took the next two positions with the #3 Jan Magnussen leading the #4 of Tommy Milner. Porsche rounded out the top five with Jörg Bergmeister in the #912.

Stefan Mücke was sixth in the Aston Martin Vantage V8 ahead of the two Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing BMW Z4 GTEs. The #56 of Dirk Müller led the #55 of Bill Auberlen in the session. Andrea Bertolini was ninth in the #57 Krohn Racing Ferrari with the Vipers rounding out the GTLM field. Marc Goossens and the #91 was fastest of the two Vipers ahead of the #93 driven by Rob Bell.

Level 5 Motorsports Ferraris took two of the top three positions in GTD with the #556 of Milo Valverde leading the way ahead of the #28 Dempsey/Konrad Porsche 911 GT America driven by Christian Englehart. Townsend Bell was third in the #555 Level 5 Ferrari. The #94 Turner Motorsport BMW of Markus Palttata was fourth with the #22 Alex Job Porsche of Leh Keen rounding out the top five.

The bigger news of the day out of GTD class was the #48 Paul Miller Racing Audi having it's pole winning time being reinstated. The #48 Audi R8 LMS had originally been penalized for a rear wing endplate violation.

The 2014 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona will be shown live on Fox from 2:00 p.m. ET to 4:00 p.m. ET. Coverage will then move to Fox Sports 2 until 9:00 p.m. ET. At that time, the overnight coverage can be seen on IMSA.com. Fox Sports 1 will pick up coverage on Sunday at 7:00 a.m. ET and cover through post race at 3:00 p.m.