Filipe Albuquerque leads final practice session for Daytona 24 Hours
Filipe Albuquerque topped the times in final practice for this weekend's Daytona 24 Hours in the Action Express Racing Cadillac that failed to register a lap in qualifying
Albuquerque ended up on a 1m34.358s in the #5 Cadillac DPi.V-R in the 60-minute session, which put him exactly four-tenths clear of Olivier Pla in the fastest of the two Mazda RT24-Ps.
The time from Albuquerque would have been good enough to put the Action Express car fifth on the grid for the opening round of the IMSA Sportscar Championship.
Albuquerque, who shares the car with Joao Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi, didn't set a qualifying time on Thursday after encountering an undisclosed technical problem on his out lap.
The team has already been reduced to a three-driver line-up in the wake of Mike Conway encountering travel problems.
Third in the final session was the second Action Express Daytona Prototype international in which Pipo Derani set a 1m35.087s
Simon Pagenaud was fourth in the best of the Penske Racing Acura ARX-05s, while the Mazda that Oliver Jarvis qualified on poled ended up fifth in Rene Rast's hands.
Fastest in the LMP2 pro-am class was the PR1/Mathiasen ORECA-Gibson 07 with Enzo Guibbert driving.
Frederic Makowiecki was fastest in GT Le Mans class aboard the factory CORE-run Porsche 911 RSR that Nick Tandy put on the class pole.
The Frenchman posted a 1m42.478s at the end of session to move ahead of the Ganassi Ford GT in which Dirk Muller had topped the times with a 1m42.612s.
Jan Magnussen was third in the best of the Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs just ahead of Richard Westbrook in the second of the Fords.
Quickest in GT Daytona was Pedro Lamy in the Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GT3.
FP4 results
Pos | Class | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | DPi | J.Barbosa, F.Albuquerque, C.Fittipaldi | Mustang Sampling Racing | Cadillac | 1m34.358s | - |
2 | DPi | J.Bomarito, H.Tincknell, O.Pla | Mazda Team Joest | Mazda | 1m34.758s | 0.400s |
3 | DPi | F.Nasr, E.Curran, P.Derani | Whelen Engineering Racing | Cadillac | 1m35.087s | 0.729s |
4 | DPi | J.P.Montoya, D.Cameron, S.Pagenaud | Acura Team Penske | Acura | 1m35.182s | 0.824s |
5 | DPi | O.Jarvis, T.Nunez, T.Bernhard, R.Rast | Mazda Team Joest | Mazda | 1m35.430s | 1.072s |
6 | DPi | S.Trummer, S.Simpson, C.Miller, J.Piedrahita | JDC-Miller Motorsports | Cadillac | 1m35.467s | 1.109s |
7 | DPi | R.Taylor, H.Castroneves, A.Rossi | Acura Team Penske | Acura | 1m35.610s | 1.252s |
8 | DPi | W.Owen, R.Binder, A.Canapino, K.Kaiser | Juncos Racing | Cadillac | 1m36.017s | 1.659s |
9 | DPi | M.Goikhberg, T.Vautier, D.Defrancesco, R.Barrichello | JDC-Miller Motorsports | Cadillac | 1m36.043s | 1.685s |
10 | LMP2 | M.McMurry, G.Aubry, M.Kvamme, E.Guibbert | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | ORECA/Gibson | 1m36.433s | 2.075s |
11 | LMP2 | H.Hedman, B.Hanley, N.Lapierre, J.Allen | DragonSpeed | ORECA/Gibson | 1m36.998s | 2.640s |
12 | LMP2 | R.Gonzalez, P.Maldonado, S.Saavedra, R.Cullen | DragonSpeed | ORECA/Gibson | 1m37.127s | 2.769s |
13 | DPi | R.van der Zande, J.Taylor, F.Alonso, K.Kobayashi | Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R | Cadillac | 1m37.228s | 2.870s |
14 | LMP2 | K.Masson, R.Masson, C.Cassels, K.Wright | Performance Tech Motorsports | ORECA/Gibson | 1m38.464s | 4.106s |
15 | GTLM | P.Pilet, N.Tandy, F.Makowiecki | Porsche GT Team | Porsche | 1m42.478s | 8.120s |
16 | GTLM | J.Hand, D.Muller, S.Bourdais | Ford Chip Ganassi Racing | Ford | 1m42.612s | 8.254s |
17 | GTLM | J.Magnussen, A.Garcia, M.Rockenfeller | Corvette Racing | Chevrolet | 1m42.644s | 8.286s |
18 | GTLM | R.Briscoe, R.Westbrook, S.Dixon | Ford Chip Ganassi Racing | Ford | 1m42.845s | 8.487s |
19 | GTLM | J.Krohn, J.M.Edwards, C.Mostert, A.Zanardi | BMW Team RLL | BMW | 1m43.175s | 8.817s |
20 | GTLM | E.Bamber, L.Vanthoor, M.Jaminet | Porsche GT Team | Porsche | 1m43.191s | 8.833s |
21 | GTLM | A.Farfus, C.De Phillippi, P.Eng, C.Herta | BMW Team RLL | BMW | 1m43.210s | 8.852s |
22 | GTLM | D.Rigon, M.Molina, A.P.Guidi, J.Calado | Risi Competizione | Ferrari | 1m43.360s | 9.002s |
23 | GTLM | O.Gavin, T.Milner, M.Fassler | Corvette Racing | Chevrolet | 1m43.425s | 9.067s |
24 | GTD | P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda, D.Serra | Spirit of Race | Ferrari | 1m44.632s | 10.274s |
25 | GTD | R.Heistand, J.Hawksworth, A.Cindric, N.Cassidy | AIM Vasser Sullivan | Lexus | 1m44.846s | 10.488s |
26 | GTD | T.Pappas, M.Seefried, M.Cairoli, D.Werner | Black Swan Racing | Porsche | 1m45.073s | 10.715s |
27 | GTD | P.Lindsey, P.Long, M.Campbell, N.Boulle | Park Place Motorsports | Porsche | 1m45.100s | 10.742s |
28 | GTD | M.Buhk, F.Schiller, D.Baumann, J.Perez | P1 Motorsports | Mercedes | 1m45.108s | 10.750s |
29 | GTD | E.Busnelli, F.Babini, T.Proto, G.Altoe | Ebimotors | Lamborghini | 1m45.128s | 10.770s |
30 | GTD | F.Montecalvo, T.Bell, A.Telitz, J.Segal | AIM Vasser Sullivan | Lexus | 1m45.153s | 10.795s |
31 | GTD | R.Ineichen, M.Bortolotti, C.Engelhart, R.Breukers | GRT Grasser Racing Team | Lamborghini | 1m45.299s | 10.941s |
32 | GTD | M.Farnbacher, T.Hindman, J.Marks, A.Allmendinger | Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian | Acura | 1m45.330s | 10.972s |
33 | GTD | J.Haring, K.Bachler, S.Muller, S.Gorig, A.Renauer | NGT Motorsport | Porsche | 1m45.358s | 11.000s |
34 | GTD | D.Morad, C.Mies, R.Feller, D.Vanthoor | Montaplast by Land-Motorsport | Audi | 1m45.383s | 11.025s |
35 | GTD | C.MacNeil, T.Vilander, D.Farnbacher, J.Westphal | Scuderia Corsa | Ferrari | 1m45.495s | 11.137s |
36 | GTD | F.Vervisch, K.van der Linde, I.James, R.De Angelis | WRT Speedstar Audi Sport | Audi | 1m45.505s | 11.147s |
37 | GTD | J.Potter, A.Lally, S.Pumpelly, M.Mapelli | Magnus Racing | Lamborghini | 1m45.554s | 11.196s |
38 | GTD | B.Auberlen, R.Foley, D.Machavern, J.Klingmann | Turner Motorsport | BMW | 1m45.634s | 11.276s |
39 | GTD | C.Longo, V.Franzoni, M.Gomes, A.Bertolini | Via Italia Racing | Ferrari | 1m45.756s | 11.398s |
40 | GTD | K.Legge, A.Beatriz, S.de Silvestro, C.Nielsen | Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing | Acura | 1m45.996s | 11.638s |
41 | GTD | P.Chase, R.Dalziel, E.P.Companc, C.Haase | Starworks Motorsport | Audi | 1m46.174s | 11.816s |
42 | GTD | A.Davis, A.Riberas, W.Hardeman, M.Winkelhock | Moorespeed | Audi | 1m46.275s | 11.917s |
43 | GTD | S.Dunn, L.Lundqvist, M.Pavlovic, D.Yount | Precision Performance Motorsports | Lamborghini | 1m46.284s | 11.926s |
44 | GTD | S.Hargrove, Z.Robichon, L.Kern, D.Olsen | Pfaff Motorsports | Porsche | 1m46.602s | 12.244s |
45 | GTD | B.Keating, J.Bleekemolen, L.Stolz, F.Fraga | Mercedes-AMG Team Riley Motorsports | Mercedes | 1m48.173s | 13.815s |
46 | GTD | B.Sellers, R.Hardwick, C.Lewis, A.Caldarelli | Paul Miller Racing | Lamborghini | 1m51.289s | 16.931s |
47 | DPi | J.Bennett, C.Braun, R.Dumas, L.Duval | CORE Autosport | Nissan | - | - |
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