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Loic Duval tops the Nocturnal Night Practice at Daytona

Shahmir Khan

The Pole Sitter 911 RSR was 2nd quickest in GTLM

The CORE Autosport Nissan Onroak DPi was quickest in final session of the day as the circuit donned the darkness of night.


#54 Nissan was quickest in the class driven by Loic Duval and further improved by Colin Braun. The quickest lap by Onroak Nissan was 1:34.979 set by Braun.

#7 Acura made it into 2nd place with Helio Castroneves setting 1:35.126. The sister Acura #6 was up in third position with Simon Pagenaud racking 1:35.155.


#81 DragonSpeed lead LMP2 again with Ben Hanley behind the wheel setting 1:36.521. Pastor Maldonado was in 2nd place in #18 DragonSpeed, setting 1:37.086 in the session.


#52 PR1 Mathiasen was third quickest with Enzo Guibert, managing 1:38.295 in the ORECA.


BMW Team RLL set a quickest lap for first time all weekend. The 2018 FIA GT World Cup Champion set 1:43.315 in #25 BMW M8 GTE.

#25 BMW M8 GTE had the best results all weekend as Augusto Farfus put fastest lap for the BMW.

#911 Porsche was in 2nd with 1:43.317 by Patrick Pilet. Oliver Gavin was third best as #4 Corvette set 1:43.353 set the fastest lap of the day.


GT Daytona was topped by BMW as well. #96 BMW M6 GT3 with Turner Motorsport topped the class in 1:46.145 with Bill Auberlen. Daniel Serra lost out to the BMW as #51 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GT3 set laptime of 1:45.274.


3rd was the #73 Porsche 911 GT3 R. Matt Campbell put the car to third with 1:45.795.


Notable incident was that of the Audi R8 LMS GT3 of #29 Montaplast by Land. Chris Mies stopped at the track amid the session due to water leak. The session was stopped for a short time and continued afterwards.



4th and Final Practice session will take place at 8:00 pm on Friday.


 

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