Joey Hand turned the fastest lap in Friday’s test session for The Roar Before The Rolex 24 as part of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship at Daytona International Speedway. The driver line-up for the No. 01 includes Hand, Scott Pruett, Charlie Kimball and Sage Karam. Photo by LAT Photo USA for IMSA
Taking steps toward a record sixth overall victory in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates ran 1-2 in Friday’s opening day of the Roar Before The Rolex 24, a three-day test at Daytona International Speedway to open the 2015 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship season, as well as the Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup.
Joey Hand recorded the fastest lap of the day, running one minute, 39.397 seconds in the No. 01 Ford EcoBoost/Riley co-driven by Scott Pruett, Charlie Kimball and Sage Karam. Scott Dixon was second fastest, turning a lap of 1:39.406 in the No. 02 Target Ford EcoBoost/Riley shared by fellow Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series regulars Jamie McMurray and Kyle Larson.
Defending Rolex 24 champion Action Express Racing returns its winning lineup of Christian Fittipaldi, Joao Barbosa and Sebastien Bourdais. Bourdais was fifth quickest on Friday, running 1:39.578 in the No. 5 Corvette DP.
Pedro Lamy, Marc Goossens and Renger van der Zande led the respective GT Le Mans (GTLM), GT Daytona (GTD) and Prototype Challenge (PC) classes.
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• While Porsche North America led the way in GT Le Mans (GTLM) in the afternoon session, it was Lamy’s lap of 1:44.414 in the No. 98 Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage that was fastest on the day. Porsche North America also is off to a strong start in its quest to win a second straight Rolex 24, with Nick Tandy second on the day with a lap of 1:44.486 in the No. 911 Porsche 911 RSR.
• A pair of Prototypes made their official Daytona International Speedway debuts Friday with Tequila Patrón ESM shaking down its No. 2 HPD ARX-04b/Honda and Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian and Krohn Racing turning laps with their new Ligier JS P2s. Of the new entries, Michael Shank Racing was third on the day with Ozz Negri’s lap of 1:39.517 in the No. 60 Honda-powered Ligier JS P2. Tequila Patrón ESM just took delivery of its No. 1 HPD ARX-04b/Honda Friday and the team hopes to have that car on track by the end of the weekend.
• Inaugural TUDOR Championship GTLM champion Kuno Wittmer will drive a Dodge Viper SRT GT3-R for Riley Motorsports in the GT Daytona (GTD) class of the Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup, the team announced Friday. Dominik Farnbacher, Marc Goossens, Al Carter, Sebastiaan Bleekemolen and Cameron Lawrence also will join forces with season-long drivers Ben Keating and Jeroen Bleekemolen in a pair of Dodge Vipers sponsored by TI Automotive and ViperExchange.com. Goossens promptly set the fastest time of the day in GTD at 1:46.948.
• Starworks Motorsport came roaring out of the gate on Day 1 in the Prototype Challenge (PC) class. Renger van der Zande’s lap of 1:42.360 in the No. 8 ORECA FLM09 was 0.339 seconds quicker than runner-up Bruno Junqueira in the No. 11 AutoMaxUSA ORECA FLM09.
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