Colin Braun set the pace for Acura in the opening official practice session of the reborn GTP era of the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Daytona⏱️ His Meyer Shank Racing machine pipped Penske Porsche driver Felipe Nasr by 0.141s ⬇️
Braun lapped the 3.56-mile road course, which hosts the Daytona 24 Hours next weekend, in 1m35.635s to top the timesheet in the opening session of the three-day ‘Roar Before The 24’ event in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06.
Felipe Nasr then put the #7 Penske Porsche 963 on top with 1m35.776s, with Ricky Taylor lapping the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-06 within 0.027s of that. Yelloly improved to 1m35.808s for third, 0.032s off the pace. In LMP2, Alex Quinn set the pace in PR1/Mathiasen’s ORECA, 0.184s faster than Oliver Jarvis aboard Era Motorsport’s similar machine. Scott McLaughlin quickly got to grips with Tower’s ORECA, the IndyCar star rising to third, four tenths off the class pace.
Meanwhile Aston Martin set the pace in the GT Daytona ranks, with Andy Lally heading Ross Gunn and Owen Trinkler .
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