Wayne Taylor Racing will start the 2022 Rolex 24 at Daytona from pole position after winning the Roar qualifying race.
Defending winners Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor won the 100-minute sprint contest in their #10 Acura ARX-05, despite late contact with the Mustang Sampling Cadillac.
The #5 DPi-VR of Tristan Vautier and Richard Westbrook started from pole, but Taylor made his way out front after the pitstops. Taylor then came under heavy pressure from Westbrook, which culminated with a failed lunge into turn one sending the Briton into a spin in the closing minutes.
Westbrook recovered to second, with Kamui Kobayashi and Jimmie Johnson third for Ally Cadillac Racing.
Oliver Jarvis and Tom Blomqvist took fourth. The two Chip Ganassi Racing cadillac were fifth and sixth after speeding penalties for both cars. The #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac came in last after a late fuel stop.
PR1/Mathiasen headline LMP2
PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports has dominated proceedings in LMP2 and will start the Rolex 24 with both of its cars on the front row.
Mikkel Jensen and Ben Keating started out front in the #52 ORECA 07-Gibson, with Steven Thomas and Jonathan Bomarito second in the #11 sister car. Thomas briefly took the lead from Keating early on, but once the roles reverserd back the bright #52 car remained out in front.
Rene Rast and Francois Herieau took third in the #68 G-Drive Racing ORECA, ahead of Dennis Andersen and Fabio Scherer in the #20 High Class Racing car.
Top five was rounded out by Eric Lux and Devlin DeFrancesco in the #81 DragonSpeed ORECA, withe #29 Racing Team Nederland ORECA sixth, G-Drive’s second car seventh and Tower Motorsport and United Autosports eighth and ninth respectively.
In LMP3, Andretti Autosport will start the race from pole thanks to Jarett Andretti and Josh Burdon. The #36 Ligier JS P320 took the lead after the pitstops, with its class win set in stone when the polesitting #26 Muehlner Motorsports Duqueine suffered mechanical troubles.
The second Muehlner Duqueine came home in second, ahead of the #13 AWA Duqueine of Orey Fidani and Kuno Wittmer.
Bortolotti seals Lamborghini pole
Mirko Bortolotti has ensured that TR3 Racing will start from GTD Pro pole position for the team’s IMSA debut.
Bortolotti went on a charge in the #63 Lamborghini Huracan Gt3 Evo after the pitstops, passing both WeatherTech Racing’s Alesssio Picariello and Pfaff Motorsport’s Felipe Nasr to go on to win.
Picariello finished second in the #79 Porsche 911 GT3 R, with Nasr third in the #9 Porsche. The #97 WeatherTech Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo will start fourth, with the top five rounded out by the #15 Proton USA Mercedes.
Winward Racing will start its GTD title defence from pole position, with the #57 Mercedes-AMG GT Evo finishing ahea of the #59 Crucial Motorsports McLaren 720S GT3 and Wright Motorsports third with their #16 Porsche 911 GT3 R.
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