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WTR leads Acura 1-2 in opening practice at Daytona

WTR leads Acura 1-2 in opening practice at Daytona

A lap of 1min35.309sec from Ricky Taylor on his 10th lap put WTR’s Acura ARX-05 just under three-tenths of a second clear of the similar car of Meyer Shank Racing and over six-tenths ahead of Sebastien Bourdais in the quickest Cadillac DPi-V.R, the #01 of Chip Ganassi Racing.

Bourdais’ teammate in CGR’s new #02 entry, Kevin Magnussen, was a mere two-hundredths shy in what is set to be his final event in a Cadillac before switching his attention to the Peugeot WEC project.

The endurance-only Action Express Racing Caddy entry, the #48, wound up ahead of the full-time #31 car, the pair split by Tristan Vautier’s best effort in the JDC-Miller MotorSports machine.

Racing Team Nederland #29 Oreca led LMP2 thanks to Giedo van der Garde’s best effort, a 1m36.262sec – less than a tenth slower than the slowest DPi time. That put the Dutch car over one second ahead of Tower Motorsports whose best time was set by Ferdinand Habsburg, and High Class Racing’s Anders Fjordbach.

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