The Mexican 21-year-old turned a 1m49.251sap of the 3.56-mile course and then promptly spun, but he had done enough to ensure an LMP2 car was on top by 0.016 seconds.
The DragonSpeed car managed 33 laps in the 90-minute session, some 1.5s ahead of next fastest LMP2 runner Nico Muller in the High Class Racing machine, with Frits Van Eerd third for Racing Team Nederland ahead of Paul-Loup Chatin.
In the DPi class, Earl Bamber’s 1m49.267s lap in the #02 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R gave him a similar margin as O’Ward over the nearest opposition, Filipe Albuquerque in the 2021 Daytona 24-winning Acura ARX-05 of Wayne Taylor Racing.
Next up was Oliver Jarvis of Meyer Shank Racing, the #60 Acura being the only DPi car to do more than a dozen laps in the session, as teams expect the damp conditions at the moment to be unrepresentative of how Daytona will be this weekend.
Forecasts suggest instead that it will be extremely cold, with temperatures hovering around freezing…
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