Mike Conway in the #31 AXR Cadillac DPi V.R moved to the front after the team’s enduro-only #48 enduro entry picked up two drive through penalties when Jose Maria Lopez peeled into the lane in the third hour to hand over the driving duties to Kamui Kobayashi.
Will Stevens sits a strong second in the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura after taking over from Ricky Taylor, with Richard Westbrook moving up to third in the #5 JDC-Miller Mustang.
Mercedes Formula E driver Stoffel Vandoorne was running fourth on his IMSA debut for the #60 Meyer Shank Acura, with Kobayashi a distant sixth in the #48 AXR behind the #02 Chip Ganassi Cadillac of Earl Bamber.
Kobayashi’s teammate Lopez had jumped both the #31 AXR and the #10 Acura in the third hour by stopping earlier, but the #48 crew was penalised on two different counts for spinning the wheels in the pits and speeding into the pitlane.
Former IndyCar ace Ryan Hunter-Reay was circulating 35 laps down after the #01 Chip Ganassi Cadillac that…
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