Oliver Jarvis has put Mazda Team Joest on pole for the 58th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The Briton set a time of 01:33:711 in the #77 Mazda RT24-P to grab the top spot in qualifying.
This was 0.443s clear of the #6 Team Penske Acura ARX-05 of Juan Pablo Montoya. Montoya’s time was just 0.015s clear of the #55 Mazda of Jonathan Bomarito. The Cadillacs lock out the fourth to seventh positions, with Felipe Nasr the lead DPI-VR in the #31 Whelen Engineering machine. Ryan Briscoe took fourth for Wayne Taylor Racing.
Tristan Vautier was fifth in the #85 JDC-Miller Motorsports ahead of Joao Barbosa’s #5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac.
The session for prototypes was interrupted when Ricky Taylor crashed the #7 Acura ARX-05 at the bus stop chicane. Taylor lost control of his car after jumping over a kerb on the apex, and went straight on into the tyre barrier. Taylor was unhurt.
Ben Keating put PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports on pole in LMP2, as he set a time of 01:37:446 in the #52 ORECA 07-Gibson. Henrik Hedman was just under three-tenths slower than Keating in the #81 Dragonspeed ORECA, but over 1,5 seconds clear of John Farano in #8 Tower Motorsport by Starworks entry. Cameron Cassels was fourth for Performance Tech Motorsports, with Era Motorsport last in class.
Porsche dominated qualifying in the GT categories. In GTLM, the German manufacturer took a front row lockout. Nick Tandy stormed to pole in the #911 Porsche 911 RSR-19, posting a time of 01:42:207. This was a mere 0.049s faster than team-mate Laurens Vanthoor in the #912 Porsche.
Corvette Racing locked out the second row. Antonio Garcia took third in the #3 Corvette C8.R, 0.338s behind Tandy but 0.256s clear of Tommy Milner in the #4 Corvette. Philipp Eng was fifth in the #25 BMW M8 GTE ahead of the other BMW of John Edwards. Alessandro Pier Guidi brought up the rear in the #62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE.
Pfaff Motorsports ensured a GT lockout for Porsche as Zacharie Robichon put the #9 Porsche 911 GT3 R on pole in GT Daytona. The Canadian posted a time of 01:45:237 to outpace Jeff Westphal in the #63 Scuderia Corse Ferrari 488 GT3. Trent Hindman, who took the 2019 GTD title, qualified third in the #57 Heinricher Racing Acura NSX GT3 Evo.
