Mazda Team Joest continues to top the timesheets as the Roar Before the 24 enters its second day.
Harry Tincknell topped the Saturday morning session in the #55 Mazda RT24-P with a time of 01:35:679, with Olivier Pla second in the #77. Pla was just 0.034s quicker than compatriot Tristan Vautier in JDC-Miller Motorsports’ #85 Cadillac DPi-VR.
Fourth went to #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac of Felipe Nasr while defending race winner Renger van der Zande rounded out the top five in #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac.
Colin Braun led LMP2 comfortably, with the Dragonspeed ORECA 07-Gibson well over a second clear of Gabriel Aubry’s PR1/Mathiasen ORECA.
Connor de Philippi led GTLM with a time of 01:44:142 in the #25 BMW M8 GTE ahead of the two Porsche 911 RSR-19s of Mathieu Jaminet and Nick Tandy. James Calado was fourth in the #82 Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE while the two Corvette C8.Rs once again brought up the rear in class.
Albert Costa’s 01:47:084 put the #11 Grasser Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo fastest ahead of Trent Hindman’s #57 Heinricher Racing Acura NSX GT3 Evo and the #44 GRT Magnus Lamborghini of Spencer Pumpelly.