There was a disrupted start to proceedings for the Daytona24 Hours, as no less than five red flags appeared in FP1. Report ⬇️
After a GTD car choking on pit entry caused the first red flag, the running was interrupted again after only 16 minutes due to debris at Turn 2. At that point, only Philipp Eng in the #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 had set a vaguely representative time, with a 1m39.586s.
The #7 Porsche 963 and the #25 BMW M Hybrid V8 missed much of the session with technical issues, a suspected steering issue for the 963 and a misfire for the M Hybrid V8, although both did eventually hit the track. In LMP2, Fred Poordad’s 1m40.456s, set in the first 15 minutes, was faster than Ben Keating’s pole time in the class, but that was swiftly eclipsed by his team partner in the TDS Racing entry Job van Uitert , TDS team-mate Mikkel Jensen, Ryan Dalziel of Era Motorsport and Josef Newgarden in the rebuilt Tower Motorsport machine.
In the brief period between the fourth and fifth red flags, Gabby Chaves slotted the Andretti Autosport entry into second, 0.091s behind Fraga’s top time.
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