. mattcampbell22_ puts PorscheRaces 963 and Team_Penske on top in Rolex24 night practice at Daytona
The Penske-run #7 Porsche 963 of Campbell was the first car to duck below the 1min36 barrier, turning a 1min35.802sec after 20mins to eclipse the Cadillac V-LMDh cars of Alex Lynn and Alexander Sims by over 0.4sec. Ricky Taylor moved up to also shade the Caddys, but was still over 0.33 sec off top spot.
Colton Herta took the #25 BMW M Hybrid V8 to within 0.66sec of the top spot, ahead of the second Porsche, the Meyer Shank Racing Acura and the #24 BMW which turned the fewest laps.Oliver Jarvis of Era Motorsport and Rinus VeeKay in the #11 TDS Racing car were the early pacesetters, but after the first red flag, Ben Hanley in the Crowdstrike Racing by APR machine jumped to the top with a 1min38.801sec effort.
Matthieu Vaxiviere in the #88 AF Corse car moved up to fourth in the closing stages of the session and then moved ahead of McLaughlin by a mere four-hundredths, but found a clear enough lap to bounce into top spot by 0.139sec in the dying minutes.Rasmus Lindh in the Andretti Autosport Ligier delivered 1min42.559sec with less than 25mins to go, 0.325sec ahead of Wayne Boyd in the #17 AWA Duqueine, with the other AWA of Matthew Bell third.
Parker Thompson in the GTD Lexus RC F was within the same tenth, ahead of Luca Stolz in the SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 and Danny Formal in the Racers Edge Acura NSX.
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