The Action Express Cadillacs of first Mike Conway and then Joao Barbosa hit the top of the Prototype times, despite Albuquerque briefly suffering a broken throttle.

However, this pair were shoved aside by the similar Wayne Taylor Racing Caddy as Jordan Taylor became the first and only driver in this session to crack the 1min50sec barrier, ringing up a 1m49.888s.

That put him 0.215 ahead of Barbosa’s best in the #5 car, and almost half a second clear of Conway’s time in the entry of reigning champions Dane Cameron/Eric Curran.

Reigning WEC champion Neel Jani eventually whittled the Rebellion Racing Oreca’s deficit down to seven tenths of a second, with Tristan Nunez in the #55 Mazda a further 0.7sec behind. Brendon Hartley spun the #22 Extreme Speed Motorsport Nissan-Ligier in the closing minutes and wound up sixth.

GT Le Mans saw Corvette Racing back where it belongs, the defending Sebring winner Tommy Milner putting the #4 at the top, and Antonio Garcia grabbing third. The yellow pair were split by last week’s St. Petersburg IndyCar winner Sebastien Bourdais in the #66 Ford GT which was less than two-tenths off top spot.

Patrick Pilet drove his #911 Porsche 911 RSR to fourth, just ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella’s best in the Risi Competizione Ferrari 488, and the other two Fords of Stefan Mucke and Scott Dixon.

GT Daytona continued to see the Audi R8 LMS machines of Stevenson Motorsports and Land-Motorsport looking strong, with Andrew Davis putting the #57 car some 0.2sec clear at the head of the charts. However, this time the R8s were split by a superlative effort from Austin Cindric in the #15 Lexus RC F of 3GT Racing. Behind Christopher Mies in the Land-Motorsport car was Patrick Lindsey in the Park Place Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R, Spencer Pumpelly in Alegra Motorsport’s similar Porsche and Sage Karam in the second Lexus.

Colin Thompson put BAR1 on top in Prototype Challenge, 0.13sec up on Pato O’Ward’s Performance Tech entry.

Pos	Driver	Class	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Jordan Taylor    Ricky Taylor    Alex Lynn	P	Cadillac DPi	21	1'49.888
2	Christian Fittipaldi    Filipe Albuquerque    Joao Barbosa	P	Cadillac DPi	23	1'50.103	0.215
3	Mike Conway    Dane Cameron    Eric Curran	P	Cadillac DPi	17	1'50.370	0.482
4	Nick Heidfeld    Sébastien Buemi    Neel Jani	P	ORECA	27	1'50.602	0.714
5	Spencer Pigot    Jonathan Bomarito    Tristan Nunez	P	Mazda DPi	22	1'51.281	1.393
6	Bruno Senna    Brendon Hartley    Ed Brown    Johannes van Overbeek	P	Nissan DPi	23	1'51.610	1.722
7	Mikhail Goikhberg    Chris Miller    Stephen Simpson	P	ORECA	22	1'51.786	1.898
8	Tom Long    Joel Miller    Marino Franchitti	P	Mazda DPi	21	1'52.233	2.345
9	Tom Kimber-Smith    Jose Gutierrez    Mike Guasch	P	Ligier	25	1'52.549	2.661
10	René Rast    Marc Goossens    Renger van der Zande	P	Multimatic/Riley	20	1'53.062	3.174
11	Gustavo Yacaman    Colin Thompson    Marc Drumwright    Chapman Ducote	PC	ORECA FLM09	23	1'54.741	4.853
12	James French    Kyle Masson    Patricio O'Ward	PC	ORECA FLM09	23	1'54.875	4.987
13	Marcel Fassler    Oliver Gavin    Tommy Milner	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	23	1'57.206	7.318
14	Sébastien Bourdais    Joey Hand    Dirk Müller	GTLM	Ford GT	20	1'57.372	7.484
15	Jan Magnussen    Antonio Garcia    Mike Rockenfeller	GTLM	Corvette C7.R	21	1'57.433	7.545
16	Patrick Pilet    Frédéric Makowiecki    Dirk Werner	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	14	1'57.441	7.553
17	Giancarlo Fisichella    James Calado    Toni Vilander	GTLM	Ferrari 488 GTE	22	1'57.501	7.613
18	Stefan Mücke    Olivier Pla    Billy Johnson	GTLM	Ford GT	25	1'57.528	7.640
19	Ryan Briscoe    Scott Dixon    Richard Westbrook	GTLM	Ford GT	17	1'57.571	7.683
20	Garett Grist    Max Hanratty    James Dayson	PC	ORECA FLM09	22	1'57.817	7.929
21	Don Yount    Buddy Rice    Daniel Burkett	PC	ORECA FLM09	22	1'58.246	8.358
22	Richard Lietz    Kevin Estre    Laurens Vanthoor	GTLM	Porsche 911 RSR	23	1'58.330	8.442
23	John Edwards    Nicky Catsburg    Martin Tomczyk	GTLM	BMW M6 GTLM	20	1'58.475	8.587
24	Bill Auberlen    Kuno Wittmer    Alexander Sims	GTLM	BMW M6 GTLM	26	1'59.765	9.877
25	Lawson Aschenbach    Andrew Davis    Matt Bell	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	24	2'01.449	11.561
26	Austin Cindric    Jack Hawksworth    Robert Alon	GTD	Lexus RCF GT3	20	2'01.676	11.788
27	Connor de Phillippi    Jules Gounon    Christopher Mies	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	22	2'01.692	11.804
28	Jörg Bergmeister    Patrick Lindsey    Matt McMurry	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	24	2'01.705	11.817
29	Michael Christensen    Daniel Morad    Spencer Pumpelly    Michael de Quesada	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	23	2'01.751	11.863
30	Scott Pruett    Ian James    Sage Karam	GTD	Lexus RCF GT3	16	2'01.816	11.928
31	Matteo Cressoni    Christina Nielsen    Alessandro Balzan	GTD	Ferrari 488 GT3	24	2'01.866	11.978
32	Justin Marks    Jens Klingmann    Jesse Krohn	GTD	BMW M6 GT3	25	2'01.961	12.073
33	Townsend Bell    Frankie Montecalvo    Bill Sweedler	GTD	Audi R8 LMS GT3	22	2'01.988	12.100
34	Boris Said    Kenny Habul    Tristan Vautier	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	18	2'02.039	12.151
35	Jeroen Bleekemolen    Ben Keating    Mario Farnbacher	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	23	2'02.101	12.213
36	Cooper MacNeil    Gunnar Jeannette    Shane van Gisbergen	GTD	Mercedes-AMG GT3	18	2'02.278	12.390
37	Andy Lally    Katherine Legge    Mark Wilkins	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	20	2'02.455	12.567
38	Dion von Moltke    Bryan Sellers    Madison Snow	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	21	2'02.611	12.723
39	Emmanuel Collard    Fabio Babini    Emanuele Busnelli    Michele Beretta	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	24	2'02.849	12.961
40	Jeff Segal    Oswaldo Negri Jr.    Tom Dyer	GTD	Acura NSX GT3	20	2'03.553	13.665
41	Paolo Ruberti    Lawrence DeGeorge    Cedric Sbirrazzuoli	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	21	2'03.830	13.942
42	Niclas Jönsson    Jon Bennett    Colin Braun	GTD	Porsche 911 GT3 R	19	2'04.652	14.764
43	Brandon Gdovic    Anthony Massari    Emmanuel Anassis	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	22	2'05.970	16.082
44	Brett Sandberg    Corey Lewis    Jeroen Mul	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	5	2'06.046	16.158
45	Richard Antinucci    Rolf Ineichen    Mirko Bortolotti    Christian Engelhart	GTD	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	3	2'36.376	46.488