Daytona 24H: Vanithoor on pole for BMW in LMDH

BMW snatched the pole position for the Daytona 24 Hours during an disrupted qualifying session for this weekend’s IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener.

venthoor The run by Rahal Team in the #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh jumped to the top of the times on his final lap meyer shank racing acura driver Nick Yellowlee From the pole.

Vanthoor’s 1M33.895s gave him a margin of almost three tenths over former BMW driver Yelloly, who posted 1M34.186s in the dramatic final stages of Thursday’s 15-minute session.

“It was not easy with Red Flag; It made the tires a little tricky,” said Vanthoor, who also set the fastest time during last weekend’s official pre-event Roar testing.

“We are improving on that – it was a struggle point last year.

“Then it was about adopting together.”

When running with the #25 BMW was banned Sheldon Van Der Linde The wheel at the end of the infield stopped on the track for as yet unknown reasons, resulting in a short stoppage while the clock continued running.

felip nasar 2024 Daytona winner took third for Porsche, his 1M34.280s in #7 porsche penske motorsport The entry left him about four tenths behind.

Cadillac took a step up from the Roar following a mid-week balance of performance change, in which it has gained 20kW or 26BHP to its baseline power output, jack aitken taking fourth in action express racing Entry.

Briton’s 1M34.350s among the best of the Caddy v-series. gianmaria bruni In the JDC-MILLER COTORSPORTS customer Porsche, who lapped in 1M34.374s.

tom blomqvist The #60 Shank was sitting on top of the times starting his final lap at 1M34.432 in the Acura, but was unable to improve after he came Mirko Bortolotti Solo Lamborghini SC63 in LMDH as he drifted onto the banking after the infield.

Both cars appeared to make the lightest of contacts in the incident, resulting in Blomqvist aborting his lap.

philip albuquerque was the fastest wayne taylor racing Entries mark the return of multiple Daytona-winning teams to Cadillacs.

The Portuguese driver took seventh with a 1M34.933s, just two hundredths of a second behind team-mate Louis Deleterz,

Bortolotti was ninth fastest in the Lambo, while the second PPM entry was tenth. matt campbellHand.

United Autosports tops LMP2 with a time driven by his #22 Oreca-Gibson 07 Daniel Goldberg,

The 1M38.676s from the American gave him a margin of just over three tenths Ben Keating,

PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports The driver looked on course for his sixth consecutive P2 pole with 1M39.000s before being overtaken by Goldberg for second place.

Nick Bowles scored a 1-3 qualifying result for United with a 1m39.203s in the team’s #2 entry.

he benefited from the demotion pj height In the AO Racing Oreca, he lost two of his fastest laps when he red-shocked the session in the final seconds.

Hyett chris cumming And steven thomas at their respective Pratt Miller Motorsports and tds racing Orecas.

Ford blocked the front row at GT Daytona Pro with its Mustang GT3, mike rockenfeller proceed from Frederick Vervisch,

RockenFeller set two laps good enough for pole, finishing at 1M45.523s in the #64 Multimatic Motorsport entry.

This gave him an advantage of three tenths over Vervisch’s 1M45.855s in the sister #65 car.

BMW took third place dan harper #48 in paul miller racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO with 1M46.005S.

Alexander Sims The #3 Chevrolet Corvette was just seven thousandths behind in Z06.GT3 on 1M46.012s.

Lamborghini finished fifth driven by a Pfaff Motorsport Huracan GT3 EVO2 Andrea Caldarelli Ahead of tommy milner in #4 corvette racing Entry.

Porsche claims class honors in regular GTD class elliot scheer Set off Wright Motorsports 911 GT3-R.

A 1M46.634s gave the American, winner of last year’s GT World Challenge, the top spot by two hundredths of a second. philip ellis Mercedes-AMG GT3 at Winward Racing.

Trent Hindman Wayne Taylor Racing was third in the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2.

The Rolex 24 meeting at Daytona resumes at 18:30 local time with a 90-minute night practice session.

Photos from Thursday’s 24 Hours of Daytona