Yahoo Autos Rolex 24 Qualifying: Pipo Derani, Cadillac Lead Assault on Record Book at Daytona
Pipo Derani led GTP qualifying at Daytona, where all nine of the hybrid prototypes bettered the track record in the second WeatherTech Championship season for the hybrid prototypes.
On board the Cadillac V-Series.R of Action Express, Derani’s lap smashed the previous mark set by Oliver Jarvis in a DPi Mazda in 2019.
GTD PRO, GTD
It was a different story for the highly touted GTD Pro category.
In a qualifying session where it was difficult to determine who got the biggest sandbagging award, the qualifying debut of the new Corvette Z06 GT3.R and the Mustang GT3 in the WeatherTech Championship was ho-hum. Like most of the other factory teams, the Corvette and Mustang poked around to lap times comfortable enough to avoid any additional Balance of Performance hits prior to next weekend’s Rolex 24.
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The Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) of AO Racing won the GTD Pro pole in the hands of Seb Priaulx. The AO team with its “T-Rex” paint scheme had the incentive of vying to get more factory assistance from Porsche.
Jack Hawksworth, driver of the Lexus RC F of Vasser Sullivan, was 0.080 seconds adrift, indicating an all-out assault for the pole and points by the team that considers its cars handicapped on the banking.
