Ben Keating took a fourth LMP2 pole at Daytona in the #52 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA LMP2 07 with windy conditions that made it a bit treacherous. Two cars went off road triggering red flag.

Nico Pino scored his first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pole with a blistering lap of 1:43.197 (124.189 mph) in the #33 Sean Creech Motorsport Ligier JS P320.

Louis Deletraz come back to his IMSA season with Tower in LMP2 and tells us about his move to Wayne Taylor Racing in GTP.

Corvette Racing will continue its commitment to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2023 in GTD PRO class while taking on a new challenge by transitioning into GTE Am competition in the FIA WEC.

The race in GTD PRO was very intense with the top 3 ending within 5 sec. Matthieu Jaminet won the class with Pfaff Motorsport Porsche #9 co-driven by Matt Campbell and Felipe Nasr.

The race was very tight from start to finish as the top 4 finished within 5.615 sec., after having exchanged the lead in the closing hours and seeing all seven DPi cars on the lead during the first half of the race.

Many changes of leaders during the first half of the race with the 7 DPi’s within 5.5 sec. Currently #5 JDC Miller Motorsport Cadillac holds the lead thanks to less pits than competitors. In GTE PRO, 6 cars are within 6.6 sec.

Four time Indy car Champion Sebastien Bourdais dominated the session and was the only one to cover the lap in less than 1:35 with his #01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac.

Poor weather conditions for the Thursday sessions with a mostly wet track.

The second practice saw some dryer laps enabling the 2 WEC 2021 World Drivers Champions to perform the fastest laps with K. Kobayashi (#48 Ally Cadillac) in P1 and M. Conway (#31 Whelen Engineering Racing) in P2. 

Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, Alexander Rossi and Will Stevens will start the 60th running of the 24 hours of Daytona from pole as Taylor and Albuquerque won the Rolex qualifying 100 minutes race this Sunday.

After finishing second in the FIA World Endurance Championship LMP2 class in 2021, Blomqvist made his debut in Dpi by turning the fastest lap of the two practice sessions Friday at the ROAR before Rolex 24 at Daytona with the # 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-05.