Daytona 24 Hours: DeltaWing leads practice with Katherine Legge

The DeltaWing-Elan/Mazda DWC13 went fastest with Andy Meyrick and Sean Rayhall at the wheel over the course of the one-hour Friday free practice period before Legge posted a 1m38.590s.

That put the Panoz DeltaWing Racing entry three tenths up on Olivier Pla's second-placed time of 1m39.745s aboard the Michael Shank Racing Ligier-Honda JSP2.

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Third place was taken by Johannes van Overbeek in the Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier-Honda with a 1m39.745s.

The fastest Daytona Prototype was the Wayne Taylor Racing Dallara-Chevrolet Corvette DP in which Max Angelelli set a 1m40.557s to take fifth position on the timesheets.

The pole-winning SMP Racing BRE-Nissan BR01 stopped on circuit with an engine problem early in a session interrupted by two red flags.

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The GT Le Mans field was led by Bill Auberlen in the best of the Rahal BMW M6 GTLMs.

His time of 1m44.966s put him ahead of team-mate Lucas Luhr, who ended up on a 1m45.199s.

Alessandro Pier Guidi was third fastest in class in Scuderia Corsa's Ferrari 488 GTE on a 1m45.232s.

Earl Bamber took fourth in the quickest of the CORE-run factory Porsche 911 RSRs.

Tom Kimber-Smith was fastest in the Prototype Challenge class for the PR1/Mathiasen squad and Jorg Bergmeister quickest in GTD aboard the pole-winning Park Place Porsche 911 GT3-R.

LEADING PRACTICE FOUR TIMES:

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap
1	P	K.Legge, S.Rayhall, A.Meyrick, A.Wirth	Panoz DeltaWing Racing	DeltaWing/Elan	1m38.590s	-
2	P	J.Pew, O.Negri, A.Allmendinger, O.Pla	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Ligier/HPD	1m38.881s	0.291s
3	P	S.Sharp, E.Brown, J.van Overbeek, P.Derani	Tequila Patron ESM	Ligier/HPD	1m39.745s	1.155s
4	P	J.Bomarito, T.Nunez, S.Pigot	Mazda Motorsports	Lola/Mazda	1m40.376s	1.786s
5	P	R.Taylor, J.Taylor, M.Angelelli, R.Barrichello	Wayne Taylor Racing	Corvette/Chevrolet	1m40.557s	1.967s
6	P	C.Fittipaldi, J.Barbosa, F.Albuquerque, S.Pruett	Action Express Racing	Corvette/Chevrolet	1m40.601s	2.011s
7	P	L.Stroll, A.Wurz, B.Hartley, A.Priaulx	Chip Ganassi Racing	Riley/Ford	1m40.767s	2.177s
8	P	S.Dixon, T.Kanaan, J.McMurray, K.Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Riley/Ford	1m40.813s	2.223s
9	P	J.Miller, T.Long, B.Devlin	Mazda Motorsports	Lola/Mazda	1m41.433s	2.843s
10	P	D.Cameron, E.Curran, S.Pagenaud, J.Adam	Action Express Racing	Corvette/Chevrolet	1m41.543s	2.953s