Daytona 24 Hours: Duval leads final practice from F1 exile Magnussen

The top four cars - representing all three manufacturers involved in the DPi class - were covered by less than one-tenth of a second at the end of the one-hour session.

But it was JDC-Miller's new full-timer Duval who emerged on top with a 1m35.085s lap, beating Formula 1 exile Kevin Magnussen in the similar Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac DPi-V.R.

They were just hundredths ahead of Oliver Jarvis in the Mazda RT24-P that ran only five laps on Friday, having skipped almost all of Thursday night's practice while receiving scheduled maintenance of a new engine and gearbox.

Filipe Albuquerque drove the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05 to just 0.053s off top spot.

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The two Action Express Cadillacs of Pipo Derani and Kamui Kobayashi were 0.6s and 0.7s down respectively, with Dane Cameron completing the field in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura, but an unrepresentative 1.7s off the pace.

In LMP2, Nicolas Lapierre had a red flag-causing off at Turn 5 in the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA (below), which has looked to have an edge in speed throughout practice.

That allowed John Farano to head the class in the Tower Motorsports by Starworks car, a tenth quicker than Ferdinand Habsburg in the High Class Racing entry and Tristan Nunez of WIN Autosport.

LMP3, as has come to be expected, was led by Jeroen Bleekemolen in the Riley Motorsports Ligier, while Rasmus Lindh finished the session in second for Performance Tech Motorsports.

Third went to the highest-placed Duqueine, that of Muelhner Motorsports and steered by Moritz Kranz.

Alessandro Pier Guidi slotted the Ferrari 488 of Risi Competizione marginally ahead of the WeatherTech Racing Proton Porsche 911 RSR to claim GTLM honours ahead of the Corvettes and BMWs.

The two Grasser Racing Lamborghini Huracans of Franck Perera and Mirko Bortolotti topped GTD, ahead of the AF Corse Ferrari 488 of Daniel Serra, while Richard Westbrook gave TF Sport's Aston Martin Vantage its most competitive showing of the week with fourth.

Pat Long was fifth in the Porsche 911 GT3 R of Wright Motorsports, ahead of the similar car of Team Hardpoint EBM, driven by Earl Bamber.

The 59th running of the Daytona 24 Hours begins at 3.40pm local time on Saturday.

Daytona 24 Hours final practice result

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Gap
1	DPi	T.Vautier, L.Duval, S.Bourdais	JDC-Miller Motorsports	1m35.085s
2	DPi	R.van der Zande, K.Magnussen, S.Dixon	Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing	0.012s
3	DPi	O.Jarvis, H.Tincknell, J.Bomarito	Mazda Motorsports	0.047s
4	DPi	R.Taylor, F.Albuquerque, A.Rossi, H.Castroneves	Konica Minolta Acura	0.053s
5	DPi	F.Nasr, M.Conway, P.Derani, C.Elliott	Whelen Engineering Racing	0.667s
6	DPi	J.Johnson, K.Kobayashi, S.Pagenaud, M.Rockenfeller	Ally Cadillac Racing	0.732s
7	LMP2	J.Farano, G.Aubry, T.Buret, M.Vaxiviere	Tower Motorsport by Starworks	1.363s
8	LMP2	D.Andersen, F.Habsburg, A.Fjordbach, R.Kubica	High Class Racing	1.487s
9	DPi	D.Cameron, O.Pla, J.P.Montoya, A.Allmendinger	Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	1.669s
10	LMP2	S.Thomas, T.Nunez, T.Merrill, M.Bell	WIN Autosport	1.786s
11	LMP2	R.Hodes, G.Grist, R.Van Kalmthout, B.Hanley	Dragonspeed USA	2.020s
12	LMP2	R.Lacorte, A.Fuoco, A.Belicchi, G.Sernagiotto	Cetilar Racing	2.670s
13	LMP2	E.Lux, D.Defrancesco, F.Schiller, C.Mies	Dragonspeed USA	2.807s
14	LMP2	D.Merriman, K.Tilley, R.Dalziel, P-L.Chatin	Era Motorsport	3.019s
15	LMP2	C.Ware, S.Yoluc, A.Dillon, S.Muller	RWR Eurasia	3.711s
16	LMP2	F.van Eerd, G.van der Garde, J.van Uitert, C.Milesi	Racing Team Nederland	3.718s
17	LMP2	B.Keating, M.Jensen, S.Huffaker, N.Lapierre	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	4.103s
18	GTLM	J.Calado, A.P.Guidi, J.Gounon, D.Rigon	Risi Competizione	7.499s
19	GTLM	C.MacNeil, K.Estre, R.Lietz, G.Bruni	WeatherTech Racing	7.518s
20	GTLM	T.Milner, N.Tandy, A.Sims	Corvette Racing	7.641s
21	GTLM	C.De Phillippi, P.Eng, T.Glock, B.Spengler	BMW Team RLL	7.825s
22	GTLM	J.M.Edwards, J.Krohn, A.Farfus, M.Wittmann	BMW Team RLL	7.835s
23	GTLM	A.Garcia, J.Taylor, N.Catsburg	Corvette Racing	7.937s
24	LMP3	J.Cox, D.Murry, A.McCusker, J.Bleekemolen	Riley Motorsports	7.987s
25	LMP3	R.Lindh, C.Cassels, M.Llarena, A.Ori	Performance Tech Motorsports	8.624s
26	LMP3	M.Kranz, L.Horr, K.Koch, S.McAleer	Muehlner Motorsports America	9.115s
27	GTD	M.Goikhberg, F.Perera, A.Costa, T.Zimmermann	GRT Grasser Racing Team	10.498s
28	GTD	R.Ineichen, M.Bortolotti, S.Schothorst, M.Mapelli	GRT Grasser Racing Team	10.652s
29	GTD	S.Mann, N.Nielsen, D.Serra, M.Cressoni	AF Corse	10.902s
30	GTD	M.Root, C.Eastwood, B.Keating, R.Westbrook	TF Sport	10.926s
31	GTD	T.Hindman, P.Long, J.Heylen, K.Bachler	Wright Motorsports	11.009s
32	GTD	R.Ferriol, E.Bamber, K.Legge, C.Nielsen	Team Hardpoint EBM	11.326s
33	GTD	B.Sellers, M.Snow, C.Lewis, A.Caldarelli	Paul Miller Racing	11.340s
34	GTD	R.Megennis, Z.Veach, T.Bell, F.Montecalvo	Vasser Sullivan	11.390s
35	GTD	J.Potter, A.Lally, S.Pumpelly, M.Farnbacher	Magnus with Archangel	11.426s
36	GTD	R.Ward, P.Ellis, I.Dontje, M.Engel	Winward Racing	11.961s
37	GTD	D.Morad, M.De Quesada, B.Johnson, M.Buhk	Alegra Motorsports	11.976s
38	GTD	Z.Robichon, L.Vanthoor, L.Kern, M.Campbell	Pfaff Motorsports	12.188s
39	GTD	B.Auberlen, R.Foley, A.Read, C.Herta	Turner Motorsport	12.690s
40	GTD	I.James, R.De Angelis, D.Turner, R.Gunn	Heart of Racing Team	13.674s
41	LMP3	M.Kvamme, R.Norman, G.Chaves, T.Estep	Forty7 Motorsports	13.724s
42	LMP3	G.Robinson, S.Pigot, S.Andrews, O.Askew	Riley Motorsports	13.740s
43	LMP3	L.Willsey, J.Barbosa, W.Boyd, Y.Clairay	Sean Creech Motorsport	28.812s
44	GTD	A.Telitz, O.Gavin, K.Kirkwood, J.Hawksworth	Vasser Sullivan	-
45	GTD	A.Metni, A.Davis, J.Hildebrand, D.Yount	NTE Sport	-
46	LMP3	J.Bennett, G.Kurtz, C.Braun, M.McMurry	CORE Autosport	-
47	GTD	E.Jones, B.Curtis, R.Briscoe, M.Gomes	Scuderia Corsa	-
48	GTD	T.Giovanis, O.Trinkler, H.Plumb, M.Plumb	Team TGM	-
49	GTD	K.Habul, R.Marciello, M.Grenier, L.Stolz	Sun Energy 1	-