Daytona 24 Hours: Jarvis gives Mazda pole as #7 Penske Acura crashes

Jarvis set a 1m33.711s lap of the 3.56-mile circuit, and pitted his AER-engined Mazda RT24-P early in the Daytona Prototype international session after beating Juan Pablo Montoya's Penske Acura by 0.443 seconds and Mazda team-mate Jonathan Bomarito by 0.458s.

While the #6 Acura qualified second, Taylor was only seventh in the sister #7 entry after crashing at the Bus Stop chicane.

He bounced off the new kerb at the first part of the chicane, landing with his wheels pointing the wrong way, and had too much momentum to gather up the car before it ploughed over the grass and into the tyre wall.

Taylor stepped from his car without assistance, and surveyed its front-end damage before being taken to the medical centre for a check-up.

Felipe Nasr was the fastest Cadillac driver in the Action Express Racing entry, ahead of Wayne Taylor Racing's new full-time recruit Ryan Briscoe.

The JDC Miller Cadillacs of Tristan Vautier and Joao Barbosa were sixth and eighth, 0.743s and 1.336s off the pace respectively.

In LMP2, Ben Keating gave the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports squad pole, beating Henrik Hedman's DragonSpeed entry by 0.282s.

A gripping battle between the two Porsche 911 RSRs in the GT Le Mans class was resolved in favour of the #911 car, with Nick Tandy beating Laurens Vanthoor by just 0.049s as both beat the previous qualifying lap record.

Tandy's 1min42.207s was 0.338s faster than the quicker of the two Corvette C8.Rs, which will start third and fourth in class on their debut.

The BMW M8s of Phillipp Eng and John Edwards were 0.734s and 0.882s off the pace, while Alessandro Pier Guidi's Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE was a surprising 1.46s adrift.

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In the GT Daytona class, Zacharie Robichon set a new track record to claim pole in the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R.

His 1m45.237s gave the car he will share with Dennis Olsen, Lars Kern and Patrick Pilet pole by an impressive 0.476s over Jeff Westphal's Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488.

Qualifying result

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Gap
1	DPi	O.Jarvis, T.Nunez, O.Pla	Mazda Team Joest	Mazda	1m33.711s
2	DPi	D.Cameron, S.Pagenaud, J.P.Montoya	Acura Team Penske	Acura	0.443s
3	DPi	J.Bomarito, H.Tincknell, R.H.-Reay	Mazda Team Joest	Mazda	0.458s
4	DPi	M.Conway, P.Derani, F.Albuquerque, F.Nasr	Whelen Engineering Racing	Cadillac	0.583s
5	DPi	R.van der Zande, R.Briscoe, S.Dixon, K.Kobayashi	Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R	Cadillac	0.731s
6	DPi	J.Piedrahita, M.Leist, C.Miller, T.Vautier	JDC-Miller Motorsports	Cadillac	0.743s
7	DPi	S.Bourdais, L.Duval, J.Barbosa	JDC-Mustang Sampling Racing	Cadillac	1.336s
8	LMP2	B.Keating, S.Trummer, N.Boulle, G.Aubry	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	ORECA/Gibson	3.735s
9	LMP2	B.Hanley, H.Hedman, C.Braun, H.Newey	DragonSpeed	ORECA/Gibson	4.017s
10	LMP2	R.Dalziel, D.H.Hansson, J.Farano, N.Lapierre	Tower Motorsport by Starworks	ORECA/Gibson	5.564s
11	LMP2	C.Cassels, R.Masson, K.Masson, D.Yount	Performance Tech Motorsports	ORECA/Gibson	5.686s
12	GTLM	M.Campbell, N.Tandy, F.Makowiecki	Porsche GT Team	Porsche	8.496s
13	GTLM	L.Vanthoor, E.Bamber, M.Jaminet	Porsche GT Team	Porsche	8.545s
14	LMP2	K.Tilley, D.Merriman, R.Lewis, N.Minassian	Era Motorsports	ORECA/Gibson	8.551s
15	GTLM	A.Garcia, J.Taylor, N.Catsburg	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet	8.834s
16	GTLM	O.Gavin, T.Milner, M.Fassler	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet	9.090s
17	GTLM	C.De Phillippi, P.Eng, B.Spengler, C.Herta	BMW Team RLL	BMW	9.230s
18	GTLM	J.M.Edwards, A.Farfus, C.Mostert, J.Krohn	BMW Team RLL	BMW	9.378s
19	GTLM	J.Calado, A.P.Guidi, D.Serra, D.Rigon	Risi Competizione	Ferrari	9.957s
20	DPi	R.Taylor, H.Castroneves, A.Rossi	Acura Team Penske	Acura	10.354s
21	GTD	D.Olsen, Z.Robichon, L.Kern, P.Pilet	Pfaff Motorsports	Porsche	11.526s
22	GTD	C.MacNeil, T.Vilander, J.Westphal, A.Balzan	Scuderia Corsa	Ferrari	12.002s
23	GTD	A.Parente, M.Goikhberg, T.Hindman, A.Allmendinger	Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing	Acura	12.126s
24	GTD	R.Foley, J.Klingmann, B.Auberlen, D.Machavern	Turner Motorsport	BMW	12.161s
25	GTD	R.Heistand, S.Schothorst, F.Perera, A.Costa	GRT Grasser Racing Team	Lamborghini	12.329s
26	GTD	M.Bortolotti, R.Ineichen, D.Morad, D.Vanthoor	WRT Speedstar Audi Sport	Audi	12.464s
27	GTD	F.Montecalvo, S.Gisbergen, A.Telitz, T.Bell	AIM Vasser Sullivan	Lexus	12.474s
28	GTD	M.Snow, B.Sellers, C.Lewis, A.Caldarelli	Paul Miller Racing	Lamborghini	12.480s
29	GTD	M.Farnbacher, M.McMurry, S.Michimi, J.Gounon	Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Acura	12.767s
30	GTD	R.Hardwick, P.Long, A.Imperato, K.Bachler	Wright Motorsports	Porsche	12.774s
31	GTD	B.Gdovic, E.Lux, M.Kvamme, J.Hoggard	Precision Performance Motorsports	Lamborghini	13.124s
32	GTD	P.Lamy, R.Gunn, M.Lauda, A.Watson	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	13.169s
33	GTD	I.James, N.Thiim, R.De Angelis, A.Riberas	Heart of Racing Team	Aston Martin	13.330s
34	GTD	C.Nielsen, K.Legge, T.Calderon, R.Frey	GEAR Racing powered by GRT Grasser	Lamborghini	13.437s
35	GTD	L.Aschenbach, B.Keating, G.Robinson, F.Fraga	Riley Motorsports	Mercedes	13.562s
36	GTD	P.Chase, J.Hawksworth, M.De Quesada, K.Busch	AIM Vasser Sullivan	Lexus	-
37	GTD	J.Potter, A.Lally, S.Pumpelly, M.Mapelli	GRT Magnus Racing Team	Lamborghini	-
38	GTD	T.Pappas, J.Bleekemolen, S.Muller, T.Estep	Black Swan Racing	Porsche	-