Albuquerque beat BMW’s Philipp Eng and Mathieu Jaminet (Porsche Penske Motorsport 963) within the 90-minute opening observe session for the fourth spherical of the collection.
Eng set the tempo early within the session in his #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 with a lap of 1m14.453s, earlier than Albuquerque’s #10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06 simply beat that with 1m14.434s.
“I felt actually good, I felt actually related with the automobile,” mentioned Albuquerque. “The brand new asphalt has modified this observe utterly, in a really constructive method.”
Aitken had simply taken P2 on the time, 0.28s off the tempo within the #31 Motion Categorical-run Cadillac V-Sequence.R, when he crashed closely into the tirewall at Flip 4, recording a 50g affect in line with IMSA radio.
Louis Deletraz was fourth quickest in sister #40 Acura to the pacesetter, forward of Aitken and Nick Yelloly (#25 BMW).
The second Caddy, the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing-run instance, was stranded within the storage for a lot of the early working with a water leak. The automobile ended up seventh in Sebastien Bourdais’ palms.
Felipe Nasr was eighth within the #7 PPM Porsche from the shopper 963s of Richard Westbrook (JDC-Miller) and Gianmaria Bruni (Proton).
Porsche pips Corvette in GTD
In GTD, Antonio Garcia led the early getting into his #3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R with a lap of 1m24.099s.
Seb Priaulx’s AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R beat that within the closing moments by 0.193s with a quickest time of 1m24.299s.
Nicky Catsburg was third within the second Corvette, whereas Philip Ellis led the pro-am GTD class within the #57 Winward Racing Mercedes.
Observe two begins at 12:15pm ET on Saturday earlier than qualifying at 7:35pm ET.