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#31 Action Express sweeps all 12 Hours of Sebring Thursday practice sessions

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It did not matter whether the  hot Florida sun was up or down, the #31 Whelen Engineering Action Express Cadillac was the fastest car on the Sebring Airport circuit.

Pipo Derani turned a 1m46.898s lap time in the 90-minute nighttime session to edge out the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac of Renger van der Zande by 0.454 seconds.

Ricky Taylor was third on Thursday evening in the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05 ahead of the No. 48 Action Express Cadillac.

The No. 5 JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac of Sebastien Bourdais completed the top-five.

LMP2 was again led by the No. 52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07 Gibson of Mikkel Jensen while Jeroen Bleekemolen was quickest again in LMP3 in his No. 91 Riley Motorsports Ligier JS P320 Nissan.

GTLM was paced by the No. 79 WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Mathieu Jaminet.

#79 WeatherTech Racing Porsche 911 RSR – 19 driven by Mathieu Jaminet led in GTLM

The #3 and #4 Chevrolet Corvette C8.Rs were second and third in class.

The No. 9 Pfaff Motorsports Porsche of Laurens Vanthoor beat Aaron Telitz in the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 to lead GTD.

Qualifying is scheduled to begin at 11:15 a.m. ET on Friday.

Practice 3 Results

Pos No. Team Class Car Driver 1 Driver 2 Driver 3 Time Behind Gap
1 31 Whelen Engineering Racing DPi Cadillac DPi Felipe Nasr Mike Conway Pipo Derani 1:46.898 +0.000s +0.000s
2 01 Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing DPi Cadillac DPi Renger van der Zande Kevin Magnussen Scott Dixon 1:47.352 +0.454 +0.454
3 10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05 DPi Acura DPi Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque Alexander Rossi 1:47.442 +0.544 +0.090
4 48 Ally Cadillac Racing DPi Cadillac DPi Jimmie Johnson Kamui Kobayashi Simon Pagenaud 1:47.739 +0.841 +0.297
5 5 Mustang Sampling / JDC-Miller MotorSports DPi Cadillac DPi Tristan Vautier Loic Duval Sebastien Bourdais 1:47.855 +0.957 +0.116
6 60 Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian DPi Acura DPi Dane Cameron Olivier Pla Juan Pablo Montoya 1:47.945 +1.047 +0.090
7 55 Mazda Motorsports DPi Mazda DPi Oliver Jarvis Harry Tincknell Jonathan Bomarito 1:48.211 +1.313 +0.266
8 52 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 Ben Keating Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker 1:50.270 +3.372 +2.059
9 22 United Autosports LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 James McGuire Wayne Boyd Guy Smith 1:50.762 +3.864 +0.492
10 8 Tower Motorsport LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 John Farano Gabriel Aubry Tim Buret 1:50.875 +3.977 +0.113
11 11 WIN Autosport LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 Steven Thomas Tristan Nunez Thomas Merrill 1:51.749 +4.851 +0.874
12 18 Era Motorsport LMP2 ORECA LMP2 07 Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley Ryan Dalziel 1:52.086 +5.188 +0.337
13 79 WeatherTech Racing GTLM Porsche 911 RSR – 19 Cooper MacNeil Mathieu Jaminet Matt Campbell 1:56.563 +9.665 +4.477
14 3 Corvette Racing GTLM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nicky Catsburg 1:57.019 +10.121 +0.456
15 4 Corvette Racing GTLM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims 1:57.205 +10.307 +0.186
16 25 BMW Team RLL GTLM BMW M8 GTE Connor De Phillippi Philipp Eng Bruno Spengler 1:57.223 +10.325 +0.018
17 91 Riley Motorsports LMP3 Ligier JS P320 Jim Cox Dylan Murry Jeroen Bleekemolen 1:57.269 +10.371 +0.046
18 24 BMW Team RLL GTLM BMW M8 GTE John Edwards Jesse Krohn Augusto Farfus 1:57.558 +10.660 +0.289
19 74 Riley Motorsports LMP3 Ligier JS P320 Gar Robinson Spencer Pigot Scott Andrews 1:57.794 +10.896 +0.236
20 7 Forty7 Motorsports LMP3 Duqueine D08 Jim Norman Oliver Askew Austin McCusker 1:57.984 +11.086 +0.190
21 54 Core Autosport LMP3 Ligier JS P320 Jonathan Bennett George Kurtz Colin Braun 1:58.116 +11.218 +0.132
22 38 Performance Tech Motorsports LMP3 Ligier JS P320 Rasmus Lindh Dan Goldburg Mateo LLarena 1:58.210 +11.312 +0.094
23 33 Sean Creech Motorsport LMP3 Ligier JS P320 Joao Barbosa Yann Clairay Lance Willsey 1:58.740 +11.842 +0.530
24 83 WIN Autosport LMP3 Duqueine D08 Matthew Bell Rodrigo Sales Niklas Kruetten 1:59.689 +12.791 +0.949
25 9 Pfaff Motorsports GTD Porsche 911 GT3R Zacharie Robichon Laurens Vanthoor Lars Kern 2:01.241 +14.343 +1.552
26 14 Vasser Sullivan GTD Lexus RC F GT3 Aaron Telitz Jack Hawksworth Kyle Kirkwood 2:01.601 +14.703 +0.360
27 19 GRT Grasser Racing Team GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Stephen Simpson Franck Perera Tim Zimmermann 2:01.755 +14.857 +0.154
28 16 Wright Motorsports GTD Porsche 911 GT3R Patrick Long Trent Hindman Jan Heylen 2:01.882 +14.984 +0.127
29 75 Sun Energy 1 GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 Kenny Habul Maro Engel Mikael Grenier 2:02.003 +15.105 +0.121
30 99 Team Hardpoints EBM GTD Porsche 911 GT3R Rob Ferriol Earl Bamber Trenton Estep 2:02.026 +15.128 +0.023
31 1 Paul Miller Racing GTD Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis 2:02.132 +15.234 +0.106
32 23 Heart Of Racing Team GTD Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Ian James Roman De Angelis Ross Gunn 2:02.180 +15.282 +0.048
33 96 Turner Motorsport GTD BMW M6 GT3 Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Aidan Read 2:02.404 +15.506 +0.224
34 44 Magnus with Archangel GTD Acura NSX GT3 John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly 2:02.762 +15.864 +0.358
35 12 Vasser Sullivan GTD Lexus RC F GT3 Frankie Montecalvo Zach Veach Robert Megennis 2:02.773 +15.875 +0.011
36 28 Alegra Motorsports GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 Daniel Morad Michael de Quesada Billy Johnson 2:02.833 +15.935 +0.060
37 88 Team Hardpoint EBM GTD Porsche 911 GT3R Christina Nielsen Katherine Legge Bia Figueiredo 2:03.230 +16.332 +0.397