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Amid on and off rain at the sprawling Road America circuit, the team put its brand-new Ligier JS P217 to work for its first official session after parking its Riley/Multimatic Mk 30 and was rewarded with the fastest lap of the morning.

VFR’s Marc Goossens (1m59.977s) was comfortably fastest in his blue No. 90 WEC LMP2 machine as Action Express Racing’s Christian Fittipaldi (+0.913s) was a distant second in his No. 5 Cadillac DPi-V.R. Olivier Pla made it a Ligier 1-3 with his No. 52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry (+1.052s).

With the track drying toward the end of the one-hour session, the Michelin-shod GT Le Mans cars of Patrick Pilet and Oliver Gavin were able to post impressive lap times that left Pilet’s No. 911 Porsche GT Team 911 RSR fourth overall and first in class (2m06.573s). Gavin’s No. 4 Corvette Racing C7.R (+0.111s) was close to its German rival; the sister No. 912 Porsche driven by Gimmi Bruni was further back in third (1m517s).

GT Daytona was its usual assortment of close times and varied cars as Patrick Lindsey topped the class in his No. 73 Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R (2m09.567s). Jeroen Mul in Change Racing’s No. 16 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 (+0.212s) and Katherine Legge in the No. 93 Acura NSX GT3 (+0.312s) weren’t far behind.

PC was led by local driver James French (2m07.523s) in the No. 38 Performance Tech Motorsports ORECA FLM09-Chevy, who was more than seven seconds faster than the next PC car.

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