The Brazilian turned a lap of 1m35.217s round Daytona Worldwide Speedway’s 3.56-mile street course circuit for Motion Specific.
The BMW M Hybrid V8 of Connor De Phillippi led the vast majority of the session previous to being bumped by Derani. In the long run, De Phillippi was a large 0.377s behind in second. A majority of that point was misplaced within the opening sector as Derani was the one driver to hit a sub-23s at 22.991s.
After topping the opening session with Nick Tandy, co-driver Laurens Vanthoor put the No. 6 Porsche Penske 963 third, 0.504s behind the highest spot.
It was an eventful time for Jordan Taylor, who spun the No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06 in Flip 1 with half-hour remaining earlier than persevering with on and the entry ending up seventh general.
Indy NXT champion places Period Motorsport tops in LMP2
Christian Rasmussen, the 2023 Indy NXT champion, vaulted the No. 18 Period Motorsport ORECA to the highest of the LMP2 class after setting the quickest lap of 1m39.674s.
Nolan Siegel, one in every of Rasmussen’s challengers for the Indy NXT title final 12 months, ended up 0.253s behind within the Sean Creech Motorsport Ligier.
There have been two separate incidents that concerned entries from LMP2, beginning with the No. 88 AF Corse ORECA that spun in Flip 3 simply quarter-hour into the session however continued on and ended up 0.353s behind in third.
Roughly 45 minutes into the session the No. 8 Tower Motorsports ORECA spun in Flip 7 to carry out the primary crimson flag. IndyCar star Scott McLaughlin set the quickest tempo to place the group eighth at school, however 0.844s of the tempo.
Mustang paces GTD Professional
It was a powerful displaying by Ford Multimatic Motorsports’ Christopher Mies, who established the Ford Mustang GT3 quickest in GTD Professional with a 1m46.494s on simply the fifth of its 38 logged laps.
The tempo was 0.266s faster than the time set by James Calado within the No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 296 GT3.
Wright Motorsports’ Jan Heylen set the mark in GTD, with the No. 120 Porsche 911 GT3 R hitting a 1m46.741s lap.
