Reigning two-time World Endurance Championship title-winner Kobayashi, who has amassed two wins and a runner-up finish in his three outings at Daytona, turned a 1m35.470s in Action Express Racing’s Ally Cadillac DPi-V.R that will only be competing at the four Michelin Endurance Cup races this year.
It’s full-time sister car, the #31 Whelen Engineering AXR, was second in the hands of Kobayashi's regular WEC team-mate Mike Conway, ahead of Ricky Taylor in the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura.
