GTP
The Penske-run #7 Porsche 963 of Campbell was the first car to duck below the 1m36s barrier, turning a 1m35.802s after 20 minutes to eclipse the Cadillac V-LMDh cars of Alex Lynn and Alexander Sims by over 0.4s. Ricky Taylor moved up to also shade the Cadillacs, but was still over 0.33s off top spot.
His full-time partner Albuquerque cut the deficit back to 0.172s with half an hour to go, pulling clear of the Ganassi and Action Express Racing Cadillacs.
Colton Herta took the #25 BMW M Hybrid V8 to within 0.66s of the top spot, ahead of the second Porsche, the Meyer Shank Racing Acura and the #24 BMW which turned the fewest laps.
LMP2
Oliver Jarvis of Era Motorsport and Rinus VeeKay in the #11 TDS Racing car were the early pacesetters, but after the first red flag, Ben Hanley in the Crowdstrike Racing by APR machine jumped to the top with a 1m38.801s effort.
Then Alex Quinn in the PR1/Mathiasen entry took quarter-second off that time although Hanley sliced that down to 0.108s, with Scott McLaughlin’s Tower Motorsport car a further 0.33s behind that, ahead of Jarvis’s early pacesetting effort.
Matthieu Vaxiviere in the #88 AF Corse car moved up to fourth in the closing stages of the session and then moved ahead of McLaughlin by a mere four-hundredths, but found a clear enough lap to bounce into top spot by 0.139s in the dying minutes.
Mikkel Jensen improved the #11 TDS car’s time in the final stages but remained sixth.
LMP3
Rasmus Lindh in the Andretti Autosport Ligier delivered 1m42.559s with less than 25 minutes to go, 0.325s ahead of Wayne Boyd in the #17 AWA Duqueine, with the other AWA of Matthew Bell third.
GTD Pro and GTD
The new Ferrari 296 of Cetilar Racing caused the first red flag of the session when it went off at Turn 5 in the hands of Roberto Lacorte.
Halfway through the session, Daniel Juncadella was sitting top of the GTD Pro pile in the WeatherTech Racing Mercedes AMG GT3, and that was the fastest GT3 car overall, until Frederik Schandorff in the Inception Racing McLaren 720S clipped a mere 0.003s off that time.
Parker Thompson in the GTD Lexus RC F was within the same tenth, ahead of Luca Stolz in the SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 and Danny Formal in the Racers Edge Acura NSX.
Mikael Grenier moved to the top of GTD by 0.002s in the Team Korthoff Mercedes, and he had just been beaten by Jules Gounon in the WeatherTech car, before Grenier pulled a quarter-second clear. Maro Engel in the WeatherTech car got the gap down to under 0.2s, and then finally went top with a 1m46.011s, the car having also turned the most number of laps (48) out of all the GT3 machines.
Mario Farnbacher gave Gradient Racing a strong showing with its Acura NSX less than 0.4s behind Grenier, splitting the two Vasser Sullivan Lexus of Parker Thompson and Jack Hawksworth.
As usual Spencer Pumpelly did a fine job to get the Magnus Racing Aston Martin Vantage into fifth in GTD, seventh overall in GTs.
Daytona 24 Hours - Free Practice 3 results:
| Cla | Num | Driver | Class | Chassis | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
 Matt Campbell  Felipe Nasr  Michael Christensen
|
GTP | Porsche 963 | 1'35.802 | |
| 2 | 10 |
 Ricky Taylor  Filipe Albuquerque  Louis Deletraz  Brendon Hartley
|
GTP | Acura ARX-06 | 1'35.974 | 0.172 |
| 3 | 02 |
Earl Bamber  Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook
|
GTP | Cadillac V-LMDh | 1'36.179 | 0.377 |
| 4 | 01 |
 Sébastien Bourdais  Renger van der Zande Scott Dixon
|
GTP | Cadillac V-LMDh | 1'36.214 | 0.412 |
| 5 | 31 |
Pipo Derani Alexander Sims Jack Aitken
|
GTP | Cadillac V-LMDh | 1'36.270 | 0.468 |
| 6 | 25 |
Connor de Phillippi Nick Yelloly  Sheldon Van Der Linde Colton Herta
|
GTP | BMW M Hybrid V8 | 1'36.462 | 0.660 |
| 7 | 6 |
Mathieu Jaminet Nick Tandy Dane Cameron
|
GTP | Porsche 963 | 1'36.498 | 0.696 |
| 8 | 60 |
Tom Blomqvist Colin Braun Helio Castroneves Simon Pagenaud
|
GTP | Acura ARX-06 | 1'36.909 | 1.107 |
| 9 | 24 |
 Philipp Eng Augusto Farfus  Marco Wittmann Colton Herta
|
GTP | BMW M Hybrid V8 | 1'37.152 | 1.350 |
| 10 | 88 |
François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxiviere Julien Canal Nicklas Nielsen
|
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'38.416 | 2.614 |
| 11 | 52 |
Ben Keating Paul-Loup Chatin Alex Quinn Nicolas Lapierre
|
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'38.555 | 2.753 |
| 12 | 04 |
George Kurtz Ben Hanley Matt McMurry  Esteban Gutierrez
|
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'38.663 | 2.861 |
| 13 | 8 |
 John Farano Scott McLaughlin Josef Newgarden Kyffin Simpson |
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'38.997 | 3.195 |
| 14 | 18 |
Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel Christian Rasmussen Oliver Jarvis
|
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'39.112 | 3.310 |
| 15 | 11 |
Thomas Steven Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker Rinus van Kalmthout
|
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'39.167 | 3.365 |
| 16 | 20 |
Dennis Andersen  Ed Jones Anders Fjordbach  Raffaele Marciello
|
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'39.257 | 3.455 |
| 17 | 35 |
François Heriau Giedo van der Garde Josh Pierson Job Van Uitert
|
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'39.491 | 3.689 |
| 18 | 36 |
Jarett Andretti  Gabby Chaves Dakota Dickerson  Rasmus Lindh
|
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'42.559 | 6.757 |
| 19 | 17 |
Anthony Mantella Wayne Boyd Nico Varrone Thomas Merrill
|
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'42.884 | 7.082 |
| 20 | 51 |
Eric Lux Devlin DeFrancesco Austin Cindric Pietro Fittipaldi
|
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | 1'43.004 | 7.202 |
| 21 | 13 |
Orey Fidani Matthew Bell Lars Kern Moritz Kranz
|
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'43.053 | 7.251 |
| 22 | 43 |
Sebastian Alvarez  Danial Frost James French Guilherme de |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'43.370 | 7.568 |
| 23 | 74 |
Gar Robinson Felipe Fraga Glenn van Berlo Josh Burdon |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'43.480 | 7.678 |
| 24 | 85 |
Till Bechtolsheimer Tijmen van der Helm Luca Mars Mason Filippi
|
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'43.663 | 7.861 |
| 25 | 87 |
 Yu Kanamaru James Vance Serravalle Antonio Nicholas Boulle
|
LMP3 | Duqueine D08 | 1'44.048 | 8.246 |
| 26 | 38 |
John DeAngelis Christopher Allen Cameron Shields Connor Bloum |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | 1'45.366 | 9.564 |
| 27 | 79 |
Cooper MacNeil  Daniel Juncadella Jules Gounon Maro Engel
|
GTD PRO | Mercedes AMG GT3 | 1'46.011 | 10.209 |
| 28 | 32 |
Mike Skeen Mikael Grenier Kenton Koch Maximillian Goetz |
GTD | Mercedes AMG GT3 | 1'46.177 | 10.375 |
| 29 | 70 |
Brendan Iribe Frederik Schandorff Ollie Millroy Marvin Kirchhofer
|
GTD | McLaren 720S GT3 | 1'46.433 | 10.631 |
| 30 | 12 |
Aaron Telitz Frankie Montecalvo Kyle Kirkwood Parker Thompson |
GTD | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'46.481 | 10.679 |
| 31 | 66 |
Sheena Monk Katherine Legge Mario Farnbacher Marc Miller
|
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'46.514 | 10.712 |
| 32 | 14 |
Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat Mike Conway
|
GTD PRO | Lexus RC F GT3 | 1'46.577 | 10.775 |
| 33 | 44 |
John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly Nicki Thiim
|
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'46.600 | 10.798 |
| 34 | 75 |
Kenny Habul Luca Stolz Fabian Schiller  Axcil Jefferies
|
GTD | Mercedes AMG GT3 | 1'46.626 | 10.824 |
| 35 | 93 |
Ashton Harrison Danny Formal Kyle Marcelli Ryan Briscoe
|
GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | 1'46.638 | 10.836 |
| 36 | 63 |
Andrea Caldarelli Mirko Bortolotti Jordan Lee Pepper Romain Grosjean
|
GTD PRO | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 | 1'46.741 | 10.939 |
| 37 | 3 |
Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Tommy Milner
|
GTD PRO | Corvette C8.R GTD | 1'46.776 | 10.974 |
| 38 | 64 |
Ted Giovanis Hugh Plumb Matt Plumb Owen Trinkler
|
GTD PRO | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'46.862 | 11.060 |
| 39 | 23 |
Ross Gunn Alex Riberas David Pittard |
GTD PRO | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'47.015 | 11.213 |
| 40 | 27 |
Roman De Angelis Marco Sorensen Ian James Darren Turner
|
GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | 1'47.077 | 11.275 |
| 41 | 96 |
Patrick Gallagher Robby Foley Michael Dinan Jens Klingmann
|
GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'47.244 | 11.442 |
| 42 | 47 |
Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco Alessandro Balzan
|
GTD | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 1'47.281 | 11.479 |
| 43 | 78 |
Mikhail Goikhberg Loris Spinelli Benja Hites Marco Mapelli
|
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 | 1'47.305 | 11.503 |
| 44 | 83 |
Rahel Frey  Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Doriane Pin |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 | 1'47.308 | 11.506 |
| 45 | 62 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra Davide Rigon
|
GTD PRO | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 1'47.320 | 11.518 |
| 46 | 21 |
Mann Simon  Luis Perez Companc Miguel Molina Francesco Castellacci
|
GTD | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 1'47.485 | 11.683 |
| 47 | 19 |
Raffaele Giammaria Franck Perera Claudio Schiavoni Rolf Ineichen
|
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 | 1'47.656 | 11.854 |
| 48 | 1 |
Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis Maxime Martin
|
GTD | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'48.013 | 12.211 |
| 49 | 023 |
Onofrio Triarsi Charles Scardina Alessio Rovera Andrea Bertolini
|
GTD | Ferrari 296 GT3 | 1'48.147 | 12.345 |
| 50 | 16 |
Ryan Hardwick Jan Heylen Zacharie Robichon  Dennis Olsen
|
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 1'48.319 | 12.517 |
| 51 | 95 |
Bill Auberlen Chandler Hull Bruno Spengler John Edwards
|
GTD PRO | BMW M4 GT3 | 1'48.460 | 12.658 |
| 52 | 91 |
Alan Metni Kay van Berlo Jaxon Evans Julien Andlauer |
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 1'48.546 | 12.744 |
| 53 | 77 |
Alan Brynjolfsson Trent Hindman Max Root Kevin Estre
|
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 1'48.594 | 12.792 |
| 54 | 92 |
David Brule Alec Udell Andrew Davis Jeroen Bleekemolen
|
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 1'48.752 | 12.950 |
| 55 | 53 |
Mark Kvamme Trenton Estep Jan Magnussen Jason Hart
|
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 1'48.911 | 13.109 |
| 56 | 80 |
PJ Hyett Seb Priaulx Gunnar Jeannette Harry Tincknell
|
GTD | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | 1'49.110 | 13.308 |
| 57 | 9 |
Klaus Bachler Patrick Pilet Laurens Vanthoor
|
GTD PRO | Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) | ||
| 58 | 33 |
Lance Willsey Joao Barbosa Nicolas Pino Nolan Siegel |
LMP3 | Ligier JS P320 | ||
| 59 | 42 |
Don Yount Jaden Conwright Kerong Li Alessio Deledda |
GTD | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 | ||
| 60 | 55 |
Fred Poordad Francesco Pizzi James Allen Gianmaria Bruni
|
LMP2 | ORECA LMP2 07 | ||
| 61 | 57 |
Russell Ward Philip Ellis Indy Dontje Lucas Auer
|
GTD | Mercedes AMG GT3 | ||
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