BMW tops times in Roar test ahead of Daytona 24 Hours

Rolex 24 Roar recap: Results and what we learned at Daytona as BMW flashed impressive speed
In Friday’s afternoon practice, Dries Vanthoor set the fastest time of the Roar with a 1-minute, 35.424-second lap at 134.306 mph in the No. 24 BMW. In the first two sessions Saturday, van der Linde and Marco Wittman posted the fastest laps in BMW M Team RLL’s No. 25 sister car.
BMW tops the times in Roar test ahead of Daytona 24 Hours
BMW ended up fastest and topped the times in three sessions over the official Roar test ahead of this weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener. A 1m35.424s around the Daytona International Speedway from Dries Vanthoor on the opening day aboard the #24 Rahal BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh stood as the best time of the three-day test in which GTP class machinery took to the track in six sessions.
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