Overview

• Ukyo Sasahara set a 2:00.469 in the No. 9 Callaway Corvette C7 GT3-R to lead pre-qualifying, 0.392 seconds clear of Nicky Catsburg in JMR’s Corvette Z06 GT3.R.
• Thomas Neubauer placed third for Maezawa Racing’s Ferrari 296 GT3, with Giancarlo Fisichella fourth for LM Corsa and Harry King the quickest Porsche in fifth for EBM.
• Late-session rain prompted a wet-track declaration and curtailed improvements, with fastest laps established before the conditions worsened.
• Harmony Racing’s No. 21 Ferrari remained Friday’s benchmark after Dennis Marschall’s 2:01.536 topped night practice, which ended with a Ferrari one-two.
• JMR’s No. 99 Corvette suffered a catastrophic engine failure in night practice as the team works to rejoin, while K-tunes’ No. 98 Ferrari skipped night running after an engine change and received dispensation to continue; three-stage qualifying begins at 5:05 p.m. local and Sunday’s race will run for 6.5 hours.