- In FIA World Endurance Championship Practice No. 1, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus' Romain Dumas was fastest overall with a lap at 122.692 mph.  This was a half-second faster than Signatech Alpine's Matthieu Vaxiviere.  Toyota GAZOO Racing's Sebastien Buemi was third, then Realteam by WRT's Ferdinand Habsburg.  Jose Maria Lopez in the second Toyota was fifth.

Porsche GT Team's Kevin Estre was fastest in GTE-Pro with a lap at 113.308 mph.  This was five-hundredths of a second faster than teammate Gianmaria Bruni.  AF Corse's Miguel Molina was third.

In GTE-Am, Matteo Cairoli was fastest in the Team Project 1 No. 46 Porsche with a lap at 113.232 mph, third overall of all GT teams.  Cairoli's lap was nearly a full second faster than Dempsey-Proton Racings' Julien Andlauer.  Northwest AMR's Nicki Thiim was third in his Aston Martin, then Ben Barnicoat in Team Project 1's No. 56 Porsche.  Harry Tincknell was fifth.

- Session No. 2 saw Vaxiviere go fastest overall with a lap at 121.833 mph in his Alpine A480-Gibson.  The lap was a half-second faster than the LMP2 No. 23 entry of United Autosports' Paul di Resta.  Filipe Albuquerque in United Autosports' No. 22 was third, then Habsburg.  Toyota GAZOO Racing's Brendon Hartley was fifth.

Porsche GT Team's Michael Christensen was fastest in GTE-Pro with a lap at 113.632 mph.  He was nine-hundredths of a second faster than Corvette Racing's Nick Tandy.  Richard Lietz in the second factory Porsche was third.

Northwest AMR's David Pittard was fastest in GTE-Am with a lap at 112.173 mph, fourth of all GT teams.  Pittard's lap was one-seventh of a second faster than Tincknell, then Barnicoat and Dempsey-Proton Racing's Sebastian Priaulx.  AF Corse's Toni Vilander was fifth.

Photos are courtesy of Nigel Kinrade Photography, Aston Martin F1 Team and IMSA.

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"It was just unbelievable. Been doing this a long time on the owner side, and we’ve always brought a lot of rookie drivers and up-and-coming drivers like Joe Graf Jr. along. You show up, more times than not, not thinking that you stand a chance to even run for the win, that you’re just looking for a good solid top-10 finish.

So to go get a few races this year with a driver like Cole and then later in the year with Briscoe, that we’re going with the idea of “let’s try to contend,” and for it to all come together on the first one like that was just unbelievable for SS Greenlight Racing with Jeff Lefcourt. I mean, just a lot of people have pitched in this year to get us up to the level where we can make something like this happen." - Bobby Dotter, on taking his first Xfinity Series win as a car owner