DAYTONA, Fla.—Any worries fans might have had that the Tudor United SportCar Championship management wouldn’t properly balance the performance of Daytona Prototypes and P2s for the 2015 season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona should feel reassured by the performance AJ Allmendinger turned in Saturday afternoon.
The IndyCar and NASCAR star jumped into the brand new Michael Shank Racing Ligier PS2-Honda and, in the closing minutes of the third Roar Before the 24 test session, dethroned the 2014 champion 5 Action Express Racing Coyote-Corvette as the quickest car on track in the session.
Allmendinger wheeled the Ligier around Daytona’s 3.56-mile track in 1:39.418 at 128.910 mph, .025 seconds quicker than the 1.39.445 turned in by Sebastien Bourdais in the AXR car. This result came on the heels of a luchtime press conference where Allmendinger and the other Shank drivers expressed how much they liked the new machine.
