Shown at Road Atlanta on Wednesday in the dry, the Rebellion Racing P1 team led the first practice on a drying track on Thursday morning.

Thursday morning’s first official practice session saw Rebellion Racing’s Neel Jani and Andrea Belicchi lead the field with best lap of 1:11.425 on the drying track. Klaus Graf in the Muscle Milk Pickett Racing Honda was next at 1:11.744.

Ranking third fastest overall and heading the P2 runners was Bertrand Baguette at 1:13.971 in the #35 Oak Racing Morgan /Nissan. He was followed by the #20 Dyson Racing Lola Mazda with Chris McMurry and the #1 Greaves Motorsports Zytek/Nissan with Alex Brundle and Alex Buncombe.

Marco Holzer led the GT runners at 1:20.736 in the #44 Flying Lizard Porsche, followed by Marc Goossens aboard the #93 SRT Viper at 1:21.211 and the #17 Porsche at 1:21.450.

With the weather forecast calling for dry weather later today and for the race, a number of top runners sat out much of the session as the track continued dry. A total of 27 cars of the 42 entries took to the track during the one-hour session.

Track time has been readily available as many teams took advantage of testing Sunday and Monday and a promoter test day yesterday. Sitting out the morning session were the Nissan DeltaWing, Corvette Racing, BMW Team RLL and Extreme Speed Motorsports squads.