24 Hours of Daytona Entry List Released

With just over a week until the first practice for the inaugural round of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship, the entry list has been released for what will be a historic running of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.

Sixty-seven cars are entered for the event with eighteen in the Prototype class, nine in Prototype Challenge, eleven in GT Le Mans and twenty-nine in GT Daytona.

The prototype class will be led by the defending Daytona winners from Ganassi Racing. Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas being joined by NASCAR's Jamie McMurray and defending Indy Lights champion Sage Karam in the #01 Telcel/Target Ford Riley. The #02 Ganassi Ford will feature an all-star line up with IndyCar champions and Indianapolis 500 winners Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan being joined by sports car ace Marino Franchitti and the talent Kyle Larson.

Wayne Taylor Racing enters 2014 coming off a championship season and will see a changing in the guard. Max Angelelli has retired from full-time competition but will run Daytona alongside the new driver line-up for the #10 Corvette DP, brothers Jordan and Ricky Taylor. Wayne Taylor comes of retirement to join his sons and Angelelli as the fourth driver in the #10.

Muscle Milk Pickett Racing are coming off being the final LMP1 champions in ALMS and the driving duo of Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf return for Daytona with Alex Brundle joining them behind the wheel of an Oreca-Nissan. Brundle finished second in the LMP2 standings in the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship with OAK Racing. Extreme Speed Motorsports features two cars with 1996 Daytona winner Scott Sharp, 2010 Daytona winner Ryan Dalziel and David Brabham teaming in the #1 HPD ARX-03b and Ed Brown, Johannes van Overbeek, Simon Pagenaud and Anthony Lazzaro in the #2.

Michael Shank Racing finished third last year after winning in 2012. That winning driver line-up returns as Oswaldo Negri, Jr., John Pew, AJ Allmendinger and Justin Wilson get back together looking to duplicate their success. Action Express Racing won in 2010 and they return with two cars. The only remaining driver from that 2010 team at Action Express is João Barbosa in the #5 Corvette DP. He will be joined by 2004 Daytona winner Christian Fittipaldi, IndyCar's Sébastien Bourdais and Burt Frisselle. Burt will also join his brother Brian, Fabien Giroix and John Martin in the #9 Corvette DP.

Gainsco/Bob Stallings Racing returns looking to finally break through at Daytona. Alex Gurney and Jon Fogerty return and will be joined by Memo Gidley and 2009 Daytona winner Darren Law.

The DeltaWing will make it's Daytona debut with drivers Andy Meyrick, Katherine Legge, Alexander Rossi and Gabby Chaves. Mazda debuts it's Skyactiv Diesel LMP2 engine with two cars, the #70 driven by Sylvain Tremblay, Tom Long and IndyCar's James Hinchcliffe and the #07 driven by Joel Miller, Tristan Nunez and 2013 IndyCar rookie of the year Tristan Vautier.

The 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship LMP2 champions OAK Racing are entered with Olivier Pla, Romain Rusinov, Gustavo Yacamán and Oliver Webb piloting the #42 Morgan-Nissan. Recently signed Porsche-factory driver Brendon Hartley will drive for Starworks Motorsport with Alex Popow and Scott Mayer.

Other past winners in the prototype field are Mike Rockenfeller (#90 Spirit of Daytona alongside Richard Westbrook and Michael Valiante) and Max Papis (#31 Marsh Racing alongside Eric Curran, Boris Said and Bradley Smith).

The Prototype Challenge class may feature only nine cars but all nine have a legitimate shot of taking victory. Starworks Motorsport will run two LMPC cars with Popow, Kyle Marcelli, Isaac Tutumlu and Martin Fuentes in the #7 while the #8 will feature Renger van der Zande, Erix Lux, Sam Bird and Pierre Kaffer. 8Star Motorsports features Enzo Potolicchio, Tom Kimber-Smith and Michael Marsal.

The 2013 LMPC driver champion Mike Guasch will be joined by David Cheng, Gunnar Jeannette and Frankie Montecalvo at PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports. The 2013 LMPC team champion CORE Autosport return with Jon Bennett, Colin Braun, James Gue and Mark Wilkins as their driver line-up.

RSR Racing has two cars entered each with their own experienced driver line-up. The #08 will feature Chris Cumming and Rusty Mitchell alongside Indianapolis 500 starters Alex Tagliani and Conor Daly. The #09 will be led by veterans Bruno Junqueira, David Heinemeier Hansson, Duncan Ende and the young junior Formula driver Gustavo Menezes.

The GTLM class will be a six manufacture gauntlet. The factory Corvette team returns to Daytona. Jan Magnussen, Antonio García and Ryan Briscoe makeup the driver line up for the #3 while Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner and Robin Liddell in the #4. The factory outlet won overall in 2001.

BMW finished second to Corvette in the ALMS in 2013. The #54 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Z4 will feature Bill Auberlen, DTM drivers Joey Hand and Maxime Martin and former DTM driver and three-time WTCC champion Andy Priaulx. Dirk Müller finished second to Magnussen and García in the 2013 ALMS GT Drivers' standings and he will look to knock Corvette off the top at Daytona with John Edwards, Graham Rahal and former DTM driver Dirk Werner.

Another manufacture returning to Daytona is the SRT Viper. The overall winner at the turn of millennium, Viper has entered two cars for 2014. Dominick Farnbacher and Marc Goossens will be joined by IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay in the #91 while Jonathan Bomarito, Kuno Wittmer and Rob Bell will drive the #92.

One of the winning drivers from that Viper team in 2000 returns but will be driving a Ferrari. Olivier Beretta will be driving for Risi Competizione with former Formula One drivers Giancarlo Fisichella, Gianmaria Bruni and fellow Italian Matteo Malucelli joining the Monegasque driver. Krohn Racing will be the other Ferrari in the GTLM class with Tracy Krohn and Niclas Jönsson being joined by Andrea Bertolini and Peter Dumbreck.

CORE Autosport will be running the Porsche factory team in GTLM with 24 Hours of Daytona and Le Mans GT class winner Richard Lietz leading Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy in the #911. Patrick Long, Jörg Bergmeister and Michael Christenson will make the #912 driving line-up. Aston Martin will bring their top drivers to Daytona as Stefan Mücke, Darren Turner, Pedro Lamy, Richie Stanaway and Paul Dalla Lana look to upset the class as a part-time entry.

The GTD class will be the largest at this running of the 24 Hours of Daytona. Twelve Porsche 911 GT Americas have been entered with Ferrari having the next highest entrants in the class with eight. The defending GT class winners Audi have five entries looking to defend their title. The 2013 winning driver line-up has been split up as Felipe Albuquerque and Dion von Moltke are joining Seth Neiman and Alessandro Latif in the #35 Flying Lizard R8 LMS. Oliver Jarvis will join Charlie Putman, Charles Espenlaub and James Walker at Fall-Line Motorsports. The fourth driver from the 2013 winning, Edoardo Mortara will not return to defend his title.

Other teams to look out for the in GTD class are the #22 Alex Job Racing Porsche of Cooper MacNeil, Leh Keen, V8 Supercars' Shane van Gisbergen, Shane Lewis and LP Dumoulin, #27 Dempsey Racing Porsche of Patrick Dempsey, Joe Foster, Andrew Davis and Marc Lieb, #33 Riley Motorsports SRT Viper GT3-R of Ben Keating, Jeroen and Sebastiaan Bleekemolen and 2005 overall Daytona winner Emmanuel Collard, the #63 Scuerdia Corse Ferrari of Alessandro Balzan, Toni Vilander, Jeff Westphal and Lorenzo Case, #73 Park Place Motorsports Porsche of Connor de Philippi, Kévin Estre, Patrick Lindsey, Jason Hart and Mike Vess and the #94 Turner Motorsport BMW Z4 of Dane Cameron, Paul Dalla Lana, Augusto Farfus and Markus Palttala.

Practice for the 24 Hours of Daytona begins January 23rd at 9:30 a.m. ET. Qualifying will be later that day at 3:45 p.m. ET. January 24th will feature one final practice session before the race goes green on Saturday January 25th at 2:10 p.m. ET.