Midnight at Daytona

We have reached Sunday and there are still over fourteen hours to go.

An update on drivers Memo Gidley and Matteo Malucelli. Both are awake and communicating and are spending the night at Halifax Medical Center.

Action Express is 1-2 overall with João Barbosa leading Brian Frisselle. Behind the two Corvette DPs are two Ford-Rileys, one being Oswaldo Negri driving for Michael Shank Racing and Scott Dixon driving for Ganassi. Jordan Taylor rounds out the top five driving the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP.

Michael Valiante is sixth driving for Spirit of Daytona ahead of the #01 Ganassi Ford-Riley of Scott Pruett. Pruett is the final driver on the lead lap. Lucas Luhr is eighth, one lap down driving the the LMP2 Oreca-Nissan.

Nick Tandy is ninth overall and leads GTLM driving the #911 Porsche with the #3 Corvette of Antonio García in second. John Edwards has moved up to third with Patrick Long in fourth. Long was leading until he was given a drive-through penalty for ignoring a previous penalty. Long however did keep the #912 Porsche on the same lap as his teammate Tandy.

The #4 Corvette of Tommy Milner and the #55 RLLR BMW of Bill Auberlen are a lap back of the class leader.

Tom Kimber-Smith leads the PC class driving the #25 8Star Motorsport entry. #54 CORE Autosport is second in class with Mark Wilkins behind the wheel. Alex Popow has the #7 Starworks entry third ahead of Sean Rayhall and Julio Campos who is driving the #38 Performance Tech Oreca.

Ferrari has the top two positions in GTD with Jeff Segal leading the class in the #555 Level 5 Ferrari over the #63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrai of Alessandro Balzan. Christopher Haase is third in the #48 Paul Miller Audi. The Porsches of Madison Snow (#58 Snow Racing) Cooper MacNeil (#22 Alex Job Racing) and Christina Nielsen (#30 NGT Motorsport) round out the GTD top six.

Notable car to have issues include the #91 Viper which had to go to the garage for power steering issues. The #93 Viper had significant right front bodywork damage knock that car down the running order. The #93 is six laps back of the GTLM leader while the #91 is eleven laps back in class.

The #08 RSR Racing Oreca has been hit with multiple penalties and has had the engine cover off the car on a pit stop. They are eight laps off the class leader.

The #42 OAK Racing Morgan-Nissan had been running in the top five when the alternator failed on them, dropping them sixteen laps back.

The #78 Starworks Dinan-Riley was having a great race before Sebastián Saavedra stopped on course. They are now twenty-six laps down.