Saturday, January 25, 2014

Quarter of the Way Through Daytona

Six hours down from the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona and here is how they run.

Three-time Daytona winner Memo Rojas leads over the defending DTM champion and 2010 Daytona winner Mike Rockenfeller leads driving the #90 Spirit of Daytona Corvette DP. Max Angelelli is third. He has taken over the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP from team owner Wayne Taylor. The two-time Daytona winner completed his final career stint. Sébastien Bourdias has replaced Chrisitan Fittipaldi in the #5 Action Express Corvette DP and is fourth. Past Daytona winner Justin Wilson is fifth driving the #60 Ford-Riley for Michael Shank Racing.

Kyle Larson has taken over for Tony Kanaan in the #02 Ganassi Ford-Riley and was caught speeding when exiting the pit lane. He has dropped behind the The #9 Action Express Corvette DP driven by John Martin and #78 Starworks Dinan-Riley of EJ Viso. The #6 Pickett Racing Oreca-Nissan of Alex Brundle a lap down just behind Larson.

Rob Bell and the #93 Viper leads GTLM and has cracked the top ten overall. Ryan Hunter-Reay is second in the #91 Viper. Ryan Briscoe has taken control of the #3 Corvette and is third in class. Jörg Bergmeister is fourth in the #912 Porsche with his teammate Richard Lietz in fifth.  

Rahal Letterman Lanigan BMW is sixth and seventh in class with the #56 of Dirk Werner leading the #55 Maxime Martin. Pedrio Lamy is eighth in the #97 Aston Martin.

Colin Braun was leading the PC class in the #54 CORE Autosport Oreca before pit stops.. The class pole-sitting car spun on lap one with Jon Bennett behind the wheel. Issac Tutumlu was second in the #7 Starworks entry until a tire went down and caused a full-course caution.

Enzo Potolicchio (#25 8Star Motorsports) leads James Gue who has replaced Braun in the #54, Rusty Mitchell (#08 RSR Racing), Tutumlu and Doug Bielefeld( #87 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports) rounds out the top five.

The #48 Paul Miller Audi of René Rast leads GTD ahead of the #555 Level 5 Ferrari of Alessandro Pier Guidi. Markus Winkelhock is third in the #45 Flying Lizard Audi with Alex Riberas (#23 Team Seattle/Alex Job Porsche) and Toni Vilander (#63 Scuderia Corse Ferrari) rounding out the top five.