Saturday, January 25, 2014

Red Flag At Daytona

The 2014 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona was placed under red flag conditions at 5:07 p.m. ET after an accident at the kink involving drivers Memo Gidley (#99 Bob Stallings Racing Corvette DP) and Matteo Malucelli (#62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 458 Italia).

Reportedly, the Ferrari of Malucelli had lost drive in the infield section when the #99 driven by Gidley collided with the Italian. Both drivers have been taken to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. 

At the time of the red flag, Christian Fittipaldi was leading overall in the #5 Action Express Corvette DP ahead of the #02 Ganassi Ford-Riley of Tony Kanaan. Max Angelelli is third (#10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP) with Alex Popow (#78 Starworks Dinan-Riley) and Romain Rusinov (#42 OAK Racing Morgan-Nissan).

Dominik Farnbacher is still leading in GTLM in the #91 SRT Viper ahead of the two Porsche of Patrick Pilet (#911) and Michael Christensen (#912). Kuno Wittmer is fourth in the #93 Viper. The Corvettes of Tommy Milner (#4) and Antonio GarcĂ­a (#3) take the next two positions ahead of Graham Rahal in the #56 Rahal Letterman Lanigan BMW Z4.

Chris Cumming leads in PC driving the #08 RSR Racing Oreca. Mike Guasch (#52 PR1/Mathiasen) is second with Martin Fuentes (#7 Starworks) third. James Kovacic (#87 BAR1 Motorsport) and Mirco Schultis (#8 Starworks) round out the top five. 

The #72 SMP Racing Ferrari of Maurizio Mediani leads three Porsches in GTD: Madison Snow (#58 Snow Racing), Connor de Phillippi (#73 Park Place Motorsport) and #30 Henrique Cisneros (#30 NGT Motorsports. Scott Tucker is fifth driving the #555 Level 5 Ferrari.