Sunday, January 26, 2014

Ninety Minutes To Go At Daytona

Three cars are separated by less than fifteen seconds for the overall lead while the battle in GTLM has significantly thinned out.

Sébastien Bourdais leads Jordan Taylor by 4.998 seconds with Bourdais' Action Express teammate John Martin just 8.811 seconds back of Taylor.

The Ford-Riley of Scott Dixon is fourth, one lap down but not out of it while Richard Westbrook and Klaus Graf are each two laps down.

Nick Tandy leads GTLM by a lap over Joey Hand after the #4 Corvette had to go to the garage to replace the gearbox. Marc Goossens is third in class, five laps back of Tandy with Dirk Werner seven laps back of Goossens. Tommy Milner is back on track in the #4, a lap back of Werner.

Colin Braun continues to lead in PC and he is a lap ahead of Tom Kimber-Smith. Raphael Matos is third in class, nine laps back. Frankie Montecalvo is fourth, two laps back of Matos for a spot on the PC podium.

The GTD battle sees the top four cars all on the same lap. The #555 Level 5 Ferrari of Alessandro Pier Guidi leads the #58 Snow Racing Porsche driven by Jan Heylen by just under seven seconds. Spencer Pumpelly is third in class in the #45 Flying Lizard Audi, fifteen second back of the class leading Ferrari. Mika Salo is fourth in the #72 SMP Racing Ferrari.