Rolex 24

Wayne Taylor Racing Back In Front In Rolex 24

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Ctsc Race Highlights Friday Updates Ahead Of Rolex 24

... disappointed for all the guys, all the team, everybody that’s put this thing together and this is not how you want to start, so hopefully we’ll get back out there and get a little more running in and see what we can do. “Just disappointment. There’s so many people here that are a part of this program that have put so much energy and effort into getting here and then to have something like this happen it’s just frustrating. It’s not how you want to get things going.”. Pruett’s No. 14 Lexus started 13 th in the GT Daytona class. He was meant to share the car with Sage Karam, Ian James and Gustavo Menezes. Karam has posted the team will work to repair the damage and get the car back out. Such a bummer. We were running well and unfortunately made contact with the wall. Team is working hard to get it repaired so I can get laps. Click to email (Opens in new window). DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – We’ll have updates as they come from the 55 th Rolex 24 at Daytona, below. 11:40 p.m. ET (Past Hour 9); (Tony rests, by Jerry Bonkowski here): We’ve moved into the second-third of the ...

Jeff Gordon In Lead In Rolex 24 At Daytona

... local). 4:20 p.m. Ricky Taylor took the lead in the early going of the Rolex 24 at Daytona and then turned the No. 10 Cadillac over to four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon. Taylor and the other two Cadillacs quickly proved to be the class of the 55-car field. They were running 1-2-3 in the first two hours at Daytona International Speedway and built a big lead over everyone else. Ricky, younger brother Jordan and veteran Max Angelelli have enjoyed podium finishes in each of the last four years. Gordon joined the team this year and had planned to drive a double stint in the Wayne Taylor Racing entry. Gordon is making his first appearance in the prestigious road-course race in a decade. He finished third with Wayne Taylor in 2007. In the GT Le Mans class, Ford had one of its entries out front as the manufacturer seeks to fill a hole in its ...

Passion Makes Chip Ganassi Rolex 24 Royalty

... the years, Ganassi is adamant that his primary focus remains quite simple. "We approach every race as we just want to win the next race," Ganassi said. "And the next race is today for us. I've been fortunate to work with some great people over the years and some great teams and great companies. It's something someday I guess I'll look back on and talk about, but right now our focus is on today's race and the team of people we have here. My hat's off to them. "So that's something when I'm sitting back with my grandkids I'll talk about or something. Right now I just want to worry about tomorrow, what's happening in the 24 th hour.". If all goes as planned and reasonably presumed, at least one of Ganassi's four Ford GT cars should be challenging for a GT Le Mans Class winner's Rolex on Sunday afternoon. It's a familiar, if always satisfying, scenario. Ganassi prototypes won the overall trophy in this legendary race a record six times - including a historic three consecutive times from 2006-2008. Last year his prototype cars - driven by his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers Jamie Mc Murray and Kyle Larson ...

2017 Rolex 24 At Daytona

... and a second stop-and-go penalty for the #911 Porsche GTLM car for serving their initial penalty incorrectly. 6:17 PM: The #8 Starworks Prototype Challenge car receives a ten minute stop-and-hold penalty for its fault in causing the incident with the #73 Park Place car. 6:15 PM: Back to green. the sun has almost entirely set under that lengthy yellow. 5:56 PM, Safety Car 3: A bizarre crash at the wrong end of the bus stop between the #8 Starworks Prototype Challenge entry and the #73 Park Place GTD Porsche, one of the top cars in that class, brings out the race's third safety car. The incident resulted when the Starworks car went off on corner entry, rejoining very dangerously and colliding with the Porsche, which sustained a massive hit on a wall that isn't normally hit at that angle. 5:51 PM: The battle for the overall win is comfortably a three-horse race, and while the #31 lost nearly a lap to the leading #5 Action Express entry over the course of its long stop, it still sits nearly a lap ahead of every other car in its class. 5:48 PM: A shocking issue for the overall leader as the Whelen Engineering Action Express ...

Jeff Gordon Embraces Fun Side Of Racing With Rolex 24

... standings. Kevin C. Cox, Getty Images. Gordon talks to his daughter Ella Sophia before an April 10, 2010 race at Phoenix. Gordon failed to win a race for the third time since his rookie year in 1993 and finished ninth in the standings. Tom Pennington, Getty Images for NASCAR. Gordon and Joanna Garcia present the Vocal Duo of the Year Award to Sugarland during the 44 th Annual CMA Awards on Nov. 9, 2010. Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY. Gordon celebrates in victory lane with a pair of pistols after winning the Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 5, 2009. It was Gordon's lone victory of the season. He finished third in the Sprint Cup standings. Tony Gutierrez, AP. Gordon, shown here with a blown tire at the race at Michigan on Aug. 17, 2008, failed to win a Cup race for the first time since his rookie year in 1993. Gordon finished seventh in the standings. Bob Brodbeck, AP. Gordon plays with daughter Ella Sofia, born June 20, 2007, before the Auto Club 500 at Fontana, Calif., on Feb. 24, 2008. Jerry Markland, Getty Images for NASCAR. Gordon won six times in 2007 and finished second in the points standings to Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson. Dick ...

Hunter-reay Learning To Adapt To Acura Nsx For Rolex 24

... and certain tire – you can only get so much out of it.”. Many familiar faces from Honda’s Indy car program are involved in the NSX project, including Allen Miller, race team principal at Honda Performance Development. Like the production NSX, the race car is produced in Marysville, Ohio. “It’s an extremely complicated process,” Miller said. “We’ve taken a production car and stripped it and gutted it and tried to turn it into a race car.”. The NSX production car debuted in 1990 and quickly found success in sports car racing. But Acura, Honda’s luxury nameplate, discontinued the racing program after the 2009 season. Plans to resurrect the racing program emerged shortly after the new generation of the NSX production car was unveiled last year. The Rolex 24 – featuring 24 hours of continuous racing around the 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway road course – will be its first race. Although they look similar, the street version of the NSX GT 3 and the race car are quite different. The production car features an all-wheel-drive hybrid drivetrain. The race car is rear-wheel drive and powered by a twin-turbocharged V-6. “It’s ...

Rolex 24 Field Negotiates Rain-soaked Course

... four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion. "He's just getting his rhythm now and he'll do what Jeff Gordon does when he gets going.". Prototypes were holding the top nine positions at the head of the 55-car field. The first non-Prototype on the overall board was the No. 66 Ganassi Racing Ford GT. Joey Hand had the car first in class and 10 th overall. 4:15 P. M. UPDATE. Ricky Taylor has taken the lead in the Rolex 24 Hours for Wayne Taylor Racing in the No. 10 Cadillac and is handing the car off to Jeff Gordon. Overall the top three Cadillacs trading the lead so far are running faster than the rest of the field. The other car on the lead lap is the No. 13 ORECA. Taylor has turned the race's fastest lap with a time of 1:36.909. Dane Cameron, who started the race in the No. 31 Cadillac, said he was a little surprised the race got off to such a quick start. Cameron said the No. 10 seemed to really "want to go.". Joey Hand, still behind the wheel of the No. 66 Ford GT is in 12 th place overall. His fastest lap time so far is 1:43.922. Scott Pruett, who has won this race 10 times, five of those overall, hit the wall after an apparent problem ...

Gordon Gives Up Lead, Gets Comfy In Rolex 24

... field. They were running 1-2-3 in the first two hours at Daytona International Speedway and built a big lead over everyone else. Ricky, younger brother Jordan and veteran Max Angelelli have enjoyed podium finishes in each of the last four years. Gordon joined the team this year and had planned to drive a double stint in the Wayne Taylor Racing entry. Gordon is making his first appearance in the prestigious road-course race in a decade. He finished third with Wayne Taylor in 2007. In the GT Le Mans class, Ford had one of its entries out front as the manufacturer seeks to fill a hole in its racing resume after last year's banner debut season. Joey Hand had the Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT atop the class, and Hand was part of Ford's historic victory at Le Mans last year. Dane Cameron ran the first stint for Action Express and was the first Cadillac driver out of the car. He turned it ...

Pruett, Lexus Sustain Heavy Crash In Hour 2 At Rolex 24

... caution of the race, a short yellow at the eight-minute mark. The No. 52 PR 1/Mathiasen Motorsports Ligier JS P 217 Gibson started by Tom Kimber-Smith went behind the wall with shifting issues, and the No. 24 BMW Team RLL BMW M 6 GTLM (John Edwards driving) and No. 21 Konrad Motorsport Lamborghini also went behind the wall. Edwards’ car briefly stopped on pit lane and was assisted behind the wall by IMSA officials. Another Lamborghini had an issue, the Dream Racing No. 27 car with a fire on its first stop. Dane Cameron passed Joao Barbosa in the pair of Action Express Racing Cadillacs for the first lead change of the new season. The field is through its first round of pit stops. 1:30 p.m. ET (One hour until race start): This year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona has a number of interesting things to consider, as we’re one hour before the green flag. A full race ...

Roof Top Ray' Set For Another Rolex 24 All-nighter

... the exhaust backfires as they go up onto the banking. The guys were helping me with lead changes, position changes and pit stops, and I would follow cars battling for position. There were no commercials, we were just shooting racing and having fun. Working with the Radio Le Mans commentary, I was up there having a blast. They were the guys who coined, 'Roof Top Ray.'". What happened next. "After that race, I started to realize how many people from all over the planet were watching. The Twitter posts were trending about the race. I didn't have a Twitter account and had no idea how big it was on the internet, until a week later when Frank Wilson forwarded a page from Autosport magazine and they had half a page talking about the overall TV coverage and mentioned 'Roof Top Ray.' At that point and after a lot of coaxing from my girlfriend (now wife) I got a Twitter account, @Rooftop Ray.". Does it get cold up there. "Yes it does, but I dress accordingly. I've been a freelance camera operator for 25 years, doing racing in particular. I'm used to the conditions. I've also done stuff like the Great Outdoor ...

Wayne Taylor Racing Back In Front In Rolex 24

... just the air taken off the rear wing 'cause we were in a pack or something, but it snapped pretty hard, pretty quick down in turn one and unfortunately it got into the fence on the left hand side.". Pruett was disappointed for his Lexus-backed team. "This is not how you want to start," he said. 4:20 p.m. Ricky Taylor took the lead in the early going of the Rolex 24 at Daytona and then turned the No. 10 Cadillac over to four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon. Taylor and the other two Cadillacs quickly proved to be the class of the 55-car field. They were running 1-2-3 in the first two hours at Daytona International Speedway and built a big lead over everyone else. Ricky, younger brother Jordan and veteran Max Angelelli have enjoyed podium finishes in each of the last four years. Gordon joined the team this year and had planned to drive a double stint in the Wayne Taylor Racing entry. Gordon is making his first appearance in the prestigious road-course race in a decade. He finished third with Wayne Taylor in 2007. In the GT Le Mans class, Ford had one of ...