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26-01-2025
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Rolex 24, Hour 17: Tower Motorsports extends LMP2 lead
Kevin Estre still leads a Porsche Penske Motorsport 1-2 at Daytona, though it's not gone all to plan in the last hour. Estre only overtook teammate Felipe Nasr minutes ago into Turn 1, after the Frenchman made a rare mistake going into the Le Mans chicane — he missed the corner and had to take the designated escape road. That put the No. 7 Porsche 963 of Nasr ahead for a while, but now the No. 6 Porsche is back in front of the No. 7 which received a warning for an unsafe pit release in the path of the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen car. The No. 24 Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 has jumped the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 for third place. Philipp Eng and Scott Dixon have relieved Dries Vanthoor and Felix Rosenqvist in their respective cars. The sun will rise soon. ☀️ Only 7 Hours to race. Here is a recap of what you might of missed overnight. 📺: LIVE NOW ON Peacock 🌎: IMSA TV | IMSA YouTube LIVE! 📻: IMSA Radio@DAYTONA | @NBCSports | @MichelinRaceUSA — IMSA (@IMSA) January 26, 2025 Tower Motorsports has seized control of LMP2 once again from CrowdStrike Racing by APR. Toby Sowery spun on cold tires as he came in hot to Turn 1, putting him further away from leader Sebastien Bourdais in the No. 8 Tower ORECA. Job van Uitert just took over from Bourdais, and he still leads from Sowery in second, and Christian Rasmussen in the No. 99 AO Racing car in third ahead of Paul di Resta in the No. 22 United Autosports USA entry. 'Rexy' and AO Racing continue to lead GTD PRO. The leaders have recently had driver changes so Laurin Heinrich has passed the baton of the leading No. 77 Porsche 911 GT3 R to Klaus Bachler. In second is the No. 65 Ford Multimatic Mustang GT3 of Dennis Olsen, some 15 seconds down the road. Madison Snow in the No. 1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO is third, Antonio Garcia in the No. 3 Pratt Miller Corvette is fourth. And with Luca Stolz and Albert Costa in fifth and sixth for Mercedes-AMG and Ferrari respectively, the top six in GTD PRO are occupied by six different manufacturers. GTD has been one-way traffic lately for Winward Racing's No. 57 Mercedes-AMG GT3 but a recent drive-through penalty for leaving a tire unattended in the pits has taken away Lucas Auer's advantage. This has put Elliott Skeer back in the lead for Wright Motorsports in the No. 120 Porsche, ahead of the Mercedes of Ralf Aron (No. 80) and Maximilian Götz (No. 32), with the No.13 AWA Corvette of Matt Bell in fourth. HOUR 17 STANDINGS Story originally appeared on Racer
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26-01-2025
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Rolex 24, Hour 16: Penske Porsche pair continue to lead, Winward Racing recovers to head GTD
It's still a Porsche Penske Motorsport 1-2 in the 63rd Rolex 24 At Daytona with eight hours remaining and sunrise just around the corner. The No. 6 Porsche leads the No. 7, WEC champion Kevin Estre ahead of IMSA champion Felipe Nasr. Estre left the pits behind Nasr but regained the lead when Nasr was fending off the laps-down No. 93 MSR Acura of Renger van der Zande. That allowed Estre to slip past at turn two, where he leads by just over five seconds. Felix Rosenqvist has taken over the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 in third, but he's now 30 seconds back after sliding off near turn six and hitting the barriers – there is light damage to the nose of the No.60. Dries Vanthoor is fourth in the No. 24 Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8. Toby Sowery was putting down the hammer in LMP2, he built a lead of about eight seconds in the No. 04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR ORECA 07 over Sebastien Bourdais for Tower Motorsports. Paul-Loup Chatin and Rasmus Lindh run third and fourth for ERA Motorsport and United Autosports USA. Rexy continues to lead GTD PRO – Laurin Heinrich has left any trace of the No. 77 AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R's woes behind as he leads the class from Kelvin van der Linde in the No.1 Paul Miller Racing BMW. It's still four makes in the top four in GTD PRO with the No. 65 Multimatic Ford of Frederic Vervisch and the No. 3 Corvette of Alexander Sims in third and fourth. But the most staggering comeback of the race so far is in GTD. From as far back as seven laps down after a stuck throttle pedal, and from three laps down at half-distance, the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 is not only on the lead lap, it's not only leading – it's pulling away to a massive margin. Philip Ellis and Lucas Auer have worked together in the last hour to build a lead of over 20 seconds, over Elliott Skeer in the No. 120 Wright Motorsports Porsche, who is being pursued by the No. 80 Lone Star Racing Mercedes of Scott Andrews. Lone Star Racing has also had to fight back from a 100 second penalty stop for violating GTD stint energy retirements earlier today. The Conquest Racing Ferrari has gone behind the wall and since returned to the race, though it is over 40 laps off the lead in GTD. HOUR 16 STANDINGS Story originally appeared on Racer
