58th Rolex 24 at DAYTONA

[nickp]

Daytona has to be one of the only places where you can legitimately describe a Lamborghini as 'traffic'

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

Just woke up to see Kyle Busch get back in the car, and he almost lost it. Those cold tires on that cold track are no joke

 

[Turtle84]

Whelp the Mazda's are alive but they need to pickup the pace on speed, hopefully day time conditions help them.

 

[nickp]

That was the longest green flag run in Rolex history Over 7 hours long

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Whelp the Mazda's are alive but they need to pickup the pace on speed, hopefully day time conditions help them.

Let's see how they do after the caution and pit stops.

 

[Turtle84]

Wow penalty on the 10 cadillac

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Kinda ticky-tacky but rules is rules.

 

[Turtle84]

5 hours to get back on the lead lap and run down the leader. Things just got interesting.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

5 hours to get back on the lead lap and run down the leader. Things just got interesting.

Christina's barbeque helped the #10.

 

[Turtle84]

Christina's barbeque helped the #10.

Roasted Lambo

 

[Kiante]

Roasted Lambo

I hope that team comes back. All four ladies did an excellent job for a first time as a team together.

 

[Get That 88 Up There !!]

Really good battle between the BMW and Porsche right now

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Really good battle between the BMW and Porsche right now

GTLM has been the class to watch this weekend.

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

Stepped away and see that the WTR/Konica Minolta Cadillac is back in the lead. Good, would hate to see them lose on that mistake

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Stepped away and see that the WTR/Konica Minolta Cadillac is back in the lead. Good, would hate to see them lose on that mistake

I was about to post the same thing. I went to McD and came back to find #10 up front again.

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

I’m kind of lost on this why is the IMSA/ACO agreement such a big deal? I thought the teams racing in the WEC already race in races like LeMans and Daytona?
https://us.motorsport.com/wec/news/imsa-aco-convergence-prototype-rules/4676453/

 

[Get That 88 Up There !!]

GTLM has been the class to watch this weekend.

GTLM is always the best class IMO

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

I was about to post the same thing. I went to McD and came back to find #10 up front again.

I had something to eat too lol and wonder how they got it back. Off to Twitter!

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

I hope Kyle gets one more shot in the car, he’s been awesome to watch. The dude is supremely talented, I hope he comes back to this race next year.

 

[Charlie Spencer]

I had something to eat too lol and wonder how they got it back. Off to Twitter!

I just wish more manufacturers would participate. A seven car field is badly undernourished.

 

[Mispeedway15]

GTLM is always the best class IMO

I would be okay if they just made NASCAR a GTLM class honestly. Those things can absolutely wheel it and they draft decently

 

[Charlie Spencer]

I’m kind of lost on this why is the IMSA/ACO agreement such a big deal? I thought the teams racing in the WEC already race in races like LeMans and Daytona?
https://us.motorsport.com/wec/news/imsa-aco-convergence-prototype-rules/4676453/

@FLRacingFan or @Doc Austin, one of y'all want to tackle this one?

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

I just wish more manufacturers would participate. A seven car field is badly undernourished.

Yea well I really enjoy the DPI class and it’d be cool if Ford or Mercedes or BMW competed in it. I also like the GTD class too.

 

[Hotrod]

Paul Tracy is darn good -- Rick Allen turned up the unnecessary "three wide" booming call, and Paul just calmly talked thru it with technical precision.

#notagerbil

Yesterday ,Rick was trying to pull off a little jokey joke and it made no sense.
Tracy promptly said" and we have 6 more hours of this?" So …. its not just us.

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

Paul has been awesome, really one of my favorite racing analysts. He was right about the GTLM class being a dog fight , holy cow they’re going at it

 

[FLRacingFan]

@FLRacingFan or @Doc Austin, one of y'all want to tackle this one?

Yeah I can take it when I get home. There’s a thread from Friday in the sports car section too.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Seems like Cadillac can go further on fuel when they want to. Might be important later on.

GTD is really heating up and even having a lead-lap battle for first in LMP2 is a pleasant surprise.

 

[StandOnIt]

Yesterday ,Rick was trying to pull off a little jokey joke and it made no sense.
Tracy promptly said" and we have 6 more hours of this?" So …. its not just us.

Going to be tuff beating the gerbil out of him, but Tracy can do it.

 

[nickp]

IMSA Radio would do a better job than Rick Allen in the booth

 

[Kiante]

What happened to the 3?

All of a sudden, its 90 seconds behind in 5th.

Oh, Catsberg spun? I did not know that.

 

[StandOnIt]

IMSA Radio would do a better job than Rick Allen in the booth

They had two English accents on at the same time, really hard to understand when they got going.

 

[FLRacingFan]

I just wish more manufacturers would participate. A seven car field is badly undernourished.

Saw on RACER this week there may be a new GTLM program to be announced soon. Aston Martin would be a decent bet, they’re the only GTE manufacturer that doesn’t race in GTLM in some capacity.

Maybe we’ll eventually get that GTE/GT3 convergence and just run the same cars split into Pro and Pro-Am classes. The entry list for Bathurst next weekend is huge, so many all-Pro GT3 entries from god knows how many OEMs.

 

[Kiante]

Saw on RACER this week there may be a new GTLM program to be announced soon. Aston Martin would be a decent bet, they’re the only GTE manufacturer that doesn’t race in GTLM in some capacity.

Maybe we’ll eventually get that GTE/GT3 convergence and just run the same cars split into Pro and Pro-Am classes. The entry list for Bathurst next weekend is huge, so many all-Pro GT3 entries from god knows how many OEMs.

It might have to happen to save endurance racing, especially WEC down the line. WEC is hurting for entries worse than IMSA at this moment and time.

 

[Get That 88 Up There !!]

The only good thing about this race ending is I don’t have to listen to Rick Allen for another 6 months

 

[Charlie Spencer]

I thought for a second there that we'd finally lost a Mazda. The #55 had the cowl off. They're out there again but now they're 3 down.

 

[Hotrod]

Just in case anyone was wondering:
Paul Tracy's 24 hr of Daytona resume
2006 - DP - dnf finished 27th in class
2007 -DP - 16th in class
2012 - DP - 7th in class

 

[AdoubleU24]

Think they're being a tad harsh on Kamui here

 

[Mispeedway15]

Just in case anyone was wondering:
Paul Tracy's 24 hr of Daytona resume
2006 - DP - dnf finished 27th in class
2007 -DP - 16th in class
2012 - DP - 7th in class

Cadillac is built so well for this. It’s why NASCAR is best served with V8’s, they have the durability to hammer down for long periods of time. The Mazda in-line 4 and the V6 Honda engine are showing signs of breaking down here in the DPi class

 

[Charlie Spencer]

Last time I checked, there was no 24 hour race on the radar for the 2021 Cup schedule. This race went green over seven hours; has any stock car race gone green more than four in the last three decades?

 

[StandOnIt]

I would love to see a caution

Last time I checked, there was no 24 hour race on the radar for the 2021 Cup schedule. This race went green over seven hours; has any stock car race gone green more than four in the last three decades?

I think the chance of that happening soon will be in Indycar