Xfinity UNOH 188 at the DAYTONA Road Course

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Saturday, Aug. 15 3:00 PM ET

UNOH 188 at the DAYTONA Road Course

Daytona International Speedway


Daytona Beach, Florida- 52 laps / 182 miles


Catch the race on:
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Lally is back. Earl Bamber is another worthy ringer. Factory Porsche driver with two seconds and a third at Daytona the last two years (he ain't driving no Porsche :biggrin:)
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'Dinger back in the #16 too.

The X drivers have run the Indy infield and Road America in the last few weeks. Those recent R/C experiences could make this a better race than the Cup series puts on.
 
Pretty sure Lally and 'Dinger ran it this year too, and SOI already mentioned Bamber. Really hyped for this one.
Dinger and Lally will be there, but I think those two Ford powered cars are going to be hard to beat. They have been all season and they were fast at Indy, so I wonder how they will get on this weekend.
 
The Xfinity race has plenty of ringers with a lot of road course experience.

Alex Labbé (DGM Racing #90 Chevrolet)


  • 2020 SCCA test (figured I might as well add this since it happened so recently and was such a big deal)
Earl Bamber (Richard Childress Racing #21 Chevrolet)


  • 2014 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 27th in GTD (DNF)
  • 2015 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 7th in GTLM (DNF)
  • 2016 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 3rd in GTLM
  • 2018 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 6th in GTLM
  • 2019 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 3rd in GTLM
  • 2020 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 2nd in GTLM
  • 2020 IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship race, finished 2nd in GTLM
Andy Lally (Our Motorsports #02 Chevrolet)
  • Far too many races to list here; Lally has run 28 Grand-Am/WSCC races at Daytona from 2001 to 2020, 7 of which he has won.
A.J. Allmendinger (Kaulig Racing #16 Chevrolet)
  • 2006 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 2nd in DP
  • 2007 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 16th in DP
  • 2008 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 9th in DP
  • 2009 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 19th in DP (DNF)
  • 2010 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 7th in DP (DNF)
  • 2011 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 7th in DP
  • 2012 24 Hours of Daytona, won in DP
  • 2013 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 3rd in DP
  • 2014 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 12th in P
  • 2015 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 5th in P (DNF)
  • 2016 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 11th in P (DNF)
  • 2018 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 2nd in GTD
  • 2019 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 4th in GTD
  • 2020 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 8th in GTD
  • Brandon Gdovic (Sam Hunt Racing #26 Toyota)
    • 2016 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 6th in PC (DNF)
    • 2017 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 13th in GTD
    • 2020 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 15th in GTD (DNF)
  • Jade Buford (SS-Green Light Racing #07 Chevrolet)
    • 2010 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 28th in GT (DNF)
    • 2011 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 20th in GT (DNF)
    • 2012 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 34th in GT (DNF)
    • 2017 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race, finished 5th in GS
    • 2018 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race, finished 9th in GS
    • 2019 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race, finished 10th in GS
    • 2020 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race, finished 11th in GS
  • Chase Briscoe (Stewart-Haas Racing #98 Ford)
    • 2018 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge race, finished 20th in GS (DNF)
    • 2019 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race, finished 5th in GS
    • 2020 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race, finished 29th in GS
  • Austin Cindric (Team Penske #22 Ford)
    • 2017 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 14th in GTD
    • 2018 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge race, finished 20th in GS (DNF)
    • 2018 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 6th in P
    • 2019 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race, finished 5th in GS
    • 2019 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 5th in GTD
    • 2020 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race, finished 30th in GS (DNF)
  • Jeffrey Earnhardt (JD Motorsports #15 Chevrolet)
    • 2011 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 11th in GT
    • 2012 24 Hours of Daytona, finished 38th in GT (DNF)
  • From Reddit
 
Really good interview with Earl Bamber:


I've been saying for years exactly what Bamber observed about the level at which Nascar operates... the basic design architecture is archaic, but it is executed with a sophistication and professionalism fully worthy of F1. Here's how Bamber put it...
On being impressed with the management and precision he’s found at RCR:
“Their planning and execution is equal to what we do with the RSR program, which is impressive. Everyone always says that stock car racing and teams are archaic and stuff, but they’re not. The body fit men and the body builders are unreal. I’ve already seen the car run on the rolling road engine dyno. It’s been on the seven-post rig; they’re going to do some testing with the dampers and do all that stuff. I’ll probably have 20-24 hours total in the simulator before the race. And what they do in the simulator, they methodically follow up and check with everything that they can possibly check. There’s no team in Europe that’s got their own seven-post shaker rig in a workshop that knows what to do with it. People say they’re basic in NASCAR, but they’re not.”
 
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