Rolex 24: Hour 4

David Heinemeier-Hanson spins, as Max Angelelli is into the #10 car and the #02 car pits.  Ganassi is much more on top of their game than they were last year.  They've had time to massage and work with the Ford EcoBoost V6 engine package, and have done more to practice pit stops, obviously.  Christian Fittipaldi has moved up to second, and he's booking it, even though Karam is steadily incresing his lead.  The #10 Wayne Taylor Racing machine, is starting to recover.  The car has had electrical issues through the weekend, according to Jordan Taylor.  But, things seem to be getting better.

Fittipaldi is struggling, and Max Angelelli, (currently in the #10 car, and signed for the endurance races), is hanging in there.  Angelelli is a real scrapper.  A.J. Allmendinger has taken over the #60 Michael Shank Racing Ligier Honda.  Allmendinger is another driver who yours truly would call a "scrapper".  Sean Johnston leads Prototype Challenge in the Performance Tech entry.  He was a video gamer who played racing video games, and is now in th fourth year of his races.  Johnston has run in Germany, and speaks fluent German.

Johnston did not win the prize.  But, he wants to be a Porsche factory driver.  You can become a racing driver, from video games.  Jann Mardenborough and Lucas Ordonez, have done it.  GT Daytona leader, (the #63 Scuderia Corse Ferrari), is in.  Anthony Lazzaro, Townsend Bell, Bill Sweedler, and Jeff Westphal, are also on the driver's strength.  The #22 AJR Porsche also pits with Shane van Gisbergen at the wheel.  van Gisbergen is a veteran of Australian V8 Supercars, and still competes on that circuit.

Corvette Racing has always had great driver teams.  But, crew chief Dan Binks says that this is the best of the lineups they've had with Ryan Briscoe and Simon Pagenaud.  Madison Snow is down in the order in GTD.  He balks both Leh Keen and Christopher Haase.  Snow in a Porsche.  Haase in an Audi.  Dion von Moltke and Christopher Haase will drive together for the full season, as Bryce Miller will do only the endurance races.

Kuba Giermaziak locks the brakes.  He is dealing with passing Madison Snow.  Jamie McMurray passes Christian Fittipaldi.  Starworks and teasm boss Peter Baron says that their motor is throttled back, and thus, they are four or five miles an hour slower with their car than they'd like.  Graham Rahal was in pit lane, eighth in GT Le Mans.  They had some work to do on the body.  He is now three laps down.

The car raises up and pulls right under braking.  So, there are handling issues for the BMW Z4 GTE right now, that could also be a suspension problem.  The #49 Ferrari is also having some power issues.  Pasin Lathouras is at the controls of that car at the moment.  Car #01 makes another scheduled pit stop.  Sage Karam stays in the car and the #10 takes over the race lead.  We have not had many yellow flags.  But, there could be a rash of them.  You never know.

Action Express double stints the tires, putting on new tires.  Sebastien Bourdais takes over from Christian Fittiipaldi.  The #02 car pits for four tires, and also , a quick driver change wiuth  The #52 Prototype Challenge machine of Mike Guasch, spinning.  Guasch was Prototype Challenge champion in the Amercian Le Mans Series.  Joey Hand has now taken over the #01 Ganassi Riley Ford EcoBoost machine.

Anthony Lazzaro leads in the GT Daytona class in the #63 Scuderia Corse Ferrari 458 Italia.  The Viper's are also in the hunt in GTD.  Joey Hand leads this race overall.