MSR, PR1, Porsche North America, and Aston Martin Racing, score points for the North American Endurance Cup.
The #55 Mazda is back on track. The #90 Corvette Prototype, is also in pit lane. We are now, back to green. This gets hairy, as someone locks up. It was actually Olivier Beretta, pressing Fred Makowiecki. Every restart is like Russian roulette. Santiago Creel is now driving, replacing James Davison. The #28 Konrad Lamborghini goes off th road, and back on. Johnny Adam, Brendon Hartley, and Filipe Albuquerque are going for it. These two know each other from Europe. Tony Kanaan is in the #02 Ganassi Racing Riley Ford EcoBoost. Rubens Barrichello is still driving the #10 as Ricardo Vera, goes off the road in the #20 Prototype Challenge car. #20 is just behind David Hinton in the #50 50+ Racing Riley BMW Prototype.
Alessandro Balzan and Madison Snow, battle for the GT Daytona lead. The GTLM cars and GTD cars are almost equal. GT Daytona cars have ABS. Bruno Spengler chases Gianmaria Bruni. One of the Ford's runs wide. Madison Snow closes up on Alessandro Balzan. The Lamborghini has a good horsepower rating. Snow, is a Porsche veteran. But, now, he's clicked with a Lamborghini. The #62 Ferrari 488 GTE is third in class in GTLM. This is a test of the new 488 GTE as they only had 100 kilometers of testing in Italy, and they will test, at the IMSA sanctioned February Sebring test.
The #90 Corvette is running well. Troy Flis, will also go to Le Mans, to see what it is about, with his eight year old son, Carson. A.J. Allmendinger still leads. Ozz Negri Jr. had the fastest lap for the car, right at the start of the race. A,J. Allmendinger has been racing for Mike Shank Racing for the lasst eleven years. Olivier Beretta, and Graham Rahal, continue their battle. There's a gap now, between the Porsche's and the Ferrari, as well as the BMW.
These new cars, have gotten very good. The game has changed. It used to be, if you finished, without trouble, you were up by five laps. The competition has gotten a lot closer. Mazda is using LED headlights, just like the factory Porsche's do in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Nick Tandy turns fastest lap in GTLM. Cool, dense air, will be better for horsepower, and aerodynamics. Rahal continues to hound Beretta. These blokes are about to deal with Mikhail Goikhberg, in the #85 Prototype Challenge car.
The #44 Magnus Racing Audi R8, has Rene Rast, at the controls. Alessandro Balzan is beginning to fade a bit in GT Daytona. Jose Guttierez is still leading Prototype Challenge, and more pit stops, are imminent. Eric Curran, is now at the controls of the #31 Action Express Corvette Prototype. The restarts stack things together. At Le Mans, you never really get big gaggles of cars. Olivier Beretta has passed Gianmaria Bruni. Mike Rockenfeller wants to make a move around Olivier Beretta. The aerodynamic devices, channel air to create downforce, and you cannot get a five mile an hour tow, like in a stock car.
Marcel Fassler picks up a mile an hour or so on speed, and then, he loses ground. Last time, he had a tremendous run out of the Bus Stop chicane. Beeretta comes back to them both. The new GT Le Mans aero package, is running well. The organizers do a great job of equalizing the Balance of Performance. Pit stop time for Brendon Hartley and the #01 Riley Ford EcoBoost Prototype. There will be a driver change. The GT Le Mans scrum, is for fifth spot in the overal, actually, in class. Is Fassler close enough to do it?
Is he far enough away from Gianmaria Bruni? Fassler grts a good run out opf the Bus Stop. Beretta is going to pit. Pit stop time for the #100. Andy Priaulx is now driving the #01 Prototype. The #62 Ferrari is also making a driver change for the Ferrari 488 GTE. Clean the windshield, but save the tear off's. Don't run out of tear off's. Marcel Fassler, is pushing. Olivier Beretta also used to drive for Corvette.
The #90 Corvette Prototype will get a penalty for spinning the rear tires while up on the air jacks, selecting first gear, if the clutch is slipping. Right now, Luis Felipe Derani, has taken the overall lead. The Chip Ganassi Racing Team is runnng well, with the Prototypes, defending their title, as well as running the Ford GT's. Chip Ganassi just won the Bob Snodgrass Award. Snodgrass, ran Brumos Porsche. Chip Ganassi will also be a part of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. The #007 Aston Martin V12 Vantage, makes a scheduled pit stop.
The #67 Ford GT pits. In the news, Scott Pruett won the Phil Hill Award for the Road Racing Drivers Club. Judy Stropes also won award. She is a PR person, and she used to hand score 24 hour races, timing 30 cars with a stopwatch and a scorers sheet. The #6 Stevenson Racing Audi is fifth in GT Daytona. Lawson Aschenbach hands the Audi over to Andrew Davis. Mike Shank Racing, is doing just what they need to, running very consistently.
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