Bomarito vs. van der Zande round two. Bomarito slammed his knee on the steering wheel, hyperextending it upon getting out of the car. Renger van der Zande, the Dutchman, he is not giving up. Bomarito gets a better corner exit. Well past halfway and Nicky Catsburg in the #3 Corvette, was called to the pit lane. Catsburg didn't understand a pit call. The two BMW's and the #79 Porsche, the WeatherTech car did not pit. Bomarito and the Mazda racing a 2.0 liter turbocharged 4 cylinder against the 3.5 liter turbo V6 in the Acura and the 5.5 liter normally aspirated V8 for the Cadillacs. Lars Kern in the #9 Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R is passed by Corey Lewis in the #1 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3.
Frankie Montecalvo leads Kyle Kirkwood in the intramural Lexus scrum. The Aston Martin of Roman De Angelis, the #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin is the lightest GT Daytona car. Meantime, the Renger van der Zande vs. Jonathan Bomarito battle remains hot and heavy. Some argy bargy between the two and here comes Ricky Taylor making inroads. Dane Cameron and Pipo Derani behind. Dane Cameron and Kamui Kobayashi are also coming into the picture. Kamui Kobayashi slides around and there is supposedly contact between Loic Duval and Kamui Kobayashi on full opposite lock! Yikes! Lapped traffic for Jonathan Bomarito, GTD traffic. Wow. Slcing and dicing through the Acura, Porsche, BMW and more in GT Daytona.
More GTD traffic as Maro Engel balks Bomarito. The Mazda was held up by the Mercedes and poor old Kyle Kirkwood in the Lexus gets bombarded. Three wide with the Aston Martin and Renger van der Zande goes to the other side of the Pfaff Motorsports Porsche! Everyone seems to be on the same pit strategy as far as the top four. Bomarito, van der Zande, Taylor, Cameron. A few hours away from official sunset. The sun will drop pretty fast. Corey Lewis has moved around Lars Kern. Kern is an engineer and a production car for specialist. His father worked for Porsche for 40 years. He began racing again, and is their endurance driver at Pfaff. He is an engineer, but acts more like a driver for sure. Meanwhile, Kyle Kirkwood and the #14 Lexus has gotten back on the lead lap after the most recent Full Course Yellow.
Traffic ahead and Renger van der Zande is right on Jonathan Bomarito's six. Close moment between Jonathan Bomarito and Dylan Murry in the #91 Riley Motorsports Ligier. Murry sharing with Jeroen Bleekemolen and Jim Cox. The DPi field in 2021 is stout. Scott Huffaker has won Jeremy Shaw's Team U.S.A. scholarship. No dramas for the #52 he says, except for starting from pit lane and serving a drive through penalty with Mikkel Jensen currently in the car. Scott Huffaker is confident. Bomarito leads as Ricky Taylor wants by Renger van der Zande checking up behind the #79 GTLM Porsche. Into turn one, he's looking, probing Renger van der Zande as they go by the sister BMW M8 GT #25, of Connor De Philippi.
Dane Cameron is now moving in, making inroads on Ricky Taylor in the identical #10 car. The unsettling and the violence of the bumps in Sunset Bend, turn 17, is incredible. In GT Daytona, Lars Kern continues to chase down Corey Lewis. After this race, you are really sore in the wrists and forearms due to the kickback through the wheel over the bumps. At Daytona, the pain is back pain in the banking. van der Zande has a run on Bomarito completing one lap and starting another. More GTD traffic. Van der Zande gets balked by Kyle Kirkwood.
Now, Ricky Taylor is reeling in Renger van der Zande hand over fist. The light is diminishing and the sun is getting low in the sky as we get closer and closer to darkness. The #31 Whelen Cadillac spins. The leaders are in the pit lane. #01 in the lane as Kevin Magnussen gets back into the car. Mazda #55 is in the lane for sticker tires. No driver change. #48 pits as well as does Ricky Taylor. Taylor stays in and Kobayashi stays in. #31 loses it and slams the #5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac of Tristan Vautier. Felipe Nasr had a steering rack break, possibly.
Juan Montoya has all kinds of bother as he goes inside, then outside and nearly tags Lance Willsey in the #33 Sean Creech Motorsports Ligier. The incident between Felipe Nasr and Loic Duval is under review by the stewards. The Action Express Cadillac and the Mustang Sampling JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac. Kevin Magnussen chases Jonathan Bomarito as well as having Filipe Albuquerque right on his tail. Another good run for Riley Motorsports and the #74 car. Gar Robinson has completed his drive time and so Spencer Pigot and Scott Andrews are going to alternate to take the car to the finish.
Magnussen threads the needle by GTLM and GTD traffic. In replay, e see the Mercedes and the Porsche together and Filipe Albuquerque moves in but Kevin Magnussen too, he gets roughed up in a big way as Matthieu Jaminet almost makes contact as well. Kyle Tilley in the #18 Era Motorsports Oreca spins. Felipe Nasr has been penalized for the incident with Tristan Vautier and will serve a penalty, a drive through penalty. Kamui Kobayashi is reeling in Juan Pablo Montoya. These Daytona Prototype International cars are bulletproof. Pretty incredible.
Kamui Kobayashi drifts the #48 in the esses and he makes it back. Wow. Incredible stuff. Corey Lewis has Lars Kern reeling him in in GT Daytona. One of the best battles on the road. Lewis' tries might be knackered. Patrick Long is next up in the serial. BMW #25 is in the lane in GTLM. The leaders are in in GTLM. Bruno Spengler into the #25 and the #79 Porsche will have Matthieu Jaminet still driving. A slight delay on fuel. Check that. "Jam Jam" out of the car and it could be Matt Campbell at the wheel of it now. It is. Jaminet and Campbell will trade back and forth. Cooper MacNeil has done his stints and is done for the day. The factory Porsche program ended at the end of 2020 but now we have the WeatherTech Porsche in GTLM as well.
Now, the #1 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini is in the lane. Madison Snow takes over from Corey Lewis and Bryan Sellers will have another stint or two before the race ends. Good battle here, look, as Kamui Kobayashi is reeling in Juan Montoya. Kobayashi is just five seconds behind leader Jonathan Bomarito. The #9 Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R pits. Lars Kern out of the carn and Laurens Vanthoor into the car. They were running second. Now, the #14 Lexus is in too. Jack Hawksworth takes over from Kyle Kirkwood. Jan Heylen replaces Trent Hindman in the #16 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3R. Lexus #12 sees Frankie Montecalvo in the car. Now, Kamui Kobayashi is reeling in Kevin Magnussen.
Corvette #3 in the lane for service. Where will the speed come out of the Corvette. There will be temperature crossover between tire compounds as dusk falls. The pit stop crossover has begun. Andy Lally leads GT Daytona and has come to the pit lane for service. Laurens Vanthoor and Madison Snow are pushing. To the lead, and it's Kevin Magnussen wrestling Filipe Albuquerque. Albuquerque uses the LMP3 car as a pick. Bomarito and Mazda continue to lead this motor race. Bomarito seems to be leaving margin on the table to calculate his moves. Kobayashi in the #48 Action Express Ally Bank Cadillac is faster than anyone in the top four.
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