It is true. We are now into the second half of the Motul Petit Le Mans in 2024 here at Road Atlanta, the finale of the season for the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship. IMSA has massive momentum. As I said, we have a golden era underway in sports car racing. There were days when we never thought we'd get enough cars for a race, and now, the sanctioning body must turn entries away because there are too many cars and not enough room in pit lane at the tracks. It is crowded here at Road Atlanta with 50+ cars. The number of manufacturers is inspiring and staggering and the more momentum they build, more manufacturers are coming in. The star drivers from other categories want to be in IMSA as much as possible.
Scott Dixon in the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac, in their IMSA swansong for now. He has been racing IndyCars for two decades and here at Petit Le Mans, is making his 50th career IMSA start. Dixon teamed up, as we said earlier, with Stefan Johansson back in the late 1990s and Johansson has been Dixon's manager for a long time. That is where Stefan Johansson's involvement in racing went after he hung up his helmet. Dixon wants to be at the Rolex 24 every year and wants the extra seat time, with the early season endurance races. There is a big hole, a big void, in the IndyCar schedule. IndyCar are of course going the hybrid route just like the sports cars are.
There is a big difference between the Daytona Prototype International and the GTP cars. The biggest change came from understanding the systems. The cars don't feel that different from the cockpit. It is just a matter of using the tools, the systems, the brake by wire, the hybrid power regeneration boost. The tools in the car for changing the balance over the stint with tire degradation, making adjustments via the steering wheel. The car feels similar to the DPi. The toolbox on a GT3 car is like a regular toolbox where you take maybe a hammer, nails, and pliers and wire to hang a framed picture on the wall. Whereas a GTP car is like having a gigantic Snap-On tool chest like the teams do in the back of the garage to work on the cars.
You need advice from the engineers telling you what tools to use. It is like being an astronaut and asking mission control what to do to work a spacecraft. Whoa! Porsche #5, the Mustang Sampling Proton Competition car, goes off the road for a wee while. Will he get back on the tarmac, or won't he? Oy vey! Kevin Estre just passed Alessio Picariello and put him a lap down. This is near the end of the stint and the Michelin's are worn out. He was deep on the brakes into turn ten and almost ran over the top of the factory Porsche! He washes out wide and skitters across the grass and the red Georgia clay. Those tires will be very slimy.
You can only do so much with old tires and full tanks. Double stinting is a bear but that is what is done with these tires. Sometimes, you get off sequence and with new tires, you are Superman. OK. Roman De Angelis is reeling in the GTD Pro leading #62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 296 GT3 of Alessandro Pier Guidi little by little. It looks as though the points tables have not changed much from the last time we checked. Let me scroll back up my document here, pull down the numbers, and paste them in on this paragraph, because it is true, nothing has changed dramatically since last report.
1. #23 Ross Gunn Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo 3,138 points
2. #77 Laurin Heinrich AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3R (992) 3,122 points -16
3. #1 Snow/Sellers Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 2,969 points -169
2. #77 Laurin Heinrich AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3R (992) 3,122 points -16
3. #1 Snow/Sellers Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 2,969 points -169
Ladies and gentlemen, I digress. I had to dig back into the fourth hour report to find the points standings reverted back to the way they were then, and it appears that the Paul Miller BMW has leapfrogged back past the #3 Pratt & Miller Corvette who had a tentative, provisional, third place points spot during the fifth hour. Roman De Angelis is really throwing the kitchen sink at Alessandro Pier Guidi here and it could very well be that Heart of Racing are in position to win the GTD Pro title here tonight if everything goes well the rest of the way.
They are 16 points to the good over AO Racing. Alex Riberas has had no radio during his stint, but they got lucky with a green stint with no yellows. They are executing, keeping the car clean, letting the race come to them. Quoting the late, great basketball legend Kobe Bryant, "the jobs not finished." Stay cool, control what you can. There will always be variables. Be proactive on strategy and traffic management. Let the race come to them. Of course, Heart of Racing are expanding to their GTP program with the V12 Valkyrie Hypercar for next year.
In the LMP2 class, the #74 Riley team are doing all they can to snag the title away from their rivals late in the game. Felipe Fraga leads in class while their rivals are struggling. Scott Huffaker is in the pit lane aboard the #20 MDK by High Class Racing car. Jakub Smiechowski, Mikkel Jensen, and Luis Perez Companc, all of them running third, fourth, and fifth in class are each a lap down to the leader. Felipe Fraga at the wheel of #74 as everyone else in LMP2 has pitted. Gar Robinson did an early double stint and completed his drive time. Now, Felipe Fraga, the Brazilian, and the Australian, Josh Burdon, can focus on the rest of the drive time in the remaining four hours and 51 and a half minutes of this motor race.
Hang on a second. I am going back to the archived parts of this race blog to check the LMP2 runners and riders for the title. Then, I shall copy and paste that info and crunch the numbers. Bear with me, folks. Before we pick back up with the story on the #74, here are the current LMP2 points in the championship chase. The updated table has changed a wee bit.
1. #52 Boulle/Dillmann Inter Europol/PR1 Mathiasen Oreca 07 2,247 points
2. #74 Robinson/Fraga Riley Oreca 07 2,196 points -51
3. #18 Ryan Dalziel Era Motorsports Oreca 07 2,058 points -189
Riley Motorsports need some help, but the deal is the Bronze-graded driver is able to do double stints and this opens the playbook on strategy. The semi-professional drivers are iron men and can knock their stints out, bish, bash, bosh... like that. #74 in the lane for what appears to be fuel only. With LMP2 tire allotments, they are double stinting, saving sticker tires for tonight. This entire driver lineup is comprised of drivers who have won this race at Petit Le Mans in LMP2 before. All of it within the last three years, 2021, '22, and '23. The Jim Trueman Award is also being sought after for the top LMP2 driver.
Nick Boulle has the edge for the Trueman trophy and what the Trueman trophy does is get a driver an automatic entry, an automatic invitation to the 24 Hours of Le Mans for next year in 2025. Trust me, we will not know anything about who will be racing at Le Mans until next spring because the ACO won't release any form of an entry list until mid to late February I don't think, so, a little bit after the 2025 Rolex 24 is in the books. Launching out of the pit box on hot tires, the engineer must remind you. Hot, grippy tires can just be stuck while the car is being refueled. Use more revs, slip the clutch, and get moving.
We saw a rear wing change for the #52 car as well. The LMP2 cars have adjustable rear wings on them. We see a slight change in the top five in class. Now, the #8 Tower Motorsports Oreca is poking it's nose into the top five. Danish driver Fredrik Vesti at the wheel of it. Vesti is sharing with Tower Motorsports team and car owner, Canadian John Farano, and with Mexican LMP2 class veteran in the states and in Europe, Sebastian Alvarez. Every car is different. Every class is different. The night practice session really can say something about how the cars are working.
Getting the speed at the end, means surviving the middle afternoon and evening segment. In night practice, dial in the setups and then get through saving energy and saving tires saving your stuff for the end of the race just like the fourth quarter of a football or basketball game or the bottom of the ninth inning in a baseball game. Double stinting early is very important. Three single stints to the end. On cold tires coming out of pit lane the GTP cars are a real handful in spite of the tools available in the cockpit for the driver. It is weather dependent, small ambient or track temp differences make the tires hard to get in their sweet spot, bedding them in.
If you can gamble and run tires for a stint and a half you can make up time on the out lap. Not to give away secrets, but typically, one side of the car on hot tires has the temperature and the other side on stone cold tires doesn't. It takes laps to even it out. There are going to be more double stints, I think. It depends too if you stop under yellow, which is fine, but under green, well, well, well, gamble everything and bet the house. The thing is, being a race strategist and/or having that person tell a driver how to make things work on strategy can help and Colin Braun's dad, Jeff Braun, he is a strategist. He knows what to do.
Car #52 is a lap down, sixth in class. There was damage to the rear tail after Jakub "Kuba" Smiechowski, spun the car. They were looking for damage from the pit wall and the bottom end of the wing was damaged and put a new rear tail on the car. So, it is pretty obvious the original rear wing and one of the two "cheese wedges" underneath the bumper, were damaged. So much of this race is yet to happen. Ganassi Racing used to change cambers and gear ratios in the 24 Hours of Daytona all the time. Petit Le Mans never disappoints. You need to be there with a quick race car and have 100% in the car and make total commitments.
It has been wonderful to have Colin Braun joining us for some insight and we'll see what his 2025 plans will be. Right now, the #57 Winward Racing Mercedes remains in the pound seats to possibly win the championship in GT Daytona but there's still a long, long way to go. We are past the halfway point in the motor race ladies and gentlemen. We are joined in the broadcast booth on NBC Sports and Peacock by Kevin Lee, Calvin Fish, and now, Townsend Bell, to continue telling the story of this motor race. The book continues to be written here. The plot is thickening and twisting with every tick of the clock. Heart of Racing in the lane with the #23 GT Daytona Pro championship leader.
Tires and fuel for the car with no driver change. The same happened to the first GTP car to pit this cycle, Jordan Taylor aboard the #40 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Global Acura ARX-06 in the hands of Colton Herta who shares that car alongside Jordan Taylor and Louis Deletraz. That is the car that won the 12 Hours of Sebring back in March. They were second in class and running off cycle. AO Racing Porsche five laps down in GTD Pro. OK. We have more GTP cars pitting now including Kevin Estre in the #6 Porsche 963 Penske car and Scott Dixon in the #01 Ganassi Racing pink Cadillac. It is a literal pink Cadillac just like the song released as a B side by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band on their 1984 "Dancing In The Dark" record.
Estre to the lane. Tires and fuel, and they will do a driver change and fill the fuel tank. Will the #01 leapfrog the Porsche and get back on the lead lap? #01 has the pace if they get their lap back and it is going to be tight! The Porsche Penske boys reacted to the #01. Dixon doing a double stint and Nick Tandy is now in the #6 car. Dane Cameron now pitting the sister #7 Porsche, the likely champion. There are nine GTP cars still running as a tearoff is taken off the windscreen. The #7 will win the title more than likely. They can go for it. They don't have to be conservative. They can throw caution to the wind. Dane Cameron will likely join Antonio Garcia as the only driver to win four championship titles in the current era of IMSA. Here are the GTP points standings as they run with four hours and 37 minutes to go in the race, just north of four and a half hours.
1. #7 Cameron/Nasr Porsche Penske Motorsports Porsche 963 3,002 points
2. #6 Jaminet/Tandy Porsche Penske Motorsports Porsche 963 2,899 points -103
3. #01 van der Zande/Bourdais Cadillac Racing Cadillac V Series.R 2,764 points -238
Dane Cameron first won a title in GT Daytona with Turner Motorsports in 2014 aboard the BMW Z4 GT3 when the merger happened and the new IMSA was born, a decade ago. I remember vaguely, because I have been blogging about the sports cars now, solidly, for a decade. What a ride! Dane Cameron has come up through the GT ranks into the GTP cars. This is a blissful celebration drive. Trouble in paradise, though, for the #027 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3, clattering into the signage at pit in! He got in a little bit too hot, and I think he just overcooked the entry and got the left side tires in the grass, and he actually got turned by the Corvette and spun into pit in! Yet another of those, what I like to call, a well, well, well moment.
I think they are checking the car for damage and changing tires as well as a driver change. I don't see any damage. The Road Atlanta pit entry is one of the most difficult worldwide. The #96 Liqui Moly sponsored Turner Motorsports BMW M4 GT3 is in the pit lane for service and a driver change. Robby Foley, out, and Jake Walker, in. Tires, fuel, and a windscreen tearoff. The mechanic also is blowing air into the radiators to cool the motor. Fuel, tires and a driver change at Korthoff Preston Motorsports Mercedes. Kenton Koch has finished his required drive time and will leave the task now up to his co-drivers Mikael Grenier and Mike Skeen to bring it home in the next hour and a half hours.
Korthoff Preston Motorsports broke through for their first GT Daytona victory at Virginia International Raceway and scored a podium at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The team has taken about three years to gel and get the driver lineup right. Going into next year they will be a preseason favorite in GT Daytona for 2025. Porsche Penske 963's run 1-2 with Nick Tandy leading Dane Cameron now by 11 and a half seconds. Dane Cameron has more energy onboard. The championship fight is going the way of the #7. Four wins for Penske Porsche, two apiece for the #6 and #7.
Proton Competition who also run the Mustang Sampling Porsche 963, their GT Daytona class Ford Mustang GT3 has also run very well today so far. Giammarco Levorato, the Italian, is currently at the wheel of it, sharing alongside American drivers Ryan Hardwick and Corey Lewis. Now, we see the #47 Cetilar Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 has spun. Did he clang the wall or is he just stuck in the grass? He flick spins the car and tries not to clip the rear wing on the barriers. That's the Italian Bronze graded driver Roberto Lacorte behind the wheel. Some slight damage on the right front. That is at turn three and I wonder if he got nerfed over the blind crest.
The shadows are long and can distract a driver and their field of vision. He got pinched, look, by Nick Tandy in the Porsche. Race Control will review that. The glare is a bugaboo for everyone. Tandy was in the middle of the road. He is in no man's land with a prototype on the one side. He knew he would end up in the barriers because he has no references at that point and the rearview mirror has been cattywampus on the #47 all day. Nick Tandy is now 13 seconds to the good over his Penske Porsche teammate, Dane Cameron. Kevin Estre says his stint went well. He is not sure that Tandy wouldn't have done something better, trying to come back to the left side by side with the Ferrari GT car.
Estre, from Lyon, France, says tire wear is high, and he was stuck behind the Proton Porsche 963 and stay ahead of the #01 Cadillac. It is a real jungle out there on the track, looking ahead, eyes forward, with action all over. The track temperature has dropped a dozen degrees. A big year for Kevin Estre. He is currently leading, for Porsche Penske, the Hypercar points chase in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and as promised, after this race is complete, we are going to give you more insight, more highlights, more reports, on the remaining races in the 2024 FIA WEC. So, stay tuned for all of that still to come.
There is bodywork rubbing on the tire for Lacorte and the Ferrari. The team are set to take care of that damage. The bodywork and the mirrors have been completely abused, but we can see, even in survival mode that Cetilar Racing are hanging tough. This is an all-Italian driving trio. Roberto Lacorte, Giorgio Sernagiotto, and Ferrari Hypercar driver in the 499P and 24 Hours of Le Mans winner in 2024, Antonio Fuoco. Kevin Estre makes a good point of looking ahead but has the experience too in the GT class, anticipating the behavior of a GT driver, seeing drama of any kind, before it happens. Gianmaria Bruni is in the same position. It is a major help.
Yes, you have the Le Mans winner on this team at Cetilar, but right now, the amateur driver, Roberto Lacorte, at the wheel. He is 55 years old, an Italian businessman. He has little experience racing with prototypes. Some drivers want to know everything about another car. Lacorte is four laps down and he just had contact as we are now watching Philip Ellis in the #57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3. They are a lap down but safe in the championship fight over Turner Motorsports. Now we check in with the #9 Pfaff Motorsports McLaren 720S GT3 as James Hinchcliffe finished his stint and turned the car over to Oliver Jarvis.
Oh boy! Race Control have just announced a drive through penalty for the #6 Porsche! The race leader, Nick Tandy, being penalized for that contact, for incident responsibility for the shemozzle we just saw. He will lose time and drop to third our fourth. He has a 20 second buffer over Brendon Hartley in the #10 Konica Minolta Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06 and a minute ahead of the sister #40 Dex Imaging Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura with Colton Herta at the wheel of it. Nick Tandy has to be wondering what on earth he did wrong and assumes that the GT car turned in on him. Tandy is a former GT class driver.
Maybe the Porsche jinked to the left but then again, maybe Lacorte did not see the prototype coming. That was pretty light contact. Jonathan Diuguid from Penske Porsche, looking on, the team manager for their sports car programs. Scott Dixon is now back on the lead lap. Dixon has the fastest lap of the motor race now at 1:12.321. So, Scott Dixon will make inroads with Tandy's impending penalty. No evidence of contact on the Porsche except for a scratch on the left side number panel. If you make a wrong turn, you can be involved in a big one. It is like a game of Pac Man. The GTP cars are Pac Man and the GTD Pro and GTD cars are the marbles being eaten by Pac Man.
The chaos is real and try staying out of trouble with a variety of cars and drivers. The Pfaff Motorsports McLaren is quick in the corners and under braking, struggling for straightaway speed. They had a starter motor failure on the most recent pit stop. Marvin Kirchhofer and Oliver Jarvis will take the car to the finish while we will hear from James Hinchcliffe in the NBC Sports broadcast booth soon. The McLaren's windscreen is smudged and pitted like crazy. Something went wrong with having bubbles trapped on the tear offs.
Meanwhile, Devlin DeFrancesco is madly flashing the headlamps of the #78 Forte Racing Lamborghini telling his GTD class rival, the #13 AWA Corvette to move over. We saw the #22 United Autosports Oreca of Bijoy Garg spin in pit lane. Now, Paul di Resta had taken over the car, but they've lost 25 laps and are behind the wall after Bijoy Garg's shemozzle and could not make the pit in before thudding the wall. Paul di Resta radioed in saying something is wrong. They are back on track but lost oodles of time. Meanwhile, in fifth place in LMP2, Connor Zilisch has taken over the #18 Era Motorsports Oreca 07. Zilisch is a lap down but has just uncorked a 1;15.3 which is faster than most of the LMP2's! Holy smokes!
If he gets back on the lead lap and this kid can go for it, look out! Zilisch's confidence on corner entry is amazing and then he jumps into a NASCAR stock car and he can adapt to that, too. Young drivers who have done karting or midgets or whatever, and then, they get on the simulator for 40, 50, 60 hours a week with many cars on many racetracks and they know exactly what to do via the simulator. So, those drivers are dialed in completely. Connor Zilisch has mustered all the courage in the braking zones. We are now in the window of being difficult to see with the setting sun. Turn three is very difficult with the shadows.
Dane Cameron, working through lapped traffic, looking comfortable, cutting great lap times and about four seconds ahead of Brendon Hartley. Folks, before we continue with the last quarter of hour six here at Road Atlanta, if you are watching the race on Peacock, I suggest that you either turn on your television to USA Network, or, you click on Petit Le Mans Part 2 on Peacock, and continue to follow this stirring sports car race over the next four and a quarter hours. Believe me, you'll be glad you did. You won't miss a thing.
This is one of the most challenging races at one of the most challenging tracks in the world, at Road Atlanta, the 27th annual Motul Petit Le Mans, a ten-hour odyssey. We have in the booth, Brian Till, Calvin Fish, and Townsend Bell. In the pit lane reporting on the happenings there, it is Dillon Welch and Matt Yocum along with Ryan Myrehn and Georgia Henneberry. Dane Cameron leads overall and in GTP. Felipe Fraga leading LMP2. Davide Rigon leads GTD Pro and Mike Skeen in GTD. So, it is Porsche Penske Motorsports and their Porsche 963, Riley's Oreca 07, Risi Competizione's Ferrari 296 GT3, and Korthoff Preston Motorsports' Mercedes-AMG GT3, the respective class leading cars.
Dane Cameron is indeed the overall leader. We've got the points situation to also look at. Dane Cameron and Felipe Nasr lead the GTP standings ahead of their sister car #6. Here is the GTP points standings as they run currently. I think this is the first time we have really done a full overview of GTP points for the whole race. Here goes.
1. #7 Cameron/Nasr Porsche Penske Motorsports Porsche 963 3,032 points
2. #6 Jaminet/Tandy Porsche Penske Motorsports Porsche 963 2,849 points -183
3. #01 van der Zande/Bourdais Cadillac Racing Cadillac V Series.R 2,774 points -258
4. #31 Aitken/Derani Whelen Engineering Cadillac V Series.R 2,657 points -375
5. #10 R. Taylor/Albuquerque WTR Andretti Acura ARX-06 2,650 points -382
The Porsche duo Nasr and Cameron alongside Matt Campbell, they are going to be celebrating. We have more points tables to get to as we go along. Here's the LMP2 standings as of right now.
1. #52 Boulle/Dillman Inter Europol/PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07 2,207 points
2. #74 Robinson/Fraga Riley Oreca 07 2,196 points -11
3. #18 Ryan Dalziel Era Motorsports Oreca 07 2,098 points -109
4. #11 Stephen Thomas TDS Oreca 07 2,054 points -153
5. #2 Keating/Hanley United Autosports USA Oreca 07 1,962 points -245
#52 and #74 have been pin ponging back and forth. Both cars have had their troubles throughout the race even though, yes, currently, all is well on track for the two teams. Here are the GT Daytona Pro standings.
1. #23 Ross Gunn Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo 3,138 points
2. #77 Laurin Heinrich AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3R (992) 3,122 points -16
3. #3 Garcia/Sims Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports
Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R 2,934 points -204
4. #1 Snow/Sellers Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 2,929 points -209
5. #14 Barnicoat/Hawksworth Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 2,859 points -279
What a surprise in GTD Pro to see the #23 Aston Martin at the top. AO Racing with electrical woes have not been able to claw back the five laps they lost with the electrical troubles from earlier. So, The Heart of Racing are the catbird seat to steal away a title in GTD Pro if things run smoothly in the next four hours. Now we move to the GT Daytona standings and see what is going down in that division.
1. #57 Ellis/Ward Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 3,226 points
2. #96 Foley/Gallagher Turner Motorsports BMW M4 GT3 3,076 points -150
3. #32 Mikael Grenier Korthoff/Preston Motorsports
Mercedes-AMG GT3 2,891 points -335
4. #78 Spinelli/Goikhberg Forte Racing Lamborghini
Huracan GT3 EVO2 2,554 points -672
5. #12 Parker Thompson Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 2,527 points -699
So, the #57 Mercedes has been steady on the tiller all year. We've had a ton of action already with almost six hours of racing in the bag. Now, the heat is being turned on and the blowtorch is being applied at the top of the shop in GTP! Dane Cameron has been freight trained by both Brendon Hartley in the #10 WTR Andretti Acura, and now his teammate, Nick Tandy is going to add insult to injury and give poor old Cameron the same treatment! Side by side in the downhill! No momentum for Cameron and now, the GTP cars scream past the GT3 cars! Straight line speed difference between GTP and the GTD cars is 30-35 maybe 30-40 miles an hour.
I wonder if in a double stint on tires, Cameron might be falling off the pace with his Michelin tires. Did he pick up marbles? He has more energy on board compared to his teammate. Every class is limited to a certain number of tires which means you use the same set of tires a couple of times in the GTP class. The go fast, the goody, has been rubbed out of the Michelin's. Meanwhile, on the march, it is Scott Dixon aboard the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V Series.R. Chip Ganassi Racing and the #01 Cadillac went a lap down early in the motor race due to a scrutineering issue. They have the fastest lap of the race thus far. Dixon is "the ice man", "the closer", as he has shown in IndyCar and in sports cars.
However, Scott Dixon is missing a headlight. The left front headlight is out and the #01 has become a padiddle, a car with a single working headlight, and as The Wallflowers and Jakob Dylan sang in their 1996 song, "Me and Cinderella, put it all together. We can drive it home, with one headlight." Dixon appears as if that is the approach he will need to take for the time being, and maybe, for the last four hours of this motor race. As we fall into darkness tonight, that could become a major issue.
The team can quickly change the nose or fix the wiring connection and get the headlight back. Let's review a list of things that are about to happen after this race and drivers and teams that are in the last dance before finding new opportunities for the future. We spoke about this a few hours back, but I think a refresher course is indeed in order.
- Pipo Derani leaving Action Express.
- Chip Ganassi splitting with Cadillac.
- Wayne Taylor Racing's last race with Acura.
- Richard Westbrook retiring.
- Bryan Sellers' last race with Paul Miller Racing.
- Final race for Acura NSX GT3.
When it gets dark with one headlight with very little supplemental lighting, it is going to be very hard for the #01 Cadillac. How much etiquette will there be in the final hours of this race with many drivers leaving their posts after this race knowing they don't have to report for work on Monday and will be in the midst of finding new opportunities for 2025? Ye olde plot doth thicken again. Now, insofar as the #01, there is something odd with the left rear taillight on the Cadillac #01 as well. We will have to have a Captain Cook and see what's going on.
I wonder if the wiring loom on the left side isn't working. Now the headlights are on. Maybe the mode switch isn't working. I don't know. Maybe something is wrong with the wiring. By the rules you need at least one light. All the teams have extra bodywork in case of damage, and if you change it, the plug, the fixture, the bulb, could be on the fritz as we have four hours to go in the 2024 IMSA season and that is all.
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