Enlarge / The start of the 60th running of the Rolex twenty-four at Daytona International Speedway. (credit: Rolex)
As is often the particular way with endurance racing, typically the 60th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona turned into a sprint race for this flag, following a safety car intervention with less than an hour left on the clock. It was often the final Daytona 24-hour race for the DPi category of prototypes, and the class put on a fine show over the weekend.
There were dozens of lead changes over your course of 24 hours, plus any of the five Cadillac DPi-V. Rs and two Acura ARX-05s would have been plausible winners. But racing for twenty four hours is not easy, and hour 13 took out two of the exact contenders, the No . 48 Action Express Racing Cadillac (which counted NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson as one of its drivers) and the 301 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac (driven at the time by multiple IndyCar champion Sebastien Bordais).
The second Chip Ganassi Cadillac had to spend some time in the garage with a fuel pump problem with less than eight hours remaining in the race, leaving a four-way fight for the win between a pair of Cadillacs (the No. 5 JDC-Miller Motorsports car and No. 31 Action Express car), plus the pair of Acuras (the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing car and the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing machine).
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