Cadillac wins again at the Daytona 24 Hours
The #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac recovered from an earlier penalty to win the 2020 edition of the Daytona 24 Hours.
The car was hit with a 60-second stop-and-go penalty with around five hours of the race still to run for a pitlane infringement, dropping off the lead lap to fourth as a result.
However, the entry was able to bounce back from this and finish ahead of the polesitting #77 Mazda RT24-P driven by Oliver Jarvis, Tristan Nunez and Olivier Pla.
The triumph – by Kamui Kobayashi, Scott Dixon, Ryan Briscoe and Renger van der Zande – keeps alive Cadillac’s 100% winning record in the classic IMSA Sportscar Championship season opener.
The 58th running of the event also featured a record distance completed due to only six caution periods, the top three completing 833 laps.
The #5 JDC Miller Motorsports Cadillac of Sebastien Bourdais,
Joao Barbosa and Loic Duval completed the podium.
LMP2 was won by Dragonspeed, the Ben Hanley, Henrik Hedman, Colin Braun and Harrison Newey ORECA beating the PR1 Mathiasen car of Gabriel Aubry, Ben Keating, Simon Trummer and Nick Boulle by a full lap.
In GT Le Mans, Jesse Krohn won with the #24 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing BMW M8 GTE he shared with John Edwards, Augusto Farfus and Chaz Mostert.
The Finn had to pass both Porsche 911 RSRS over the course of the final couple of hours.
Earl Bamber in the #912 car he shared with Laurens Vanthoor and Mathieu Jaminet engaged in a frantic duel with Nick Tandy in the final hour, but held on to restrict the
Tandy, Fred Makowiecki and Matt Campbell-driven machine to the lowest step on the podium.
The GT Daytona class featured a Lamborghini Huracan 1-2, the Paul Miller Racing entry of Bryan Sellers, Corey Lewis, Madison Snow and Andrea Caldarelli triumphing ahead of the GRT Magnus entry steered by Andy Lally, Spencer Pumpelly, Marco Mapelli and John Potter.