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Daytona 24h, Hour 18: Porsche continues to dominate as Tandy leads Campbell
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Daytona 24h, Hour 18: Porsche continues to dominate as Tandy leads Campbell

Motorsports January 26, 2025
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Porsche led the Daytona 24 Hours with its two manufacturing unit Penske prototypes with six hours of the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship curtain-raiser remaining.

The #7 Porsche 963 LMDh with Nick Tandy on the wheel held a slim benefit of 5.6s over the sister #6 automobile pushed by Matt Campbell because the race hit the three-quarter mark.

Penske Porsche Motorsport’s two entries held a transparent benefit on the entrance of the GTP subject after almost three hours of inexperienced flag operating following the tenth security automobile of the race.

Philipp Eng within the #24 Rahal BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh trailed the second Porsche by half a minute, with Scott Dixon aboard the #60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 an analogous time again in fourth.

The #6 Porsche led into the pitstop cycle in the midst of 18th hour, Kevin Estre holding a bonus of just below 5 seconds over Felipe Nasr in #7 after overtaking the Brazilian late in hour 17.

Porsche’s #7 entry, now with Tandy driving, briefly acquired forward throughout the pitstops, earlier than Campbell who’d taken over driving duties one lap earlier took #6 again into the lead.

Tandy then acquired a greater run down the entrance straight with 20 minutes of the hour remaining to place #7 again into the lead.

#6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963: Mathieu Jaminet, Matt Campbell, Kevin Estre

Picture by: Porsche

The pole-winning BMW was better of the remaining after the remaining Shank Acura in competition misplaced time when Felix Rosenqvist broken the nostril of the automobile after nudging the boundaries at Flip 6 on an out-lap.

BMW’s bid for a primary outright Daytona victory since 1976 appeared to hold on the #24 automobile.

The #25 entry was down in seventh place and two laps off the lead after an issue with the left rear nook when the automobile underwent a change of rear brakes.

Simply one of many three Cadillac V-Sequence.R LMDhs remained within the hunt, Brendon Hartley holding fifth within the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing entry almost a lap down on the chief.

The sister #40 WTR entry, which Kamui Kobayashi had twice taken the lead within the early evening hours with, went out after seven and a half hours when Louis Deletraz crashed out of Flip 1 when the race restarted.

Motion Categorical Racing’s Caddy misplaced greater than 20 laps to repairs after Frederik Vesti hit the wall on the ultimate nook after struggling a suspension failure.

The highest six was rounded out by buyer JDC-Miller MotorSports privateer Porsche, however the Proton Competitors buyer 963 went out of the race with suspension issues with Nico Pino driving.

#99 AO Racing, ORECA LMP2 07: PJ Hyett, Dane Cameron, Jonny Edgar, Christian Rasmussen

#99 AO Racing, ORECA LMP2 07: PJ Hyett, Dane Cameron, Jonny Edgar, Christian Rasmussen

Picture by: IMSA

AO Racing was again on the entrance in LMP2 with its ORECA-Gibson 07, Christian Rasmussen having fun with a category lead of simply over 5 seconds over the #8 Tower Motorsport entry with Job van Uitert driving.

Madison Snow took the lead in GT Daytona Professional for BMW simply earlier than 18 hours and the award of the subsequent tranche of IMSA Endurance Cup factors.

He moved the #1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO previous AO’s Porsche 911 GT3-R pushed by Klaus Bachler on the infield to take the category lead.

Dennis Olsen held third within the #65 Multimatic Motorsports Ford Mustang GT3 with Antonio Garcia fourth in the most effective of the Corvette Racing entries.

Chevrolet leads the common GTD class with AWA ‘Vette with Matt Bell driving.

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