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Daytona 24 Hours: WTR Cadillac brushes off penalty to take victory

The #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac recovered from an earlier penalty to win the 2020 edition of the Daytona 24 Hours

The #10 WTR 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, Kamui Kobayashi steering the Konica Minolta #10 across the line 65s ahead of the polesitting #77 Mazda RT24-P driven by Oliver Jarvis, Tristan Nunez and Olivier Pla.

The triumph 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.

Over the final couple of hours, Kobayashi was taking it relatively easy and still pulling away from the Mazda, which in turn crossed the line 20s ahead of the #5 JDC Miller MotorSports Cadillac of Sebastien Bourdais, Joao Barbosa and Loic Duval.

Fourth was earned by Dane Cameron, Juan Pablo Montoya and Simon Pagenaud in the #6 Acura Team Penske ARX-05, four laps down after being slowed almost throughout the race by the car bottoming out.

The second JDC Miller entry of Matheus Leist, Tristan Vautier, Chris Miller and Juan Piedrahita was fifth, ahead of the second Mazda which was way off the pace for the last three hours due to a power loss.

LMP2 was won by DragonSpeed, the Ben Hanley, Henrik Hedman, Colin Braun and Harrison Newey car beating the PR1 Mathiasen of Gabriel Aubry, Ben Keating, Simon Trummer and Nick Boulle by a full lap, with Era Motorsport eight laps further adrift.

The GT Le Mans battle was a thriller, Jesse Krohn overcoming a stall in his penultimate stop to drive home 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, but eventually left them in his wake, crossing the line 14s ahead.

Earl Bamber in the #912 car he shares with Laurens Vanthoor and Mathieu Jaminet engaged in a frantic duel with Nick Tandy in the final hour, but held on and then pulled away to restrict the Tandy, Fred Makowiecki and Matt Campbell-driven machine to the lowest step on the podium.

Antonio Garcia, Jordan Taylor and Nicky Catsburg delivered a fourth place finish for the new mid-engined Corvette C8.R on its debut, albeit well over a minute behind the Porsche battle.

The Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 retired more than hour before the end with a lack of power, leaving fifth place to last year's winning BMW M8, which was 13 laps down due to earlier trouble when it ran over debris.

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.

The WRT Speedstar Audi Sport R8 of Mirko Bortolotti, Rolf Ineichen, Daniel Morad and Dries Vanthoor clinched the last step on the podium, ahead of the Porsche 911 GT3 Rs of Wright Motorsports and Black Swan Racing, and the Turner Motorsport BMW M6.

Result

Pos Class Driver Team Car Gap Laps
1 DPi R.van der Zande, R.Briscoe, S.Dixon, K.Kobayashi Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R Cadillac 24h00m33.494s 833
2 DPi O.Jarvis, T.Nunez, O.Pla Mazda Team Joest Mazda 1m05.426s 833
3 DPi S.Bourdais, L.Duval, J.Barbosa JDC-Mustang Sampling Racing Cadillac 1m25.585s 833
4 DPi D.Cameron, S.Pagenaud, J.P.Montoya Acura Team Penske Acura 54.581s 828
5 DPi J.Piedrahita, M.Leist, C.Miller, T.Vautier JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac 44.443s 825
6 DPi J.Bomarito, H.Tincknell, R.H.-Reay Mazda Team Joest Mazda 1m22.083s 823
7 DPi M.Conway, P.Derani, F.Albuquerque, F.Nasr Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac 57.912s 822
8 DPi R.Taylor, H.Castroneves, A.Rossi Acura Team Penske Acura 39.646s 811
9 LMP2 B.Hanley, H.Hedman, C.Braun, H.Newey DragonSpeed ORECA/Gibson 1m00.301s 811
10 LMP2 B.Keating, S.Trummer, N.Boulle, G.Aubry PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA/Gibson 44.120s 809
11 LMP2 K.Tilley, D.Merriman, R.Lewis, N.Minassian Era Motorsports ORECA/Gibson 1m04.740s 800
12 LMP2 R.Dalziel, D.H.Hansson, J.Farano, N.Lapierre Tower Motorsport by Starworks ORECA/Gibson 1m26.119s 798
13 GTLM J.M.Edwards, A.Farfus, C.Mostert, J.Krohn BMW Team RLL BMW 11.319s 786
14 GTLM L.Vanthoor, E.Bamber, M.Jaminet Porsche GT Team Porsche 25.329s 786
15 GTLM M.Campbell, N.Tandy, F.Makowiecki Porsche GT Team Porsche 29.509s 786
16 GTLM A.Garcia, J.Taylor, N.Catsburg Corvette Racing Chevrolet 3.527s 785
17 GTLM C.De Phillippi, P.Eng, B.Spengler, C.Herta BMW Team RLL BMW 1m34.937s 772
18 GTD M.Snow, B.Sellers, C.Lewis, A.Caldarelli Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini 1m13.212s 765
19 GTD J.Potter, A.Lally, S.Pumpelly, M.Mapelli GRT Magnus Racing Team Lamborghini 1m35.120s 765
20 GTD M.Bortolotti, R.Ineichen, D.Morad, D.Vanthoor WRT Speedstar Audi Sport Audi 38.560s 764
21 GTD R.Hardwick, P.Long, A.Imperato, K.Bachler Wright Motorsports Porsche 44.432s 764
22 GTD T.Pappas, J.Bleekemolen, S.Muller, T.Estep Black Swan Racing Porsche 1m10.971s 763
23 GTD R.Foley, J.Klingmann, B.Auberlen, D.Machavern Turner Motorsport BMW 1m21.108s 763
24 GTD C.MacNeil, T.Vilander, J.Westphal, A.Balzan Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 1m39.474s 763
25 GTD A.Parente, M.Goikhberg, T.Hindman, A.Allmendinger Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing Acura 11.869s 762
26 GTD P.Chase, J.Hawksworth, M.De Quesada, K.Busch AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus 5.670s 757
27 LMP2 C.Cassels, R.Masson, K.Masson, D.Yount Performance Tech Motorsports ORECA/Gibson -46'53.227 756
28 GTD M.Farnbacher, M.McMurry, S.Michimi, J.Gounon Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian Acura 29.661s 747
29 GTD L.Aschenbach, B.Keating, G.Robinson, F.Fraga Riley Motorsports Mercedes 7.130s 740
30 GTLM J.Calado, A.P.Guidi, D.Serra, D.Rigon Risi Competizione Ferrari -1:22'08.681 738
31 GTD F.Montecalvo, S.Gisbergen, A.Telitz, T.Bell AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus 23.712s 728
32 GTD D.Olsen, Z.Robichon, L.Kern, P.Pilet Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 21.383s 716
33 GTD R.Heistand, S.Schothorst, F.Perera, A.Costa GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini 31.493s 633
34 GTD B.Gdovic, E.Lux, M.Kvamme, J.Hoggard Precision Performance Motorsports Lamborghini -4:26'28.019 608
35 GTD C.Nielsen, K.Legge, T.Calderon, R.Frey GEAR Racing powered by GRT Grasser Lamborghini -5:02'36.307 471
36 GTLM O.Gavin, T.Milner, M.Fassler Corvette Racing Chevrolet 36.433s 461
37 GTD P.Lamy, R.Gunn, M.Lauda, A.Watson Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin -18:02'39.926 189
38 GTD I.James, N.Thiim, R.De Angelis, A.Riberas Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin -19:19'13.953 151

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