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Rolex 24, Hour 19: Crash shakes up LMP2
A significant contender in LMP2 has fallen after Colton Herta's crash at the West Horseshoe took CrowdStrike Racing by APR out of contention (...)
A significant contender in LMP2 has fallen after Colton Herta’s crash at the West Horseshoe took CrowdStrike Racing by APR out of contention with five hours left at Daytona.
Further inspection when the car was brought back to the pits uncovered a broken rear wishbone. Whether that broken suspension was the cause or the effect of Herta spinning and crashing at the West Horseshoe is yet to be revealed. But it brought out a full course yellow for the first time since sunrise.
Algarve Pro Racing’s crew got the car back out on track about 10 minutes ago after rebuilding most of the rear of the car but the No. 04 machine, a strong contender for the LMP2 win today, is now 10 laps down in its class.
The race restarted with five hours and 21 minutes to go, but immediately went back to FCY for a three-car incident in GTD.
Alessandro Pier Guidi in the No. 21 AF Corse Ferrari and Scott Andrews in the No. 80 Lone Star Racing Mercedes-AMG spun going into Turn 1, and Pier Guidi crashed into the side of the No. 78 Forte Racing Lamborghini of Misha Goikhberg. The Lamborghini was towed away, while the Mercedes and Ferrari both limped back to the pits.
Green flag racing is back underway despite a Turn 1 collision between Filipe Albuquerque (No. 10 Cadillac) and Marco Wittmann (No. 25 BMW) that caused a left-rear puncture for the BMW.
Nick Tandy leads in the No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963, ahead of teammate Matt Campbell in the No. 6 Porsche, and Kevin Magnussen in the No. 24 RLL BMW M Hybrid V8. Scott Dixon is fourth in the No. 93 MSR Acura ARX-06 despite just picking up a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pits.
Dane Cameron and AO Racing are fighting at the front of LMP2, Matthieu Vaxiviere is a close second for AF Corse. The No. 99 leads the No. 88, with the No. 8 Tower Motorsports car of Sebastian Alvarez in third and the No. 18 ERA Motorsport car of Ryan Dalziel in fourth.
Neil Verhagen leads GTD PRO for Paul Miller Racing in the No. 1 BMW M4 GT3 EVO, from the No. 4 Corvette of Nico Varrone, the No. 65 Ford of Dennis Olsen and the other Corvette, the No. 3 of Antonio Garcia.
Marvin Kirchhöfer maintains the No. 13 AWA Corvette’s lead in GTD but he has the Mercedes-AMG of Kenton Koch, the Porsche of Tom Sargent, and the Aston Martin of Zacharie Robichon right behind him.
