2017 24 Hours of Daytona
The 55th Rolex 24 at Daytona was an endurance sports car racing event held at the Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida on January 28–29, 2017. It was also the first race for the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. The overall race winner was the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac of Ricky Taylor, Jordan Taylor, Max Angelelli, and Jeff Gordon.
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The event had the second closest finish in the race's history, and the ending is regarded as one of the greatest finishes in the history of endurance racing.[1] With roughly seven minutes to go, contact between eventual winner Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque of Mustang Sampling Racing sent Albuquerque spinning. Albuquerque subsequently ran down Taylor over the final minutes, including trimming the lead by nearly a second and a half on the final lap, but came up short by 0.671 seconds.[2]
Qualifying
Results
Provisional pole positions in each class are denoted in bold. All Prototype and Prototype Challenge cars were grouped together on the starting grid, regardless of qualifying position.[3]
| Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P | 5 | Mustang Sampling Racing | João Barbosa | 1:36.903 | 1 |
| 2 | P | 31 | Whelen Engineering Racing | Dane Cameron | 1:36.973 | 2 |
| 3 | P | 13 | Rebellion Racing | Neel Jani | 1:37.123 | 3 |
| 4 | P | 10 | Wayne Taylor Racing | Ricky Taylor | 1:37.169 | 4 |
| 5 | P | 22 | Tequila Patrón ESM | Brendon Hartley | 1:37.609 | 5 |
| 6 | P | 2 | Tequila Patrón ESM | Ryan Dalziel | 1:38.251 | 6 |
| 7 | P | 85 | JDC-Miller MotorSports | Stephen Simpson | 1:38.915 | 7 |
| 8 | P | 52 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | Tom Kimber-Smith | 1:39.149 | 8 |
| 9 | P | 55 | Mazda Motorsports | Jonathan Bomarito | 1:39.940 | 9 |
| 10 | P | 70 | Mazda Motorsports | Joel Miller | 1:39.973 | 10 |
| 11 | P | 90 | VisitFlorida Racing | Marc Goossens | 1:40.532 | 11 |
| 12 | PC | 38 | Performance Tech Motorsports | James French | 1:42.559 | 12 |
| 13 | PC | 26 | BAR1 Motorsports | Johnny Mowlem | 1:43.396 | 13 |
| 14 | GTLM | 66 | Ford Chip Ganassi Racing | Joey Hand | 1:43.473 | 18 |
| 15 | PC | 20 | BAR1 Motorsports | Buddy Rice | 1:43.515 | 14 |
| 16 | GTLM | 67 | Ford Chip Ganassi Racing | Richard Westbrook | 1:43.704 | 19 |
| 17 | GTLM | 68 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Olivier Pla | 1:43.987 | 20 |
| 18 | GTLM | 62 | Risi Competizione | Toni Vilander | 1:44.121 | 21 |
| 19 | GTLM | 911 | Porsche GT Team | Patrick Pilet | 1:44.251 | 22 |
| 20 | GTLM | 69 | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Andy Priaulx | 1:44.256 | 23 |
| 21 | GTLM | 3 | Corvette Racing | Jan Magnussen | 1:44.359 | 24 |
| 22 | GTLM | 912 | Porsche GT Team | Kévin Estre | 1:44.591 | 25 |
| 23 | GTLM | 4 | Corvette Racing | Oliver Gavin | 1:44.685 | 26 |
| 24 | GTLM | 19 | BMW Team RLL | Bill Auberlen | 1:44.759 | 27 |
| 25 | GTLM | 24 | BMW Team RLL | John Edwards | 1:44.974 | 28 |
| 26 | PC | 8 | Starworks Motorsport | Chris Cumming | 1:46.628 | 15 |
| 27 | GTD | 51 | Spirit of Race | Alessandro Pier Guidi | 1:47.099 | 29 |
| 28 | GTD | 63 | Scuderia Corsa | Alessandro Balzan | 1:47.117 | 30 |
| 29 | PC | 88 | Starworks Motorsport | Alex Popow | 1:47.682 | 16 |
| 30 | GTD | 98 | Aston Martin Racing | Marco Sørensen | 1:47.734 | 31 |
| 31 | GTD | 59 | Manthey Racing | Matteo Cairoli | 1:47.736 | 32 |
| 32 | GTD | 11 | GRT Grasser Racing Team | Mirko Bortolotti | 1:47.785 | 33 |
| 33 | GTD | 29 | Montaplast by Land-Motorsport | Connor De Phillippi | 1:48.213 | 34 |
| 34 | GTD | 93 | Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian | Andy Lally | 1:48.268 | 35 |
| 35 | GTD | 28 | Alegra Motorsports | Daniel Morad | 1:48.341 | 36 |
| 36 | GTD | 86 | Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian | Jeff Segal | 1:48.350 | 37 |
| 37 | GTD | 73 | Park Place Motorsports | Patrick Lindsey | 1:48.424 | 38 |
| 38 | GTD | 61 | GRT Grasser Racing Team | Christian Engelhart | 1:48.483 | 39 |
| 39 | GTD | 48 | Paul Miller Racing | Bryan Sellers | 1:48.496 | 40 |
| 40 | GTD | 14 | 3GT Racing | Scott Pruett | 1:48.541 | 41 |
| 41 | GTD | 16 | Change Racing | Jeroen Mul | 1:48.590 | 42 |
| 42 | GTD | 57 | Stevenson Motorsports | Andrew Davis | 1:48.683 | 43 |
| 43 | GTD | 23 | Alex Job Racing | Pierre Kaffer | 1:48.798 | 44 |
| 44 | GTD | 96 | Turner Motorsport | Justin Marks | 1:48.810 | 45 |
| 45 | GTD | 75 | SunEnergy1 Racing | Boris Said | 1:48.969 | 46 |
| 46 | GTD | 33 | Riley Motorports - Team AMG | Ben Keating | 1:49.056 | 47 |
| 47 | GTD | 15 | 3GT Racing | Austin Cindric | 1:49.130 | 48 |
| 48 | GTD | 21 | Konrad Motorsport | Marco Mapelli | 1:49.322 | 49 |
| 49 | GTD | 991 | TRG | Mike Hedlund | 1:49.446 | 50 |
| 50 | GTD | 46 | EBIMOTORS | Emanuele Busnelli | 1:49.781 | 51 |
| 51 | GTD | 50 | Riley Motorsports - WeatherTech Racing | Cooper MacNeil | 1:49.809 | 52 |
| 52 | GTD | 54 | CORE Autosport | Jon Bennett | 1:50.809 | 53 |
| 53 | GTD | 18 | DAC Motorsports | Emmanuel Anassis | 1:51.517 | 54 |
| 54 | GTD | 27 | Dream Racing Motorsport | Lawrence DeGeorge | 1:55.835 | 55 |
| – | P | 81 | DragonSpeed | Did Not Participate | 17 | |
Race
Results
Class winners are denoted in bold.[4]
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References
- https://www.news-journalonline.com/sports/20170129/ricky-taylor-gets-aggressive-wins-rolex-24-in-fathers-cadillac
- https://www.racingsportscars.com/results/Daytona-2017-01-29.html
- "Race Official Starting Grid" (PDF). International Motor Sports Association. 28 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
- "2017 24 Hours of Daytona - Race Provisional Results" (PDF). International Motor Sports Association. 29 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
- "Rolex 24 at Daytona 2017 Official Results" (PDF). Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- "01/28/2017 race: Rolex 24 at Daytona (WSCC) - Racing-Reference.info". www.racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
External links
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