Simon Pagenaud and Meyer Shank Racing win the 24 Hours of Daytona

As is often the case, the 24 Hours of Daytona came down to the final moments of the race. After 22 hours of battle on the city's International Speedway at the "most famous beach in the world", yet another Full Course Yellow occurred after AWA's LM P3 went off the track (Orey Fidani, Kuno Wittmer, Lars Kern , Matthew Bell). The No. 5 JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac (Tristan Vautier, Richard Westbrook, Loïc duval, Ben Keating) was then at the head of the race ahead of the No. 31 from Whelen Engineering Racing (Pipo Derani, Tristan Nunez, Mike conway) and the two Acura DPi entered. Only these four cars were still in contention for victory at this stage of the event, the two Chip Ganassi Racing and the last Cadillac, Ally Racing, being relegated behind the LM P2s due to problems encountered during the night. This offered a final hour and a half of intense battle for victory between the top four.

Ricky Taylor launched the final sprint for Wayne Taylor Racing, but the American was surprised by Tom Blomqvst who placed Meyer Shank Racing and his last relay Helio Castroneves on a royal road for the last hour. Until the next Full Course Yellow, which occurred around fifty minutes from time. The 24 Hours of Daytona then resumed for a final 30-minute sprint. On the restart, Loïc Duval attacked Pipo Derani for third place, but the Frenchman found himself on the grass because of the Brazilian's defense. The two Acuras were heading towards a final duel for the trophy. Ricky Taylor tried to use the traffic to surprise Helio Castroneves, but the experienced Brazilian managed to take cover to give victory to Meyer Shank Racing and his teammates Oliver Jarvis, Tom Blomqvist and simon pagenaud.

RETWEET to congratulate @MeyerShankRac Their online # Rolex24 WIN!@H3lio, @Tom_Blomqvist, @SimonPagenaud and @OllyJarvis are VICTORIOUS at @Daytona! pic.twitter.com/zaK57c8tat

- NBC Sports (@NBCSports) January 30, 2022

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La lutte fut aussi serrée et même musclée en GTD Pro entre les deux Porsche de KCMG et Pfaff Motorsports. Laurens Vanthoor et Mathieu Jaminet n’ont pas hésité à jouer des coudes et à se rendre coup pour coup dans les cinq dernières minutes.

OH MY GOODNESS.

Door banging for the GTD Pro class in the final moments! # Rolex24 x @Daytona pic.twitter.com/ogB5eYizOj

— Motorsports on NBC (@MotorsportsNBC) January 30, 2022

What was supposed to happen happened with a collision between the two men on the last lap. The #9 Pfaff Motorsports car remained on the track and won, while Laurens Vanthoor even lost second place to Alessandro Pier Guidi (Ferrari of the Risi Competition!

WHAT FINISHED IN THE GTD PRO CLASS!@Rolex24Hours x @Daytona x # Rolex24 pic.twitter.com/qKSlt9wDpY

— Motorsports on NBC (@MotorsportsNBC) January 30, 2022

DragonSpeed ​​won in LM P2 with its quartet Éric Lux, Devlin DeFrancesco, Pato O'Ward and Colton Herta after an authoritarian move by the latter on Louis Delétraz, sent to the grass while he was in first place with Tower Motorsport. In LM P3, it was quieter with the Riley Motorsports Ligier JS P320 taking the victory with Gar Robinson, Felipe Fraga, Kay van Berlo and Michael Cooper.

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