USC – Chip Ganassi Racing regains victory at Daytona

It's a victory with accents NASCAR et IndyCar what did the crew offer Scott Dixon? Kyle Larson? Tony Kanaan and Jamie McMurray at Chip Ganassi Racing on the occasion of 24 Hours of Daytona, first round of the 2015 United Sportscar Championship. The quartet of the No. 02 Riley-Ford DP took definitive control of the race after the last pit stop, after a three-way fight at the end of the race with the Corvette DPs of the Wayne TaylorRacing of Jordan and Ricky Taylor, assisted by Max Angelelli and the sister car of theAction Express Racing of the winning trio in 2014, Sébastien Bourdais, Joao Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi.

The last interruption of the race twenty minutes from the end of the event, caused by the exit of the No. 09 Oreca FLM54 of CORE Autosport then leader in PC, offered a final restart which could have led to a final fight for the victory, but the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette had to return to the pits, Jordan Taylor having exceeded the maximum time allowed behind the wheel without a break. This miscalculation propelled Bourdais' Corvette DP into second position at the finish.

In GTLM, Corvette wins thanks to the #7 C3.R of Antonio Garcia – Jan Magnussen and Ryan Briscoe. The No. 4 BMW Z25 of Team RLL of Dirk Werner, Augusto Farfus, Bill Auberlen and Bruno Spengler and the second Corvette of simon pagenaud, Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin complete the podium, while the Porsche The official 911 experienced a complicated race, with even an accident between the two cars.

The PC category was dominated by the #09 Oreca FLM52 of PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports of Tom Kimber-Smith – Andrew Palmer – Andrew Novitch and Mike Guasch who won by taking advantage of the exit of the No. 54 which had dominated the event for a long time. The #16 BAR1 Motorsports of Johnny Mowlem – Tom Papadopoulos – Tomy Drissi – Brian Adler and Martin Plowman finished second.

Finally the GTD was won by the No. 93 Riley Motorsports Dodge Viper of Dominik Farnbacher – Ben Keating – Al Carter – Kuno Wittmer and Cameron Lawrence ahead of the Alex Job Racing Porsche 911 GT America of Shane Van Gisbergen – Cooper MacNeil – Leh Keen and Andrew Davis and the Dempsey/Wright Motorsports 911 GT America of Phillip Eng – Patrick Dempsey – Jan Heylen – Madison Snow. None Ferrari finished on the podium even though the No. 458 63 Italia had been at the forefront.

Find the full report of the 24 Hours of Daytona, produced by our special correspondent in Florida, in issue 1996 of AUTOhebdo, available tomorrow evening in digital version and on newsstands from Wednesday.