It was not a bad day for the Canadians at this year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona race with three drivers reaching the podium.
In LMP2 we had John Farano ( co-drivers Gabreil Aubry,Tim Buret,Matthieu Vaxiviere ) driving the #8 ORECA LMP2 07 for Tower Motorsport/Tower Events who finished in 2nd place behind the #81 car of Era Motorsport ( On a side note the paint scheme for the #81 car was designed by an 6 year old boy from Whitby Ontario who won a contest ). Also in the LMP2 class Devlin DeFrancesco ( co-drivers Eric Lux,Fabian Schiller,Chrispoher Miles ) driving the #82 ORECA LMP2 07 for DragonSpeed USA LLC finished in 3rd.
In the GTD class we had Mikael Grenier ( co-drivers Kenny Habul,Raffaele Marciello,Luca Stolz ) driving the #75 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Sun Energy 1 car into a 2nd place finish.
The overall race winner was the #10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05 of Wayne Taylor Racing with drivers Ricky Taylor,Filipe Albuquerque,Alexander Rossi, and Helio Castroneves.
Finish Position |
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LMP2 |
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2nd |
#8 John Farano |
Tower Motorsport/Tower Events |
3rd |
#82 Devlin DeFrancesco |
DragonSpeed USA LLC |
10th |
#81 Garett Grist |
DragonSpeed USA LLC |
LMP3 |
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6th |
#38 Cameron Cassels |
Performance Tech Motorsports |
GTLM |
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5th |
#25 Bruno Spengler |
BMW Team RLL |
GTD |
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2nd |
#75 Mikael Grenier |
Sun Energy 1 |
5th |
#23 Roman De Angelis | Heart of Racing Team |
9th |
#28 Daniel Morad |
Alegra Motorsports |
12th |
#9 Zacharie Robichon |
Pfaff Motorsports |