Rolex 24 at Daytona 2017 Results

Rolex 24 at Daytona 2017 Results – Wayne Taylor Racing Wins Overall

Rolex 24 at Daytona 2017 results are topped by Wayne Taylor Racing. 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona overall winning drivers are Jordan Taylor, Ricky Taylor, Max Angelelli and Jeff Gordon.

The prototype win wasn’t without controversy, view the race winning pass video below. Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque tangled with about 7 minutes remaining in the 24 hour endurance race in Daytona Beach, Florida. It was a move Ricky Taylor describes as “a badass move.”

The No. 10 Konica Minolta, ran inside the top three throughout the 55th Rolex 24 At Daytona. Jeff Gordon entered his first Rolex 24 stint as the leader early in the race. His very first lap resulted in contact with a driver exiting the pitlane, on a restart. He slid into the corner on cold tires, it resulted in slight contact. The driver he made contact with was penalized for exiting a closed pitlane. Neither driver received a penalty for the contact.

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Jeff Gordon Rolex 24 at Daytona Tattoo

Before the 24 hour race started the team drivers placed tattoo’s on their wrists. Not real one’s obviously. Those tattoo’s were of a Rolex watch. All 4 can now replace their tattoo with the real thing. All 4 have been awarded the winner Rolex watch.

Wayne Taylor Racing has finally won the Daytona endurance race. The team has finished second, four times. They can now display the Rolex 24 at Daytona trophy in their Cadillac racing shop.

The No. 10 Cadillac – was co-driven by Jordan and Ricky Taylor, Max Angelelli and retired NASCAR star Jeff Gordon – had a total of 13 Patrón Endurance Cup points at the 18-hour mark to take a one-point lead over the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R, the team that has won all three previous Patrón Endurance Cups in the Prototype class.

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Ricky Taylor snatched the victory from Filipe Albuquerque last in the 24 hour race. Filipe Albuquerque ran a blocking line on the entry of turn one, that sacrificed his corner speed and allowed Taylor to the inside, but just barely. Albuquerque proceeded to take his normal entry into the corner. Given he had a car to his inside, he spun himself out. Many will take an alternative view to that, but that’s what happened. When you chop across the front nose of another car, you’re going to spin. Every time.

That was a badass move.

-Ricky Taylor

Action Express Racing Team driver Albuquerque see’s the incident very differently, “I don’t think I lost the race, to be honest, because I don’t race like this,” he said. “He hit me in the back. You can see in the car, so I spun. He didn’t even wait for me. He just took off. So if the officials don’t agree that it’s a penalty, OK, that it can be a fair play by Wayne for the fight. But it didn’t happen, so it’s what it is.”

Filipe Albuquerque continued to talk about the Rolex 24 closing laps incident while racing for the lead. In his post-race press conference he stated, “I closed the door. And got hit.”

IMSA officials offered no penalty on the pass (probably because it’s hard to penalize a guy when he wrecks himself). If a car pulls up 4 feet along side of you, and you turn into the corner like he’s not there, you’re going to spin! That blocking behavior is one excepted in road-course racing. Taylor is not at fault here.

It’s a very different story if Taylor went to the inside and slid way up the track, into Filipe, because he carried too much speed to hold the corner. But that’s not at all what happened here. Taylor was all the way on the inside line, nearly in the grass. Filipe Albuquerque made the decision to take ownership of the entire racetrack and it might have cost the team the win. It’s blocking, gone wrong.

Rolex 24 at Daytona 2017 Results

Wayne Taylor, team owner, spoke on the Rolex 24 winning pass, “I knew it was going to stick. It was a really good move by Ricky. Thank the officials also from IMSA for calling it the way they did because you could have called it either way. Clearly, Ricky was quicker and getting held up like that at the end was not a nice way to end. At the end of the day, we’re happy because Ricky was quicker all the time. He made a silly move, but we knew were going to win this race.”

Ricky Taylor spoke on the Rolex 24 final laps pass for the lead in a post-race press conference, “That was a badass move.”

Ricky Taylor continued to explain his take on the race winning pass, “I’ve been working on it for awhile (the pass). It’s the 24 hour, so you’re going to take a risk. The way I saw it, he’d been struggling in turn 1. All day the car didn’t look very good there and we were really strong on the brakes.”

He spoke more on the pass for the lead, “I’ve thought about doing this for years and years. People always open up after that little kink in turn 1 (swing wide). It’s just so easy to release the brake and pop in there. If you get enough alongside you can make it work. I think he saw me coming, he saw me committing and like he said, he closed the door. If he knew I was committing, why would you close the door and make us crash?”

2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona Results - IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship

Jeff Gordon spoke on winning the Rolex 24 at Daytona in the post-race press conference, “I’ve become a big fan of this team (after driving for them in 2007) by being a part of it. I’m a big fan of the series. This race especially.I’m so thankfully from when I got that call from Wayne in 2016, asking if I wanted to be apart of this. ”

Jeff Gordon talked about driving the Cadillac DPi-V.R, “It’s like a dream come true for me because I’ve always dreamt about driving a car, a beautiful, amazing car that could handle like this. [A car] that had the technology like this and could compete at a race like this. This is very surreal to me.”

This was the final race for Max Angelelli. He has announced his retirement. He did it in style, exiting his car from the lead. Then winning the 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona. He talked about finishing his racing career, “Wonderful. I’m speechless. I could not believe it. Finish my career with a win, a big win like this one, the Rolex 24.”

Cold and rainy conditions led to a lengthy full-course caution period during the third quarter of the race. The race was run behind the safety car from the 14:48 mark until restarting at 16:25.

View full overall 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona results below the Rolex 24 winner’s photo gallery.

Author: Shane Walters

 

2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona Winners – Photos

 

2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona Winning Pass

 

2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona Results

Overall Rolex 24 Race Results 2017

OVERALL POSITION IN CLASS FINAL DRIVER LAPS COMP BEHIND OVERALL LEADER BEHIND CLASS LEADER BEHIND NEXT IN CLASS LAST LAP BEST LAP BL # PIT STOPS
1 1 RICKY TAYLOR
#10 CADILLAC DPICP
659 –.— –.— –.— 1:38.027 1:36.394 164 24
2 2 FILIPE ALBUQUERQUE
#5 CADILLAC DPICP
659 0.671 0.671 0.671 1:37.110 1:36.269 165 23
3 3 MARC GOOSSENS
#90 MULTIMATIC/RILEYCP
658 1 LAP 1 LAP 3:35.314 1:58.210 1:39.183 124 23
4 4 RYAN DALZIEL
#2 NISSAN DPICP
656 3 LAPS 3 LAPS 1:32.260 1:52.832 1:39.235 72 24
5 1 DIRK MUELLER
#66 FORD GTMGTLM
652 7 LAPS –.— –.— 1:45.075 1:43.522 95 19
6 2 PATRICK PILET
#911 PORSCHE 911 RSRMGTLM
652 7 LAPS 2.988 2.988 1:45.290 1:43.964 118 20
7 3 JAMES CALADO
#62 FERRARI 488 GTEMGTLM
652 7 LAPS 3.079 0.091 1:45.015 1:43.654 157 21
8 4 ANTONIO GARCIA
#3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.RMGTLM
652 7 LAPS 4.593 1.514 1:44.982 1:43.979 166 21
9 5 TONY KANAAN
#69 FORD GTMGTLM
652 7 LAPS 5.653 1.060 1:45.025 1:43.453 69 19
10 6 LAURENS VANTHOOR
#912 PORSCHE 911 RSRMGTLM
652 7 LAPS 7.046 1.393 1:45.338 1:43.979 52 23
11 7 OLIVIER PLA
#68 FORD GTMGTLM
652 7 LAPS 7.532 0.486 1:44.865 1:43.610 71 21
12 8 AUGUSTO FARFUS
#19 BMW M6 GTLMMGTLM
651 8 LAPS 1 LAP 36.021 1:48.027 1:44.247 47 22
13 5 STEPHEN SIMPSON
#85 ORECACP
646 13 LAPS 13 LAPS 4:39.317 1:42.783 1:38.542 14 25
14 6 DANE CAMERON
#31 CADILLAC DPICP
639 20 LAPS 20 LAPS 3:00.883 1:42.979 1:36.793 124 25
15 1 NICHOLAS BOULLE
#38 ORECA FLM09CPC
638 21 LAPS –.— –.— 1:47.770 1:42.716 75 26
16 9 TOMMY MILNER
#4 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.RMGTLM
636 23 LAPS 16 LAPS 42:51.222 1:46.345 1:44.038 125 18
17 7 BRENDON HARTLEY
#22 NISSAN DPICP
636 23 LAPS 23 LAPS 3.381 1:53.053 1:37.832 36 27
18 1 MICHAEL CHRISTENSEN
#28 PORSCHE 911 GT3 RCGTD
634 25 LAPS –.— –.— 1:48.564 1:47.747 587 23
19 2 CHRISTOPHER MIES
#29 AUDI R8 LMS GT3CGTD
634 25 LAPS 0.293 0.293 1:47.971 1:47.313 76 23
20 3 JEROEN BLEEKEMOLEN
#33 MERCEDES – AMG GT3CGTD
634 25 LAPS 5.579 5.286 1:48.630 1:47.828 161 20
21 4 LAWSON ASCHENBACH
#57 AUDI R8 LMS GT3CGTD
634 25 LAPS 5.849 0.270 1:48.457 1:47.932 81 20
22 5 JEFF SEGAL
#86 ACURA NSX GT3CGTD
634 25 LAPS 8.371 2.522 1:49.213 1:47.796 52 23
23 6 TOWNSEND BELL
#23 AUDI R8 LMS GT3CGTD
633 26 LAPS 1 LAP 2:42.580 1:50.184 1:47.298 131 24
24 7 BRYAN SELLERS
#48 LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3CGTD
629 30 LAPS 5 LAPS 1:49.171 1:54.918 1:48.355 154 23
25 8 JENS KLINGMANN
#96 BMW M6 GT3CGTD
628 31 LAPS 6 LAPS 6:40.953 1:49.086 1:47.457 97 23
26 9 FABIO BABINI
#46 LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3CGTD
626 33 LAPS 8 LAPS 10:29.701 1:49.411 1:47.577 33 21
27 10 SCOTT DIXON
#67 FORD GTMGTLM
624 35 LAPS 28 LAPS 15.230 1:44.908 1:43.385 53 17
28 10 JAN HEYLEN
#991 PORSCHE 911 GT3 RCGTD
621 38 LAPS 13 LAPS 19:21.672 1:51.376 1:47.753 34 23
29 11 ANDY LALLY
#93 ACURA NSX GT3CGTD
617 42 LAPS 17 LAPS 37.044 7:43.317 1:47.760 15 23
30 2 JOHNNY MOWLEM
#26 ORECA FLM09CPC
616 43 LAPS 22 LAPS 24:15.627 1:45.275 1:43.588 22 37
31 8 SEBASTIEN BUEMI
#13 ORECACP
609 50 LAPS 50 LAPS 7.421 1:43.092 1:37.440 20 26
32 3 MARK KVAMME
#20 ORECA FLM09CPC
599 60 LAPS 39 LAPS 1:04.200 1:53.497 1:43.322 13 28
33 12 MATHIAS LAUDA
#98 ASTON MARTIN VANTAGECGTD
593 66 LAPS 41 LAPS 1:29:57.145 1:49.333 1:47.245 12 23
34 13 BRANDON GDOVIC
#18 LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3CGTD
590 69 LAPS 44 LAPS 1:35:16.528 1:50.896 1:49.077 112 24
35 9 MICHAEL GUASCH
#52 LIGIERCP
584 75 LAPS 75 LAPS 2:19:02.873 1:44.182 1:39.391 16 23
36 14 JACK HAWKSWORTH
#15 LEXUS RCF GT3CGTD
581 78 LAPS 53 LAPS 1:53:03.252 1:59.502 1:48.412 157 26
37 15 ROLF INEICHEN
#11 LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3CGTD
580 79 LAPS 54 LAPS 1:15.976 1:49.015 1:47.095 22 26
38 16 SAM BIRD
#63 FERRARI 488 GT3CGTD
575 84 LAPS 59 LAPS –.— 1:47.802 1:47.079 10 24
39 10 BEN HANLEY
#81 ORECACP
562 97 LAPS 97 LAPS 2:29.213 2:59.108 1:37.907 33 21
40 11 SPENCER PIGOT
#55 MAZDA DPICP
538 121 LAPS 121 LAPS 2:13.629 14:25.744 1:39.457 15 23
41 17 CHRISTIAN ENGELHART
#61 LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3CGTD
526 133 LAPS 108 LAPS 15.616 3:08.932 1:47.908 130 27
42 18 KENNY HABUL
#75 MERCEDES – AMG GT3CGTD
524 135 LAPS 110 LAPS 46:00.022 3:22.123 1:47.714 117 23
43 19 CEDRIC SBIRRAZZUOLI
#27 LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3CGTD
488 171 LAPS 146 LAPS 4:17.300 2:11.815 1:47.863 42 19
44 4 ALEX POPOW
#88 ORECA FLM09CPC
487 172 LAPS 151 LAPS 6:31.767 1:47.658 1:43.400 86 20
45 5 JOHN FALB
#8 ORECA FLM09CPC
464 195 LAPS 174 LAPS 3:31.160 1:48.888 1:44.298 22 19
46 12 TOM LONG
#70 MAZDA DPICP
462 197 LAPS 197 LAPS –.— 13:33.181 1:39.646 32 21
47 20 MARC BASSENG
#21 LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3CGTD
399 260 LAPS 235 LAPS 13.302 3:02.871 1:48.410 105 15
48 21 COOPER MACNEIL
#50 MERCEDES – AMG GT3CGTD
373 286 LAPS 261 LAPS 17.794 2:21.603 1:47.488 141 11
49 22 NIC JONSSON
#54 PORSCHE 911 GT3 RCGTD
340 319 LAPS 294 LAPS 5.606 2:05.943 1:47.705 127 11
50 23 MAURIZIO MEDIANI
#51 FERRARI 488 GT3CGTD
105 554 LAPS 529 LAPS –.— –.— 1:46.972 10 0
51 24 MATTHEW MCMURRY
#73 PORSCHE 911 GT3 RCGTD
102 557 LAPS 532 LAPS –.— –.— 1:47.347 78 0
52 25 BRETT SANDBERG
#16 LAMBORGHINI HURACAN GT3CGTD
79 580 LAPS 555 LAPS –:— 1:59.570 1:48.467 19 6
53 26 HARALD PROCZYK
#59 PORSCHE 911 GT3 RCGTD
61 598 LAPS 573 LAPS –.— –.— 1:47.037 26 0
54 27 SCOTT PRUETT
#14 LEXUS RCF GT3CGTD
52 607 LAPS 582 LAPS –.— –.— 1:48.298 37 0
55 11 JOHN EDWARDS
#24 BMW M6 GTLMMGTLM
15 644 LAPS 637 LAPS –.— –.— 1:44.694 13 0

 

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