. MeyerShankRac Acura leads AXR Cadillac at half-distance in the Rolex24 at Daytona IMSA
Following the fifth yellow flag, at the end of the ninth hour, Renger van der Zande in the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-LMDh sprinted away but Jack Aitken in the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac got ahead of Richard Westbrook in the #02 Ganassi machine, and in fact Mathieu Jaminet in the #6 Porsche 963 and Tom Blomqvist in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 also demoted Westbrook to fifth. Westbrook then had to fight off Ricky Taylor’s Wayne Taylor Racing Acura.
The sixth yellow followed less than 30mins later prompting a rash of stops but in anticipation of that yellow, Meyer Shank pitted its car and installed Colin Braun, with Aitken and van der Zande also stopping. Once the yellow flew and the pits opened, Braun re-pitted leaving Aitken and van der Zande up front, with Jaminet and Westbrook pitting the #6 Porsche and #02 Cadillac respectively.
By the time Sims pitted from second for fuel and fresh tires, with 11hr20min gone, the AXR car had lost 18sec to leader Braun and he re-emerged sixth. Dixon stopped next time by and came out seventh, with Cameron pitting two laps after that. TDS stopped Pierson before the sixth yellow so he assumed the lead, while under yellow Nicolas Lapierre took over the PR1M car ahead of Canal, Bruni and Ben Hanley of Crowdstrike APR.
Just before the halfway mark, the leading PR1M car endured a long stop, allowing Allen into the class lead, but staying 13sec clear of Nielsen.Nico Pino in the Sean Creech Motorsport Ligier held off Nick Boulle’s FastMD Racing Duqueine, with Sebastian Alvarez a minute off the lead in the MRS GT-Racing. During the sixth yellow, Pino stayed up front but Nico Varrone was up to second in the AWA car ahead of Alvarez, and Jarett Andretti in the Andretti Autosport machine.
The sixth yellow, caused by the the JDC Miller MotorSports LMP3 car stopping at Turn 1, most of the field pitted but Schandorff did not and took the lead of GTD in the McLaren, with Taylor assuming the GTD Pro lead ahead of archrival Riberas’ Aston. Ward was second in GTD ahead of Ashton Harrison now in the Racers Edge Acura, Kenton Koch in the Team Korthoff Mercedes, and the two Lexus RC Fs of Mike Conway and Montecalvo.
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