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Double victory for Action Express Racing at Daytona 24 Hours

  • 2018 Daytona 24 Hours, Action Express Racing, #5 Cadillac
  • 2018 Daytona 24 Hours, Action Express Racing, #5 Cadillac
  • 2018 Daytona 24 Hours, Action Express Racing, #5 Cadillac
  • Christian Fittipaldi, Joao Barbosa, Filipe Albuquerque, 2018 Daytona 24h winners

Action Express Racing scores 1-2 victory at Daytona 24 Hours, the opening round of the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

The winners are Joao Barbosa, Christian Fittipaldi and Filipe Albuquerque in the #5 Cadillac DPi-V.R, beating teammates Eric Curran, Mike Conway, Felipe Nasr and Stuart Middleton in the #31 Cadillac. The #5 crew completed 808 laps on the 3.56-mile long circuit, breaking a previous record of 762 laps from 1992.

The #54 Oreca LMP2 of CORE Autosport finished in the third place, driven by Jon Bennett, Colin Braun, Romain Dumas and Loic Duval.

United Autosports took fourth place with the #32 Ligier JS P217, driven by Bruno Senna, Paul di Resta, Will Owen and Hugo de Sadeleer. The Jackie Chan DC Racing’s #78 Oreca completed Top 5, driven by Alex Brundle, Ho-Pin Tung, Ferdinand Habsburg and Antonio Felix da Costa.

The #67 Ford GT wins GTLM class at 2018 Daytona 24 Hours

The #67 Ford GT wins GTLM class at 2018 Daytona 24 Hours

1-2 for Chip Ganassi Racing’s Fords in GTLM class

Chip Ganassi Racing also scores a 1-2 victory with two Ford GTs in the GTLM class. The winners in the #67 Ford GT are Ryan Briscoe, Richard Westbrook and Scott Dixon. The #66 Ford GT finished second, driven by Joey Hand, Dirk Muller and Sebastien Bourdais.

The #3 Corvette C7.R of Jan Magnussen, Antonio Garcia and Mike Rockenfeller finished in the third place, two laps behind winners and one lap ahead of the #4 Corvette of Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner and Marcel Fassler.

2018 Daytona 24 Hours, GRT Lamborghini Huracan

Grasser Racing Team’s Lamborghini Huracan GT3 wins GTD class

GTD class win for Grasser Racing Team’s Lamborghini

The GTD class victory went to #11 Grasser Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3, driven by Mirko Bortolotti, Franck Perera, Rolf Ineichen and Rik Breukers.

The GTD podium has been completed by the #86 Michael Shank Racing Acura crew (Alvaro Parente, Katherine Legge, AJ Allmendinger and Trent Hindman) and the #48 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini crew (Bryan Sellers, Madison Snow, Andrea Caldarelli and Bryce Miller).

Check the full results of the Rolex 24 at Daytona

Photos: imsa.com,

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