The 911 RSR with the starting number 911 shared by Patrick Pilet (France), Dirk Werner (Germany) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France) took up the race on Saturday afternoon from the third grid row. The race can also be seen live outside the USA on The GT racer, which Porsche Motorsport developed from scratch at Weissach, celebrates its race debut at the Daytona International Speedway. Still, in the remaining hours it has the potential to fight for the top spots again.” In the GTD class, the 911 GT3 R of the Allegra Motorsports customer team managed to get ahead during the stint of our works driver Michael Christensen, but then fell behind again. Everything points to an exciting and tough finale. Because of this we lost three laps, but should gain ground through the caution phases. This morning we had to repair the right front wheel suspension on our #912 car. For this reason the field is still as close as before the night.

Although we were doing well, we couldn’t make any real progress because of the many interruptions. Because of the tricky conditions there were always safety car phases. The six top-placed cars in the GTLM class come from four different manufacturers and are all running in the same lap.ĭr Frank-Steffen Walliser, Head of Porsche Motorsport: “The night was marked by changing rain. Their teammates Kévin Estre (France), Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium) and Richard Lietz (Austria) headed into the final phase of the season-opening round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship in eighth position after pitting for repairs on Sunday morning. With three and a half hours left to the finish at 14.30 hours (20.30 hrs CET), the #912 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Patrick Pilet (France), Dirk Werner (Germany) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France) was running in fifth place. In the early hours of the morning, the race director made this decision due to the large volume of water on the track. The longest caution phase behind the pace car lasted over two hours.

The race was repeatedly interrupted by safety car phases after many pilots lost control of their vehicles on the rain-soaked Daytona International Speedway.

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