As what’s that ‘Ol ABC Wide World ‘O Sports saying,
Eh?
On the very same morning, I awoke to the news via the Daytona Beach News Journal that “We’ve” got a new Rolex 24 winner! As the winning No. 8 Tower Motorsports LMP2 Class winner that saw le Hamburgular’, nee Sealmeister B’, aka Sebastien Bourdais taking the chequered flag 40-plus seconds ahead of the second place finisher has been DSQ’ed! (Disqualified)
The team’s Oreaca 07 chassis was found in a
late post race technical inspection to have worn one of it’s skid blocks below
the maximum wear allowance of five millimeters and thus, was stripped of it’s
victory and demoted to last place in class. (12th)
The team’s subsequent protest was denied and
the final results now see the No. 22 United Autosport entry of Paul di Resta,
Rasmus Lind, Daniel Goldburg and James Allen declared as the Rolex 24 LMP2
winner.
Meanwhile the Detroit News had an article
detailing Ford’s announcement to go Sports Car racing in 2027 with a LMDH-spec “Hypercar”
entry in the FIA World Endurance Championship. (WEC)
As the story touted this news as Ford V Ferrari
2.0, with no word on whether or not the Le Mans Daytona Hybrid (LMDH) entry
would cross thoust Bloody Puddle and also race in IMSA GTP or not?
Although Racer’s Marshall Pruett notes that Ford plans to join IMSA either a year or two after the “Weckity Wec” debut, a la Hyundai’s Genesis Sports Car prototype project…
