After having had an outstanding presentation, the mechanical failures prevented the Colombian representatives get better results in edition 58 of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, first date of Weather Tech SportsCar Championship-IMSA, which was over the weekend, Saturday, January 25 and Sunday, January 26.
Kamui Kobayashi, Renge Van Der Zande, Scott Dixon and Ryan Briscoe, aboard the Cadillac Dpi No.10 from Wayne Taylor Racing they won the race, followed by Joest’s Mazda # 77, with Oliver Jarvis, Tristan Nunez and Oliver Pla, and the Cadillac # 5 of the Mustang Sampling Racing / JDC-Miller MotorSports driven by Joao Barbosa, Sebastien Bourdais and Loic Duval.
Montoya and his teammates, Dane cameron Y Simon Pagenaud, with the Acura-Penske # 6 from Penske, they finished in fourth position, five laps apart, while Piedrahita, Mateus Leist, Chris Miller and Tristan Vautier, car # 85 of JDC Miller MotorSports, 8 laps from the leaders, completed the Top-5 of the career.
Juan Pablo started the competition fighting for the career tip but had a wear problem of the tires for a inconvenient technician with the car floor that made them have a constant touch with the asphalt. Later, to this problem that remained throughout the race, with Montoya on board the night shift, and looking to avoid a clash with the Cadillac # 85, the car suffered a blow causing them to lose up to five laps with respect to the pointers. This way it vanished the possibilities of podium for him equipment.
“Hopefully we finish rooms, is a good position for the championshipObviously one always hopes for something better, but it was what we had. The cars what they finished ahead were more cars fast than us. We did everything we had to do and we didn’t save anything, “commented the experienced Bogota.
For its part, Juan Diego he added that for him it was “a good career, finishing in the Top-5 is very positive, even we could fight for the room. The objective was to stay, we made a great leap compared to last year. Also, finish right behind Montoya it’s very valuable to me, we even had a duel in track, which is a dream come true after watching him run as he has since I was six years old“.
Tatiana, on the other hand, had an outstanding debut in the prestigious test aboard the Lamborghini # 19 also manned by the Danish Christina Nielsenthe british Katherine Legge and the switzerland Rahel Frey.
In their two turns at the wheel managed to adapt to car and to the conditions of the demanding career but a constant problem with the pump pressure of gasoline from the beginning of the test and other inconveniences mechanics finished for causing the car to be out of competition when, in the hands of Christina Nielsen, the engine caught fire in the absence of five hours to complete the 24. At the end and after having been in the top 10 of the Daytona Grand Tourism (GTD) qualified in the position 16 of the category.
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