24-h-race Daytona 2018: All the info The first sports car start for Fernando Alonso

Next weekend starts with the 52. Edition of the 24 hours of Daytona, the international track season. The long-distance classic in Florida are a good dozen car manufacturers with factory teams at the Start – and many great names. Especially formula 1 Superstar Fernando Alonso stands in the Focus.

50 Teams will make the roughly 5000 kilometre long journey in the 5,7-long circuit in the world-famous high-speed oval is embedded. Three categories of fighting for class wins. In the case of the closed-IMSA-Dpi-prototypes, which are from the sports car world championship and from Le Mans, famous LMP2 cars are almost identical, the 20 Teams in the competition. In the racing category nine sports car start, in the series closer to GTD sports car with the driving, however, 21 of the vehicles.

24-Daytona-race (2018) with Fernando Alonso

Special attention is paid to the British United Autosport Team, the mitbesitzt McLaren-formula-1-Director Zak Brown. Brown, himself an active hobby pilot, has made his Star driver Fernando Alonso, the commitment tasty. Finally, the Spanish full-throttle icon wants to prepare, slowly but surely, to his time after his formula 1 career (as in his Indy 500 Start in may recognize made). Alonso, who has looked around already repeatedly in Le Mans, shares his Ligier-Gibson, among others, with McLaren young man Lando Norris. “The 24 hours of Daytona is one of the cult races in the international racing calendar,” said the 36-year-old Spaniard, “because every driver wants to participate time in his career.“ The pre-test at the beginning of January, Alonso drove the zwölftbeste time. “sports car race, not a witch. But in formula 1, the hierarchy is clear, everyone knows who takes the victory, or even just for points is out of the question. In the case of the sports car that is not so. Here, everything is up in the last round is open.“ More: All about the Motorsport

Penske is among the favorites in the Daytona

To the favorites of the Traditions to be counted-Team of Roger Penske, the returns in the US sports car scene with the two Acura ARX-05 Dpi for the first time since 2009. Mazda sends a work secondment to the Start-up used by the former Audi works team Joest Racing. The red cars are allowed to unload 15 pounds. The Cadillac Dpi had to leave, however, after you have dominated pretests at the beginning of January to a demotion under: air volume limiter is now in a diameter of 0.6 mm smaller, which corresponds to a power reduction of around 20 HP. Nissan, however, may lay in the Power of this work.

In the racing class, Ferrari, Chevrolet Corvette, Ford GT, and the Daytona won the most brand, Porsche, meet the all-new BMW M8. Of the Bayern flounder, much is expected, but advance Laurel is not attached to  . The test program had to be included with five months delay, and in the case of the pre-test has proven to be the poor Performance, as expected. Now the organizers have tries the new car for the race technically balance: The BMW may go a little easier at the Start, and he gets a larger air restrictor.

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