Action Express Racing Cadillac Wins IMSA at Long Beach
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No 63 Corvette Finishes Runner Up To No 51 Ferrari At 24 Hours Of Le Mans
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Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani won Sunday s Motul Pole Award 100 at Daytona International Speedway, and will start on the pole for next weekend s Rolex 24 along with co-drivers Chase Elliott and Mike Conway. Photo: IMSA Wire Service
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Rain and a penalty didn’t create any problems Sunday for Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani.
Relegated to a sixth-place starting position after their No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi V.R failed technical inspection Saturday night for being underweight, the duo rallied to win the inaugural Motul Pole Award 100, which determined the starting order for next weekend’s 59th Rolex 24 At Daytona.
Action Express Cadillac Wins Qualifying Race, Takes Rolex 24 Pole
Corvette Racing and the Turner Motorsports BMW take inaugural qualifying race wins in GTLM and GTD. Icon SportswireGetty Images
The Rolex 24 at Daytona s pre-season test has been a source of controversy for quite some time. The event is famous for its potential for Sandbagging, putting in slower-than-expected lap times during the test to convince regulators to give a team a pre-season performance increase before their biggest race of the season, and IMSA has been trying to legislate the practice out since at least 2014.
These plans have not worked. Sandbagging has remained a ubiquitous part of the test, which now seems to exist only to provide a platform for sandbagging to happen in the first place.