Issues, Incidents compound Hours 4 – 6 of the 2024 iRacing Daytona 24 Hour.

Issues, Incidents compound Hours 4 – 6 of the 2024 iRacing Daytona 24 Hour.

The last couple of hours have been all about keeping away from drama, which hasn’t been the case for a number of the leading teams. There’s been drama in both GTP and GTD where battles continue to be tight and often precarious. There’s still battles for the Top 3 in both of these classes, even though the battles in LMP2 have been more spread out.

GTP

Williams Esports continue to lead overall, as they have done for pretty much the entire race. The true battle however is behind them, especially for P2 – 6. A mixture of some almost incidents for the #5 Williams Esports Fanatec at the West Horseshoe, the #92 VRS Coanda Esports of Charlie Collins at Turn 6 with the GTD leader, and multiple incidents for the #69 DRAGO racing team has bunched the remainder of the Top 5 all together, whilst not really losing time to the overall leader which remains at about 25 seconds. 

Strategy remains mostly similar in this class, but the driver changes and number of stints in a row per driver will start to become more important as we are now into the night running of the event.

# NAME CAR Qual Position H1 Position H2 Position H4 Position H6 Position
Williams Esports Playseat   Acura ARX-06 2 1 1 1 1
20  BMW M Team Redline   BMW M Hybrid V8 9 6 6 4 2
Williams Esports Fanatec   Acura ARX-06 1 2 3 3 3
69  DRAGO RACING GTP   Acura ARX-06 7 5 5 2 4
89  BMW M Team BS+COMPETITION   BMW M Hybrid V8 13 10 10 9 5
15  Race Clutch Red   Acura ARX-06 11 12 11 10 6
92  VRS Coanda   Porsche 963 GTP 4 3 4 5 7
VRS Coanda   Porsche 963 GTP 8 8 7 7 8
98  Apex Racing Team   Porsche 963 GTP 3 4 2 6 9
21  Team Redline   BMW M Hybrid V8 6 13 12 8 10

LMP2

WSR Esports Buttkicker continue to lead the way in the #23, but their teammate was involved in a tussle on the infield, thankfully remaining in the race. Behind, Calce Team have moved up to second place in class, on a similar strategy to MAG Performance who are down to third in class, and 6.6 seconds behind. P3 – 5 is tightening as VRS Coanda #12, SimRC #76 and Race Clutch White #16 are separated by just a few seconds.

# NAME CAR Qual Position H1 Position H2 Position H4 Position H6 Position
16  Race Clutch White   Dallara P217 LMP2 0 9 1 1 1
23  WSR Esports ButtKicker   Dallara P217 LMP2 0 1 4 3 2
18  Calce Team   Dallara P217 LMP2 7 8 10 6 3
120  MAG Performance LMP   Dallara P217 LMP2 2 2 5 4 4
12  VRS Coanda   Dallara P217 LMP2 8 3 6 7 5
003  Grid-and-Go.com eSports   Dallara P217 LMP2 6 13 2 5 6
76  SimRC   Dallara P217 LMP2 3 6 8 8 7
24  Race Clutch Black   Dallara P217 LMP2 9 17 3 2 8
114  Team PGZ   Dallara P217 LMP2 4 7 11 10 9
119  Team PGZ   Dallara P217 LMP2 5 14 14 13 10

GTD

If Apex Racing had any more bad luck in GTD, they may as well have no luck at all. Earlier their two cars came together whilst bump drafting at the front of the field, putting the #198 out of contention. The #199 then gets dumped into the wall as they were run into by Charlie Collins through the dogleg. This means that the #199 is now behind both Team Redline GTDs, who are bump drafting themselves the entire way around the racetrack. The #2 leads from the #4, the latter containing the 2 time Formula 1 ® World Champion in Max Verstappen.

# NAME CAR Qual Position H1 Position H2 Position H4 Position H6 Position
Team Redline   Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 5 4 6 2 1
Team Redline   Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 9 6 5 3 2
199  Stormforce ART   Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 3 2 1 1 3
Williams Esports BenQ   Ferrari 296 GT3 2 3 4 4 4
001  DeltaSimTech by GnG   Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 10 5 3 5 5
14  Simufy Esports GTD   Ferrari 296 GT3 6 9 8 7 6
002  Virtualcoach.gg by GnG   Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 12 10 9 8 7
44  Falken Simracing Team   Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 11 8 7 6 8
198  Apex Racing Team   Mercedes-AMG GT3 2020 4 1 2 9 9
Williams Esports Chillblast   Ferrari 296 GT3 1 11 11 10 10

Coverage continues all race long on RaceSpot TV and RaceSpot News, with full text updates here, and coverage on RaceSpot TV and iRacing’s YouTube channels.

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