Monday, 7 January 2013

Aliante is fastest lap in 'Roar Before the Rolex 24'


Michael Valiante admitted that the focus of the "Roar Before the Rolex Replica 24" at Daytona International Speedway was shaking from the # 6 new Ford / Riley getting pilots and other forms of motorsports familiar with the Daytona Prototype.

With that said, running the fastest lap of the three-day trial was a bonus. Valiante recorded a lap of 1 minute, 42,058 mph seconds/125.576 to walk the DP entry of 17 cars in the race rehearsal 51 of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, the season opener for the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car in January. 26-27.

"I feel that everybody was not all I have at the moment, but I'm sure that I'll be strong when we return to the Rolex 24," said Valiante, who will join Chris Cumming, Jorge Gonçalves and Gustavo Yacaman in paragraph 6.

Cameron Dane back of 1:42.101 / 125 523 from Saturday stood as the fastest time on Monday, the No. 42 Team Sahlen BMW / Riley with Wayne Nonnamaker, Simon Pagenaud and Bruno Junqueira.

AJ Allmendinger was third fastest 2012-winning Daytona Michael Shank Racing No. 60 Ford / Riley. He was accompanied by John Pew in the race, Marcos Ambrose and Justin Wilson. Oswaldo Negri - recovering from a bicycle accident in training - the team hopes to return to the race.

Patrick Long led the GT class in his first drive at No. 73 Porsche GT3 Motorsports Park to be co-directed by Patrick Lindsey, Jason Hart, Spencer Pumpelly and Daniel Graeff, with a lap of 1:48.569 / 118 045.

The Rolex 24 will mark the debut of the Rolex Series GX class, led by Shane Lewis in the test with a lap of 1:56.167 / 110 324 in the No. 16 Porsche Napleton Racing co-driven by David Donohue Cayman, Dr. Jim Norman and Nelson Canache .

Scott Maxwell was fastest in testing Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, running his best lap of 1:56.936 / 109 598, on the morning of Sunday the 55th Aston Martin Vantage. Andrew Jordan was fastest in the session of 2:06.642 street racing tuner / 101 199 in 77 Compass360 Racing Honda Civic Si

The Replica Rolex 51 at Daytona 24 will be held January 26 to 27 from practice Wednesday, Jan. 23. Live SPEED coverage begins at 03:00 ET on Saturday, January 26.

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