– with the grid set by championship points – when the qualifying
session was cancelled due to communication problems between the series
and track safety officials.
Wilkins started the race from fourth on the GT grid. He briefly dropped
back to 10th, but recovered to second in class before handing off to
Lacey after 72 minutes of the two-hour 12-minute race. Lacey returned
to the track ninth and worked his way up to take fifth in class just
three minutes before the checkered flag. The race was slowed by only
one caution period, for three laps.
race report
| Time |
driver |
action |
| start |
Wilkins |
|
| 1h12 |
Lacey in |
pit – driver change, tires, fuel |
Dave Lacey: "Awesome race! It was great! It's very exciting to compete
at an international race track with top international drivers. For a
couple of pencil-pushers from Monday to Friday to have fourth at
Mid-Ohio and fifth at Daytona was just awesome. Greg did a great job,
brought the car in really clean and we stuck to our strategy. It was a
quick-enough pace, not blindingly fast, but just keeping the car out of
trouble, staying away from the prototypes. A couple of the guys ahead
of us were pretty lean on fuel – had we had 10 more laps, we may have
made the podium. I'm thrilled with the car and the guys did a great
job. It was balanced from the minute I got in 'til the minute I got
out. It was just super."
Greg Wilkins: "It was a good race. It was a really hectic one-day event
and we had to work hard to pull things together. We showed up with a
pretty good car, we ran a very consistent race with a good strategy and
we didn't make any mistakes, so we had enough speed to have a good
result. It was a green race, so I think it shows what we can do."
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