IMSA Race 2020 Rolex 24 Hours of 1801 W International Speedway Blvd, Daytona Beach, FL 32114

[Maelochs]

it will be interesting to see which cars/teams adapt to the increasing heat of the day---not that it is likely to get really hot.

[gert]

#52 in pits. Rear and front bodywork off.

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... and it's back out but now 4 laps behind #81

[gert]

... And Keating's other car comes to a stop on pit road. Need 4 mechanics to push it down to its box.

Complete electrical shutdown

[gert]

#31 slow. puncture ?

[Akrapovic]

31 is slow. Flat left rear.

[Maelochs]

Still a lot of time left ..... Derani is being uncharacteristically slow and sensible getting the car back.

[gert]

#10 in and out without stopping, Briscoe recycled the system in the pits.

[Maelochs]

16 hours at speed with few breaks starting to take its toll?

[seanyb505]

Originally Posted by Maelochs

Still a lot of time left ..... Derani is being uncharacteristically slow and sensible getting the car back.

6 hours now....Time for the WEC 6 hours of 1801 W International Speedway Blvd Daytona Beach, FL 32114-1215

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by Maelochs

16 hours at speed with few breaks starting to take its toll?

Longest ever IMSA green flag. It's been awesome.

[Maelochs]

More drama for the #74 AMG ....

[Akrapovic]

74 looks to have a good old fashioned engine failure? Or was that a big lock up?

Edit: Lockup. Nice.

[Akrapovic]

And there's the FCY. The 74 requires assistance.

[Maelochs]

Seven-plus hours of green-flag racing comes to an end .... but it was much appreciated.

[gert]

Fraga seems unable to restart the car.
Another electrical failure?

Did that also cause the lockup?

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by gert

Fraga seems unable to restart the car.
Another electrical failure?

Did that also cause the lockup?

Probably caused something like the ABS to fail.

My timing shoes only 10 and 5 on the lead lap.

[MaskedRacer]

Originally Posted by Maelochs

Seven-plus hours of green-flag racing comes to an end .... but it was much appreciated.

This is where a code 60 would be great to have. It was just a stalled car situation. Very disappointing. I hate safety cars due to stalled cars and debris. Major pet peeve of mine.

[Adam43]

Let’s go!

[Adam43]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Probably caused something like the ABS to fail.

My timing shoes only 10 and 5 on the lead lap.

I think the timing of the 77 pit stop and then the yellow wasn’t kind to Mazda.

Leaders pit.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by Adam43

I think the timing of the 77 pit stop and then the yellow wasn’t kind to Mazda.

I presume what will happen is the 55 and 77 will not pit, get the wave around, and then pit and rejoin the back of the pack on the lead lap. I think.

[gert]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

My timing shoes only 10 and 5 on the lead lap.

I think that's correct. Every car apart from 10 and 5 will now gain back a lap, so we'll also get both Mazda's back on the lead lap

[JoeW04]

They do barrier repairs at Le Mans quicker than this and that’s saying something

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by JoeW04

They do barrier repairs at Le Mans quicker than this and that’s saying something

The car is recovered but the FCY takes longer than the recovery as you open the pits at different times for different classes and laps (so they don't kill people in an overcorwded pit lane), and it takes 2 laps for the wavearound to work, so you don't go green with some cars at 50mph and some cars at 200mph.

They're also doing a track clean up.

[MaskedRacer]

Does the efforts in the past several hours mean nothing now due to a single safety car deployed due to a stalled car on track? These guys worked hard to obtain that 1 minute lead or whatever example you can make. It means nothing unless you can obtain a 2 lap lead due to the wave arounds in fact. That green flag stop to change the breaks by the #24 BMW could have meant something. Its been forgotten now. See what the problem is here. With the cars so reliable now. Its more important to ensure that these events that costs teams a handful of seconds here and there mean something to the overall story of the endurance race. This is not 1994 sportscar racing anymore.

[gert]

In GTLM #3, #24 and #62 stopped, the Porsches did not.