Relive all the action from The Rolex 24 At Daytona, the first race of the 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season and Round 1 of the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup.
These videos are amazing thank you much for these. I grew up in Daytona, I lived there for 27 years. Going to this race over the years was such a special experience. I have been to a lot of races in my life and can say nothing is better as a race fan, previous driver, and car enthusiast who has a passion for the drama of racing than standing along the fence in the twilight hours. The time just before the sun comes up with the smell of embers burning from fires dwindling out. The freezing cold in your bones, with cars blasting by and your ears finally start to adjust to it. The way you wonder who made it through the cold dark depths of the salty night. Man I miss it.
I can't thank IMSA enough for putting this on YT! I have loved the announcers and their banter. Great coverage through out the night and the entire 24 hours! Now to watch Bathhurst!
LMP2 was actually fantastic this race! The top 4 cars or so were staying within 10 seconds of each other for the last 10 or so hours, just wished it was covered more cause watching the gaps on the timing showed that there were long battles for position!
It's not hard to achieve when they are spec cars + cautions bunch them together and you get free gift wave-by laps back every time. Even the LMP3 second place car got many laps back with the wave-bys
I'm totally with you on the gaps. They have graphics that show the rankings and manufacturers much of the time, and they don't help us follow anything. I wish they'd put those on the bottom as a crawler and save the main graphics for information that helps the fans follow the race. Showing the intervals only for the top 3 cars in class doesn't help either if the cars I'm following are in 4th or 5th but still in a close fight.
thx IMSA wat an awesome start to the season n new era. congrats to all the winners. thx to the commentary team for their wonderful coverage n effort over the 24hrs. big congrats to Porsche n Pfaff for the understanding n sportsmanship they have shown to IMSA in light of the BoP problems the GT3 had, wouldnt expect anything else from Porsche. hopefully by next race IMSA will have the BoP sorted in the GT3 category. lets hope Porsche Penske can sort through the problems fast n get the 963 up racing for wins soon. is there BoP for the new GTP class, if so then the Meyer Acura needs a little change the way it banged on the other GTP Teams???. also, awesome to hear the Bamber Cady will be doing the WEC this year.
My main disappointment this year was the absurd amount of coverage of the 60 hotlapping in the last half hour when there was what I can only imagine was a fantastic battle going on in LMP2. Where last year we had the battle between Porsches shown up to its climax, this year we only got to see the conclusion of battle in LMP2.
The biggest question for me is this.... When the hell is IMSA going to realize that the Honda's (oh, excuse me, Acura's) need to be slowed down on the straights.. This is more than 3 years in a row where there is no other car in the field running the straights with the shear speed they are.. They need slowed down at least 3 to 5 MPH.. It's getting rather pathetic listening to these supposed professional announcers trying to make excuses how they're getting off the corners better.. It has not a damn thing to do with corners.. It has EVERYTHING to do with too much freakin speed..
Gotta say that 6 months later it's pretty hard to watch the MSR Acura team celebrate the win knowing they cheated - every single time the commentators gushed about how it was so amazing that the 60 Acura just pulled away in the corners, it was because they were running lower tire pressure than allowed, which let them put power down sooner than anyone else. They managed to taint the debut of the Hypercars as the premier class in IMSA, so congrats on that, I guess.
I tell ya, that arx-06 is a monster. The Meyer shank team absolutely dominated. The balance of performance definitely was out of whack for the gtd classes . Hope that Porsche can work out the kinks in the 963s so they can be the next in the legendary Porsche racing legacy
Just finished watching the whole race, really fantastic coverage, and great work by the commentary team. I alway love listening to Jeremy Shaw he`s always full of knowledge. Just one question - Can anyone tell me why the Mustang Sampling car wasnt racing? Thank you so much IMSA!
A bit painful when the sector times update so that LMP2 is literally less than a frame apart from one another and we're still somehow missing the action despite that being the literal only active race for a podium spot in any of the five classes on track.
Was curious about the controversy for acura’s win. Appears acura is in the lead most of the race. But the article says that the last 26 minutes they fudged the tire data? Is it assumed they cheated the entire race? Or just the last 26 minutes after a yellow?
So let me get this straight ... there were 5 classes racing, but we were only able to see 2 of the class winners cross the finish line? What's with that?
I thought ferrari was going to race their new prototype?! This is a perfect track to test it on for le mans. Very excited for the 24 hour of le mans. Porsche vs ferrari. Classic. The new age 333sp vs the 911 gt1. However the rules completely restrict what diversity they had back then. Still exciting
NBC’s IMSA coverage is horrific. A 24 hour race and they probably have 14 hours of interviews, 8 hours of commercials and maybe 2 hours of full-screen racing. Why do they think people want to watch someone talking about racing rather than watching the actual race itself? “We’ve got a great car and a great team,” over and over again. I don’t need to watch it live, so these streams are much better viewing.
La nuit trop bien et les 4 - 5 dernières heures moyen moyen, trop de drapeaux jaunes, la course est toute faussée... Tout ça pour ça ... Mais merci pour la diffusion des 24h00 c’était top .
With all the talk about the new class, this GTP race sure looked familiar. Acuras slowing pulling away from Cadillacs, just like in DPi. BMWs way off the pace, just like in GTE Pro/GTLM. The only true newcomer is Porsche, and I'm starting to second-guess their decision-making. They chose to build their cars off Multimatic chassis, which is the same thing Mazda did, and they chose to have Penske run them, which is the same thing HPD did initially. On paper, those are both very accomplished teams, but both Mazda and Acura-Penske had the same problem: Pace to spare, but just couldn't close out the long races. Porsche appears to be running into the same thing, despite having more testing than anybody else. When all the biggest events are endurance races, maybe going for the sprint specialists wasn't the best choice. Only time will tell.
The biggest problem with IMSA is the fact that they seem completely unwilling to slow the Honda (Acura) down. It has to be obvious to more than just me that they are pulling WAY to much speed down those straights. I mean, they've been doing this now for at least 3 years. When is the point where Cadillac says enough is enough and just pulls out of this type of racing?
The big problem was that Acura was not racing according the rules. Tire pressures were not within the limits. Sadly they kept the win, while being caught and got severe penalties.
Yellow Flags (many unjustified) and the wave by's allowing cars to unlap themselves is an absolute mockery of Endurance Racing and goes agins the Spirit of what Endurance Racing should be. This is a freaking 24 hours and not just some sprints in between yellow flags. 10 Acura should have not been in contention for the win as it was 3 laps down, so essentially 02 Cadillac was robbed off a podium. 60 Acura visited pit box way more time that any other, Helio spun the car, damaged the tyres, lost the lap, but it doesn't matter, and why it should matter?! To have good show that's what is important. 01 Caddilac should have won this race, that car deserved that win that any other car.
You're free to only watch WEC if that's your issue. Most WEC races don't have nearly the same exciting finishes as IMSA. All this "mockery" and "spirit" stuff isn't needed. It's not that serious. Just relax and enjoy
Yeah, the rules lean toward bunching the field up repeatedly, and then the announcers swoon about how tight the classes are. But whatever, I still like to watch.
How do the gripers against car number 60 justify their maligning the MSR team do they have some tangible proof of cheating if they do they should present it so that we can all know what the true record of the events was until then these chronic complainer so just shut up and go and watch something else if they don't like answer
I miss the Daytons cars now it is all LMP gars for the fast ones. GDP just doesen't sound right. LMP or Daytona Proto Type just sounds better. Thus why I didn't watch this years cause of the name change of the cars
