After just over 2 hours, Cadillac’s Scott Dixon leads the Daytona 24 Hours, ahead of Dane Cameron for Porsche and Jack Aitken in the sister Cadillac.
The first hour has been much calmer than the caution-ridden first hour, but right on the hour mark, Steven Thomas crashed the #11 TDS Oreca 07-Gibson at the exit of the bus stop, hitting the wall hard on drivers’ right. This has put the race back under full course yellow.
Ricky Taylor, in the #10 WTRAndretti acura ARX-06 led from the previous restart, but Dixon’s teammate in the #01 Cadillac V-Series.R, Sebastien Bourdais, took the lead off which, which Cadillac has retained through the pitstops.
Dane Cameron, in the #7 Porsche 963, sits second, just behind the Indycar legend. Aitken lies third in the #31 Action Express Cadillac; teammate Pipo Derani started the car from pole but is now just over 10 seconds behind Cameron.
In LMP2, Nico Pino leads onboard the #2 United Autosports Oreca 07-Gibson. He’s a few seconds ahead of Jakub Smiechowski, driving the #52 Inter Europol Oreca 07-Gibson, the car that led during the first hour, before the first full course yellow.
George Kurtz is third in the #04 Crowdstrike Racing by APR Oreca 07-Gibson.
Marvin Kirchoffer leads the combined GTD Pro/GTD classes, in the GTD Pro-entered #9 Pfaff Motorsports McLaren 720s GT3 Evo. Behind him is the GTD #12 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 of Parker Thompson. He’s followed by Alexander Sims, driving the GTD Pro #3 Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller, with his Corvette team mate, Nicky Catsburg, behind him, 3rd in GTD Pro.
Second in GTD is Salih Yoluc, in the #80 Lone Star Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3, and third is Indy Dontje, driving the #75 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3.
