Tower Motorsports have lost their LMP2 win at the 24 Hours of Daytona due to a technical infraction thus gifting it to United Autosports USA.
The LMP2 team won the 63rd running of the Daytona 24 Hours on 25-26 January last weekend owing to drivers Job van Uitert, Sebastien Bourdais, Sebastian Alvarez and John Farano.
Tower Motorsports took victory at the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener but have now lost that win following a post-race technical inspection, which they perform on all first-placed cars in each class.
Their #8 Oreca 07 LMP2 entry exceeded the maximum allowable wear to the regulated area of the skid block on the underside of the car which is a maximum of 5 millimetres, according to FIA Technical Regulation 3.5.6 regarding skid blocks.
Tower Motorsports appealed against the decision to remove their victory which demoted them to 12th place – last in the all-Oreca 07 LMP2 category.
Unfortunately for them, their protest was denied and so the #22 United Autosports USA team inherited their first ever win at the 24 Hours of Daytona having won their second Le Mans 24 Hours last year.
As the other class entries are promoted, co-drivers Rasmus Lindh, James Allen, Paul di Resta and Dan Goldburg are the unofficial 2025 Daytona 24 Hours winners in the LMP2 class.
It marked the team’s second IMSA win after the Road America sprint round last year.
See here for the updated provisional race results following this development.
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