2016 Daytona 24 hour

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Sevach
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One of the Chevrolet guys talking about the aero evolution on the 2016 GTLM(E) Corvette.

http://www.hotrod.com/features/1601-bod ... 3601527539

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bdr529
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Pierce89 wrote:How on Earth do two gt cars finish a 24 hr race side by side? Pretty impressive performance from the new Vette.I quite like the looks of these 2016 gte cars and they perform quite impressively as well. It was pretty cool the way they could just blast around the outside of the gt3 cars.
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I'd say you couldn't ask for a better finish
For anyone who didn't see the race, make no mistake this isn't a formation finish,
With the 3rd place Porsche only running 12sec. adrift, the pair of corvettes still hammered it out for the last handful of laps.
This trend carried over to the GTD class as well, the top 3 cars all finishing with in 5sec of each other, The win going to the #44 Magnus Racing Audi R8.
The Prototype class wasn't left out of this excitement either, also finishing with the top 3 cars on the lead lap, with the #2 Honda powered Ligier JS P2 taking the overall victory

Overall Race Results: http://scoring.imsa.com/


TzeiTzei
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That was a nice race. There is something very special about a 24h race. Hopefully the rest of the season will be good aswell.