The 24 Hours of Daytona are currently running with racers coming from a broad range of categories. Wendingler, Enge, Tracy, Vasser, Wheldon, Carpentier, Moreno, Magnussen, Gordon, Castroneves, Papis, Gavin and of course, Montoya. A couple girls are also duking it out (yes, this term was coined from www.nsxfiles.com) with the boys: Katherine Legge, and Milka Duno (venezuelan, who took it all the way to second place on her night stint but then fell to fourth).
After almost 11 hurs, the 01 Ganassi Racing car with Montoya, Pruett and mexican, Salvador Duran, is currently on the lead, with the 02 car, also a Ganassi car, with Wheldon, Dixon and Rojas in second. Montoya started from 12 in the grid and after 3 hours was on the lead, then came Duran at the wheel, who managed to lose a couple of positions, Pruett regained the lead and handed the car to Duran, who is currently driving and increasing the gap to the competition. It was a really close race with the 58 Red Bull/Brumos Porsche of Rice, Donohue and Law for along while, until it got hit accidentaly by a GT3 Porsche.
A couple interesting shots I found at the official website:
1. Montoya in his Texaco overalls although the car is sponsored by Target and Telmex. Obviously, he is racing Nascar in 2007 with Ganassi in a Texaco sponsored Dodge so arrangements were made.
2. A shot form the start in which you can see Montoya on the grass in what must have been a Kamikaze charge towards the lead.
Its going to be in Speed in the morning.
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