IMSA Race 2022 Daytona 24 Race Thread. The 2022 Future is Now!/1st 66.67% of 36Hrs of Florida

[seanyb505]

Race thread! 2022!

It feels like it’s pretty late for a thread given the number of announcements we’ve seen over the last few weeks. Definitely a lot happening!

I think the main story for this year’s event is the quantity of the entry list, and that it isn’t entirely at the expense of quality! We’ll see how many make it to the green flag on 1:40 PM EST. Wait is that PST? Nope. 1:40PM Florida Standard Time. Something about sea turtles, or manatees, probably.

There’s been a ton of entrant announcement discussions in the IMSA 2022 thread, which I won’t reiterate here. The entry list will certainly be stacked, and not 100% by grid filler. The IMSA website hasn’t uploaded an official entry list yet, although Bcarr6 has done a great job of compiling recent announcements. I’ll post that next to try to keep the opening post short and with helpful info.

Roar Schedule
Rolex Daytona 24 Week Schedule (interestingly IMSA website hasn’t set this up as the Daytona 24 race section, it’s MX-5 Cup)

Roar Entry List

Session Results

Spotter Guides – nothing updated now, assuming this will go live much closer to race weekend

Live Timing – I use the alkamel desktop app as the go-to for me. I know IMSA has it’s own version of the same source but with fewer details.

Weather looks typical, highs in the 60s and lows in the 40s. Rain a possibility for some Roar sessions, not likely to feature in the 24 as of now.

Streaming/Viewing Options - International viewers should be able to get most Qualifying and race sessions on imsa.com/tv with RLM commentary. I believe all IMSA has shifted from NBC Gold Trackpass to Peacock premium. The first hour of the race will be on NBC. USA Network will have 4-7PM, 10pm-3am, and 6-noon. Then noon-finish will be on NBC. My reading of the schedules on NBC gives me hope the whole thing will also be available on Peacock Premium. A quick search doesn't show any two-week trials or anything, but Premium is $4.99 a month. $5 to watch an entire 24 Hour race weekend is not a bad deal, considering the weekend ticket for onsite admission is 2,400% more. YMMV. I'm thinking I'll utilize a muted peacock and Radio Le Mans for commentary.

Link to this thread

First on track action for the Roar starts tomorrow at 8:45 and sessions will run through Sunday 3:45. Saturday sees Weathertech Qualifying for the Sunday Hour and 40-minute qualifying race on Sunday. We’ve also got a 3-hour Prototype Challenge race Saturday afternoon. Good garage tinkering background noise.

Next week sees Mazda and Pilot Challenge start practicing on Wednesday afternoon, and Weathertech kicking off their practice sessions on Thursday. I’d also recommend tuning into the Mazda races, Thursday afternoons and Friday morning. Usually a good time. Friday afternoon is the 4-hour Pilot Challenge race. The Pilot Challenge entry list for the Roar has 41 entries, most of them GS and Hyundais.

Then it’s the 24.



We cancelled our daughter’s 3rd birthday party. Too many ways to get sick, covid or otherwise. Whatever, she doesn’t even know what birthdays are without us telling her. We’ll just tell her we don’t start counting birthdays until her teeth fall out and we have to start buying her new ones. It won’t mess her up at all.

Seanyb505's 2022 Updated Daytona 24 Hotdog/drinking game (assumes you ate lunch closer to noon):
- Maximum grid size actually takes the green flag – pour someone else a drink and casually mention how you didn’t think all 60 would actually start
- Less than 60 take the green flag – pour someone else a drink and gloat about how you never expected 60 starters, then keep the drink for yourself
- First yellow flag caused by a P3 car – drink
- It's a super long yellow relative to the actual incident - finish your drink, start another hotdog
- Someone on 10/10ths complains about viewing options despite there being plenty of options, and is just refusing all because of some minor aspect of each option – ugh, drink a double
- Lack of rain causes commentators to start calculating record distance – start a dry hotdog with no condiments and fix a dry martini
- Commentators chatter more about what Nascar drivers are taking place in various entries instead of close racing – start the cheapest beer you have
- Commentators chatter about Cooper MacNeil driving on two teams every time he’s in the car – buy a set of WeatherTech Floor Mats® from the Floorliner HP product line.
- 4-hour green flag run - take a nap
- The 2021 Daytona Race Thread is on the same page as the 2022 thread – contemplate how social media has reduced volume on 10/10ths, have a coffee to sober you up, eat ramen for dinner
- Gratuitous shots of the Ferris wheel – eat a funnel cake
- Overnight fog red flag – sleep
- Sun rises on Daytona - breakfast hotdog with eggs (skip breakfast if it's cloudy)
- 24 1-hour sprints and just needing to make it to the last hour mentioned - take a drink for every remaining hour of the race (This is on top of any other drinks required by the above)
- A backmarker loops it in the infield at 1:30PM on Sunday. There’s mass confusion about the wave around procedure and then Beau Barfield chooses violence by seemingly only letting an arbitrary number of lapped cars through, bringing all 7 DPi cars and 12 GTD-Pro cars onto respective lead laps for a white flag restart. The result taints the entire season, which actually ends up being a pretty good season – Finish the bottle.

[seanyb505]

Many thanks for Bcarr6 for compiling and maintaining this list in the 2022 IMSA Future Thread, last updated on Jan 10:


24 Hours of Daytona 2022 - 55 Cars (25 Prototype, 30 GT)

DPI Class - 7 Cars

(Full Season - 6 Cars)
Action Express - Cadillac DPI-V.R - Pipo Derani / Tristan Nunez / Mike Conway
CGR - Cadillac DPI-V.R - Earl Bamber / Alex Lynn / Marcus Ericsson / Kevin Magnussen
CGR - Cadillac DPI-V.R - Renger van der Zande / Sebastien Bourdais / Scott Dixon / Alex Palou
JDC-Miller Motorsports - Cadillac DPI-V.R - Tristan Vautier / Loic Duval / Richard Westbrook / Ben Keating
Meyer Shank Racing - Acura ARX-05 - Tom Blomqvist / Oliver Jarvis / Helio Castroneves / Simon Pagenaud
Wayne Taylor Racing - Acura ARX-05 - Ricky Taylor / Filipe Albuquerque / Will Stevens / Alexander Rossi
(Endurance Cup - 1 Car)
Action Express - Cadillac DPI-V.R - Jimmie Johnson / Kamui Kobayashi / Mike Rockenfeller / Jose Maria Lopez
(Daytona Only - 0 Cars)
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LMP2 Class - 10 Cars

(Full Season - 5 Cars)
Dragonspeed - Oreca 07 Gibson - Pato O’Ward / Colton Herta / Devlin DeFrancesco
Era Motorsport - Oreca 07 Gibson - Dwight Merriman / Ryan Dalziel / Kyle Tilley / Paul-Loup Chatin
High Class Racing - Oreca 07 Gibson - Nico Mueller / Anders Fjordbach / Dennis Andersen / Fabio Scherer
PR1-Mathiasen - Oreca 07 Gibson - Steven Thomas / Jonathon Bomarito / Josh Pierson / Harry Ticknell
Tower Motorsport - Oreca 07 Gibson - Ferdinand Habsburg / Louis Deletraz / Rui Andrade / John Farano
(Endurance Cup - 2 Cars)
Racing Team Nederland - Oreca 07 Gibson - Frits van Eerd / Giedo van der Garde / Dylan Murry / Rinus VeeKay
United Autosport - Oreca 07 Gibson - Guy Smith / Jim McGuire / Phil Hanson / Will Owen
(Daytona Only - 3 Cars)
G-Drive Racing - Oreca 07 Gibson - Rene Rast / Ed Jones / Oliver Rasmussen / Francois Heriau
G-Drive Racing - Oreca 07 Gibson - John Falb / James Allen / Luca Ghiotto / Tijmen van der Helm
PR1-Mathiasen - Oreca 07 Gibson - Ben Keating / Mikkel Jensen / Scott Huffaker / Nicolas Lapierre

LMP3 Class - 8 Cars

(Full Season - 6 Cars)
Andretti Autosport - Ligier JS P320 Nissan - Josh Burdon / Jarett Andretti / Gabby Chaves / Rasmus Lindh
AWA - Duqueine D08 Nissan - Kuno Wittmer / Frey Fidani / Lars Kern / Matt Bell
CORE Autosport - Ligier JS P320 Nissan - Colin Braun / Jon Bennett / George Kurtz /Nic Jonsson
Performance Tech Motorsports - Ligier JS P320 Nissan - Hikaru Abe / Nico Pino / Garrett Grist / Dan Goldburg
Riley Motorsports - Ligier JS P320 Nissan - Gar Robinson / Felipe Fraga / Michael Cooper / Kay van Berlo
Sean Creech Motorsport - Ligier JS P320 Nissan - Joao Barbosa / Lance Willsey / Sebastian Priaulx / Malthe Jakobsen
(Endurance Cup - 1 Car)
Muehlner Motorsports - Ligier JS P320 Nissan - Moritz Kranz / Joel Miller / Efrin Castro / Aryton Ori
(Daytona Only - 1 Car)
Muehlner Motorsports - Ligier JS P320 Nissan - Nolan Siegel / Cameron Shields / Charles Crews / Ugo De Wilde

GTD PRO Class - 12 Cars

(Full Season - 7 Cars)
Corvette Racing - Corvette C8.R - Antonio Garcia / Jordan Taylor / Nicky Catsburg
Heart of Racing - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Ross Gunn / Alex Riberas / Maxime Martin
Pfaff Motorsports - Porsche 911 GT3 R - Matt Campbell / Mathieu Jaminet /Felipe Nasr
Team RLL - BMW M4 GT3 - TBC / TBC / TBC
Team RLL - BMW M4 GT3 - TBC / TBC / TBC
Weathertech Racing - Porsche 911 GT3 R - Copper MacNeil / Julien Andlauer / Matteo Cairoti / Alessio Picarello
Vasser Sullivan - Lexus RC F GT3 - Ben Barnicoat / Jack Hawksworth / Kyle Kirkwood
(Endurance Cup - 0 Cars)
-
(Daytona Only - 5 Cars)
Corvette Racing - Corvette C8.R - Tommy Milner / Nick Tandy / Marco Sorensen
KCMG - Porsche 911 GT3 R - Laurens Vandoor / Patrick Pilet / Dennis Olsen / Alexandre Imperatori
Proton Competition - Mercedes AMG GT3 - Austin Cindric / Dirk Mueller / Patrick Assenheimer
TR3 Racing - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Mirko Bortolotti / Andrea Caldarelli / Marco Mapelli / Rolf Ineichen
Weathertech Racing - Mercedes AMG GT3 - Copper MacNeil / Maro Engel / Jules Gounon / Dani Juncadella

GTD Class - 18 Cars

(Full Season - 9 Cars)
CarBahn with Peregine Racing - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Robert Megennis / Jeff Westphal / TBC / TBC
Gilbert Korthoff Motorsports - Mercedes AMG GT3 - Guy Cosmo / Mike Skeen / Stevan McAleer / Scott Andrews
Hardpoint - Porsche 911 GT3 R - Stefan Wilson / Rob Ferriol / Katherine Legge / Nick Boule
Heart of Racing - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Roman De Angelis / Tom Gamble / Darren Turner / Ian James
Inception Racing - McLaren 720s GT3 - Ollie Millroy / Brendan Iribe / Frederik Schandorff / Jordan Pepper
NTE Sport - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Don Yount / Benjamin Hites / Jaden Conwright / Markus Palttala
Turner Motorsport - BMW M4 GT3 - Jens Klingmann / Michael Dinan / Bill Auberlen / Robby Foley
Wright Motorsport - Porsche 911 GT3 R - Ryan Hardwick / Jan Heylen / Zach Robichon / Richard Lietz
Vasser Sullivan - Lexus RC F GT3 - Aaron Telitz / Frankie Motecalvo / Richard Heistand / Townsend Bell
(Endurance Cup - 5 Cars)
Alegra Motorsports - Mercedes AMG GT3 - Daniel Morad / Michael de Quesada / Maximilian Goetz / Linus Lundqvist
Cetilar Racing - Ferrari 488 GT3 - Roberto Lacorte / Giorgio Sernagiotto / Antonio Fuoco / Alessio Rovera
Crucial Motorsports - McLaren 720s GT3 - Paul Holton / Lance Bergstein / Jon Miller / Patrick Gallagher
Gradient Racing - Acura NSX GT3 - Mario Farnbacher / Till Bechtolsheimer / Kyffin Simpson / Marc Miller
Magnus Racing - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Andy Lally / Spencer Pumpelly / John Potter
(Daytona Only - 4 Cars)
AF Corse - Ferrari 488 GT3 - Simon Mann / Nicklas Nielsen / Toni Vilander / Luis Perez-Companc
T3 Motorsport - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Franck Perera / Mateo Llarena / Misha Goikhberg / Maximillian Paul
Team TGM - Porsche 911 GT3 R - Hugh Plumb / Matt Plumb / Owen Trinkler / Ted Giovanis
TR3 Racing - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Jeff Segal / Bill Sweedler / Giacomo Altoe / John Megrue

(I hope that was cool to copy/paste!)

Also something about Risi too.

[joeb]

Thanks for the race thread! I think I am already full of hot dogs and booze by just reading it.

I can't believe I won't be able to watch this all on NBC Sports Network this year. What a rip off.

[Tique]

Hi, I think it is missing

- the Forty7 Motorsports in LMP3
- The Risi Competizione in GTD Pro
- WinWard in GTD
- Turner Motorsport in GTD
- GMG Racing in GTD
- SunEnergy 1 in GTD
- Northwest AMR in GTD

[skycafe]

Awesome Job!

Amazing entry which will hopefully bode well for the race.

[GriffM3]

Great work! This years race is going to be epic with 61 cars and the car count in GTD Pro will be fierce!

Can't wait!

[joeb]

Interesting change in the tire regulations this year:

***IMSA and Michelin have introduced tire usage requirements for all classes, including negative camber values in GTD Pro and GTD. The new operational requirements, which outline minimum cold and/or hot pressures and/or stabilized pressures, will be enforced by in-race penalties if teams are found to be running outside of the permitted parameters.

https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/d...y-notebook-12/

[seanyb505]

I'm guessing to minimize failures through changing temps throughout the race along with changing loads throughout the lap.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by seanyb505

I'm guessing to minimize failures through changing temps throughout the race along with changing loads throughout the lap.

For sure, it is just different that it comes with a penalty now if you are outside of the specification. This is a Daytona rule only I think, but perhaps not?

[GriffM3]

Looking at the practice times so far in GTD their is a chance a GTD AM car could taker overall GTD honors in the race.

Is this what IMSA really wants? Can't think the manufacturers who spend tons of money in GTD Pro will be thrilled but what do I know.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by GriffM3

Looking at the practice times so far in GTD their is a chance a GTD AM car could taker overall GTD honors in the race.

Is this what IMSA really wants? Can't think the manufacturers who spend tons of money in GTD Pro will be thrilled but what do I know.

The classes are pretty well mixed at the moment with the pro drivers, but during the race it will be hard for the am class to keep up with the am drivers being required to run their minimum drive times.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by GriffM3

Looking at the practice times so far in GTD their is a chance a GTD AM car could taker overall GTD honors in the race.

Is this what IMSA really wants? Can't think the manufacturers who spend tons of money in GTD Pro will be thrilled but what do I know.

Originally Posted by joeb

The classes are pretty well mixed at the moment with the pro drivers, but during the race it will be hard for the am class to keep up with the am drivers being required to run their minimum drive times.

I think that's exactly it. IMSA is ok with the BOP being even because the teams want that. And over the course of a race the all pro lineups will be far more laptime consistent than the required AM drivers in most cases. If Madison Snow keeps the car up front, great for him well done but will many of the AMs? Most likely not enough to be out front all the time and make it a problem

[joeb]

Three minutes in to the first session and a P3 car stops on track to cause first Red Flag of the year!

[joeb]

All cars have now posted a laptime. Couple more practice sessions today before one more in the morn and the race that isn't a race.

[stuart thompson]

Is Saturday qualifying being screened on IMSAtv? I can’t find a listing for it on the app.

[seanyb505]

Originally Posted by stuart thompson

Is Saturday qualifying being screened on IMSAtv? I can’t find a listing for it on the app.

I think so. Most, if not all, qualifying sessions were on imsa.tv last year. I'd expect that to be doubly so for international viewers.

Looking at session one times. Dpi very near last year, no surprises there.

Did corvette have issues? They appear 4 seconds off the top of the class, and the 3 only ran a handful of laps compared to the rest of the gt cars.

[GriffM3]

Originally Posted by seanyb505

I think so. Most, if not all, qualifying sessions were on imsa.tv last year. I'd expect that to be doubly so for international viewers.

Looking at session one times. Dpi very near last year, no surprises there.

Did corvette have issues? They appear 4 seconds off the top of the class, and the 3 only ran a handful of laps compared to the rest of the gt cars.

I am sure the Corvettes are fine…just running through their normal checks and tooo it easy on the cars in the 1st session. I expect them to crank it up in the 2nd session coming up.

[GriffM3]

Another red flag for LMP3 car…why are these cars in the field again?

[Ferrari333SP]

Yeah GTD is going to be an all-out sprint for the entire 24 hours; sooo many good drivers and cars in the field.

[Adam43]

Crikey. It’s a 24 hour sprint mentioned - anyone playing the endurance racing drinking game has to start early.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by Adam43

Crikey. It’s a 24 hour sprint mentioned - anyone playing the endurance racing drinking game has to start early.

It is going to be hard to make it to the actual race in one piece if we keep this pace up!

[joeb]

I know the race today will set the grid for the 24, but how is the grid set for the qualifying race? Practice times?

[tomcug]

Just like last year, the grid will be set by the qualifying practice. And btw, the qualifying race is scheduled for tomorrow

[seanyb505]

Qualifying for qualifying is at 325 today. No idea how or when they qualified for the qualifying qualifier.

[canaglia]

Originally Posted by seanyb505

Qualifying for qualifying is at 325 today. No idea how or when they qualified for the qualifying qualifier.

is it available on imsa.tv today? Qualifying for Qrace I mean