24 Hours of Daytona - BMW Double Ganassi and Riley

The 24 Hours of Daytona 2011, opening round of the Grand Am championship, have delivered their verdict.
This is the Chip Ganassi Racing after a final worthy of the American races, which made a perfect copy by completing the double with both Riley BMW engine. This is the crew of Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas, Joey Hand and Graham Rahal, the No. 1, who crossed the finish line first with just two seconds ahead of the sister car of Scott Dixon Juan Pablo, Dario Franchitti and Jamie McMurray. So much for the DP class. As for French drivers, Nicolas Minassian finished in sixth place and Christophe Bouchut in the eighth.

In GT, Porsche makes a Mazda doubled thanks to the stable TRG, the victory back to the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup by Andy Lally, Wolf Henzler, Spencer Pumpelly, Brendan Gaughan and Steven Bertheau.

Top 10:

1. Hand / Pruett / Rahal / Rojas, Ganassi, R / B, 720 laps
2. Dixon / Franchitti / McMurray / Montoya, Ganassi, R / B + 2.070
3. Barbosa / Borcheller / F 'Paldi / France / Papis, Action Exp. R / P + 2.326
4. Blundell / Brown / Brundle / Patterson, United, R / F, + 3.135
5. Angelelli / Briscoe / Taylor / Taylor, SunTrust, D / C + 1 lap
6. Jonsson / Krohn / Minassian / Zonta Krohn, L / F + 1 lap
7. Allmendinger / McDowell / Wilson, MSR, D / F, + 2 laps
8. Bouchut / Diaz / Tucker / Wilkins, Level 5, R / B + 3 laps
9. Donohue / Frisselle / Law / Rice Action Exp. R / P + 4 laps
10. Goossens / Negri / Pew / Valiante, MSR, R / F + 15 laps

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