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Penske Porsche Motorsport has won the 24 Hours of Daytona for the second year in a row, extending Porsche's record of overall wins in the race to 20. Felipe Nasr secured the win for No. 7 963 teammates Laurens Vanthoor and Nick Tandy by passing the team's No. 6 car on track with less than 30 minutes remaining in the race.
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On one of the world’s biggest stages Sunday, the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona sportscar race, Detroit dominated.
Tandy’s victory with the team marks a historic result for the Brit who has completed the ‘Grand Slam’ of wins at all four major 24 Hour races: Le Mans in 2015, the Nurburgring 24 Hours in 2018, and the Spa 24 Hours in 2020, becoming the first driver to ever do so.
John Dagys’ post-race notebook from season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona…
As seems to be the case every year now, it came down to the final hour of the Rolex 24 At Daytona – or the final 24 minutes of that hour – before the outcome was decided in all four classes of racing: Grand Touring Prototype (GTP),
Porsche secured back-to-back wins in the 24 Hours of Daytona with the 963 LMDh, while the Mustang GT3 claimed its maiden GTD victory.
It could be an entrée to seeing even more in the future of Nasr. In the final 40 minutes, he passed pole-sitter Dries Vanthoor, outdueled teammate Matt Campbell in a fierce battle for the lead and then fended off two-time Rolex 24 winner Tom Blomqvist.
Penske opened 2024 by winning the most prestigious sports car race in North America, added a 20th victory in the Indianapolis 500, won a second consecutive NASCAR championship and his pair of Porsches won both the World Endurance Championship title and the IMSA crown.
Porsche Penske Motorsport’s victory in the 2025 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona Sunday afternoon was lauded as “something none of us could have dreamed of” by the team’s managing director, Jonathan