With just a little over four hours left of the 2013 Rolex 24 at Daytona, it's a huge victory to still be in the race at all let alone lead the race after nearly 20 gruelling hours of hard racing.
The overall race lead is currently held by Memo Rojas and his BMW Daytona prototype of Chip Ganassi Racing. Having led 314 of the 572 laps, Rojas is currently under a lot of pressure from Jordan Taylor, whose Action Express Racing Corvette has managed to bring the gap between them down to less than 6 seconds apart.
However the real battle is in the GT class, with Nicolas Armindo and his Magnus Racing Porsche GT3 Cup under serious pressure from Oliver Jarvis's AJR Audi Sport R8 Grand-Am. At one point, the Audi was less than a second behind the Porsche.
DP
Memo Rojas - Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates - BMW Riley
Jordan Taylor +3.057 VelocityWW - Corvette DP
Burt Frissell +5.536 Action Express Racing - Corvette DP
Justin Wilson +21.647 Michael Shank Racing - Ford Riley
Sebastien Boudais +32.610 Starworks with Alex Popow - Ford Riley
GT
Nicolas Armindo - Magnus Racing - Porsche GT3 Cup
Oliver Jarvis +9.391 Audi Sport Customer Racing/ AJR Audi R8 Grand-Am
Marco Holzer +18.526 Alex Job Racing - Porsche GT3 Cup
Frank Stippler +32.384 AIM Autosport Team FXDD Ferrari 458
Mark Wilkins +1:30.029 Audi Sport Customer Racing/ APR Motorsport Ltd. UK Audi R8
Want to follow the race and the timing on your own?
Be sure to catch the live stream courtesy of Speed Channel here. Also, you may follow a broadcast provided by the leading GT team, Magnus Racing, here.
Finally, the live timing and scoring is available on grandam.com.
Watch the SPEED CHANNEL broadcast in the embedded streaming video below: Happy race day, everybody!
Watch live video from rolex49 on www.justin.tv
As a treat, here is a clip of what we believe is the highlight of the Rolex event so far:
