Although the Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 looked the fastest car in class during the coolest track conditions on a unseasonably cold weekend in Daytona, FL, as the sun arose on Sunday morning, the Porsche 911 GT3Rs of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship debutant KCMG and Pfaff Motorsports gained the advantage.
With the GTD Pro class – which replaced GTLM for this year – comprising GT3 cars with Platinum- and Gold-rated professionals on board, the driver lineups in both the KCMG and Pfaff cars were populated with aces. Vanthoor was joined by Patrick Pilet, Dennis Olsen and Alex Imperatori, while Pfaff had Felipe Nasr and Matt Campbell to partner with Jaminet.
The class lead distilled to a duel between these two 911s, with the final two hours of action seeing the pair rarely running more than half a second apart and making frequent passes and re-passes.
The duel between Vanthoor and Jaminet was fraught, and there were rubs and nudges between the two cars, but having led…
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