Van der Zande headed the sister DPi-V.R car driven by team-mate Earl Bamber at the flag by 3.7 seconds to score only Ganassi’s second win in the Daytona Prototype international class since its partnership with Cadillac began in 2021.
The JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac of Tristan Vautier and Richard Westbrook completed the podium in third, ensuring a Cadillac podium clean sweep at a track where the DPi-V.R has never been beaten since the start of the DPi era in 2017.
Bourdais held off Ganassi team-mate Alex Lynn (sharing with Bamber) on the run down to Turn 1 at the start, while Tom Blomqvist (Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-05) held off 2021 Long Beach winner Pipo Derani (Action Express Racing Cadillac) for third.
Behind them, Vautier deposed Filipe Albuquerque’s Wayne Taylor Racing Acura to take fifth, but they both gained a place at Bourdais’ expense on lap 7.
The Frenchman, a three-time Long Beach winner from his Champ Car days, dived down the inside of a GT car at the hairpin…
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