Richard Westbrook enjoyed a slender lead aboard the #5 JDC Cadillac DPi-V.R over the #48 Action Express-run Ally Racing Cadillac of Mike Rockenfeller at the 12-hour mark just after the 11th full-course yellow period of the race.
That followed an eventful couple of hours in which the overall lead changed hands multiple times amid a succession of caution periods.
The erstwhile-leading #02 Chip Ganassi Cadillac was the first DPi runner to hit trouble when Alex Lynn picked up a puncture and then a penalty for not controlling the restart properly after the seventh full-course yellow period of the race.
That left Ricky Taylor at the head of the field in the WTR Acura ahead of the similar Meyer Shank machine of Tom Blomqvist, with Taylor handing off to Rossi during a green-flag pitstop shortly before the eighth FCY.
At the restart, Blomqvist grabbed the advantage with a brave move on Rossi at the recently-renamed Le Mans chicane, although MSR lost out at the next round of stops when…
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