whats the deal with this 24 hour nascar race?

Answer 1

I believe you are referring to "The 24 Hours of Daytona" which is sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America"(SCCA) and has nothing to do with NASCAR.

Answer 2

The Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona is opening event of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) season, incorporating other races such as the 12 Hours of Sebring and the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta (8 hours).

http://www.americanlemans.com/home/ALMSHome.aspx
http://www.americanlemans.com/Schedule/SeasonSchedule.aspx

The Rolex 24 is an endurance racing event competed by high quality race car drivers and occasionally a few NASCRASH drivers. There are several subcategories of cars, but the three main categories are the prototypes, the GTS and GT. Prototypes are specially made cars for endurance road racing, the GT are street legal cars (eg. Porsche 911) modified for road racing, and the GTS are factory modified high performance race cars, non-consumer versions of street legal cars. All the cars compete head to head at the same time in fields as large at 80 cars, and more than 100 cars at Le Mans, France.

More importantly, the best teams at the Daytona 24 are invited to race at the 24 Heures de Le Mans in France during June. Le Mans is entered by invitation ONLY. Since only the best drivers are welcome, NASCRASH drivers have never competed there.

If you want to see _real_ skill and racing at Daytona, watch the Rolex 24. You'll be so put off by the inferiority of NASCRASH that you won't go watch the zoo - oops, 500 - unless you prefer watching crashes.

The only downside of endurance racing is that since all categories compete on the track at the same time, if the circuit is not sufficiently long (at least three miles) it may sometimes become a traffic jam (Le Mans in France is eight miles long). Then again, what do you call the "racing" at Bristol's half mile oval?

The really silly thing is that NASCRASH has two road races - Sears Point and Watkins' Glen - and produces good races year after year. NASCRASH should not run the oval twice at Daytona; the second time they go, in May, they should race on the 3.56 mile road course, and they should drive on other road courses such as Road America and Road Atlanta. If NASCRASH changed their schedule to 1/3rd road courses, they would kill off all other road course racing in North America.


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Answer 3

I believe you are referring to "The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona" which is sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America"(SCCA) They use the Daytona International Speedway for the race that lasts for 24 hrs. Although the race has nothing to do with NASCAR, there will be be a few NASCAR drivers in the field running.

Answer 4

it's not a NASCAR race, it's a sports car race. the 24 hours at daytona. perhaps you've heard of the 24 hours at la mans, or the 12 hours at seabring, it's the same series. a group of 3 or 4 drivers team up and take turns driving the car. last year, a team with casey mears on it won the whole thing. year before last, andy wallace, tony stewart, and dale earnhardt jr. had a comfortable lead after 23 hours but the suspention on the car broke. stewart drove the car around basically on 2 wheels and maintained the lead until the car completely broke down with just 20 minutes left in a 24 hour race. man that was heartbreaking. they had a 4 lap lead at the time, they ended up finishing 4th. it's a pretty cool race that always starts off 'daytona speed weeks', 2 weeks before the daytona 500.

@me thinks edward s needs to get his own facts straight before correcting someone else's. ok, so technically the 24 hour daytona race is not afiliated with the similar race in sebring, but it's not sanctioned by NASCAR either you moron. a high percentage of the drivers at daytona will be in sebring also, that's a fact. you must be one of those snobby F1 fans who begrudge NASCAR because it is so much more action packed and exciting than that snooze fest you watch. again, to set the record straight, the 24 hours of daytona is *not*, i repeat *not* sanctioned by NASCAR, so go watch your boring, follow the leader 'racing' with no lead changes, and leave the NASCAR section to the real race fans.

Answer 5

This is SCCA sanctioned and sponsored by Rolex. They run for 24 hours. There are teams of 4 drivers who alternate and some NASCAR regulars participate. I may be wrong but I think they run the road course which includes part of the Daytona oval.

Answer 6

you've already got them so as, on your question. Daytona 500 > Indy 500 > Monaco GP > 24 hours of Le Mans. i'm a NASCAR fan first and most suitable, so Daytona is tops. The Indy 500 is the second one greatest race ( in my American eyes ). Monaco is an outstanding race, yet I type of expertise like the FIA has avoided u.s. in present day years. and that i in user-friendly words watch The 24 of Le Mans if there is not any different racing on on the time. sport motor vehicle racing merely isn't my bag.

Answer 7

It is the 24 Hours of Daytona and is not sanctioned by NASCAR but the SCCA .There are several NASCAR drivers that are going to run on teams in this event.

Answer 8

Its not a Nascar race. There are some nascar drivers racing, but its a road race. Its import sports cars not stock cars and they have like 3 drivers per team that swap out.

Answer 9

Methinks Mr. so-called Know It All should find himself a new moniker ... the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona is *not*, I repeat *not*, in any way affiliated with either the 12 Hours of Sebring or the 24 Heures du Mans.

The 12 Hours of Sebring is sanctioned by the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and the 24 Heures du Mans is sanctioned by Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). The 24 Hours of Daytona is a Grand-Am event sanctioned by the SCCA. ALMS is the American version of the long-standing top-level European sports car racing circuit ACO, and ALMS teams compete every June at Le Mans.

Grand-Am is a cheap knock off of ALMS/ACO with less interesting, far uglier cars, lower technology, boring infield venues, and drivers who can't find rides anywhere else. Grand-Am is NASCAR's pathetic attempt at sanctioning a road racing series and, like NASCAR itself, has been foisted upon the American public by the NASCAR cartel in the hopes that dullards like Mr. Know It All won't be able to tell the difference between the genuine article and the tacky impostor.

Evidently reading comprehension is not one of Mr. Know-Nothing's strong suits. For the record, my second paragraph explicitly states that the 24 Hours of Daytona is a Grand-Am event sanctioned by the SCCA. At no point have I ever claimed it was a NASCAR-sanctioned race, despite your petulant attempts at trying to find something I was wrong about. Grand-Am, however, is entirely propped up by the NASCAR cartel, which is no secret to those of us who actually pay attention to the world of motorsport.

If you'd like to actually say something factual to refute any of my points, be my guest. Thus far, however, you've only managed to invent statements which were never made, attribute them to me, and then try to discredit me for them. A good first effort, but you're going to have to do much better than that if you want me to take you seriously.

Cheers!

Answer 10

the "rolex" 24 is not a nascar sanctioned event