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By Holly Cain-IMSA Wire Service Jimmie Johnson will share driving duties with Simon Pagenaud, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Rockenfeller for this weekend's Rolex 24 at Daytona. Photo: IMSA Wire Service NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson showed up at Daytona International Speedway on Friday morning for the Roar Before the Rolex 24 feeling more like he was in mid-season form than climbing behind the wheel for the annual season start-up session most racers use to brush off the dust. That’s because since Johnson completed his final NASCAR full-time season in November, the stock car champ has spent the ...

Sponsored Links Corvette Racing newcomers Nick Tandy and Alexander Sims won Sunday’s Motul 100 Rolex 24 qualifying race, securing pole position for the No. 4 Corvette C8.R team for the 24-hour endurance race. Sims started the 100-minute sprint race from third position, just behind the two BMW M8s of BMW Team RLL. The 32-year-old Briton, a former BMW factory driver himself, managed to snake past the two BMWs on the opening lap and kept the two front-engine coupes behind him as the track dried from a pre-race shower. The caution then came out with just over an hour remaining, sending Sims and...

By IMSA Wire Service Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani won Sunday's Motul Pole Award 100 at Daytona International Speedway, and will start on the pole for next weekend's Rolex 24 along with co-drivers Chase Elliott and Mike Conway. Photo: IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Rain and a penalty didn’t create any problems Sunday for Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani. Relegated to a sixth-place starting position after their No. 31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi V.R failed technical inspection Saturday night for being underweight, the duo rallied to win the inaugural Motul Pole Award 100, which determ...

By IMSA Wire Service Oliver Jarvis will start Sunday's Motul Pole Award 100 at the Daytona International Speedway from the pole. The race will set the starting field for next weekend's Rolex 24, the season opener for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Photo: IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. –  It wasn’t the typical path to the front of the pack, but Oliver Jarvis will take it. Driving the No. 55 Mazda Motorsports Mazda DPi, Jarvis was second fastest in qualifications Saturday at Daytona International Speedway for Sunday’s Motul Pole Award 100 – the qualifying r...

NASCAR Champ Chase Elliott Opening More Doors Chase Elliott has nothing to prove, but he insists on proving anyway that he loves racing – any kind of racing. By Steven Cole Smith Elliott has raced late models on pavement and recently dirt midgets Teammate in IMSA to his former NASCAR teammate Jimmie Johnson Chase Elliott, 2020 NASCAR Cup champion, has nothing to prove, but he insists on proving anyway that he loves racing – any kind of racing – whether it is pavement late models at the Snowball Derby in Pensacola, Florida, in December; dirt midgets at the Chili Bowl last week,...