Rolex 24 hours daytona live
Rolex 24 hours daytona live, With the pullout of Lexus and Pontiac for the 2010 season, Ford finds itself with heightened pressure to succeed after last year’s struggles. The early stages of the 2009 Rolex 24 looked like a Ford-powered Daytona Prototype might land in victory circle, but those plans soon went awry as their V8s began dropping out one by one. Fortunately, their problems at the Rolex 24 didn’t result in a loss of business, and they find themselves in the enviable position of having more than a third of the DP powerplants in the Rolex 24 — 5 out of 14 cars.
Speaking with John Maddox of Roush Yates Engines, builders of the Ford DP mill, he assured me that they aren’t relying on the statistical odds to deliver a long-awaited victory. “A lot of work went into solving the problems we had at the 2009 Rolex 24 race and making sure we’re stronger than ever for 2010.”
The root of the 2009 Rolex 24 failures fell on faulty crankshaft trigger sensors, but interestingly, the Fords weren’t halted by a batch of bad parts. Maddox and his team had to go a lot deeper to trace the real origins of the problem.