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The Spanish driver Fernando Alonso Sunday was proclaimed champion of the 57th edition of the 24 Hours of Daytona at conclude first in the clbadification with his car Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi # 10 team Wayne Taylor Racing when the race was suspended for rain, for the second time, while all the cars were in the pits.
His winning teammates were the American Jordan Taylor, the Japaneses Kamui Kobayashi and the Dutch Renger Van Der Zande.
Although the test had a frustrating end, especially for the thousands of followers, before the final suspension Alonso he had given a masterful lesson in driving in the rain with some spectacular overtaking that finally earned him the victory.
Alonso, during his second participation in the most important endurance event of the US automobile season and the opening of the IMSA calendar, he made history by becoming the first Formula 1 champion to win at Daytona International Speedway.
Although he is also the second Spaniard to win the test after having done so Antonio García in 2009 in the category DP.
Brazilian Felipe Nasr, the Whelen Engineering Racing team with the Cadillac DPi No.31 car and the American car Alexander Rossi, Team Penske with Acura DPi No.7 they were second and third in the standings.
The Colombian Sebastián Saavedra, in the LMP2 with the ORECA N ° 18, he was the champion; the Brazilian Augusto Farfus, with the BMW MB GTE No.25 car, won the GTLM (GT Le Mans) and the German Christian Engelhart was proclaimed champion of the GTD with the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 No.11.
But the big winner of the test was Alonsowho did a masterful career in the rain when he took the wheel for the second and third time. He was far superior to all rivals in a test in which in the end could not be given 593 turns, very far from the 808 mark that is in the history of the race and that was carried out last year. The race was over at 23 hours and 50 minutes.
The race was Suspended twice in the rain and there were 18 flags, including the two red flags, the final flag appeared two hours before the end of the test. Minutes before Alonso he had managed to overtake Nasr, who was going straight, and thus to secure the victory by not being able to take the test again.
But in the midst of the chaos generated by the torrential rain that caused dozens of spins and falls, Alonso he pulled them all to be the big winner and champion of the race, in addition to being the great leader of the Wayne Taylor Racing team in two decisive relays and the third and final final that established him as the driver who knows how to improve better than anyone in the moments the most difficult and the most complicated.
The Asturian runner was full of courage and balance when his team, with the last performance of Jordan Taylor has been overtaken by Nasr's great flying.
The exit of Alonso replacing him was decisive and the Asturian driver is thus the twenty-second in the history of win the 24 hours of Daytona and the 24 hours of Le Mans; but this is only the third after also winning a Formula One race.
Only the Italian Lorenzo Bandini and the Mexican Pedro Rodriguez had succeeded before.
In addition, the Asturian becomes the first winner of a Formula One race who reissues this success within 24 hours of Daytona since it was made by the Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya in 2013.
Latin American motorsport featured the Brazilians Nasr and Helio Castroneves, who were part of the Penske team with the No. 7 Acura DPi as major protagonists They had a great race at the wheel of their respective cars and only the "magic" of Alonso I steal the final triumph.
Saavedra has also made an outstanding career in the LMP2 modality, where he is proclaimed champion with the DragonSpeed team, along with Mexican Roberto González and Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado. EFE
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