{"id":44336,"date":"2016-02-01T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/honda-tequila-patron-esm-wins-the-rolex-24\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T17:14:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T21:14:03","slug":"auto-del-equipo-tequila-patron-esm-con-motor-honda-gana-la-carrera-rolex-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/auto-del-equipo-tequila-patron-esm-con-motor-honda-gana-la-carrera-rolex-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda, Tequila Patron ESM Wins the Rolex 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">DAYTONA BEACH, Florida<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 31, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Tequila Patr\u00f3n ESM prevailed Sunday in a hard-fought Rolex 24 at Daytona, scoring Honda&#8217;s first overall victory at the famed event and the first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship win for the new Honda HR35TT twin-turbocharged V6 engine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgc079leftMSAsset609814\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\" assettitle=\"Honda Racing - Ligier\" hostedurl=\"https:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20160131\/327753\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgc079leftMSAsset609814\" title=\"The Honda-powered Ligier of Tequila Patron ESM won Sunday's Rolex 24 at Daytona.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Honda-powered Ligier of Tequila Patron ESM won Sunday's Rolex 24 at Daytona.\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20160131\/327753\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The ESM Ligier-Honda JSP2, shared by <span class=\"xn-person\">Pipo Derani<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Johannes van Overbeek<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Scott Sharp<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Ed Brown<\/span>, took the overall win by 26 seconds ahead of the Wayne Taylor Racing Dallara-Corvette DP driven by <span class=\"xn-location\">Jordan<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricky Taylor<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Max Angelelli<\/span> and Rubens Barrichello, after a see-saw battle throughout the night time hours with multiple contending teams.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on the outside of the front tow, Derani took the lead at the green flag, but soon fell back behind both the similar Ligier-Honda of Michael Shank Racing and the unique DeltaWing, which led much of the opening two hours. As night descended, the DeltaWing was eliminated by damage from contact with a stalled car, and the race developed into a contest among the pair of Ligier-Honda&#8217;s and a half-dozen rival Daytona Prototype teams.<\/p>\n<p>Starting third, Michael Shank Racing and drivers <span class=\"xn-person\">A.J. Allmendinger<\/span>, Oswaldo &#8220;Ozz&#8221; Negri, <span class=\"xn-person\">John Pew<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Olivier Pla<\/span> moved their Honda-powered Ligier to the front for the first time at the two-hour mark with Pla at the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Negri and Allmendinger also took turns at the point, as the MSR Ligier-Honda led for a total of 99 laps in the first eight hours. However, mid-way through the ninth hour, engine failure ended the race for MSR.<\/p>\n<p>Although the MSR effort was over for this year&#8217;s Rolex 24, the ESM Ligier-Honda continued to run without issue, and at the 12-hour mark held a narrow, two-second lead over a trio of Daytona Prototype efforts, including the #5 and #31 cars of Action Express, and Wayne Taylor Racing #10 Corvette. As night turned into morning, all four cars remained on the lead lap and in contention for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The ESM Ligier-Honda moved back into the lead for the final time with slightly more than two hours remaining, when Derani took over from co-driver <span class=\"xn-person\">van Overbeek<\/span>, then caught and passed the #5 Corvette. Earlier in the race, Derani set fastest race lap, and he again exhibited both speed and control in the final hour to build a convincing, 26-second lead that he maintained to the checkers.<\/p>\n<p>Both the ESM and the Shank entries utilize the production-based 3.5-liter Honda HR35TT V6 engine, developed for competition by HPD from the Honda &#8220;J35&#8221; series of passenger vehicle V6 engines, with improvements including twin turbochargers. Key production-based components include the block and cylinder heads, direct-injection fuel system, valve train components, drive-by-wire throttle, alternator, sensors and fasteners. The engine even utilizes a stock Honda oil filter. <\/p>\n<p>Video News Releases from this weekend&#8217;s Rolex 24 at Daytona and companion Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge race can be found on the &#8220;Honda Racing\/HPD Trackside&#8221; YouTube channel produced by the Carolinas Production Group. CPG is providing video highlights packages following Honda Racing\/HPD events during the 2016 season. The video packages can be found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/hondaracingtrackside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">youtube.com\/hondaracingtrackside<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpd.honda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.hpd.honda.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship resumes <span class=\"xn-chron\">Saturday, March 19<\/span> with another endurance racing classic, the 64<sup>th<\/sup> running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of <span class=\"xn-location\">Sebring<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Art St. Cyr<\/span><\/b> (President, Honda Performance Development) <b>on winning year&#8217;s Rolex 24 at Daytona: <\/b>&#8220;Winning a 24-hour race is still one of the ultimate challenges in motorsports. We&#8217;re proud to add this milestone achievement, the Rolex 24, as our first overall victory at Daytona, and our first win for the new 3.5-liter Honda engine package developed for sports car competition. Congratulations to <span class=\"xn-person\">Scott Sharp<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Ed Brown<\/span>, and the entire Patron Tequila ESM team for a truly world-class effort en route to victory. But it&#8217;s also a somewhat bittersweet day, as Michael Shank Racing consistently ran at the front of the field, and undoubtedly would have also contended for the victory but mid-race mechanical failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Pipo Derani<\/span> <\/b>(#2 Tequila Patr\u00f3n ESM\u00a0Ligier-Honda) <b>on being part of today&#8217;s race-winning driver lineup: <\/b>&#8220;I have no words. It is just amazing to win my first race in America. It&#8217;s just a big team effort to be here. To win this race is really tough, everything has to come together from the mechanical side, to the engineers and the drivers &#8211; it really is a complete team effort. The last two and a half hours were pretty intense. With the second-place car really pushing us, I couldn&#8217;t make any mistakes. It was pretty tense, but pretty exciting at the same time. It was a tough race out there, but will be something we can look back on with pride for the rest of our lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Ozz Negri<\/span> <\/b>(#60 Michael Shank Racing Ligier-Honda) <b>led 99 laps with co-drivers <span class=\"xn-person\">John Pew<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">A.J. Allmendinger<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Olivier Pla<\/span>: <\/b>&#8220;I had no warning [about the engine failure]. We were just looking after everything, taking our time, but suddenly it let go. It&#8217;s tough, really tough, to take. But this happens in racing. Everyone here, the Honda\/HPD guys and Ligier and everyone at MSR, we are all working together. We win together, we lose together. We would have loved to get another Rolex victory, and I am pretty sure we were on our way to doing just that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Rolex 24 at Daytona Race Report <br \/><\/u><\/b><b>Circuit:<\/b> Daytona International Speedway (3.56-mile road course), <span class=\"xn-location\">Daytona Beach, Fla.<\/span> <br \/><b>Weather:<\/b> Clear, mild overnight, overcast and 72 degrees F at the finish<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgab7cleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgab7cleft\" title=\" Honda Racing HPD Logo.\" border=\"0\" alt=\" Honda Racing HPD Logo.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20140312\/LA82397LOGO-a\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160131\/327753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160131\/327753<\/a> <br \/>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20140312\/LA82397LOGO-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20140312\/LA82397LOGO-a<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">DAYTONA BEACH, Florida<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 31, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Tequila Patr\u00f3n ESM prevailed Sunday in a hard-fought Rolex 24 at Daytona, scoring Honda&#8217;s first overall victory at the famed event and the first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship win for the new Honda HR35TT twin-turbocharged V6 engine.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;div id=&quot;prni_dvprnejpgc079leftMSAsset609814&quot; style=&quot;TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%&quot; assettitle=&quot;Honda Racing &#8211; Ligier&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deportes-y-recreacion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}