{"id":97780,"date":"2022-01-24T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-acura-wayne-taylor-racing-claim-pole-for-rolex-24-at-daytona\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T19:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:20:02","slug":"acura-y-wayne-taylor-racing-reclaman-la-pole-para-la-rolex-24-en-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/acura-y-wayne-taylor-racing-reclaman-la-pole-para-la-rolex-24-en-daytona\/","title":{"rendered":"Acura, Wayne Taylor Racing Claim Pole for Rolex 24 at Daytona"},"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, Fla.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 23, 2022<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The defending Rolex 24 at Daytona champions \u2013 Acura and Wayne Taylor Racing \u2013 got their 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season off to a strong start Sunday, winning the qualifying race to set the grid for next weekend&#8217;s 60<sup>th<\/sup> running of the 24-hour endurance race at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpge847left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpge847left\" title=\"The defending Rolex 24 at Daytona champions \u2013 Acura and Wayne Taylor Racing \u2013 got their 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season off to a strong start Sunday, winning the qualifying race to set the grid for next weekend\u2019s 60th running of the 24-hour endurance race at Daytona International Speedway. Drivers Filipe Albuquerque (left) and Ricky Taylor celebrate Acura's win on the podium at Daytona.\" style=\"HEIGHT: 267px; WIDTH: 400px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The defending Rolex 24 at Daytona champions \u2013 Acura and Wayne Taylor Racing \u2013 got their 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season off to a strong start Sunday, winning the qualifying race to set the grid for next weekend\u2019s 60th running of the 24-hour endurance race at Daytona International Speedway. Drivers Filipe Albuquerque (left) and Ricky Taylor celebrate Acura's win on the podium at Daytona.\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1731984\/Acura_Motorsports_Filipe_Albuquerque_and_Ricky_Taylor.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s &#8220;Roar Before the 24&#8221; three-day test, to prepare for the 2022 season, concluded with a 100-minute sprint race to set the grid for next weekend&#8217;s season-opening Rolex 24 enduro. WTR drivers Filipe Albuquerque and <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricky Taylor<\/span> led 24 laps to the checkers, after an intense late-race battle with the JDC-Miller Racing entry of <span class=\"xn-person\">Richard Westbrook<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Tristan Vautier<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Completing a strong day for Acura at Daytona, the all-new Meyer Shank Racing pairing of <span class=\"xn-person\">Tom Blomqvist<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Oliver Jarvis<\/span> also led 17 laps en route to a fourth-place result.\u00a0 Combined the two Acura ARX-05-equipped teams led 41 of the 61 laps in today&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>In GTD, the Gradient Racing NSX GT3 Evo22 started at the rear of the 22-car GTD field following a crash on Saturday.\u00a0 After extensive overnight repairs, drivers Kyffin Simpson and Till Bechtolsheimer gained six positions in today&#8217;s short race to finish 16<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><b><u>Rolex 24 Qualifying Race Results<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>1<sup>st<\/sup> overall &#8211; #10 Filipe Albuquerque and <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricky Taylor<\/span>, Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05 DPi <\/li>\n<li>4<sup>th<\/sup> overall &#8211; #60 <span class=\"xn-person\">Tom Blomqvist<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Oliver Jarvis<\/span>, Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-05 DPi <\/li>\n<li>16<sup>th<\/sup> GTD &#8211; #44 Till Bechtolsheimer and Kyffin Simpson, Gradient Racing Acura NSX GT3 Evo22<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><u>Fast Facts<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Acura returns to Daytona International Speedway and the IMSA season-opening Rolex 24 as defending race champion. The Wayne Taylor Racing lineup of Filipe Albuquerque, <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricky Taylor<\/span>, Helio Castroneves and <span class=\"xn-person\">Alexander Rossi<\/span> claimed the win in last year&#8217;s twice-around-the-clock contest, 20 years after Acura&#8217;s first Daytona class win in 1991. <\/li>\n<li>This will be Acura&#8217;s eighth Rolex 24 as a prototype manufacturer (1991-93, 2018-22). In addition to the overall win last year, and in 2016 under the HPD\/Honda banner. Acura won the Camel Lights class at Daytona in 1991 and again in &#8217;92. <\/li>\n<li>Acura first took part in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 1991, winning Camel Lights with Comptech Racing and drivers <span class=\"xn-person\">Parker Johnstone<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Steve Cameron<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Bob Lesnett<\/span> driving a Spice Acura SE90P. Acura repeated as Camel Lights winner in 1992, with Comptech drivers Johnstone, Cameron and <span class=\"xn-person\">Jimmy Vasser<\/span> [who also won Honda&#8217;s first Indy car championship in 1996]. <\/li>\n<li>Running an Honda Performance Development prepared, production-based Honda V6 engine, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3421143-1&amp;h=308321595&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FExtreme_Speed_Motorsports&amp;a=Tequila+Patr%C3%B3n+ESM\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tequila Patr\u00f3n ESM<\/a> won the Rolex 24 overall in 2016 with <span class=\"xn-person\">Pipo Derani<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Scott Sharp<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Johannes van Overbeek<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Ed Brown<\/span> driving a Ligier JSP2-Honda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><u>Quotes<br \/><\/u><\/b><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Ricky Taylor<\/span> <\/b>(#10 Wayne Taylor Racing ARX-05) <b>Won today&#8217;s qualifying race with co-driver Filipe Albuquerque and will start from the pole in next Saturday&#8217;s Rolex 24 at Daytona.\u00a0 <span class=\"xn-person\">Will Stevens<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Alexander Rossi<\/span> join the driver lineup for the Rolex 24: <\/b>&#8220;It was only 100 minutes, but that was a very stressful, hard race. The car was great, everyone at HPD has done a fantastic job to keep evolving and improving the ARX-05. The Konica Minolta Wayne Taylor Racing team also keeps continuing to improve.\u00a0 We have to keep working this next week [leading up to the Rolex 24] as I think everyone is going to be coming for us. But we&#8217;re starting in the best possible spot [pole], and looking forward to going again \u2013 this time for 24 hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Tom Blomqvist<\/span> <\/b>(#60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-05): <b>finished 4<sup>th<\/sup> in qualifying race for next weekend&#8217;s Rolex 24 with co-driver <span class=\"xn-person\">Oliver Jarvis<\/span>; Rolex 24 co-drivers also include Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud: <\/b>&#8220;It was cool, I enjoyed it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a while since I raced over here [in the <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span>], so it was nice. I got a good start, made up a few positions, which was fun.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always nice to move forward. We were running third, but got a bit unlucky with traffic.\u00a0 We only need to make a few small tweaks here and there to get us in better shape for the &#8217;24&#8217; next weekend, but the team did a great job, so fingers crossed for next weekend, that&#8217;s when it really counts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Kelvin Fu<\/span> <\/b>(Vice President, Honda Performance Development) <b>on today&#8217;s qualifying race victory and pole for the Rolex 24 at Daytona: <\/b>&#8220;What an amazing and exciting race, it was a great start to the new IMSA season for Acura and HPD.\u00a0 Congratulations to Wayne Taylor Racing for getting our Rolex 24 victory defense started in the best possible way, to Meyer Shank Racing for their excellent effort; and to Gradient Racing, for their &#8216;precision crafted performance&#8217; in repairing the #66 NSX and getting it to the grid following yesterday&#8217;s crash, and improving throughout the race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Where to Watch the Rolex 24 at Daytona<br \/><\/u><\/b>Television coverage of the 60<sup>th<\/sup> Rolex 24 at Daytona starts <span class=\"xn-chron\">Saturday, January 29<\/span>, at <span class=\"xn-chron\">1:30 p.m. EST<\/span> for the opening hour on NBC. Coverage moves to <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> Network from <span class=\"xn-chron\">4-7 p.m.<\/span>; <span class=\"xn-chron\">10 p.m.-3 a.m.<\/span>; and <span class=\"xn-chron\">6 a.m.-12 p.m. on Sunday<\/span>. Coverage concludes with the final hours of the race on NBC from <span class=\"xn-chron\">12-2 p.m. Sunday<\/span>. Live flag-to-flag race coverage also will be available on the NBC Peacock streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can listen to audio commentary via\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3421143-1&amp;h=766774958&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fimsa.com%2F&amp;a=IMSA.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">IMSA.com<\/a>,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3421143-1&amp;h=3175758523&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fradiolemans.com%2F&amp;a=RadioLeMans.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">RadioLeMans.com<\/a>\u00a0and Sirius XM Radio; and follow the race live via in-car cameras, IMSA Radio and timing &amp; scoring available worldwide on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3421143-1&amp;h=766774958&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fimsa.com%2F&amp;a=IMSA.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">IMSA.com<\/a>\u00a0and the IMSA mobile device App.<\/p>\n<p>Acura Motorsports social media content and video links from Daytona are available on Instagram (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3421143-1&amp;h=515058537&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fhondaracing_hpd&amp;a=www.instagram.com%2Fhondaracing_hpd\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.instagram.com\/hondaracing_hpd<\/a>), Twitter at (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3421143-1&amp;h=1138753183&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FHondaRacing_HPD&amp;a=twitter.com%2FHondaRacing_HPD\" rel=\"nofollow\">twitter.com\/HondaRacing_HPD<\/a>) and Facebook (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3421143-1&amp;h=4209818558&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHondaRacingHPD)&amp;a=www.facebook.com%2FHondaRacingHPD)\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.facebook.com\/HondaRacingHPD)<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg6662left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; 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