JUST THE FACTS, JACK

The 50th Anniversary Rolex 24 At Daytona (This is a proper noun, the owner of the name having chosen the name and to which doesn’t apply are grammar rules other than the “proper noun” rule; the reason the “At” is capitalized. K?)

Time of race: 24:00.36.793

Laps completed: 761

Miles covered: 2,709.160

Average Speed: 112.834 mph, 181.588 kph

Fastest Race Lap/Time/Average Speed/Driver: 497, 1:41.470, 126.003 mph (202.782 kph), Ryan Dalziel

Margin Of Victory: 0:05.198

Caution Periods: 13 for 64 laps

A total of 10 cars would lead at least one lap (car Nos. 76 and 6), four cars posted double-digits while two cars, No. 60 LiveOn.com Ford and No. 8 Starworks Ford, would account for the greater number of collective laps led, 249 and 295, respectively.

In their shared ride, Starworks Motorsports' No. 8 Ford, Scots Ryan Dalziel and Allan McNish topped the race's 22 overall lap leaders with 146 and 137 laps, respectively.

Four of the No. 8 Starworks Ford's five drivers claimed leader laps, adding Lucas Luhr (9 laps) and Enzo Potolicchio (3) to the aforementioned.

With 92 laps, Justin Wilson was at the top of the No. 60 LiveOn.com Ford drivers' lead-lap chart, followed by A.J. Allmendinger (90) and Oswaldo Negri Jr. (67).

A total of 22 drivers in 10 cars exchanged the lead 53 times during the 24-hour race -- or, slightly greater than two lead changes occurred on-average each hour of the race.

Justin Wilson (No. 60 LiveOn.com Ford) compiled the most consecutive lead laps with 84, followed by Ryan Dalziel (No. 8 Starworks Ford) with 75 laps, and Allan McNish (No. 8 Starworks Ford) 64 laps.

Each having eight times crossed the finish line ahead of all others, two drivers shared having most often led the race: A.J. Allmendinger (No. 60 LiveOn.com Ford) and Scott Pruett (No. 01 Telmex/Target BMW). Allan McNish (No. 8 Starworks Ford) led on five different occasions.

In Grand Touring, Andy Lally, in the No. 44 Magnus Racing Porsche, topped the most-laps-led column with 132, followed by Andrew Davis' 124 and Leh Keen's 100, the latter two in the No. 59 Brumos Porsche which led the race on 22 separate occasions, followed in that category with 19 by the GT-class winner, No. 44 Magnus Racing Porsche and, trailing well behind with seven different lead changes, the No. 67 TRG Porsche.

The No. 60 LiveOn.com Ford (DP) completed 761 laps, tying 1990 race-winners Davy Jones, Jan Lammers and Andy Wallace's No. 61 TWR Jaguar XJR-12 (GTP).

The winning MSR team fell one-lap short of equaling the Rolex 24's record 762 laps, set in 1992 by Nissan Motorsports' No. 23 Nissan R91CP (Grp. C), driven by Masahiro Hasemi, Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Toshio Suzuki and D.C. Williams (nah, not really, but got ya for a microsecond, huh?).

Ruminations of the Rolex 24 are coming . . . just not today.

Later,

DC