Most teams who show up to race the 24 Hours of Daytona are big-budget efforts staffed by a host of professionals. Not the Honda of America Racing Team. They’re an all-volunteer team of regular Honda employees recruited mostly by word of mouth for one purpose: racing the cars Honda makes.
While IndyCar and sports-car regular Townsend Bell was racing the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona International Speedway this weekend, he tweeted, someone allegedly stole a lot of racing jewelry he’d acquired over the years—including a winning watch from the 2014 Rolex 24 and 10 Indianapolis 500 rings, he said.
It isn’t really news that we don’t enjoy discussing Balance of Performance in motorsport, but it’s become an integral part of the discussion, especially in endurance racing. BOP is effectively the means by which the series officials try to level the field on lap time; adding ballast, adjusting pit stop refueling…
While we always hope that the Jalopnik Bump results in a win, sometimes we’re impressed enough with a team merely finishing the race. The Honda of America Racing Team (HART, for short) works in prep for their Acura NSX GT3 around regular nine-to-five day jobs at Honda’s headquarters in Ohio, and they actually finished…
We’ve been yearning for a new BMW 8 Series for years, and now it’s finally here, having debuted at the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona. One of the best parts about Daytona is the ability to get up close to the different cars and look at all of the interesting parts.
While there were plenty of teams that got lots of hype for superstar drivers or new cars at the Rolex 24 this year, it was the relatively low-key No. 5 Cadillac DPi-V.R of Mustang Sampling Racing that limped it in for the overall win. They didn’t just beat their own engine overheating issues at the end—they beat an…
The 24 Hours of Daytona—IMSA’s annual season-opening festival of utter vehicular masochism and pretty lights—is more alive than ever thanks to some big names and a deep field of cars. Not only did the infield sell out entirely, but the fastest prototypes are on pace to break the record number of laps ever driven at…
One of the most exciting recent developments in Formula One is the reappearance of drivers driving in other series. For some reason—an unwillingness to risk getting hurt or break their focus or whatever—that hasn’t happened much recently. But as F1's Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll have found out at this year’s Rolex…
With around six and a half hours left in this year’s 24 Hours of Daytona race, 2017 24 Hours of Daytona winners Wayne Taylor Racing already threw in the towel, citing safety concerns with their Prototype class-spec Continental tires. Tire failures have dogged an otherwise fairly standard Rolex 24, with many happening…
The addition of a small Jalopnik sticker on a race car is believed to have mystical qualities that propel you to the front of the field. This weekend, we’re seeing if the mighty Jalopnik bump works on a group of Honda employees’ epic side project: the No. 69 Honda of America Racing Team Acura NSX GT3.
The 24 Hours of Daytona is a wonderful beginning. It kicks off professional endurance racing in the United States with a glorious bang—a ridiculously difficult full day of endurance racing that puts teams’ wits and patience to the ultimate test. We’re here to take it all in, and for me to embrace my inner Florida…
Greetings from beautiful Daytona Beach, where the Florida Man sightings and spring-like weather shockingly aren’t the main appeal this week! I’m here for the Rolex 24, where endurance teams battle for an entire day around Daytona’s road course. This year is extra special, with Formula One drivers and new cars in the…
Two-time CART champion, ex-Formula 1 driver, and winner of paralympic gold medals Alex Zanardi will be driving a BMW M8 GTEs at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2019, BMW announced this weekend. Zanardi lost both legs after a CART crash in 2001, so the new BMW will be modified to work for him but still be shareable with…
Most of the big-budget efforts that head off to Daytona are run by people whose full time gig is racing, but one team will have to return to their regular desk jobs after it’s done. The Honda of America Racing Team (HART) is crewed primarily by workers at Honda’s American headquarters in Marysville, Ohio.
Williams Formula One driver Lance Stroll confirmed that he’ll be joining the Jackie Chan DC Racing Prototype team at the 24 Hours of Daytona, reports Autosport. Stroll is the second F1 driver to announce that he’ll be at Daytona this year after Fernando Alonso. I really hope this means Alonso started a trend of cool…
The best thing about McLaren’s Formula One team right now is that they want to let their drivers drive in other series. We had to ask McLaren Technology Group Executive Director and real-life American in F1 Zak Brown if Fernando Alonso might drive at the 24 Hours of Daytona. “Stay tuned,” he told us.
The 8 Series was BMW’s glorious halo car when it originally came out in 1989. With the new revival of the 8 Series nameplate, BMW wants to one-up its own ostentatious halo car by making an M8. Best of all, they’re also developing a M8 GTE endurance race car to take to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Who’s a good boy? Fonzie’s a good boy. Here, drink out of Cadillac DPi-V.R racer Jordan Taylor’s 24 Hours of Daytona trophy. Awwwww, that’s a good doggo.
Every once in a while, you come across someone in the background who totally steals the show. Sometimes a photobomb is so good, it’s practically elevated to an art form, and one of the best examples I’ve ever seen wasn’t done with a person, but with a big flag and a car at this year’s 24 Hours of Daytona.