Heart-in-mouth for two-thirds of the race, MeyerShankRac reveal gearbox issues on way to second straight Rolex24 win.... Gulp 😳
The Meyer Shank Racing Acura team was"super lucky" that it was able to win the Rolex 24 at Daytona despite having a malfunctioning gearbox for most of the race, according to team founder and co-owner Michael Shank.MSR repeated its 2022 Rolex 24 triumph as it delivered a debut win for the new Acura ARX-06, as Tom Blomqvist led home a one-two for Acura in the #60 car he shared with Colin Braun, Simon Pagenaud and Helio Castroneves.
"Our car had a gearbox problem all night," said Shank during the winners' press conference."I mean, all night, and we could not fix it. We decided just to run it until it blew up. It didn't blow up. We got super lucky. However, the drivers of the #60 car said they couldn't feel anything amiss at the wheel of the winning Acura.
Blomqvist, who had secured pole in the previous week's Roar test, was installed at the wheel of the MSR Acura for the crucial closing stages of the race, fending off a late charge from Filipe Albuquerque in the WTR machine.
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