A Collision In The Final Minutes Decided This Year's Daytona 24 Hours

Crash GT

by Tom Bellingham 29th January 2017

Two Cadillac prototypes made contact with just four minutes to go while battling for the lead of the race.

This year’s Daytona 24 Hours was won in controversial fashion when the Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac beat the Action Express Racing Cadillac to victory by just half a second.

Just five minutes from the end, Ricky Taylor made a late lunge on Filipe Albuquerque into turn one, putting Albuquerque into a spin. No action was taken against the American.

Drama at Daytona as contact moves the No. 10 @WayneTaylorRcng machine up into P1! #Rolex24 pic.twitter.com/Ab0DoVpe4q

— SPEED (@SPEED) January 29, 2017

Things were equally as exciting in the GTLM class as cars from Ferrari, Ford, Porsche and Corvette were locked in a thrilling battle for the lead.

The GTLM class was a battle between four manufacturers

Dirk Muller came out on top to take the class win for the Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT.