Teammates finishing side-by-side after a 24 hour endurance race isn’t rare but that’s because they’re often staging a formation finish for the cameras. Yesterday’s Rolex 24 however saw the two Corvette Racing teammates fighting it out for victory in the final minutes of a 24 hour race!
This is what the closest #Rolex24 margin of victory in class history, 0.034 seconds, looks like. pic.twitter.com/vXf9KiKiSk
— IMSA (@IMSA) January 31, 2016
As this tweet from Mobil 1 The Grid reveals, a gap of 0.034 seconds after 24 hours equals to 0.000039% of the overall race distance.
You couldn’t script it!