It’s been a rough off-season for Australian Ryan Briscoe. A year after being – somewhat surprisingly – picked up by IndyCar Series powerhouse Chip Ganassi Racing to pilot it’s fourth entry, Briscoe was unceremoniously dumped from the seat in favour of young American Sage Karam after, admittedly, an uneven season that didn’t allow Briscoe to showcase his obvious driving talent.
As they say, one door closes and another opens because Briscoe, who came through the sports car ranks and impressed with Team Penske in the American Le Mans Series when Penske ran the Porsche Spyder RS prototype program, has turned back the clock, picking up a big-time ride for the endurance component – basically, Daytona, Sebring and the season-ending Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta – of the 2015 Tudor United Sports Car Series.
A drive with none other than the famous and formidable Corvette Racing squad, driving a C7.R Corvette in the GTLM class (Grand Touring cars with official factory backing), with regular season drivers Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen. And there was an instant payoff for Briscoe, whose ability behind the wheel of a sports car is unquestioned, when the No. 3 Corvette crossed the line at the head of the GTLM field, 0.478 seconds head of their nearest competitor, notching Corvette’s first Rolex 24 class victory in only their second year back at Daytona since 2001.
Briscoe, hailing from Sydney and married to the ESPN SportsCentre anchor Nicole Briscoe (nee Manske) is the first Australian to win one of the prized Rolex watches that are awarded to overall and class winners. Sadly, due to the lack of a television deal for the Tudor Series here, Australian viewers were denied the chance to see Briscoe’s triumph, and also the endeavours of V8 Supercars driver Shane Van Gisbergen, who raced an Alex Job Racing Porsche in the GT-Daytona category for the second year in a row.
This triumph was Corvette’s second ever victory at the famed Daytona twenty-four hour endurance classic, and, in a signal, perhaps, of things to come for the yellow American muscle cars, the pole-sitting Corvette of Tommy Milner, Oliver Gavin and Simon Pagenaud came home in third place.
You can make a solid case that the GTLM class, the cars that, prior to last season, ran in the GT class of the American Le Mans Series – the ALMS and Rolex Sports Car Series merged last year to become the Tudor United Sports Car Series – is the toughest category of the four that make up the Tudor Series, with apologies to the prototype class.
For a start, all the drivers in GTLM are classified as professional (unlike the GT-Daytona and the Prototype Challenge category) and it’s a stacked field. How’s this for a nice assembly of international driving talent? Patrick Long, Darren Turner, Emanuel Collard, Toni Vilander, Lucas Luhr, Patrick Pilet, Marc Lieb, Giancarlo Fisichella, Pierre Kaffer, Oliver Berretta and Wolf Henzler, quite aside from the six drivers the Corvette team field. These guys, in sports car terms, are about the best of the best. Then you’ve got guys like IndyCar star Graham Rahal moonlighting.
The efforts of those all-star drivers are backed by the full factory forces of some of the world’s most powerful racing marques. We’re talking Porsche, Ferrari, Aston Martin, BMW and, obviously, the Chevrolet team running Corvettes. That Briscoe, Magnussen and Garcia triumphed against that sort of competition is quite incredible. During the course of a twenty-four hour race, there’s so much that can go wrong – and so much that does go wrong.
Granted, Daytona isn’t as abusive on equipment as Sebring and Le Mans are, but to be running at the finish, on the lead lap, having battled an entire day against some of the best GT sports car drivers in the world is no mean feat, and sets the Corvette squad up for a shot at a rare Daytona/Sebring double, when the Tudor Series moves to Florida for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours in late March.
Not long after that, too, is the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans, and Briscoe seems almost certain to have a seat with the Corvette squad, who have an impressive success rate at the French endurance race. We will know for sure with the official announcement of the 24 Hours of Le Mans entry list in early June.
In the meantime, Briscoe hopes to compete at the Indianapolis 500 in May, and given his ability at the Brickyard – he is a former pole-sitter, and has shown flashes of speed there – it’s likely that a team will pick him up for the May classic, before he focuses on the high-speed Circuit de la Sarthe in France.
All in all, it was a fairly solid weekend for drivers from the southern hemisphere, with Brisbane-born New Zealander Scott Dixon a part driving roster, with fellow Indianapolis 500 champion Tony Kanaan, Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray and young NASCAR gun Kyle Larson, on the Chip Ganassi Racing No. 01 car that won the overall race. It is Dixon’s second Rolex 24 outright victory, the first coming in 2006.
Throughout the process that began with the merger of NASCAR-owned Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series and the American Le Mans Series, the brainchild of Don Panoz, there have been more than a few detractors, people in the media suggesting that the unified series would never come to fruition.
There were complaints about the schedule – Kansas Speedway’s road course/oval circuit instead of historic Lime Rock Park – about the racing classes – the abolishment of the flagship P1 category and making the Grand-Am Daytona Prototypes the top prototype machines in the series – and the myriad rule changes that were either alien to those competing formerly in Grand-Am or to those in ALMS competition.
Of course, the process of putting together a new series by taking the best parts of two successful series’ – albeit ones that were competing against one another, thus diluting the niche fan base that sports car racing in North America has – and making an even better one is not easy. There were all sorts of struggles, and the powers-that-be in Daytona Beach had a massive task in appeasing everyone from drivers, team-owners, tyre manufacturers and factory engine makes.
All of which makes last weekend’s 52nd Rolex 24 at Daytona’s exciting race even more of an outstanding triumph. Everything had to come together in a short period of time and, for the most part, it was a successful construction. Aside from the horrendous crash that consumed the #99 Bob Stallings Racing Daytona Prototype and the Ferrari F458 GT Le Mans car driven by Matteo Malucelli early on, and the controversy surrounding the finish and placing of the GT-Daytona category, there was plenty to like about the long-awaited debut of the United Sportscar Championship. More to like, perhaps, than some of the most vocal critics wanted to see. Those pundits are doubtless eating a serve of humble pie as you read this article.
Where to start? Fittingly, with those who took the checkered flag, went to Victory Lane and were presented with their commemorative Rolex watches. The 2014 edition of the Rolex 24 had everything, including – most importantly – a popular winner, the #5 Action Express Racing Chevrolet Corvette DP, driven Portuguese ace Joao Barbosa and Brazilian Christian Fittipaldi, with accomplished French racer Sebastien Bourdais. The victors of the 2014 edition of Daytona’s sports car classic
The third driver in the winning car, Bourdais, an Indycar race winner and a four-time winner of the now-defunct ChampCar World Series, will long be remembered for his entrance into the pits to hand over to Barbosa for the closing stint, Coming in just sideways and at great speed, it's a maneuver that will become the stuff of Daytona legend.
The Action Express Corvette was the first of more than sixty prototypes and Grand Touring machines. It’s been many years since Daytona has seen such a stacked field. The factory Corvette team returned to the Rolex 24 for the first time since 2001, and other classic, iconic makes like Aston Martin and Viper SRT returned to South Florida to complete a heavenly array of the best performance race cars in the world.
Attrition was down on what we’ve seen in recent years, which is an impressive feat given that a lot of the cars – particularly the Delta Wing and every single Prototype Challenge model – had never before run a 24-hour race, and many had never done so in the unforgiving Daytona International Speedway course. Reliable calls were a hallmark of the race this year.
The Gidley/Malucelli crash horrendous. Gidley, in a fast Daytona Prototype, smashed into the back of the Ferrari, driving much slower because of a mechanical issue, resulting in the destruction of both cars. Gidley had no idea the F458 was there until a car he was following moved out of the way, and then it was too late, the #99 Corvette DP ploughing hard into the back of the Ferrari.
It was as frightening an accident as we’ve see at Daytona in a long time. Gidley had to be cut from the car, and it seemed serious enough that no replays were being shown on FOX Sports, leading some to speculate on Gidley’s condition.
Thankfully, our worst fears were not realised, for Gidley survived, and has undergone a number of surgeries in the week since. He has a long road to recovery, of course, but that he’s with us at all is a powerful testament to how strongly cars are built these days. Who knows? A decade earlier, and we might’ve been mourning Gidley’s life and career. Luckily, Malucelli escaped serious injury, and the race went on without the pall of gloom that settled over the 24 Hours of Le Mans last year after Alan Simonsen’s death.
What I hated most was the after-race penalty called on the Level 5 Motorsports Ferrari, which took the checkered flag on GT-Daytona, but was given a time penalty, which dropped it down the order following a late race ‘avoidable contact’ incident – in which there was, importantly, no contact – with the Flying Lizard Racing Audi R8 driven by Marcus Winklehock, who was going all-or-nothing for the Rolex 24 class victory.
The two cars had a side-by-side moment, and the Audi R8 was forced off into the dirt, giving the Level 5 Motorsports Ferrari the much needed breathing space to go on and record the win. The Lizard Audi was temporarily crowned GT-D winner, before an IMSA review changed it again. That’s three different results in about two hours: Ferrari across the line, Audi on penalty, Ferrari after an investigation overturned the penalty.
At the end of the day, yes, the penalty was rescinded, but that’s not the point here. Really, there should have been no penalty at all. On the last lap of the biggest race of the Tudor Series, surely some slack could be cut. The fact that there was not even a slight touch between the two cars should have been enough for the officials to not even levy the call in the first place. I’m not sure what their thinking was.
The FOX Sports broadcasters correctly indicated it was a bad call. All the drivers in the booth said they would have done the same thing. Justin Bell made the best point of all, wondering how on earth a penalty could be given for someone overtaking you around the outside of a left-hand corner. It was the natural wash of cars around a corner that pushed the Audi into the dirt, not any bad or illegal move by the Ferrari. Thankfully, sanity prevailed. None of this should take away from the brave attempt by Winklehock. That was super stuff, just not quite successful.
Equally frustrating was the sketchy caution flag thrown late in the race for a car that, granted, had run off the track, but seemed in little danger of not being able to get back on and continue the race. Talk about an itchy flag finger! There was no damage, and we’d seen no caution flags thrown for vehicles in worse positions on the track throughout the previous twenty-three hours.
It smacked of NASCAR machinations, the way that racing series often finds debris late in the race or when the field is strung out to manufacture a finish. Please, let’s not have this become a regular thing in sports car racing. It spoilt what had been a gripping last three or four hours, and it would have been a shame had the Action Express team not taken a deserved victory for that Corvette DP was clearly the class of the field when it mattered: deep into the race.
As good as the cars were, how about the drivers? The grid for the 2014 Rolex 24 at Daytona was perhaps the strongest grid that has assembled for the endurance classic since the glory days of the event, decades ago. To have a stellar line-up of Indycar, NASCAR and American-born sports car drivers alongside a stellar contingent from Europe and further abroad – Australia – ensured the first Tudor Series race was a memorable event. There seemed to be competition at every corner, with drivers from all walks of life battling constantly for position. Tough work for those behind the wheel, most certainly, but thrilling viewing for fans in the infield and at home on television.
Perhaps the most pleasing aspect was the crowd. Veteran observers determined that it was one of the biggest ever seen at Daytona for a twenty-four hour event. Sure, you didn’t see them in speedway’s towering grandstands, the location of choice when there’s a NASCAR race on, but they were there in their tens of thousands in the infield, all around the track. Campgrounds had been booked out months in advance, and slots for recreational vehicles were hard to come by, too. By all accounts, there aren’t many better experiences in racing, save the wild campgrounds at Le Mans, than camping out in the Floridian winter for the Rolex 24.
Even on social media, there was a buzz, with teams, drivers, officials and journalists all tweeting their opinions and impressions of the race. Will Buxton, an F1 reporter who works primarily with the NBC Sports Group, mentioned that the level of interaction for the Rolex 24 was akin to what he sees for a Formula One Grand Prix.
That proves there is definitely a market for sports car racing in North America, and great potential moving forward, with the 12 Hours of Sebring next on the calendar. The merged series can only get better, as fans perhaps alienated by the ALMS vs. Grand-Am battle, may return. Certainly, social media buzz is important, and will make the Tudor Series very happy.
There’s no doubt that some things need to be sorted out. The end of the GT-D race, with the Level 5 Motorsports Ferrari winning across the line before being penalised, and finally reinstated, was poorly handled by the IMSA officials, in that there should never have been a penalty in the first place.
The entire drama led to plenty of interesting comment from drivers on Twitter, whose main concern was how foolish the series looked, so there is improvement necessary before the series heads to Sebring for the traditional twelve-hour race on the classic airport circuit.
All in all, though, a good start for the new series – and the best is yet to come!
There’s nothing quite like the first big racing event of the season and for the last fifty-one years some of the biggest stars in the world of motorsport have descended upon Daytona Beach, Florida and the legendary Daytona International Speedway – the World Centre of Racing, if you believe the speedway’s PR folks – for what is now known as the Rolex 24 at Daytona, a tough twice-around-the-clock test of man and machine on a tricky course that incorporates the high banks of the NASCAR speedway and an infield road course.
This year, the Rolex 24 has special significance, for it’s the first event of the new TUDOR United Sports Car Championship, which is the end result of a merger between the American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. I wrote earlier about the positives that this merger has brought to sports car racing, and now the sport stands to rocket in popularity in America, and we should start to see signs of this resurgence early on, both at Daytona and at the following event, the 12 Hours of Sebring in March.
What’s great about the Rolex 24 is that it attracts a diverse and high-quality field of drivers who are looking to break the rust brought on by a long winter, and not yet completely consumed by preparations for their regular championships. It’s almost an unofficial All-Star race. Throw in a few Formula One Drivers, who haven’t been seen on Daytona’s high banks in some years, and you’d be hard pressed to beat the Floridian endure in terms of absolute talent.
Even so, the Rolex 24 does pretty well for itself. We have a former Daytona 500 champion (Jamie McMurray), Indianapolis 500 champions (Scott Dixon and Tony Kaanan), 24 Hours of Le Mans winners (Mike Rockenfeller, Pedro Lamy), CART/Indycar Champions (Sebastien Bourdais), Australians (Ryan Briscoe, David Brabham and James Davison), A New Zealander (Shane Van Gisbergen), an Indy Lights champion (Sage Karam), a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver (Kyle Larson), sons of racing guns (Graham Rahal, Alex Gurney) and a host of brilliant factory drivers, the best that Audi, Porsche, BMW, Viper, Ferrari, Aston Martin and Corvette can produce. Particularly in the stacked GT field, competition promises to be as intense as ever.
Let’s take a look at the class structure for the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the rest of the United Sports Car Championship season.
Prototype (P): The Prototype 1 class was abolished in North America, meaning the old Rolex Series Daytona Prototypes and the Prototype 2 (P2) machines from the ALMS will be the speediest cars on track, all shod with control Continental tyres. The Daytona Prototypes have undergone changes during the off-season, to bring them up to speed with the more high-tech P2 machines. Ford and Chevrolet figure to lead the way here.
Prototype Challenge (PC): This class, featuring stock Oreca FLM09 prototypes with Chevrolet engines and Continental tyres, transfers directly from the American Le Mans Series, and is a low-cost option for teams, perhaps as a stepping stone towards the top tier of prototype racing.
GT-Le Mans (GT-LM): Cars that formerly raced in the American Le Mans GT ranks form the third class for the new United Sports Car Championship, the only class using Michelin tyres in 2014. This is where we’ll see the factory Corvette and BMW teams flexing their considerable muscle. It might be the deepest class in the entire series, stacked with good drivers and beautiful-looking cars.
GT-Daytona (GT-D): The home for the cars that last year competed in the Rolex Series GT field. A more low-cost GT option, with diverse mix of vehicles on the entry list, including Corvette, Porsche and Audi. Always entertaining and tight racing in their previous incarnation, there’s no reason to assume that won’t continue.
Sixty one cars – twenty-seven prototypes and thirty-four GT machines – will take the green flag in South Florida a little after 2.00pm local time, and usher in a new and exciting era of sports car racing in North America.
Here are the cars and teams to watch from each class as we head into race week:
Prototype
Obviously, most eyes will be on the prototype battle up front. It’s the real glory, the chance to say that you went twenty-four hours around Daytona International Speedway and were the first car across the finish line. And, after twenty-four hours, some deserved drivers will have their name etched into the record books, joining so many legends who’ve won outright at Daytona
Chip Ganassi Racing are always a force at Daytona, and this year have a driver line-up that includes Tony Kaanan, Jamie McMurray, Sage Karam and rising NASCAR talent Kyle Larson, as well as perennial frontrunners, Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas.
We know Ganassi’s drivers are going to be quick. The only question mark for the perennial contenders is their engine package. They switched from a Dinan-engineered BMW engine to Ford’s new Ecoboost turbo for season 2014 (joining Ford stalwarts Michael Shank Racing) and actually left the three-day test at Daytona earlier this month, due to quickly exhausting their inventory of exhaust headers. Shank’s squad had engine issues, too. So there’s plenty for the Blue Oval to get sorted. A durability test has been scheduled for prior to the race weekend.
Wayne Taylor Racing features Ricky and Jordan, the sons of team-owner Wayne (who is also scheduled for a stint or two) and Italian ace Max Angelelli. The defending Rolex Series Daytona Prototype champions are due for a big run at Daytona, and this may be the year they stand on that top step, particularly if the Ganassi cars have troubles.
Australia’s David Brabham will share an Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD prototype with Scotsman Ryan Dalziel and American stalwart Scott Sharp. This is a very solid driver line-up, and will likely challenge for the outright win, provided their car stands up to the tough test that twenty-four hours around Daytona represents. This and other P2-spec ALMS cars are in a sort of no man’s land, unsure of what might happen when the green flag drops.
Michael Shank Racing, popular race winners in 2012, return with Indycar favourite Justin Wilson and NASCAR driver AJ Allmendinger. They also have Oswaldo Negri and John Pew on board. Like the Ganassi cars, questions remain regarding their Ford EcoBoost engines.
The Mazda Diesel effort will be spearheaded by two Indycar stars, affable James Hinchcliffe and rookie Tristan Vautier, with team owner Sylvain Tremblay entering two cars. Making their prototype debut in the year’s longest race, a win is unlikely. A podium would be a huge achievement.
Prototype Challenge
Watch out for the Starworks Motorsport cars. The Peter Baron-led squad have won early and often over the last few seasons, including a P2 World Endurance Championship crown in a memorable 2012 season. Alex Popow returns, and German ace Pierre Kaffer will drive alongside him in the #7 car, which looks to be the main Starworks challenger. Unknown entities Martin Fuentes, Isaac Tutumlu and Kyle Marcelli may be the difference between a win and a DNF.
Rocketsports Racing, owned by former Trans-Am gun Paul Gentilozzi, is another team bringing two PC cars. Indycar veteran Alex Tagliani and American open-wheel standout Connor Daly highlight the #08 car, and the #09 machine features another familiar Indycar face, Brazilian Bruno Junqueria
GT-Le Mans
This might be the most competitive category of all, featuring factory (or factory-supported) entries from motoring heavyweights like Aston Martin, Corvette, BMW, Porsche, Dodge SRT Viper and Ferrari.
Porsche and Corvette are both debuting new cars in the GT-LM category for the Rolex 24, and you can almost bet on the factory Corvette team running at the pointy end. These guys are far too good to be too far behind the eight ball for very long, even with a new car on a new racetrack. Australia’s Ryan Briscoe will make his debut in the #3, alongside Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia. The #4 will be driven by Oliver Gavin, Tommy Millner and newcomer, Robin Liddell. Neither combination should be counted out.
The BMW camp figure to be strong, with Rahal-Letterman Racing bringing two BMW Z4 GTE cars to Daytona, with an all-star driver line-up – Joey Hand, Dirk Muller and the colourful Bill Auberlen amongst them – for their first ever 24-hour race. The fact that they’ve never gone twice around the clock before will be a concern.
Risi Competizione is bringing it’s Ferrari 458 Italia to Daytona, with a stacked line-up including ex-Formula One driver Giancarlo Fisichella and Olivier Beretta. These guys, ALMS veterans, are no strangers to winning big and long races. Should challenge from GTLM class honours.
Darren Turner and Pedro Lamy spearhead the Aston Martin Racing Vantage V8 assault on Daytona, and bring years of endurance experience. Probably up against it, a one-car entry, albeit a factory-backed one, against so many multi-car outfits, but don’t count out the Aston Martin for a podium run – and more, if attrition is high.
GT-Daytona
Twenty-nine entries will take the green flag in GTD class, including the 2013 Rolex Series GT champion Scuderia Corsa race team, who’ll bring three Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 cars to Daytona, and the #63 of Alessandro Balzan, Jeff Westphal, Toni Vilander and Lorenzo Case should be right up there contending for the win.
Don’t sleep on the Turner Motorsport BMW Z4, featuring rising American star Dane Cameron alongside the improving Paul Dalla Lana. Augusto Farfus and Markus Palttala round out a strong line-up. Will Turner’s squad are Rolex GT veterans, and figure to play a big role in the outcome of the GTD class.
New Zealand’s Shane Van Gisbergen will drive a Porsche 911 GT America for the venerable, veteran Alex Job Porsche squad, who know the insides and out of a Porsche race car like few others, and is teamed with Cooper MacNeil, Leh Keen, LP Domoulin and Shane Lewis. This could be Australia’s best chance at a Rolex 24 class winner.
Hollywood star Patrick Dempsey is back in North American sports car racing, with a two-car Porsche effort. He’ll drive with Porsche guns Andrew Davis and Marc Lieb, as well as long-time business partner Joe Foster. As a driver, Dempsey improves year after year, but if this car is to spring a surprise, it’ll be due to Davis and Lieb, who are as good as it gets in terms of experience and ability in the 911 GT.
Long-time Porsche outfit Flying Lizard make the switch to the Audi Camp, and will campaign an R8 LMS at Daytona and throughout the Tudor Championship. Team owner Seth Neiman will drive in the lead car, and has some very solid drivers around him, including Audi factory regular Filipe Albuquerque. The Lizard Porsches were renowned for their durability. That will likely be a hallmark of their Audi setup, too.
Normally known for bringing a fleet of Porsches to the Rolex 24, The Racers Group (TRG) return with two Aston Martin V12 Vantage cars, and Australian James Davison is part of the #007 entry. An unknown entity with their new car and manufacturer alignment, but TRG are no strangers to getting it done at Daytona.
Hopefully the above form guide gives you some idea of who to keep an eye on.
SPEED in Australia will broadcast fifteen live hours of the 2014 Rolex 24, beginning on Sunday morning. You can also watch the (American) overnight hours on IMSA.com. Broadcast times are as follows:
All times AEDT
Sunday January 26
6.00am - 12.00pm- LIVE (pre-race, race start, sunset, early evening)
6.30pm - 9.30pm - Highlights
10.00pm - 12.00am - LIVE (sunrise, early morning)
Monday January 27
12.00am - 7.00am - LIVE (morning, afternoon, race finish, post-race)
7.30pm - 10.30pm - Highlights
For 2014, the Grand-Am and American Le Mans Series have merged, forming the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. This is a brand new and exciting dawn for sports car racing in North America. Late last year, I wrote about all the exciting we can expect from the unified championship.
As per tradition, we open with a bang, at the twice-around-the-clock Rolex 24 on the high banks and tricky infield at Daytona International Speedway. This is a great event not just because it's the first major racing event of the year, but because the event brings together the best drivers from both North America and Europe. 2014 may very well prove to be the biggest and most talented driver line-up that the event has seen.
SPEED in Australia will be broadcasting a large chunk of the endurance classic, which will finish on the Monday public holiday for Australia Day - perfect!!
All times AEDT
Sunday January 26
6.00am - 12.00pm- LIVE (pre-race, race start, sunset, early evening)
6.30pm - 9.30pm - Highlights
10.00pm - 12.00am - LIVE (sunrise, early morning)
Monday January 27
12.00am - 7.00am - LIVE (morning, afternoon, race finish, post-race)
7.30pm - 10.30pm - Highlights
The first major event of the motorsport season is upon us again, with Daytona Prototypes and GT cars set to do battle at Daytona International Speedway for the 2013 Rolex 24 at Daytona. Round One of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. The twice-round-the-clock classic features the usual assortment of Grand-Am guns, plus stars from the IndyCar Series, NASCAR and international sports car drivers from all over the globe.
This year, Australia's own Marcos Ambrose will drive for Michael Shank Racing, the defending race champions, and looks to have a good shot at what would undoubtedly be the biggest victory of his career.
SPEED in Australia has hours of live coverage, a direct simulcast of the SPEED coverage out of North America, featuring Bob Varsha, Brian Till, Dorsey Schroeder, Calvin Fish and others.
All times AEDT
Sunday January 27
7.00am - 3.00pm
(Green flag approximately 7.30am)
Monday January 28
1.00am - 8.00am
(Checkered flag: 8.30am)
