With time ticking off the clock late in the Rolex 24 at Daytona, a heated battle for the GTD Pro lead results in contact in the corner between the Nos. 1, 4 and 48 cars.
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00:00It is intense and it has nothing to do with the BMW at the front of this line.
00:09That is Augusto Farfus, 55 laps down, but his teammate is the one that's right there
00:15behind that yellow Corvette.
00:16They're playing this team game absolutely beautifully.
00:20This car, as you say, 50 laps down.
00:22The gap between the Corvette and Conner D. Filippi and the BMW behind there, that was
00:26over two seconds a few laps ago.
00:28Now it's at two tenths.
00:30That car in front does not have to move over, but this is such a crucial time for Tommy
00:34Milner.
00:35He has got to keep cool because this is a very easy situation to get frustrated in.
00:40You just can't let yourself get to that place because that's when you start making mistakes.
00:44You talk to him.
00:45He didn't get a good run out of the bus stop right there.
00:47This is the straight-line speed deficit they have as you look at that BMW getting right
00:50to the rear spoiler.
00:51Now we get a little bit of the draft of the other BMW, but this is going to be tight down
00:55to turn one.
00:56Look at the outside.
00:57It's usually a tough pass to make.
00:59There's just the road falls away, but this gap is compressed right here.
01:03He just to your point is frustrated.
01:05Oh, he's really down and deep here.
01:08Look at the inside.
01:09Oh, Barfuss and they need to get on the radio.
01:12Tommy Milner, because car 48 Augustus Barfuss has been given a penalty for blocking.
01:17That's a drive through.
01:18He's taken it too far.
01:19So, Tommy, don't don't make a mistake now.
01:22Don't have any contact.
01:23That car's coming.
01:24Oh, there it is.
01:25There's the contact.
01:26Tommy Milner drives the one off the racetrack, damages the Corvette in the process, but it
01:31was Barfuss that set all of that up.
01:33What was I just saying?
01:35You can't get impatient in that moment.
01:36You can't lose your cool.
01:37But I'm not.
01:38I'm going to put a little bit of this on the team for maybe not telling him that that car's
01:42coming in.
01:43But at the same time, Carter de Felipe, some dirty tricks of BMW being played and it's
01:48resulted now in damage to that bed.
01:49This could be huge.