The number 7 Porsche 963 of Porsche Penske Motorsport leads the 24 Hours of Daytona. The car of the reigning champions and last year's winners consistently worked its way to the front during the first four hours. The sister car is in second place, with the identical hybrid prototype of customer team Proton Competition running sixth.
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00:00Defending champion. We won this race last year. I want to do it again.
00:04Being here as a newly crowned Porsche driver, I'm very proud.
00:08Yeah, very excited. So it's my first endurance race.
00:12Starting 7th. It's all about having a clean race and doing with no mistakes.
00:24I'd be lying if I said I was really happy. Missed a bit of pace.
00:27The car was feeling not too bad. There were some small details missing,
00:30but we were able to fix them in the last practice.
00:34Very excited by the race start. We are in the top 10.
00:37It's not a bad position to start from.
00:42In the end, qualifying didn't really go to plan like we would have wanted.
00:44It's a long race, 24 hours, and I'm looking forward to finally getting started.
00:57The start of the race went decent. Lost a little bit of ground in there in the beginning,
01:22but as soon as the tire went up to 10, I started putting my weight back on the race.
01:26We're running third now.
01:37We have some issues during the pit stop. We didn't solve them yet,
01:41so the team in the background is working hard to resolve this issue.
01:44Let's see how it goes.
01:57Expecting faster lap times at night and also less degradation,
02:01and that should shift the balance of the car as well.
02:03Right now, where we are, I feel like we're pretty well set,
02:07and we just got to keep racing and keeping it clean.