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Rolex 24 at Daytona
Extracted from the Wikipedia article 24 Hours of Daytona.
The 24 Hours of Daytona, also known as the Rolex 24 at Daytona for sponsorship reasons, is a 24-hour sports carendurance race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is run on the Sports Car Course layout, a 3.56-mile (5.73 km) combined road course that uses most of the tri-oval plus an infield road course. The race has about 60 different cars competing for victory across multiple classes. With multiple drivers “Each team trades shifts between three and five drivers”. The race is held on the last weekend of January or first weekend of February as part of Speedweeks, making it the first major automobile race of the year in North America. The race is sanctioned by IMSA and is the first race of the season for the IMSA SportsCar Championship.