Nine things to look out for at the 2021 Daytona 24 Hours
After a 100-minute sprint race to whet the appetite, the 2021 IMSA SportsCar Championship gets underway properly this weekend. With plenty of significant changes during the winter, here are the key points you need to keep an eye on
The 2021 IMSA SportsCar Championship kicks off this weekend with a packed grid of 49 cars contesting the traditional season-opening Daytona 24 Hours.
With reigning Daytona Prototype international teams' championship winner Team Penske not returning and close runner-up Wayne Taylor Racing learning new machinery, there's a different look and feel to the new season, which welcomes LMP3 machinery for the first time and marks the swansong for the GT Le Mans class.
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Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.
Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.
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