Rolex 24 at Daytona Exxon World Sports Car Championship and Supreme GT Series Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, FL February 3rd - 4th, 1996
I was on the pit crew for the Kryderacing Nissan 240SX in this race. I ran the fueling rig. Keep a watch out for the yellow 240SX. The car had a suspension failure in the wee hours of the night, which required a couple hours to weld and reinforce a mounting point and realign the front end. Then we resumed racing until a couple hours before the end, when the engine developed a miss and was blowing a lot of oil out the crankcase breather. This was diagnosed as a hole in a piston. They parked the car until about 5 minutes before race's end, then went out and did a slow lap so they could take the checkered flag and be listed as an official finisher. Other memories of the race I have are meeting Boris Said in an elevator at the Daytona Beach motel we were staying at, and the overnight cold in the race that almost got down to the freezing point.
that's awesome man. Glad you can come back and re live that experience. I'd love go down to daytona and catch speedweeks sometime. I wish even more I could have attended a race in the 90s. I will definitely keep an eye out for your guys car as this is the first time watching this race. I've only got into sports car and GT racing in the last 5 years as I grew up a NASCAR kid. Thank's for the story and now it gives me a car to keep my eye on. Cheers
@@edsmith5448Wow! Amazing! Good for you, such a cool experience and one you'd never forget. So did you guys really not get to rest like the drivers did?
So cool! All the different cars and our fantastic broadcasting team! Bob Varsha was one of the greats and the best American commentator ever! My apologies, thank you for making this race available to us, very appreciated!
HODIUSDUDE It sure was. Loved that Ferrari 333SP. What I found so crazy about this race was that there was no pit road speed limit. Absolutely insane. Imagine if a car spun into a car that was being pitted. That would've been a serious accident.
I was on the pit crew for the Kryderacing Nissan 240SX in this race. I ran the fueling rig. Keep a watch out for the yellow 240SX. The car had a suspension failure in the wee hours of the night, which required a couple hours to weld and reinforce a mounting point and realign the front end. Then we resumed racing until a couple hours before the end, when the engine developed a miss and was blowing a lot of oil out the crankcase breather. This was diagnosed as a hole in a piston. They parked the car until about 5 minutes before race's end, then went out and did a slow lap so they could take the checkered flag and be listed as an official finisher. Other memories of the race I have are meeting Boris Said in an elevator at the Daytona Beach motel we were staying at, and the overnight cold in the race that almost got down to the freezing point.
Was that the 1 st year for WSC or was there 2 years of WSC before USRRC for 1 or 2 years then Grand am? I was working at turn 6 for several years.
that's awesome man. Glad you can come back and re live that experience. I'd love go down to daytona and catch speedweeks sometime. I wish even more I could have attended a race in the 90s. I will definitely keep an eye out for your guys car as this is the first time watching this race. I've only got into sports car and GT racing in the last 5 years as I grew up a NASCAR kid. Thank's for the story and now it gives me a car to keep my eye on. Cheers
@@edsmith5448Wow! Amazing! Good for you, such a cool experience and one you'd never forget. So did you guys really not get to rest like the drivers did?
I miss this kind of wild variety of cars and classes pre-Grand Am (before 2002)
Me too! Much more interesting. I love endurance racing now, but in the 90's it was so much less...homogenised.
So cool! All the different cars and our fantastic broadcasting team! Bob Varsha was one of the greats and the best American commentator ever! My apologies, thank you for making this race available to us, very appreciated!
One of my all-time favorites. That Ferrari 333sp was a screamer. Great race!
HODIUSDUDE It sure was. Loved that Ferrari 333SP. What I found so crazy about this race was that there was no pit road speed limit. Absolutely insane. Imagine if a car spun into a car that was being pitted. That would've been a serious accident.
The race where the legend of "Mad" Max Papis was born.
I loved those olds auroras
this video is gold thanks i love 24 hours of Daytona
21:45 “this metal is slicker than shit” 😂
I was on the Chevron BMW #22 what an amazing memories
As the driver or what ?
@@gathel8574 driver
@@sciampella but i see on wikipedia 24 h daytona 1996 no name on ur list
I went in for Guido Dacco who hadn't been well the night before
i miss the old late 90s Daytona 24 hours, ususally over 80 cars racing all at once
21:44: "It's now slicker than SHIT!"
23:00 - check out that car with the NASCAR Monte Carlo body. I wonder if it was an actual Cup car or just a Cup body.
It was actually a late model stock car converted to road race use. Later on the same team ran the same car with a Corvette body on it.
Thank you for this!!
24:22 race start
@brian bailey do you have any coverage of the 1997 rolex 24?
So I wonder want got Ferraris panties in a wad ( not that thats hard to do ) that caused them to pull out that one car?