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in a time penalty. The team managed to reach the checkered flag for the first time all season, finishing 11th. A lack of funding began to impact the team, preventing it from competing at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and at Road America. The team planned to return at or before the season finale, Road Atlanta's Petit Le Mans but did not.
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but again retired, this time due to a gearbox failure. Misfortune continued at the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen, where Vautier spun after making contact with another prototype on the first lap. The car was hit by a third prototype, forcing the car into a closed pit lane for repairs, and resulting
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races. The team struggled in the first half of the season. The No. 90 failed to finish the Rolex 24 due to an engine misfire. At Sebring, Vautier qualified on pole but in hour 11 of the race, he crashed into the Turn 17 barriers on his first lap after climbing back into the car, damaging the tub
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For 2018, the team renewed its partnership with General Motors and Cadillac by becoming the third IMSA team to race the Cadillac DPi-V.R in the Prototype category after
903: 908: 271:. The team has enjoyed some success by winning 16 Grand Am series races. They have also won a pair of Grand Am Series Team Championships in 2000 and 275:. They won a Grand Am Drivers Championship in 2001. They also won their class in the 2002 24 Hours of Daytona. The team's two main drivers are 330:. Although Taylor and Westbrook would not win, during Grand-Am's final year, the duo had a best finish of third and finished 97% of the laps. 396:
and North American Endurance Championship driver Matt McMurry for their first full-time seasons in Prototype and Eddie Cheever III for the
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beyond repair and forcing the team to miss the following two rounds at Long Beach and Mid-Ohio. The team returned for Round 5 at the
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where they have an 8,000-square-foot (740 m) shop. The team originally started racing in the number 16 Crown Royal Cask
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In late 2019 rumors speculated that the team now back under its original name would purchase a
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Spirit of Daytona was founded in 1987 by owner Troy Flis. The team is based in
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from 2015 to 2018) was an auto racing team that competed last in the
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from the factory Mazda team but nothing came from the speculations.
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points. In 2010 they had nine top-tens, and four top-five finishes.
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race in a Corvette Daytona Prototype. The team also won at
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The Team now builds cars for the Mazda Global MX 5 Cup.
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IMSA
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
Cadillac
Tristan Vautier
Matt McMurry
Eddie Cheever III
Daytona Beach, Florida
Volkswagen
2000
2001
2004 Indianapolis 500
Buddy Rice
Antonio García
2009 24 Hours of Daytona

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