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Jeff Gordon to drive in 2017 Rolex 24
Jeff Gordon will make his second Rolex 24 start in January.
The four-time Sprint Cup Series champion will drive for Wayne Taylor Racing in the season-opening IMSA sports-car race at Daytona International Speedway Jan. 28-29. Gordon will team with Max Angelelli, Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor.
Gordon, 45, drove in the 2007 race alongside Wayne Taylor, Angelelli and Jan Magnussen and the team finished third.
“I really enjoyed racing in the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2007 with Max, Wayne and Jan,” Gordon said in a statement. “When I announced I would no longer be competing full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, my hope was that I would get an opportunity like this to compete again in such a prestigious event – with Konica Minolta and Wayne Taylor Racing – with the hopes of winning it this time. I know that Ricky and Jordan are super-fast, and I believe it will be a very strong combination.”
After retiring following the 2015 season, Gordon spent the first half of the season as a broadcaster for Fox and then drove eight races in the second-half of the season as a substitute for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 88 car.
Gordon drove a Pontiac for the SunTrust Racing team in 2007. He’ll be in a Cadillac in January as the familiar Daytona Prototype Corvettes are no more. The Prototype Division now includes Daytona Prototype International and Le Mans Prototype 2 cars. The DPI cars will have LMP2 chassis and suspensions.
Tony Stewart could also be going sports-car racing in 2017 too. Stewart said on his SiriusXM show Tuesday that there’s a chance he could race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The recently retired Sprint Cup Series driver hasn’t revealed the specifics of his 2017 schedule yet.
“There’s a possibility I might have an offer to go race at Le Mans next year, which I never thought I would have an opportunity to do that,” Stewart said via NBC Sports. “I had a conversation with a car owner about possibly running this year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. There’s a lot of cool stuff and the fun part is kind of not exactly knowing yet what we’re going to do.”
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