CASTRONEVES AND MEYER SHANK ADD DAYTONA 24 TO INDY 500 SUCCESS
Acura made it two wins from two starts in the Daytona 24 Hours since the end of its relationship with Team Penske. This time, however, it wasn’t the serial winner of the big race, Wayne Taylor Racing, that came out on top last Sunday. Rather, Meyer Shank Racing prevailed over a team bidding for a fourth straight victory in a 30-minute sprint to the flag with IndyCar legend Helio Castroneves at the wheel of its ARX-05 Daytona Prototype international.
The Brazilian, who shared the #60 ARX-05 with Oliver Jarvis, Tom Blomqvist and Simon Pagenaud, had both track position and the faster of the two Acuras when the race went green for the final time. Ricky Taylor in the WTR entry had little or nothing for his former team-mate over the final laps of the 2022 IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener last weekend.
The Shank Acura, which led more of the 761 laps than any other
