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In his role today for RACER, Pruett covers open-wheel and sports car racing as a writer, reporter, photographer, and filmmaker. As Taylor found in his Wayne Taylor Racing DPi-V.R, tiny air restrictors, fixed first and second gear ratios and low downforce made the car increasingly difficult to drive. Although ECR Engines has previously produced engines for the IMSA Chevrolet Corvette Daytona Prototype class, this venture with Cadillac was an entirely new and exciting undertaking. Porsche now effectively has one bullet left in its gun.

Ultimately, everybody worked very well together," said Angelelli.

".That collaborative process has already proven to be successful. The front engine plate assembly houses the oil reservoir and coolant tank. This stunning prototype has only 1,600 miles on its chassis, having ran one …

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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in any form without prior authorization. The Cadillac DPi-V.R race car was introduced for the 2017 IMSA season has gone largely unchanged since. 7 Toyota continues to lead the Le Mans 24 Hours, with Mike Conway still at the wheel having had a faultless run thus far.

With Wayne Taylor Racing earning the fourth starting spot, the new ECR Engines-powered Cadillacs will have three of the first four starters for the 24-hour event. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R.

In the third hour the Toyotas continued (…),The No. Cadillac will enter the all-new Cadillac DPi-V.R race car, with Wayne Taylor Racing and Action Express Racing leading the charge.

The Cadillac DPi-V.R cars have been among the fastest on the track leading up to this weekend’s 24-hour endurance race.Jordan Taylor had the fastest overall lap in Friday’s lone practice session, while the Action Express Racing Cadillacs swept the front row in qualifying. Toyota still leads overall and very little has changed in LMP1 over the past 60 minutes. The three teams representing Cadillac will go into the 2018 season with redeveloped engines installed in the back of their Dallara-based DPi-V.Rs.Following a year where the Cadillacs from Action Express Racing and Wayne Taylor Racing won 70 percent of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship events with a 6.2-liter naturally-aspirated V8 powerplant, the brand – with a new car added in for Spirit of Daytona – will pursue another title using a 5.5-liter V8.The loss of 700ccs of capacity from the combustion chambers, which equates in volume to approximately two 12-ounce cans of Coke, will take some power and torque away from the two AXR Cadillacs and the pair of SDR and WTR DPi-V.Rs. 2 GMG Racing Porsche 718 (…),Four hours down now in the Le Mans 24 Hours.