{"id":35612,"date":"2026-01-27T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=35612"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:14:09","slug":"rolex-24-thriller-motown-icons-penske-and-cadillac-put-on-a-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/rolex-24-thriller-motown-icons-penske-and-cadillac-put-on-a-show","title":{"rendered":"Rolex 24 thriller: Motown icons Penske and Cadillac put on a show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Daytona Beach, Fla.<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Twelve manufacturers, 47 race teams and 232 drivers from all over the world came to Daytona Beach over the weekend for North America\u2019s most prestigious 24-hour sportscar race, the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But in the end, all eyes were on two Detroit icons battling it out for the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In a repeat of the 2024 result, Porsche Penske Motorsports beat Whelen Cadillac Racing to the finish line by a scant 1.5 seconds. Capping an epic race across 24 hours, a six-hour fog delay and Daytona\u2019s 30-degree bankings, the Team Penske Porsche 963 and Cadillac V-Series.R went hammer and tongs over the final hour at speeds up to 200 mph.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/26\/PDTN\/88365352007-daytona-24-corvette-twobytwo.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Early in the Rolex 24, the two Corvettes and Mustangs swapped the lead.\" width=\"532\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Early in the Rolex 24, the two Corvettes and Mustangs swapped the lead.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/01\/26\/rolex-24-thriller-motown-icons-penske-and-cadillac-put-on-a-show\/88362900007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daytona Beach, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 Twelve manufacturers, 47 race teams and 232 drivers from all over the world came to Daytona Beach over the weekend for North America\u2019s most prestigious 24-hour sportscar race, the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. But in the end, all eyes were on two Detroit icons battling it out for the win. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35613,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35612\/revisions\/35613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}