{"id":10771,"date":"2025-04-01T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/?p=10771"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:53:30","slug":"team-sahlen-secures-9th-victory-at-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/team-sahlen-secures-9th-victory-at-daytona\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Sahlen secures 9th Victory at Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Presented by Guard Transmission www.https:\/\/www.guardtransmissionllc.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Team Sahlen, presented by\nhoneybeeBase.com, secured their 9th<\/sup> career Victory at Daytona\nInternational Speedway.  The event was the\n14 Hours Endurance Race with the Tire Rack \u2013 ChampCar Endurance Series.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday was a move in day\nat Daytona.  The Team was able to set\neverything up in the Garages.  As well\nthe team took the opportunity to nut & bolt the Porsche Boxster as well as ensure\nthe alignment was still correct for the event ahead.  The team enjoyed a fun night eating at their\nfavorite restaurant \u2013 Aunt Catfish\u2019s on the River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saturday dawned with\novercast skies.  The sun was trying to\npeak through.  The team hoped that the\nrain would hold off for the 14 hour event that was ahead.  The random starting draw saw the team be very\nfortunate to have a 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup> place slot in the 125 car\nstarting line up.  The team make quick\ntime at the start of the race to move to the front of the pack.  At the 2 hour mark in the race, Team Sahlen\nwas sitting comfortably in 1st<\/sup> & 3rd<\/sup> place.  As the race evolved into the next shift, the\nnew splitters on both cars suffered from severe aero induced damage.  The #942 \u201cKetchup\u201d was the 1st<\/sup> to\nsuffer from the issue.  The diagnosis in\nthe pits and garages on \u201cKetchup\u201d allowed the team to make the analysis of what\nneeded to be corrected to ensure that #943 \u201cMustard\u201d could keep rolling along\non track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sans splitter, the #943 \u201cMustard\u201d\nkept rolling along on track.  The only\nreal hiccup the team suffered was a pit lane speeding penalty that resulted in\na drive thru penalty.  Each driver took\ntheir turn behind the wheel, rolling up lap after lap.  The midday action saw the Florida skies spit\ndown some rain.  The small drizzle was\nhardly enough to get the track wet, but was enough to get the Drivers & Crew\nconcerned about what could come.  But the\ncloudy skies soon past, leaving way for clear blue skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The clear blue skies soon\nturned into evening stars and Daytona track lights as the sun went down.  Still Team Sahlen was motoring around the\ntrack.  At the 9 hour mark in the race,\nthe event had soon become a 2 horse race between Team Sahlen and Eddie Vetter\nRacing.  A classic battle of Porsche vs\nCorvette.  Although \u201cMustard\u201d could not\nkeep pace with the C4 Vette, the gap stayed to a small 2 lap margin.  Then with just 3 hours to go, an unfortunate\nelectrical gremlin struck Eddie Vetter Racing out on track.  This left Team Sahlen with a healthy 5 lap margin.   And the team duly paced themselves to the\nend, ensuring a victory at the World Center of Racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will Nonnamaker shared his thoughts after the race  – \u201cWow, Victory at Daytona.  It is always satisfying to win in the Tire Rack \u2013 ChampCar Endurance Series. But a win here is just magical.  And to think our team\u2019s 1st<\/sup> victory came here back in 1996.  At the end there, all I could think about was brining the car home in one piece.  I kept flashing back to the most recent event \u2013 the New Year\u2019s Eve Sebring race, where we were leading by a lap with an hour to go when a car we were lapping spun in front of us and took us out. I didn\u2019t want to repeat that incident for sure. The crew did an amazing job all day, and we certainly made progress on the field with our excellent pit strategy and quick pit stops.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Joe Sahlen, this marked his 1st<\/sup> Victory at Daytona \u2013 \u201cIt was 20 years ago that I 1st<\/sup> started racing.  And my very 1st<\/sup> race was at Daytona in the Grand-Am Cup driving a Porsche 911.  Now to be here 20 years later, back in a Porsche and winning OVERALL in a 14 hour event is just very special.  And to have Joe, Wayne, Will and myself all sharing time behind the wheel is a great bonus of achievement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next event for Team Sahlen will be the Memorial Day classic at Watkins Glen International with the Tire Rack \u2013 ChampCar Endurance Series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2025 Team Sahlen Campaign Partners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

honeybeeBase.com, Malco Products, Porsche Beachwood, Discovery Parts, ECS Tuning, Tarett Engineering, Guard Transmission, HubstandsPRO, Maxima Racing Oil, Pagid Brakes, NGK Spark Plugs, CM Racing Products, Grassroots Motorsports Magazine, Design Engineering Inc., OMP Racing, Bell Racing, Forgeline Wheels, Optima Batteries, All-Fit Automotive, Capri Tools, Fabspeed Motorsport, Eibach & Valco Cincinnati with Big Wrench Racing <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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