Crazy Finish Rolex 24 2022 Daytona 24 Hours IMSA

Crazy finish during season opener of 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Daytona for the Rolex 24 (Daytona 24 Hours).

[@miker.1882]

I’ve watched this vid maybe twenty time and it never fails to thrill me. I was at this Daytona 24 after maybe fifteen years. I’ll be back again in 2023 for sure. What a wonderful historic venue!

[@naebalvas]

The way Jaminet caught his Porsche on the grass in the chicane after contact with Vanthoor is incredible.

[@ShadowLancer128]

Oh he's a fantastic driver but saving your car from the grass ain't hard. Keep the throttle pressed and wrestle that wheel from the grass and most of the time you should be fine.

[@donald9ful]

la perfs de Jaminet qui a résister pendant 1h30 a vanthoor et puis alors le dernier quart d'heure d'anthologie, incroyable, le Gt prouve encore une fois que c'est une catégorie incroyable

[@jamecjannston7485]

This battle will surely go down to history! But you got to feel for Laurens Vanthoor. I know him from GT racing for a long time and I like him as a driver and a character. He drove his heart out for nearly 2 hours to finally snatch that 24hrs win. At the same time he should have defended properly when the Pfaff car made the move at the last lap. I think there was a little bit of gap opened for Jaminet which Vanthoor could have prevented... The move at the chicane was obviously desperate but everyone would have done so... fantastic and heartbraking at the same time. Congrats to Pfaff Motorsport! Absolutely deserved victory!

[@Bryan-hr1il]

Vanthoor still doesn't own the Rolex after wining so many 24hrs race e.g Spa Nurburgring ......feel sorry to him....I think he wanted to defend but the car condition not allow and slightly give the space to Jaminet

[@Hardcaslte]

Yeah Jaminet railed Vanthoor for sure. Vanthoor had the inside on the chicane and Jaminet just pushed him into the grass when Vanthoor was clearly there. Super hard racing, hopefully it was a mistake, but that was clearly side by side and Jaminet took the line as if Vanthoor wasn't there. I'd call it a dirty win, although Jaminet would have had the inside line coming out of the chicane and may have still had the advantage to win even if it was clean.

[@nicholasdugdale]

Make history?? I mean it was kinda embarrassing if you ask me. Porsche failed to finish first, when they had it in the bag. This battle could have been played out much nicer if the driver of the blue Porsche had patients and knew how to attack at the right time using a draft. Everyone has their definition of a great battle though...

[@jamecjannston7485]

@@nicholasdugdale yes, and I wanna hear yours!

[@DonGraphifx]

The battle between the 2 Porsche cars was fantastic!!!!!!!🤯

[@germanenglishengineer2054]

I am glad IMSA left the results go to the drivers. They both took the gloves off and gave it a 1000%.

[@linolemuel]

This Is Timeless. I Can't Stop From Watching This Video Again And Again. Yup, Both Could Have Crashed Easily But I Can't Find Another Way To Have It Done. This Is One Of The Best Porsche 911 Races If Not The Best So Far. I Was Rooting For The Red/Silver #9 911. What A Great Come Back At The Very Last Minutes.

[@kiiro712]

Why Are You Writing Like This It Hurts To Read

[@zeekot4064]

@@kiiro712 tf are you talking about?

[@SwiftHDX]

@@zeekot4064 Capitalisation of every word.

[@zeekot4064]

@@SwiftHDX who cares

[@SwiftHDX]

@@zeekot4064 It's annoying to read

[@angusmacsac]

Brilliant! edge of my seat - great way to start the race season!

[@FrequencyOfThought]

This was a really great battle to watch I will admit I was rooting for blue

[@TheSpiritofTrance]

The best fights i ever seen. Amazing.

[@Caeton037]

I understand this commentary better than John Hindhaugh, and I only speak English.

[@ednorosa3659]

Parabéns hélio muito orgulho de você irmão 👏👏👏

[@jameswormsley460]

Incredible intense racing 🔥🔥🔥

[@artmchugh5644]

Almost like NASCAR !!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🚘🚘🏁🏁🍺🍺🍺

[@artmchugh5644]

Did you see that joke of a " race " today !!‽?? 600 HP cars going 75 MPH 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@thejman3489]

Seeing the DPI battle I thought it wouldn't get any better. When they went to the Porches I was a little confused on that decision until I saw them for a lap. Bumping and banging and sticking to each other like they were attached with a chain. So fun to watch!

[@germanenglishengineer2054]

I think I spent too many hours watching NASCAR, IMSA, and FIA WEC because frankly that race was a joke. Ridiculous amount of cautions. After 18 years of watching endurance races, I prefer the FIA WEC because they don't give teams a second chance as to make a whole lap up with wave around rules or lucky dogs and most of the stuff they showed required strictly a "slow zone procedure" which I just heard from FIA WEC they are doing away with but frankly it was a good concept while it lasted despite being abused quite a bit to the point where WEC threw it out now with exception of Le Mans. The way one of the ex Wayne Taylor drivers bragged about making up 8 laps due to many cautions after a while it actually makes me nauseous thinking about it because that robs the one without trouble of their advantage and in fact puts them at a disadvantage. If you can't pass on speed, then that's it. If anyone wants to try, then we should drop BoP changes and leave the manufacturers to decide the strength of their cars. Frankly the Cadillacs should have won because as an endurance race they had the least amount of issues. Probably the #5 group. #31 - Derani and company would have be a distant 2nd.

[@thejman3489]

@@germanenglishengineer2054 I agree the WEC has much better rules. I don't like the wave around or that they organize each class during the cautions. But being a NASCAR fan and having to deal with their shitty rules it's much worse there so I can deal with a few shitty rules in IMSA. It's just what we got.

[@ponanikhoza1934]

Thank goodness there are no team orders at Porsche.

[@aadixum]

They were from 2 different customer teams.

[@corsamode]

@@aadixum The AMGs in DTM were also from different teams, but look what happened there..

[@ConanOG]

Yes, thanks that Porsche doesn't have all that bullshit that Mercedes have with orders from different teams!

[@g-forester6313]

互角なドライバーとマシン。 許されるギリギリの戦いだった。 痺れたよ！

[@matthieubesson8567]

Quelle fin de course de folie.

[@joeyenglish6193]

Wow go Pfaff love ❤ from Canada

[@c_dubbzz6127]

That was so satisfying

[@baremetalgarage]

Incredible! It could have ended up so much worse. Can't wait to see them go at it at Laguna Seca.

[@JacquesGardes]

sacre finish en effet

[@THESHADOW97139]

C`était incroyable !!! ( et pourtant, je ne suis pas ce type de compétition .... merci youtube lol )

[@Oscar97o]

"Changement de leader dans la catégorie GTE... GTD Pro"

[@dedurocortorum365]

"La référence de l'endurance mondiale".... Et ben si les 24 Heures du Mans se règlent à coups de safety-car comme en IMSA dans le futur, je rendrai mon tablier de spectateur. Ce que j'écris là n'enlève rien à cette belle bagarre.

[@teddy2877]

C'était ouf 🤩💚

[@isylium1110]

best end :) i remember 🥵❤❤ 09:53

[@poeeafccgfawi8980]

"ca va mal finir" :))

[@-212-]

Merci !

[@scotttaylor9900]

CHEVY, GM What da, come-on, we'll be lots better over in WEC.

[@honeymon57er]

I wouldn’t like to meet these two on iRacing.

[@DerekSanford]

This is French, right?

[@bacbacrallye]

Mathieu Jaminet is French. Laurens Vanthor is belgiam. It’s the same different with an american and a canadian. 😉

[@sugerhitman1295]

Why are they mixing different grades of cars in these races? 🤔

[@axelcalin4067]

All endurances championship bring that. It’s a specifically characteristic of these races ;)

[@mosesmanaka8109]

Here is a good idea. You can sing together but you can't all talk together.

[@badgumby9544]

One reason I don't watch so called Professional Racing anymore. Can't pass them cleanly, so wreck em.

[@Maenfy]

Who wouldn't try after 24 hours of racing and having nothing to lose.

[@mcmc1863]

Dissapointed at the C8 finish, worse so far i think, although only in its second season, did immense in its first!!

[@虎ちゃん-v8t]

That guy should be strip of his results

[@donnydoit7678]

So all the top cars were Porsches ? 😳

[@Maenfy]

A Ferrari finished in 2nd.

[@iliasezzahiri1899]

Those guys were just mobile chicanes for herta

[@artmchugh5644]

Well duh !!!!! He is driving the fastest car out there!!! Put him out there in a Porsche 911 GT3R and he would have got 3rd !!!😂😂😂🚘🚘🚘🏁🍺🍺

[@gillesh333]

pas du tout biaisée la commentatrice mdr

[@MLOO123]

Way more exciting than watching F1 as both drivers will be banned for next few races carrying enormous penalty points due to so much contacts...😂

[@niallleslie7419]

I was not impressed by the low standard of driving with much car - to - car body contact. Do the stewards of today just normally allow this type of thing because few drivers now get killed or seriously injured? As someone who in the past won quite a few championships this just looked similar to a demolition derby!

[@alexdillon5348]

take a sip of perspective Niall, these guys have just spent 24 hours racing, I think the car to car contact was great, both drivers putting everything they have left into winning the race in the final moments. bumping is racing and all the contact in my eyes was hard racing, neither of them were trying to take each other out until the last shunt where the P2 Porsche put himself in a position where he either barely made the corner and had a run to pass, or took himself/ possibly P1 out. Makes me think of the Senna quote.

[@overbuiltlimited]

I want all my races to be called by French women. And no, I don’t speak French.

[@mbrawthen]

IMSA SUCKS NOW!!! With these new Spec. Classes, and too many of them …They’ve TOTALLY RUINED the Sport.!!! See-Ya IMSA, I’m GONE.

[@jackreacher.]

so...these frogs are to cheap to protect their production rights?

[@richardjones3308]

they should be penalized for taking out the car in the higher class. bad driving.

[@kiiro712]

The car in the higher class had 90 seconds advantage to the 2nd. Not a big deal.

[@geneco1]

not a good race for porsche and its crews. Ridiculous

[@Orvieta]

Completely agree, I really don't understand people who say this behaviour should be the rule.

[@Maenfy]

Why? Porsche won both GT classes.

[@Orvieta]

@@Maenfy By showing they rather crash eachother than think of the common goal. Let alone forgetting about all the basics of racing conduct.

[@Maenfy]

@@Orvieta What would have been the common goal? The KCMG Porsche doesn't race in the championship, they can't collect points. It has been win or bust for them since the start of the race. P2 is nice but nobody will remember P2.

[@Orvieta]

@@Maenfy Pro drivers driving for Porsche, it's about branding and showing what your brand is made of, seems really hard to understand.

[@Orvieta]

Disgraceful conduct by both Porsche "pro" drivers.

[@donald9ful]

let them race is not f1 or DTM, just racing!

[@Orvieta]

@@donald9ful That's just it, this wasn't racing, it was pushing eachother out, so the other would crash. Both drivers were doing the exact opposite of racing. None of them deserve any merit for their conduct.

[@gbenitez87]

ironically the porsche that finished outside is the one that started with the touches to pass it, before he started the race had been clean. Its just a motor race.

[@tonycavez]

@@Orvieta get a life

[@Bryan-hr1il]

Every racer desired the win.....If I was him, definitely do the same thing.....