Chris Festa, Tomas Enge, Christian Montanari, Roger Yasukawa and Kris Szekeres finished sixth in the #7 SAMAX Pontiac Riley, followed by Memo Gidley, Fabrizio Gollin, Michel Jourdain Jr and Oriol Servia, who finished seventh in the #77 Kodak/Doran Racing Ford Doran. Timo Bernhard, BJ Zacharias and Rob and Charles Morgan were eighth in the #47 TruSpeed Motorsports Porsche Riley, followed by Mark Patterson, Oswaldo Negri Jr, Helio Castroneves and Sam Hornish Jr in the #60 Fresh From Florida/Michael Shank Racing Lexus Riley in ninth. Rob Finlay, Michael Valiante, Bobby Labonte and Michael McDowell completed the top ten in the #19 Z-Line Designs/Make-A-Wish/Mission Residential/Menards/Uniden Ford Crawford.
The #6 Michael Shank Racing Lexus Riley of AJ Allmendinger, Paul Tracy, Ian James and Henri Zogaib led 29 laps before a myriad of mechanical issues dropped them back in the field. The quartet wound up 26th overall and 16th in the
Daytona Prototype class.
Marc Goossens led six early laps in the #91 Lowe’s Riley-Matthews Motorsports Pontiac Riley he was sharing with Jim Matthews, Ryan Hunter-Reay and 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup champion Johnson, and the car was a frontrunner in the early stages before Matthews made contact with the #20 Jackson Hewitt/Subway Pontiac Crawford of Andy Wallace. The contact was followed by a series of mechanical problems, relegating the #91 team to 36th place overall and 19th in the Daytona Prototype class.
For much of the first half, the #58 Red Bull/Brumos Racing Porsche Riley of Scott Sharp, Buddy Rice, David Donohue and Darren Law was a top contender, with Sharp and Rice combining to lead 18 laps. While running second overall in the tenth hour, however, Sharp was hit by Tom Malloy in the #41 Team Sahlen Porsche GT3, doing heavy damage to the #58 machine, which wound up 40th overall and 20th in class.
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