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Milka Duno is ready to go by Rolex 24 AT Daytona of this year, race in which will compete the next weekend next to its teammates, Patrick Carpentier, Darren Manning and Ryan Dalziel to the controls of the car #11 CITGO Pontiac Riley Daytona Prototype. 45º edition of the legendary race of the 24 hours in the Daytona International Speedway will begin east Saturday 27 of January to 1:30 p.m. (hour of the EE.UU. east) and it will extend until 1:30 p.m. (hour of the EE.UU. east) by day following, Sunday 28 of January.
Rolex 24 AT Daytona marks the beginning of season 2007 of the Series Rolex Sports Car and is considered like one of the competitions of 24 hours more prestigious of the world. The activity for the race in the track of 3,56 miles will begin Thursday and will include five sessions of practice and two of classification, before the great race of Saturday.
This will be the fourth consecutive time that Duno undertakes the challenge with CITGO Racing in Rolex 24 and it hopes to improve the 2006 result when she obtained the eighth place in the general and she became the woman who has obtained the best location in the era Rolex.
Milka Duno: “We have worked very it last in preparation for this race and we have continued improving in each one of the tests that lead to this event. The team of pilots is very solid and we worked and we evolved very well together. The equipment has been working without stopping to have the ready car and also they are evolving at its maximum level. This is one of the most challenging races of the world and you must be very preparation and in the best form to be contender by the victory. I feel really well with respect to my teammates, the personnel (of escudería) and the car. We will be working very it last to win”.
Patrick Carpentier: “I feel moved to begin the season and wait for with anxieties the race of 24 hours in Daytona. It is a long race and one of rubbing. We have tried to think about all the mechanical problems that they could appear during the event and we thought that we would have to be okay. We must in the end run and maintain in track and see the flag to us pictures, hope, in a good position. We will see there them”.
Darren Manning: “I am waiting for with desire the race since fodder that we have one of the strongest alignments, as much by the equipment as by the pilots. All we had a good test and also we will be stronger for the race. There are good preparation and for that reason it is that we will gain this race”.
Ryan Dalziel: “I really wait for with desire the race. He is one of my favorite events in the year and this year it is very special because fodder that we have a great equipment with CITGO Racing, and a true opportunity of success. I know that our car will be fast and reliable and with the alignment of pilots who we have - with Pat., Milka and Darren- we do not have weak points in our chain. That the day of the race comes”.
FOX Sports and SPEED Chanel will be united to live transmit fifteen hours of the great race. To 1:00 p.m. (Hour of the EE.UU. east) of Saturday, FOX Sports will begin the live cover including an extensive previous presentation to the race and the first hour of action in the track. The cover in SPEED will consist of three segments for a total of 13 hour and a half. First, it will be Saturday 27, of 2:30 - 6: 30 p.m. (hour of the EE.UU. east), after 8:00 - 10: 00 p.m. (hour of the EE.UU. east), that same day and the third party, from the 6:00 a.m. of Sunday, extending until the picture flag is shaken and are realized the later interviews to the race.
The live cronometraje during the practices, classification and race will be available in Internet in www.grandamerican.com.
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