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Venezuelan pilot Milka Duno conquered the second place in edition 45 of the 24 Hours of Daytona, first valid of the series Rolex Grand American in the Daytona category Prototypes and of step he entered books of records of the traditional North American competition when becoming the woman better classified its history.
In company of Canadian Patrick Carpentier, the Scot Ryan Dalziel and the Briton Darren Manning, the Caracas Duno celebrated for the first time in podio of Daytona, mechanical marathon that had like winners the North American Scott Pruett, to the Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya and the Mexican Salvador Durán, while the third position was for the Danish Jan Magnussen, the Italian Max Angelelli, the North American Jeff Gordon and the surafricano Wayne Taylor.
Milka Duno as much completed of impeccable way its turns of handling Saturday in afternoon as at dawn of Sunday with very competitive times of return, that added to the perfect yield of the Pontiac Riley of team Samax and the rest of to their took them pilots to clear the victory after almost commanding the squad during a hundred of returns. The second place in the general allows Duno to write a new chapter in feminine participation in international motoring, when surpassing the fifth position obtained by Swiss Lilian Bryner in edition 1995. The year past Milka culminated in the eighth square, always with the Samax formation that counts on the auspice of Citgo, PDV, Cantv, Pdvsa, MRW and IND.
Is a fantastic result, we have lived it to the tension from first to the last return - Milka Duno commented - Nobody could commit the minimum error and my companions have been really wonderful. In my turns of handling we did not confront majors problems in spite of the intense traffic in the track; from the radio they asked to me all along that he tightened and we have done thus it, the pressure was enormous. The Samax equipment has given a very competitive car to us, has been a work of enormous mutual understanding, chemistry between all has been fundamental to secure this second place that even could have been first, but after 24 hours and to have a battle so closed with the car of Ganassi and the one of Suntrust, we felt really happy .
So the race rate was closed that for want of one hour the three first were divided by hardly 5 seconds, but a fault in the brakes in the Pontiac Riley de Magnussen made him lose two returns, while Patrick Carpentier in the Pontiac Riley of team Samax also had a mishap in the last years of the test, fact took that it to assure the second place after completing 668 returns, the same that the Lexus winning Riley pertaining to team of Ganassi Chip.
The competition maintained a frenetic rate when not registering yellow flags or of precaution during the first six hours. Then, to the midnight, a suspension or red flag took place to repair a defense that was damaged by a shock. To the dawn rain became present what increased the level of tension between equipment that remained in the track of the seventy which they took the exit Saturday to the 1:30 from afternoon.
Next to the 24 Hours of Le Mans (France) and the 12 Hours of Sebring (the United States), the one of Daytona it is the more important race long play of the world-wide calendar and in the all of them Venezuelan Milka Duno it has had opportunity to participate, certainty has compensated that it with this exceptional figuration in the oval of Florida.
Newcomer the Juan Pablo Montoya and Salvador Durán hardly becomes the Latin American third parties in prevailing in the 24 Hours of Daytona. Before them they made legendary the Pedro Rodriguez in the first Seventies and in the 2004 the Brazilian Christian Fittipaldi did. The of Bogota' Montoya also becomes the sixth steering wheel in gaining the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 500 Miles of Indianapolis, mark that now shares next to Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt, To the Unser, the Unser Jr, Arie Luyendyk and Dan Wheldon.
The great day of the Latin American steering wheels Brown Robert when arriving completed the Brazilian veteran quarter, the Mexican Michel Jourdain Jr crossed the goal seventh, while Brazilian the Helium Castroneves and Oswaldo Negri recovered until ninth. The Aztec Red Memo suffered an accident when it drived the second car of the equipment of Ganassi Chip when they occupied the fourth position during the last quarter of race, while the blow more hard carried out the Argentinean Gastón Mazzacane, who had to be transported to the hospital although he did not have injuries majors, although its machine was destroyed.
The 24 Hours of Daytona marked the beginning the championship Rolex Grand American, first of seventeen races that will continue in March in City of Mexico in the circuit of the Brothers Rodriguez.
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