Countdown To The Rolex 24 Hours At Daytona

Hi There!

welcome to 2008, and my first blog post of 2008. Its January, meaning its one of my favorite times of the year. The Rolex 24 Hours At Daytona - The first major motorsports event of the new year in North America. This year will be the 46th running, and a lot of new things are going on, along with some old.

The Biggest story, is will Chip Ganassi Racing Continue with a 3 peat? Drivers Scott Pruett, 2003 Indy Racing League Indy Car Series Champion Scott Dixon, 2005 Indianapolis 500 / IRL Indy Car Series champion Dan Wheldon, 2007 Indianapolis 500/ IRL Indy Car Series Champion Dario Franchitti, and fellow Teammate - Former CART Champion, & formula 1 Driver Juan Pablo Montoya, seem to think they can earn another Rolex watch.

The Other Big story is that it literally is like an all star race of champions. What other series anywhere has had drivers from all other forms of motorsport...Drivers, such as Helio Castroneves, Kurt Busch, Tony Stewart, Johnny O' Connel, Jeff Gordon & Jimmy Johnson, Danica Patrick, and Dale Earndhardt, Rusty Wallace converge on this one weekend, to survive. If you can find another racing event as big as this one, please let me know so I can sit down watch it, and enjoy it as well.

This years Rolex 24 Hours @ Daytona will be featured on fox, and speed channel, for the US audience, January 26-27, 2008.

http://www.grandamerican.com/rolex

http://www.speedtv.com

Starting Lap

Hello There,

This is Jessen St. Hilaire- Owner of The Hot Lap. This blog will be on the subject of motorsports, motorsports news...just about anything relating to the one thing I've been passionate about for most of my adult life - Motorsports & Racing. Since living near racetracks Like Homestead-Miami Speedway, Moroso Motorsports Park, & Daytona International Speedway, and being a corner worker on these tracks for the Sports Car Club of America, it helps out quite a bit. I'll try to cover as much as I can, on series like these mostly, if not more:

NASCAR
American Le Mans Series
Grand Am Rolex Series
Indy Racing League
Champ Car
Formula One

And since this is a blog, you're more than welcome to post your opinions as well...good or bad, on any series you can find, anywhere in the world - the Internet, and this blog, isn't only limited to America. And with that, I leave you with this tidbit of me. its a photo of me attending my very first race - an Indy car event @ Homestead Miami Speedway from 2001. Peace.