Young Guns Racing won the Daytona International 24 Hours this weekend at Daytona Milton Keynes with an exemplary display of team endurance racing – winning the DMAX Class by 7 clear laps from Time Crisis 2 with Six Helmets Racing finishing third. The overall winners of the race completing 1151 laps after battling the very wet circuit on Saturday afternoon but enjoying the drying tarmac overnight and into Sunday.
Team KDS did a similar job in the Sodi Class, also winning by seven laps from Pink Racing and third paced Brentwood Banta. The teams in both classes enjoying excellent racing in the changeable conditions, with rain creating challenges during Saturday afternoon and then the drying circuit overnight meaning that the teams collectively did enough mileage to circumnavigate the world!
Daytona’s circuit just 40 miles North of London hosted 42 teams who enjoyed superb racing over 24 hours across Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th October – with 39 of the starting teams making it to the chequered flag – including two solo teams, where just one driver raced across the entire 24 hours.
Tom Pughe completed 884 laps racing on his own in the DMAX Class and Charlie Rickett completed 834 laps in a Sodi RT8 Kart – both drivers setting new records for their classes for solo endurance racing whilst also raising £1000’s for their respective charities.
Daytona Motorsport would like to congratulate all the drivers for their achievements over the weekend and would like to publicly congratulate the entire team from across the Daytona Motorsport group who delivered yet another amazing 24 Hour Team Endurance Race.
The full official results are below and you can see lots of videos from the event on Daytona Milton Keynes’ Facebook Page – all of which were broadcast live from the circuit during the weekend! Click here to watch the coverage of the final 30 minutes of the race and the podium award ceremony.
The class winners also set respective fastest laps for their classes and collected Lewis Hamilton Signed Replica helmets kindly provided by Blackbird Communications.
Daytona International 24 Hours 2017 Official Results
| Pos | Team | Class | Laps | Diff | Best Time | Best Lap | Best Speed | |
| 1 | Young Guns Racing | DMAX | 1151 | 01:05.629 | 39 | 65.825 km/h | ||
| 2 | Time Crisis 2 | DMAX | 1144 | 7 | laps | 01:06.405 | 40 | 65.055 km/h |
| 3 | Six Helmets Racing | DMAX | 1139 | 5 | laps | 01:06.438 | 54 | 65.023 km/h |
| 4 | Clive Emson Auctioneers | DMAX | 1136 | 3 | laps | 01:06.266 | 40 | 65.192 km/h |
| 5 | The Undertakers | DMAX | 1129 | 7 | laps | 01:07.050 | 7 | 64.43 km/h |
| 6 | KDS Racing | SODI | 1128 | 1 | laps | 01:09.512 | 674 | 62.148 km/h |
| 7 | Pink Racing | SODI | 1121 | 7 | laps | 01:10.078 | 854 | 61.646 km/h |
| 8 | Brentwood Banta | SODI | 1119 | 2 | laps | 01:09.685 | 82 | 61.993 km/h |
| 9 | Team Want2Race | SODI | 1117 | 2 | laps | 01:10.234 | 78 | 61.509 km/h |
| 10 | Very Fat, Downright Outraged | DMAX | 1117 | 34.353 | secs | 01:07.386 | 75 | 64.108 km/h |
| 11 | Algorithmic Ascendancy | SODI | 1116 | 1 | laps | 01:10.304 | 163 | 61.447 km/h |
| 12 | Speedsport | SODI | 1116 | 23.358 | secs | 01:10.103 | 1049 | 61.624 km/h |
| 13 | GB Precision Racing | DMAX | 1112 | 4 | laps | 01:07.642 | 13 | 63.866 km/h |
| 14 | Banter GP | SODI | 1109 | 3 | laps | 01:10.136 | 9 | 61.595 km/h |
| 15 | Lap of the Gods | SODI | 1107 | 2 | laps | 01:09.886 | 33 | 61.815 km/h |
| 16 | Swindon Karting | SODI | 1105 | 2 | laps | 01:10.404 | 536 | 61.36 km/h |
| 17 | DSD Racing | SODI | 1102 | 3 | laps | 01:10.094 | 140 | 61.632 km/h |
| 18 | Naponos SKR | DMAX | 1101 | 1 | laps | 01:07.102 | 37 | 64.38 km/h |
| 19 | B.T.M. Racing | SODI | 1099 | 2 | laps | 01:10.186 | 37 | 61.551 km/h |
| 20 | Team PFK | SODI | 1097 | 2 | laps | 01:09.902 | 676 | 61.801 km/h |
| 21 | M4 Racers | SODI | 1094 | 3 | laps | 01:10.574 | 494 | 61.212 km/h |
| 22 | Team Moo | SODI | 1090 | 4 | laps | 01:10.595 | 703 | 61.194 km/h |
| 23 | Team Gazelle | DMAX | 1089 | 1 | laps | 01:08.536 | 47 | 63.033 km/h |
| 24 | Only Fools & Carter | DMAX | 1089 | 40.728 | secs | 01:07.036 | 132 | 64.443 km/h |
| 25 | Going Going Gone | SODI | 1085 | 4 | laps | 01:10.101 | 68 | 61.625 km/h |
| 26 | KartForce II | SODI | 1084 | 1 | laps | 01:11.118 | 823 | 60.744 km/h |
| 27 | KartForce I | SODI | 1082 | 2 | laps | 01:10.559 | 808 | 61.225 km/h |
| 28 | The Rozbergs | SODI | 1069 | 13 | secs | 01:12.003 | 84 | 59.998 km/h |
| 29 | Target Racing | SODI | 1068 | 1 | laps | 01:11.316 | 560 | 60.575 km/h |
| 30 | Ocset Motorsport | SODI | 1058 | 10 | laps | 01:11.580 | 665 | 60.352 km/h |
| 31 | Team Camo | SODI | 1058 | 31.882 | secs | 01:11.168 | 650 | 60.701 km/h |
| 32 | No Clue Racing | SODI | 1047 | 11 | laps | 01:11.676 | 155 | 60.271 km/h |
| 33 | British Racing Ted | SODI | 1039 | 8 | laps | 01:11.887 | 92 | 60.094 km/h |
| 34 | Blackbird Racing | DMAX | 1039 | 1.429 | secs | 01:09.718 | 178 | 61.964 km/h |
| 35 | The Fat and The Furious | DMAX | 1035 | 4 | laps | 01:07.717 | 125 | 63.795 km/h |
| 36 | Team RBR – Ricky Bobby Racing | DMAX | 1030 | 5 | laps | 01:08.950 | 12 | 62.654 km/h |
| 37 | #24HourCancerMK | DMAX | 884 | 146 | laps | 01:06.066 | 109 | 65.389 km/h |
| 38 | Team Crickett Racing Headway | SODI | 834 | 50 | laps | 01:12.241 | 531 | 59.8 km/h |
| 39 | 4za Motorsport | SODI | 773 | 61 | laps | 01:09.940 | 74 | 61.767 km/h |
| 40 | SWB4 | SODI | 241 | 532 | laps | 01:11.378 | 32 | 60.523 km/h |
| 41 | 2 Fat, 2 Furious | DMAX | 86 | 155 | laps | 01:07.368 | 28 | 64.125 km/h |