Magnussen, who finished up his F1 career in 2024 racing for the Haas F1 Team, hopes to be in the mix for the win this weekend at Daytona. The BMW M Team RLL Hybrid V8 team of Magnussen, Phillip Eng, Raffaele Marciello and Dries Vanthoor are on the pole for this year's 24 and a favorite in the GTP class.
Former F1 star Kevin Magnussen is all set for the next chapter of his life - the IMSA SportsCar Championship. The Danish driver will participate in the "real racing" with the 2025 Rolex 24 Daytona, set to take place at the Daytona International Speedway at Daytona Beach, Florida.
As Kevin Magnussen transitions into life after F1, he issues a life update on his latest challenge with BMW in the world of endurance racing.
Get a head start on the 2025 racing season with the Rolex 24 at Daytona. This year, 14 former F1 drivers will start the race.
Driver Dries Vanthoor will lead the 61-car field to the starting line after posting the top qualifying time in his No. 24 M Team RLL BMW of the Grand Touring Prototype class. And the weather looks good,
The Rolex 24 at Daytona features more than 200 of the best drivers in the world, including 14 former Formula 1 stars.
It is with great relief that Kevin Magnussen leaves Formula 1 in his rearview mirror after a 10-year career that produced exactly one podium finish, way back in his 2014 rookie season. Magnussen's decade of racing in a car that can't win ended when Haas decided to make a full roster change for 2025.
Dries Vanthoor put BMW on pole for the Daytona 24 where the Scott McLaughlin and Shane van Gisbergen Corvette will start eighth in GTD PRO.
Excitement?” “Intrigue?” The 63rd Rolex 24 At Daytona figures to feature a full IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season’s worth of excitement and intrigue in one race. With 61 cars in four classes at the 3.
Daytona International Speedway announced today that newly-crowned Miss America Abbie Stockard will serve as an honorary event official adding to the glam of the Rolex 24 weekend. She joins grand marshal Jamie Chadwick for the pre-race festivities before the iconic twice-around-the-clock marathon begins.
In Friday’s afternoon practice, Dries Vanthoor set the fastest time of the Roar with a 1-minute, 35.424-second lap at 134.306 mph in the No. 24 BMW. In the first two sessions Saturday, van der Linde and Marco Wittman posted the fastest laps in BMW M Team RLL’s No. 25 sister car.
Sixty-one teams across four classes will race in the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway this weekend. See the full list of names here.