Rolex 24 Hour 23: Dixon's Ford takes lead with 1-hour to go

Scott Dixon leads in the No. 02 Ganassi Ford

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IndyCar ace Scott Dixon passed Jordon Taylor tanks to a faster pitstop by the Ganassi Ford team and took the lead with one hour to go in the 53rd Rolex 24 at Daytona. However, Taylor is closing and it looks to be a real dogfight to the finish.

Sebastien Bourdais runs third in the Action Express Corvette DP about 24 seconds behind and needs a caution flag to bunch the field and pull off a win, otherwise he's just too far behind.

The No.3 Corvette has pulled out a 33 second lead on the No. 25 BMW Z4 in GTLM class while the No. 54 Oreca leads the No. 52 Oreca by 57 seconds in the PC class. Hour 23 Standings

COP	CCP	Class	Car	Current Driver	Car Type	Laps	Behind	Gap
1	1	P	02	Scott Dixon	FORD ECOBOOST DP	708	–.—	–.—
2	2	P	10	Jordan Taylor	CORVETTE DP	708	1.261	1.261
3	3	P	5	Sebastien Bourdais	CORVETTE DP	707	1 Lap	1 Lap
4	4	P	90	Richard Westbrook	CORVETTE DP	702	6 Laps	5 Laps
5	1	GTLM	3	Antonio Garcia	CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R	693	15 Laps	9 Laps
6	2	GTLM	25	Dirk Werner	BMW Z4 GTE	693	15 Laps	33.688
7	5	P	31	Phil Keen	CORVETTE DP	689	19 Laps	4 Laps
8	3	GTLM	4	Oliver Gavin	CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R	688	20 Laps	1 Lap
9	1	PC	54	Colin Braun	ORECA FLM09	683	25 Laps	5 Laps
10	2	PC	52	Tom Kimber Smith	ORECA FLM09	682	26 Laps	1 Lap
11	6	P	60	Oswaldo Negri Jr	HONDA HPD LIGIER JS P2	682	26 Laps	12.075
12	3	PC	16	Johnny Mowlem	ORECA FLM09	681	27 Laps	1 Lap
13	1	GTD	93	Dominik Farnbacher	DODGE VIPER SRT	673	35 Laps	8 Laps
14	2	GTD	22	Shane Van Gisbergen	PORSCHE 911 GT AMERICA	672	36 Laps	1 Lap
15	3	GTD	58	Philipp Eng	PORSCHE 911 GT AMERICA	670	38 Laps	2 Laps
16	7	P	01	Joey Hand	FORD ECOBOOST DP	669	39 Laps	1 Lap
17	4	PC	85	Rusty Mitchell	ORECA FLM09	669	39 Laps	33:55.617
18	4	GTLM	24	Lucas Luhr	BMW Z4 GTE	669	39 Laps	21.859
19	4	GTD	49	Michele Rugolo	FERRARI 458 ITALIA	668	40 Laps	1 Lap
20	5	GTD	63	Anthony Lazzaro	FERRARI 458 ITALIA	666	42 Laps	2 Laps
21	6	GTD	48	Christopher Haase	AUDI R8 LMS	663	45 Laps	3 Laps
22	7	GTD	33	Marc Goossens	DODGE VIPER SRT	658	50 Laps	5 Laps
23	8	GTD	81	Michael Avenatti	PORSCHE 911 GT AMERICA	657	51 Laps	1 Lap
24	9	GTD	009	Derek Deboer	ASTON MARTIN V12 VANTAGE	648	60 Laps	9 Laps
25	10	GTD	45	Robert Thorne	AUDI R8 LMS	638	70 Laps	10 Laps
26	8	P	66	Robert Gewirtz	BMW POWER RILEY DP	614	94 Laps	24 Laps
27	5	GTLM	911	Patrick Pilet	PORSCHE 911 RSR	609	99 Laps	5 Laps
28	6	GTLM	98	Mathias Lauda	ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE V8	601	107 Laps	8 Laps
29	9	P	50	Dorsey Schroeder	BMW POWER RILEY DP	585	123 Laps	16 Laps
30	11	GTD	44	Andy Lally	PORSCHE 911 GT AMERICA	585	123 Laps	1:27:23.056
31	7	GTLM	912	Jorg Bergmeister	PORSCHE 911 RSR	581	127 Laps	4 Laps
32	12	GTD	97	Boris Said	BMW Z4	572	136 Laps	9 Laps
33	13	GTD	007	James Davison	ASTON MARTIN V12 VANTAGE	561	147 Laps	11 Laps
34	14	GTD	64	Francisco Longo	FERRARI 458 ITALIA	545	163 Laps	16 Laps
35	5	PC	11	Jack Hawksworth	ORECA FLM09	535	173 Laps	10 Laps
36	15	GTD	73	Jim Norman	PORSCHE 911 GT AMERICA	532	176 Laps	3 Laps
37	8	GTLM	17	Patrick Long	PORSCHE 911 RSR	530	178 Laps	2 Laps
38	16	GTD	18	Matteo Beretta	PORSCHE 911 GT AMERICA	508	200 Laps	22 Laps
39	10	P	7	Brendon Hartley	BMW POWER RILEY DP	426	282 Laps	82 Laps
40	11	P	1	Ryan Dalziel	HONDA HPD ARX	389	319 Laps	37 Laps
41	17	GTD	19	Ricardo Flores	PORSCHE 911 GT AMERICA	388	320 Laps	1 Lap
42	6	PC	61	Ivo Breukers	ORECA FLM09	361	347 Laps	27 Laps
43	12	P	07	Ben Devlin	MAZDA PROTOTYPE	348	360 Laps	13 Laps
44	9	GTLM	62	Giancarlo Fisichella	FERRARI F458 ITALIA	310	398 Laps	38 Laps
45	7	PC	8	Mirco Schultis	ORECA FLM09	299	409 Laps	11 Laps
46	8	PC	38	James French	ORECA FLM09	238	470 Laps	61 Laps
47	18	GTD	23	Alex Riberas	PORSCHE 911 GT AMERICA	233	475 Laps	5 Laps
48	10	GTLM	51	Francois Perrodo	FERRARI 458 ITALIA	211	497 Laps	22 Laps
49	13	P	70	James Hinchcliffe	MAZDA PROTOTYPE	198	510 Laps	13 Laps
50	19	GTD	28	Christian Engelhart	PORSCHE 911 GT AMERICA	176	532 Laps	22 Laps
51	14	P	57	Alex Brundle	LIGIER JS P2 JUDD	172	536 Laps	4 Laps
52	15	P	2	Johannes Van Overbeek	HONDA HPD ARX	49	659 Laps	123 Laps
53	16	P	0	Andy Meyrick	DELTAWING DWC13	42	666 Laps	7 Laps