{"id":5396,"date":"2023-01-24T15:17:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T20:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2023-01-24T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T20:17:06","slug":"nolan-siegel-joins-sean-creech-motorsport-for-the-rolex-24-at-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/nolan-siegel-joins-sean-creech-motorsport-for-the-rolex-24-at-daytona\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Siegel Joins Sean Creech Motorsport for the Rolex 24 At Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young Californian to contest his second 24-hour race at\u00a0<\/em>Daytona.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\"\"DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (24 January 2023)<\/strong> \u2013 Sean Creech Motorsport (SCM) officially completed its Rolex 24 at Daytona driver lineup today with the addition of Nolan Siegel \u2013 an open wheel and sports car veteran despite his young age.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old Palo Alto, Calif. native joins Jo\u00e3o Barbosa, Lance Willsey and Nico Pino behind the wheel of the pole-winning No. 33 SCM Exelixis\/Focal One Ligier JS P320, as the Jupiter, Fla.-based team contests the first of two home races.<\/p>\n

Jumping into a kart at the age of 8, Siegel moved up to the USF Pro Championships (formerly the Road to Indy) open wheel ladder system beginning in 2019. In 2023, he will compete in INDY NXT (formerly Indy Lights) \u2013 just one step below the NTT INDYCAR SERIES. In 2019, he began racing sports cars as well, contesting Michelin Pilot Challenge, Prototype Challenge and WeatherTech SportsCar Championship events.<\/p>\n

Siegel will drive three vastly different race cars over the course of the week. He tested on Monday his INDY NXT Dallara IL-15 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He then on Friday he returns behind the wheel of the No. 39 Porsche 718 GT4 RS CS for the four hour IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge event (Friday, 1:45 p.m., Peacock TV).<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to Sean and to Lance for this opportunity!\u201d said Siegel. \u201cThe priority for me this week is getting to know the team, getting laps in the LMP3 car, and getting into the WeatherTech sessions now that all the classes are running at different speeds than last year. Of course, it will be a balance on Thursday and Friday, between that and the IMPC sessions and race on Friday. This is the first time I\u2019ll race two different series on one weekend but I\u2019m not the only driver doing it and I\u2019ll have enough time to focus on both.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThis team has a great car, with two second place finishes in this race and pole last weekend,\u201d Siegel continued. \u201cLuck always plays a part, but this is a very experienced team \u2013 I\u2019ve raced against them before and they\u2019re always competitive. I don\u2019t see why we can\u2019t win. I\u2019ve watched IMSA since I was a little kid in karts so it would be a huge milestone to win this race. It\u2019s a dream for every driver.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNolan brings a good deal of experience,\u201d said team principal Sean Creech. \u201cHe also knows IMSA procedures \u2013 pass arounds, class splits, all the processes that are a big part of sports car racing. There\u2019s night racing, with the lights coming into the car, with the speeds of the cars around you and how the faster cars can really dive bomb into Turn One and the Le Mans Chicane. The closing speed of the GTP cars is so much faster than the LMP3 car so it\u2019s a lot to take in, to be aware of. He has experience at Daytona in these cars and that\u2019s huge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

19-year-old Danny Soufi tested with the team at last weekend\u2019s Roar Before the Rolex 24. While the team was impressed with his pace and consistency, they felt that the track time was not sufficient to get him up to speed with the nuances of IMSA racing that would enable him to perform at the level the team believes he is capable of.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cWe had the opportunity to test Danny last month and bring him on board as a valued member of this team,\u201d said Willsey. \u201cHe did a very good job last weekend with the practice time available but in the end, the time was not sufficient to give him the chance to perform at the level we know he\u2019s capable of, or to get up to speed with IMSA\u2019s rules in regard to multi-class racing. We look forward to working with him over the next two months in anticipation of his involvement at Sebring.\u201d<\/p>\n

The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship\u2019s season opener gets underway on Thursday, with three sessions including night practice. The 61st Rolex 24 At Daytona takes the green flag Saturday at 1:40 p.m. Eastern. The race will be broadcast live in the U.S. on the NBC family of networks, beginning and ending with network NBC. The race will also be live streamed in its entirety on Peacock TV. International viewers can watch via IMSA.tv<\/a>, with IMSA Radio also available at IMSA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Young Californian to contest his second 24-hour race at\u00a0Daytona.   DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (24 January 2023) \u2013 Sean Creech Motorsport (SCM) officially completed its Rolex 24 [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sean-creech-motorsports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}