{"id":7819,"date":"2025-01-23T11:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=7819"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:16:36","slug":"the-heart-of-racing-set-for-the-2025-rolex-24-at-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/the-heart-of-racing-set-for-the-2025-rolex-24-at-daytona\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of Racing set for the 2025 Rolex 24 At Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daytona Beach, Fla. (January 23, 2025) – The Heart of Racing Team is looking forward to the Rolex 24 At Daytona on January 25-26 at Daytona International Speedway. The team will field two Aston Martin Vantage GT3 entries as the group looks to return to Daytona\u2019s Victory Lane to open the 2025 IMSA campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The No. 007 Heart of Racing GTD PRO entry will have Heart of Racing regulars Ross Gunn, Alex Riberas, Roman De Angelis, and Marco S\u00f8rensen. While Gunn and Riberas search for their first Rolex 24 At Daytona win, they are joined by 2023 Rolex 24 GTD Class winners De Angelis and S\u00f8rensen. The quartet had a productive ROAR Before the 24 last weekend, making the most of the six test sessions to prepare for what is anticipated to be an unseasonably chilly Rolex run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The familiar No. 27 Aston Martin Vantage GTD entry will have Zacharie Robichon, Tom Gamble, Casper Stevenson, and Mattia Drudi in the driver\u2019s seat. Making their debut, Stevenson and Drudi will look to Rolex 24 At Daytona veterans Robichon and Gamble. Robichon won the 2022 Rolex 24 At Daytona and has two IMSA championship titles to his name. Gamble rejoins the Heart of Racing Team for the first time since Motul Petit Le Mans in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Both Aston Martin Vantages will qualify on Thursday in the new GTD PRO and GTD class split format. The 63rd Rolex 24 At Daytona will take the green flag at 1:40pm ET on Saturday January 25, with live coverage starting on NBC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Heart of Racing Team Quote Board :\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ross Gunn : \u201cI\u2019m super excited to get the season started here in Daytona. It\u2019s definitely going to warm up for the race and I\u2019m sure the show will be incredible for the fans. It\u2019s my sixth Daytona start and fifth with the Heart of Racing. It\u2019s always a privilege to race for this team. The ROAR went pretty smoothly and I think we are pretty well prepared.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Roman De Angelis : \u201cI\u2019m excited to be back now with my sixth start at the Rolex 24 with the Heart of Racing. This will be my first one in the GTD PRO category which is exciting. We have such a great group of drivers. I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to be teammates with all of them through my career with Aston Martin and the Heart of Racing. I think if all the stars align we\u2019ll be in a good spot on Sunday morning, and hopefully can fight for the podium.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex Riberas : \u201cI\u2019m incredibly excited, especially after the last couple of days here in Daytona, where the team has made big progress since the first day of the test. We are very, very excited as a group. I\u2019m confident that we can execute throughout the whole 24 hours and if we have the right speed, I\u2019m sure we will have a shot at winning the Rolex.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marco S\u00f8rensen : \u201cI\u2019m excited that Rolex weekend is finally here. We had a few good test sessions last weekend during the ROAR. There are just a lot of unknowns with the new torque sensors, but our pace looks promising. We have a great lineup with Roman, Ross and Alex and I think if we keep the car clean, we may have a chance to go for that top step again.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zacharie Robichon : \u201cWe had a good few days of testing last weekend in the ROAR. The weather didn\u2019t always cooperate, but that\u2019s always the case with Daytona. I\u2019m really looking forward to getting started. It\u2019s a little bit of a new era now with the torque sensors, but I think we\u2019re in a comfortable position. We are going into the race confident in where we are and knowing that we have a car that we can fight with is really all you can hope for. In this race there are a million things that can happen. It will come down to surviving 23 hours and going racing for the final hour.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Gamble : \u201cI\u2019m really excited to be back racing at Daytona. It feels like such a long build up here until the race, so I\u2019m glad it\u2019s finally nearly here. I think we\u2019ve got a very good lineup and a great car. It\u2019s a long race and I think we just have to survive. We have a fast Aston Martin and a strong lineup so if we can be there at the end, we\u2019ve got as good of a shot as anyone.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Casper Stevenson : \u201cThe car is feeling really good and we had a successful few days during the ROAR. I think we have a lineup with a good chance to have a great result. The race will just be about making sure that we\u2019re there in the last few hours, but in terms of \u2018on paper\u2019 we look really good.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mattia Drudi : \u201cWe had two solid ROAR test days for both Casper and myself. We are rookies on this track so we maximized our track time to learn the track and get confident with the car. I think we have quite a strong package, but many things can happen during the race. I feel confident going into the race weekend. Let\u2019s see what we can do!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daytona Beach, Fla. (January 23, 2025) – The Heart of Racing Team is looking forward to the Rolex 24 At Daytona on January 25-26 at Daytona [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-the-heart-of-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819","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=7819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7822,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7819\/revisions\/7822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}