DPs, as they are often called, are closed-cockpit, purpose-built racing machines which are less expensive and ( deliberately ) somewhat slower than Le Mans Prototypes, which were becoming dangerously quick on the Daytona oval and prohibitively expensive for smaller teams to run.

The dedicated Daytona Prototypes ( DP ) use less expensive materials and technologies and the car's simple aerodynamics reduce the development and testing costs.

On April 8, 2006, the Grand-Am Daytona Prototypes took to the streets, replacing the suspended Trans-Am Series.

** the Daytona Prototypes, a race car type used in the Daytona 24

Combining classes of Sports Racing Prototypes and Grand Touring-style production-based cars, the series is centered around the Rolex 24 At Daytona but includes a wide variety of American, Canadian, and Mexican tracks.

In 2003, the series replaced its Sports Racing Prototypes with new Daytona Prototypes, a custom-built class built specifically for the Rolex Series.

Daytona Prototypes and GTs usually share the track although do occasionally race separately, typically at shorter circuits.

With the Rolex Sports Car Series also abandoning their SR classes at the end of 2003 for their own unique Daytona Prototypes, this meant that the ACO LMPs were the only open-cockpit prototypes left.

The team campaigned two Daytona Prototypes throughout the season with a third car being added in select races.

He has since run Daytona Prototypes with his brother Paul at the 24 Hours of Daytona and in 2006, won the open wheel division at the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb with Paul finishing right behind in 2nd.

NASCAR's headquarters are located in Daytona Beach, Florida, although it also maintains offices in four North Carolina cities ; Charlotte, Mooresville, Concord, and Conover.

Daytona Beach Parasail uses chutes designed by Custom Chutes that are bright in color and have designs ranging from American flags, smiley faces, and multi-bright colors as seen on the travel channel's episode of affordable luxury.

The lighthouse tower and museum are located south of Daytona Beach and are open to the public year round.

Visitors who climb the lighthouse tower are treated to a view of the Florida coastline and Halifax River from Daytona Beach to New Smyrna Beach.

The lighthouse keepers ' dwellings and other historic light station buildings are now home to the lighthouse museum, with exhibits on lighthouse life, lighthouse and Fresnel lens restoration, the keepers and their families, Daytona Beach and Florida history, and shipwrecks.

Included in this category are the 1952 Pan American that led to the production Caribbean and the Panther ( also known as Daytona ), based on a 1954 platform.

Inactive jai alai permits are located in Tampa, Daytona Beach, West Palm Beach, and Quincy.

Popular arcade racers are the Virtua Racing series, the Daytona USA series, the Rush, the Ridge Racer series, the Cruis ' n Series, the Midnight Club series, the Burnout series, and Out Run.

Aeronautical science ( flight training ) and aerospace engineering are the two most popular degrees at the Daytona Beach campus.

Aeronautical science ( flight training ) and aerospace engineering are the two most popular degrees at the Daytona Beach campus.

He is the oldest driver ( 50 years ) ever to win the Daytona 500 and he and Davey are the first one-two father / son finish in the Daytona 500.

Such chicanes are used at Watkins Glen International and Daytona International Speedway, where there are separate chicanes for cars and motorcycles.

* Eye of the Hurricane / Said and Done / U. S. Teens are Spoiled Bums / Daytona Beach EP ( 1991 )

At the Firecracker 400 in Daytona, both drivers are seriously injured after their cars are destroyed by " The Big One ".

The Gran Turismo class cars at Daytona are closer to the road versions, similar to the GT3 class elsewhere.

The restrictions are in the interest of driver and fan safety because higher speeds are closer to out-of-control than the 190 MPH range used for Daytona and Talladega ; the severity of crashes at higher speeds is also much greater, shown by telemetry readings of wrecks such as Jerry Nadeau at Richmond and Michael McDowell at Texas that were far higher than registered on restrictor plate tracks.

Following the Chrysler takeover of Lamborghini, product programs general manager Jack Stavana introduced a program to fit a Lamborghini Jalpa V8 into a Daytona.

Mello Yello was featured in the 1990 NASCAR-based movie Days Of Thunder, in which Tom Cruise's character, Cole Trickle, drove a Mello Yello-sponsored car to victory in the Daytona 500, although the product name itself is never verbally mentioned in the movie.

Although Wallace missed the season opener at Daytona, he ran all following races until owner Armando Fitz announced on March 17 that the # 36 team would only run part-time due to a lack of product distribution, and the owner points of the 36 were switched the # 28 of Wallace's new team.

After ownership problems with IMSA in the 1990s, the Daytona event aligned with the Grand-Am series, a competitor of the American Le Mans Series, which, as its name implies, uses the same regulations as the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Grand-Am struggled early on, but has proven to be a formidable competitor to the ALMS in recent years with a different philosophy based on lower-tech cars-the Daytona Prototypes-giving larger fields and closer competition.

After only competing in a couple of celebrity races and occasional outings in the works Zytek in 2004 Johansson returned to full time racing in 2005 driving the Chip Ganassi run New Century Mortgage sponsored Lexus Riley Daytona Prototype in the American Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.

He currently races a Daytona Prototype Porsche Riley for Brumos Racing in the Grand-Am racing series, who won the 2009 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona.

He also made his Rolex Grand-Am début with Ganassi at the 24 Hours of Daytona.

In 2006, Vasser competed in three Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series races, including the 24 Hours of Daytona, driving for GAINSCO / Blackhawk Racing.

Target Chip Ganassi Racing also runs a Daytona Prototype team in the Rolex Grand-Am series fielding a BMW-Riley car driven by Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas.

Ganassi's Grand-Am Series team started 2011 in the best possible fashion, earning a one-two finish in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race.

In 2008, Lester drove the # 3 Riley Daytona Prototype for Southard Motorsports in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, partnering with Shane Lewis.

Dinan also builds BMW racing engines for teams competing in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype class.

SunTrust Racing is a professional sports car racing team competing in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype class.

The company they created, Proto-Auto LLC, built a new Daytona Prototype chassis, badged with a Lola nameplate, for the 2008 Grand-Am season.

Moreover, Pruett won the closest finish in the history of Grand-Am at the time, beating Alex Gurney in the finish to the 2008 Brumos Porsche 250 held at Daytona International Speedway by 0. 081 seconds, after 145 minutes of racing.

Hunter-Reay began his 2010 racing season in the Grand-Am series, where he teamed with three other drivers to pilot the # 95 car in the Daytona Prototype class for Level 5 Motorsports at the Rolex 24 at Daytona.