Ferrari is back for the 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 at Daytona
Teamspeed's partner Ferrari of Ft. Lauderdale campaigns the first confirmed 458 Grand Am
Photo by NVPhotoman

After almost a two year absence, Ferrari is making a long-awaited return to Daytona International Speedway for the 2012 Rolex 24 At Daytona, and our partners at Ferrari of Ft. Lauderdale are first on the scene with car #27. Ferrari racing veterans & factory drivers Jaime Melo along with Toni Vilander will be piloting the #27 car, the first car delivered campaigned by Ferrari of Ft. Lauderdale. This Grand Am racer is 1 of 2 and the only 2 confirmed running for 2012. The Ferrari 458 Italia Grand AM will arrive Tuesday and Wednesday during private testing at Daytona that will have coverage of.

Ferrari will compete with Porsche, Mazda, Ford and GM sedans, which make up Grand-Am's GT class. having Ferrari back in the series is expected to boost interest worldwide for the Grand-Am Road Racing sanctioned sportscar event, scheduled Jan. 28-29, which kicks off the Rolex Series according to the Daytona Beach News Journal.

More pics and information coming this week so stay tuned!

Video before graphics were applied:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV-WyAmGbMU

 

I'll be there and can't wait to see it. Isn't Michael Waltrip Racing getting involved with the 458 campaign as well? I thought he wanted 2 cars though.

 

Thanks for the feature guys, any Teamnspeeder please stop by and say hi to us and take lots of pics!

 

If you need a volunteer to do grunt work, let me know!

 

Working as fast as I can to get these up ASAP!!!

 

that is great news! Good looking race car

 

That is a great looking livery right there.

 

Great work Dave

 

Thanks Blake.

 

nice shot! I will be at the test this week - see you there?