Ganassi trio dominates Rolex 24 at Daytona
Don’t be fooled by Sunday’s finish of the Rolex 24 at Daytona being the third-closest in the race’s 45-year history. After 24 hours, 668 laps and 2,378 miles, the results can be summed up in one word: domination.
The Chip Ganassi Racing trio of Scott Pruett, Juan Pablo Montoya and Salavador Duran, co-driving the No. 02 Lexus Riley, won by 1 minute, 15.842 seconds at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. It was a performance that saw them in the top three for the final 21 hours and run at the point for the final 2 hours and 43 minutes, or 91 laps.
Ryan Dalziel, Patrick Carpentier and Milka Duno finished second in the No. 11 SAMAX Citgo Pontiac Riley Prototype. Duno’s finish was the best ever for a woman in the 24 and the best finish ever by a woman in a major automobile race at Daytona.
It was Pruett’s seventh Rolex 24 triumph in class, setting a race record.
Winter Sports
Davis, Fredricks score wins at World Cup
Shani Davis won the 1,000-meter event for his second victory in two days at a World Cup speedskating meet while U.S. teammate Tucker Fredricks captured the 500 in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
Davis, who moved up to fourth place in the overall standings, finished in 1 minute, 8.98 seconds to beat Erben Wennemars of the Netherlands by 0.21 seconds. Yevgeny Lalenkov of Russia was third in 1:09.55.
•Brian Joubert kept his perfect season rolling by winning the European figure skating title in Warsaw, Poland, establishing himself as a contender for the gold at the world championships.
•Sweden’s Jens Byggmark, competing in his first full World Cup season, won his second slalom in two days at Kitzbuehel, Austria.
American Bode Miller, the 2004 overall champion, finished the first leg in 17th place. Miller hasn’t completed a slalom in more than a year. He has failed to complete 18 of his last 21 World Cup slalom races.
•Jens Arne Svartedal of Norway won his second World Cup cross-country ski race of the season in Otepaa, Estonia.
•Andre Lange of Germany won the two-man title with Kevin Kuske at the bobsled world championships, while the United States finished fourth in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
•American Lindsey Kildow won a World Cup super-G on the same course where she fell in downhill training at last year’s Turin games in San Sicario, Italy.
Soccer
Ronaldo move to AC Milan expected
AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti hopes Ronaldo’s transfer from Real Madrid will be completed today.
A move to Milan would return Ronaldo to the city where he spent five years with rival Inter Milan. He joined Madrid in 2002, and it captured the Spanish league at the end of his first season.
•Playing without five regulars left at home to rest or rehab injuries, the United States struggled to a 1-1 draw with England in the Four Nations women’s soccer tournament in Guanzhou, China.