Spirit of Daytona Racing

Antonio García and Richard Westbrook joined the Spirit of Daytona team during the 2012 Rolex Sports Car Series season.

In 2014, Grand-Am merged with the American Le Mans Series to form the Tudor United SportsCar Championship.

Despite Valiante and Westbrook finishing second in points, both drivers were released in favor of Marc Goossens and Scotsman Ryan Dalziel.

Of note, Goossens raced with 2012 IndyCar Series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay at Long Beach due to Dalziel driving for Tequila Patrón ESM in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Against the dominant Action Express and Wayne Taylor Racing entries, VFR saw the podium twice, at Daytona and Laguna Seca, and Goossens finished 5th in the final standing.

SDR hired former IndyCar Series driver Tristan Vautier and European Le Mans Series and North American Endurance Championship driver Matt McMurry for their first full-time seasons in Prototype and Eddie Cheever III for the Rolex 24 at Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring races.

[4] At Sebring, Vautier qualified on pole but in hour 11 of the race, he crashed into the Turn 17 barriers on his first lap after climbing back into the car, damaging the tub beyond repair and forcing the team to miss the following two rounds at Long Beach and Mid-Ohio.

[7] A lack of funding began to impact the team, preventing it from competing at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and at Road America.