Series information

the Rolex 24 At Daytona Driver Challenge presented by Sunoco is aimed at finding who is the fastest and most suitable racer to fill a race seat in a Daytona Prototype at the 2010 Rolex 24 At Daytona®. During 2009 racers in the Cooper Tires British F3 International Series, the Avon Tyres British GT Championship, The Radical UK Cup and the Speed sports prototype series are fighting for the chance to be the first to win this prestigious prize and the glory to race with the creme de la creme of US endurance racing drivers.

Cooper Tires British F3 International Series:
A breathing ground for former Formula One drivers and is contested over 20 x 30 minutes sprint races mainly in the UK but with three flyaway races at Spa, Nurburgring and Algarve. Extremely difficult to dominate with very small differences between cars, teams and drivers in terms of speed and skill. Most of the cars have Dallara chassis and are powered by either Mercedes, VW or Neil Brown Engineering Honda engines. At the end of the season each driver will have raced for 10 hours plus numerous test and qualifying  sessions.

Avon Tyres British GT Championship:
Contested over six double race weekends (1 hour races) and two race weekends with a longer 2- hour race. Mainly run in the UK with the exception of a race weekend at Spa-Francorchamps. The British GT Championship is not open to a pairing of professional drivers so the team has to choose from two B-classed drivers or one A and one C classed pairing. Popular cars are Ferraris, Dodge Vipers, Aston Martins, Moslers and Ascaris. When the season is over a total of 8 hours of racing has been averaged per driver

Radical UK Cup:
Consists of Radical SR8 powered by a Powertech 2.8 litre V8 engine and Radical SR3 with a 1500 cc bike engine. The SR8 cars are around 4 seconds a lap faster so unless it is raining these are the cars to be in. Many says that if you can master a Radical SR8 then you can drive anything thanks to its power to weight ratio and lack of down force compared to cars of similar speed. As with British GT the Radical UK Cup consists of 2 drivers per car and is contested over 8 weekends of which six are double headers and two longer 75 minutes races resulting of an average of a total of 5.25 hours per driver.

SPEED:
The SPEED sports prototype series consists of FIA CN cars powered by the Honda VTEC engine and built to CN regulations. These cars are very much like a "baby" LMP2 car with lots of aero. They have all got paddelshift sequential gearboxes. SPEED is also a two driver per car formula. Although there are only five race meetings for 2009 the total average of racing per driver is 9 hours contested over four x 3 hour and 1 x 6 hour race weekends.