DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- It's a given in the Rolex 24 at Daytona that the winning team has to survive a day-long grind that tests the mettle of man and machine. But Joao Barbosa, Christian Fittipaldi and Sebastien Bourdais had to overcome much more than that to put their No. 5 Action Express Corvette DP into Victory Lane in the 52nd running of the Rolex 24 -- and the first as part of the new TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. On Saturday night, Bourdais and John Martin, who was driving the third-place finishing No. 9 Action Express team car, narrowly avoided contact in the "Bus Stop" chicane near the end of the backstretch of Daytona International Speedway's 3.56-mile road course, when Martin closed the door on his fellow Corvette driver.
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