P1racenews AI automatic summary:
BMW, Ferrari fined and docked GTD Pro, GTD Manufacturers’ points
The penalties for performance violations were issued to the manufacturers only, excluding drivers and teams, keeping the results of last month’s season-opening race at Daytona unchanged. This race was the first under IMSA’s new GTD Balance of Performance system, where manufacturers had to declare their own performance levels. Both Ferrari and BMW finished on the podium in the GTD Pro class, with Risi Competizione’s Ferrari 296 GT3 winning and Paul Miller Racing’s BMW M4 GT3 coming third. Ferrari also secured second and third place in the GTD class through AF Corse and Conquest Racing. Along with fines, Ferrari lost 300 GTD Pro and 250 GTD points in IMSA’s Manufacturers’ Championship, and BMW lost 350 GTD Pro and 320 GTD points, as well as points in the Endurance Cup standings. The IMSA Technical Committee and Supervisory Officials unanimously agreed that BMW and Ferrari exceeded expected performance levels at the Daytona 24 Hour Race. The main aim of IMSA’s Balance of Performance system is to ensure competitive equivalency among different manufacturers’ cars in races, and decisions on BoP are final and cannot be appealed or protested.
