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The chequered flag was shown early at the end of the 24 hour race, leading to confusion among the leaders over whether the race had finished.
The organisers of the IMSA Sports Car Championship have acknowledged their mistake in the Daytona 24 Hours race, where the leading cars crossed the finish line twice. The confusion arose when the white flag, indicating the final lap, was mistakenly shown with three minutes remaining in the 24-hour race. The GTD class leader was the first car to see the flag, although the overall winner should have been the one to record it. Felipe Nasr, along with Dane Cameron, Matt Campbell, and Josef Newgarden, received the checkered flag with 1 minute and 35.277 seconds left. IMSA organisers admitted the error and explained that according to the rules, when the checkered flag is displayed, regardless of whether it was a mistake or not, the race is considered over.
