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Shank has been “jacked up” ever since. His team, now Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian went on to claim back-to-back IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT Daytona class titles in 2019 and ’20. It has expanded into fulltime competition in the IndyCar Series, where Helio Castroneves earned his record-tying fourth Indianapolis 500 win driving for the team last May.
And it all started with that 2012 Rolex 24 At Daytona victory.
“The 50th (Rolex 24) is just a big, big deal to me and winning it added a lot of value to everything we owned during that time,’’ Shank said, noting the similarities of the team getting its first IMSA and IndyCar wins on the biggest stages in their respective series. “Our first win ever was in the biggest race in the world. Just the right time and the right place – and the Rolex was really what started it all.
“I really don’t believe we would have had opportunities like we have had without that (2012) win.
“It was incredible with the timing just working out perfectly and it happened to be the 50th, which is a gift that never stops giving to this day, to be honest with you.”
Meyer Shank Racing returns in search of a second Rolex 24 win this week Oliver Jarvis, Tom Blomqvist, Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud driving the No. 60 Acura ARX-05 in the Daytona Prototype international (DPi) class. They will start from fifth position.
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