Overall and Prototype Class Win With Chip Ganassi Racing and First GT Daytona (GTD) Class Victory With TI Automotive/ViperExchange.com Riley Motorsports Viper GT3-RRiley Technologies and its associate entity Riley Motorsports combined to earn the organization’s 29th and 30th career Rolex 24 At Daytona class victories in the 53rd Rolex 24 At Daytona, January 24 – 25, with Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) and the Riley Motorsports-run TI Automotive /ViperExchange.com team.The Ganassi team’s No. 02 Target/Ford EcoBoost Riley took overall and Prototype class honors while the No. 93 TI Automotive/ViperExchange.com Viper GT3-R – a car and entry built and run by Riley – scored a last-to-first victory in the GT Daytona (GTD) division.The All-Star CGRFS lineup of Team Target drivers Scott Dixon and Kyle Larson, alongside Verizon IndyCar Series driver Tony Kanaan and NASCAR driver Jamie McMurray, drove the No. 02 Ford Riley to the win. Ben Keating, Al Carter, Cameron Lawrence, Kuno Wittmer and Dominik Farnbacher were the winning drivers in the No. 93 Viper GT3-R.Riley’s impressive career Rolex 24 win tally includes race cars designed and/or built by Riley Technologies and, in cases such as the No. 93 Viper GT3-R, complete operations campaigning Riley-built cars with teams run by Riley Motorsports.The earliest Riley triumphs at Daytona were earned in IMSA GT/GTO competition in the 1980s and early 1990s when a base chassis design by company founder and Motorsports Hall of Fame of America member, Bob Riley, was driven to nearly a dozen Rolex 24 class wins.The biggest mark came a few years later when the Riley & Scott Mk III Prototype scored the overall victory in 1996 under the Doyle Racing banner, a team operated by Riley Motorsports.Dyson Racing later earned two overall Rolex 24 victories in 1997 and 1999 and a Prototype class win in the 2000, all in Riley & Scott Mk IIIs.The Daytona Prototype era ushered in Riley’s most successful string of overall Rolex 24 victories. Rileys won overall nine straight times from 2005 through 2013 with several different teams racing various generations of the Riley Mk VI, XX and XXII chassis. The first victory in 2005 with SunTrust Racing was a team operated by Riley Motorsports.“First of all, none of this would be possible without all of the great racing teams and people that we have been lucky enough to work and race with,” said Bill Riley, Riley Technologies President and Riley Motorsports Director. “Chip Ganassi Racing has given us some of our most memorable and, of course, most recent 24 hour wins and I can’t say enough about the commitment and trust Ben Keating and Viper Exchange have put in our organization. It’s an amazing feeling to win with a car you built and a team you had the privilege of putting together, but this particular group with Ben, Viper Exchange and TI Automotive is truly special. This year’s Rolex 24 will certainly standout for a long time.”This past weekend’s overall triumph with the No. 02 brought a Riley Prototype back to Rolex 24 victory lane after a one-year absence and extended the Ganassi team’s unmatched run of Rolex 24 success. The win was a record sixth Rolex 24 triumph for CGRFS in just 12 attempts, all overall victories in Riley-built Prototypes.

The No. 93 Viper’s win – in a race car built by and a team run by Riley – wasn’t the first time a similar Riley GT effort reached Rolex 24 success. In 2006, Riley partnered with Mazda and SpeedSource Engineering in a Mazda RX-8 program that took Rolex 24 GT honors in 2008 and 2010. Riley Motorsports co-operated the winning efforts with Bill Riley calling the pit-side race strategy for the 2010 victory.Bill Riley filled a similar supervisory role at this year's Rolex 24 At Daytona for the TI Automtive/ViperExchange.com team. Keating, who drove the race-opening shift in the No. 93, was among the first to acknowledge the Riley organization’s top effort at the end of the Rolex 24. “After the checkered flag, I turned to Bill and said, ‘two out of four isn't bad,’” said Keating, who is also the principal of ViperExchange.com. “You know, he is extremely passionate about it, and his father Bob is extremely involved still, as well. It really is a family‑run business, it really is special. I mean, he is everything from A to Z, from the machine shop to the engineer to the strategist. It's pretty incredible. I love going to the shop and seeing pictures of the Le Mans wins in the mid-60s that Bob Riley had, everything from there to the present.”Next up for Riley Technologies and Riley Motorsports is the 12 Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida at Sebring International Raceway, March 18 – 21. Ganassi will be looking for a second-straight Sebring win with a Ford EcoBoost Riley after taking the Prototype and overall victory last year while Riley Motorsports will campaign both the No. 33 and No. 93 TI Automotive/ViperExchange.com Viper GT3-Rs.