24 Hours of Daytona

With all due respect to my man Adam Weiner and his 24 Hours of LeMons, down in Daytona the only lemons we like are the ones we spritz onto our crab legs. In the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the world's most tricked out sports cars race from Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon—non-stop. But the real heroes of the event are the hundreds of crew members who live, eat, work and sleep in the pits. How do they do it? To find out, we crammed down a bunch of Jolly Ranchers and Red Bull for energy and tagged along with the crew of the No. 2 Gentleman Jack Pontiac-Crawford. (WARNING: Around 4:00 AM things get a little "Apocalypse Now/Heart of Darkness"-ish.)

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