Gallery: Inside the paddocks of the Daytona Classic 24 2019

For us at GRR one of the main highlights each year of this trip is seeing cars racing wheel-to-wheel that we just wouldn't see racing at Goodwood. Some we may have seen at the Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard, but there's just something different about seeing cars on a circuit. Especially one as historic as Daytona.

Before we head onto the track and start brigning you loads of images, onboards and more from the action, we thought a tour of the paddocks was in order, as a quick demonstration of the variety of cars here. This year has seen an explosion in some of the newer cars, from the Daytona Prototypes of the Grand-Am and later IMSA series, LMP1 cars from Europe and a whole fleet of GT3 cars. 

That't not all of course. We've also got the usual array of racers form the '60s and '70s and, of course in America, wherever there's racing there's a lot of Porsches.

We'll have loads more Daytona content for you over the coming days, so stay tuned!

Photography by Pete Summers.