Welcome news from Spirit of Daytona Racing this evening which reveals that after, in what must be the year’s biggest PR understatement, what the team describe as “ a setback in testing, the team have already received an all-new chassis to replace the car badly damaged in Richard Westbrook’s horrifying shunt at the recent Daytona IMSA test.

“We are grateful that Pratt & Miller builds such a strong chassis and that Richard was able to walk away from that accident,” said team owner Troy Flis. “Everyone is working to learn as much as we possibly can about what happened, and take that information so we can avoid anything like that happening in the future.”

“We had our accident on Tuesday, and they (Coyote) said we would have a new Coyote in the shop by Monday but they went even better and had it to us on Friday,” said Flis.

“It is chassis 007, and we are hoping it will bring us a little bit of luck. Getting the new chassis so quickly is a big help. We are working from behind a little bit to be ready to go for the next test, so to get a new car to use as our starting point is a huge help so we are really appreciative of this kind of support from Coyote.”