NASCAR: Andy Lally for Nationwide, Ty Dillon in Trans-Am and Ryan Reed in PWC this weekend - MotorSportsTalk

Two NASCAR regulars will be racing sports cars and one sports car regular returns to NASCAR in this weekend’s action at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis.

Andy Lally, the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rookie-of-the-Year, has lined up a ride for Saturday’s Nationwide Series race. Lally confirmed the news on his Twitter page on Monday.

Happy to announce I’ll be racing the #55 SS Green Light Racing w/Viva Motorsports Camaro at Road America this weekend! #NASCAR Nationwide

— Andy Lally (@AndyLally) June 17, 2014

We’re going into this race an underdog but there is great drive here & I cant wait to see what this hard-working team and I can do together.

— Andy Lally (@AndyLally) June 17, 2014

Now, as for the Nationwide regulars sampling other forms of sports car machinery:

Ty Dillon announced Monday he’ll be in a TA2 class entry for Miller Racing in the Trans-Am race this weekend, the No. 12 Chevrolet Camaro, alongside team regulars Cameron Lawrence and Mel Shaw.

Meanwhile Ryan Reed, who has Type 1 Diabetes, will race in the Pirelli World Challenge race in the TCB class, driving the No. 12 American Diabetes Association/Lilly Diabetes/American Honda Honda Fit for Garrett Racing/Drive4Diabetes. He’ll drive one race and Danish driver Johan Schwartz will drive the other.

Dillon and Reed will still compete in the Nationwide race on Saturday.

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For the third time in four years, Wayne Taylor Racing is victorious in the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona.

Kamui Kobayashi drove the team’s No. 10 Cadillac for the race’s final three hours, and won by more than a minute over the No. 77 Mazda of Oliver Jarvis. Loic Duvall finished third in the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac.

Joining Kobayashi in victory lane were co-drivers, Regner van der Zande, Scott Dixon and Ryan Briscoe.

Here’s a look at some of the winners in the other classes:

LMP2:

The No. 81 Dragonspeed ORECA crossed the finish line first in the five-car LMP2 class, with Ben Hanley winning by two laps over the second-place Mathiasen Motorsports entry driven by Gabriel Abury. Nic Minassian finished third in the No. 18 Era Motorsport entry.

Dragonspeed’s winning team also included co-drivers Colin Braun, Harrison Newey and Henrik Hedman.

GTLM:

For the second consecutive year, BMW RLL took the GLTM class honors, as Jesse Krohn took the checkered flag in the team’s No. 24 BMW M8 GTE. Krohn was joined by co-drivers John Edwards, Augusto Farfus and Chaz Mostert.

Porsche Teammates Earl Bamber and Nick Tandy finished second and third, respectfully.

GTD:

The Andrea Caldarelli took the class honors in the No. 48 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 of Paul Miller Racing, finishing ahead of Marco Mapelli and Mirko Bortolotti.

Caldarelli’s co-drivers included Bryan Sellers, Corey Lewis and Madison Snow.

Click here for full race results by class

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