MOTOR RACING 24 HOURS OF DAYTONA : Wallace-Lammers-Jones Team Leads After 10 Hours

A Jaguar XJR-12 driven by American Davy Jones, Jan Lammers of the Netherlands and Andy Wallace of England was running at the front of the pack Saturday night, a almost half of the way through the Daytona 24 Hours sports car endurance race.

The British-built car took turns in the lead with the other Jaguar, co-driven by Price Cobb and 1988 Daytona winners Martin Brundle of England and John Nielsen of West Germany, as well as a Nissan GTP-ZXT shared by two-time defending IMSA Camel GTP champion Geoff Brabham of Australia, Chip Robinson, Bob Earl and Derek Daly of Ireland.

Ten hours after the start of the twice-around-the-clock race, Wallace had about a 30-second lead over the Nissan, with the other Jaguar a lap behind in third and a Porsche co-driven by Al Unser Jr., Robby Unser and Brazlian Raul Boesel another half-lap back.

At almost exactly the six-hour mark, Derek Bell of England, one of the defending champions, flipped his Porsche 962C coming off the fourth turn of the banked section of Daytona International Speedway’s 3.56-mile road course.

The car, co-driven by Gianpiero Moretti of Italy and Stanley Dickens of Sweden, wound up on its roof and gasoline began to pour onto the banked track. Bell was treated at the infield care center and released.

That accident brought out the second full-course caution flag of the race and gave the drivers a chance to take a breather from the fast pace of the race.