ROLEX 24 AT DAYTONA

January 30, 2022

Kay van Berlo

Media Conference

Q. Kay van Berlo, your first time and you win the Rolex 24. How does that feel?

KAY van BERLO: Incredible. It's hard to describe it in words. Making my debut in Daytona, coming away with a win is something I dreamed about.

When I grew up as a young kid, you dream about competing in these big endurance races, Le Mans, Daytona, Nurburgring. Doing this already at the age of 20, 21, coming away with a win, is just incredible.

Q. Talk about the effort it took for you. Battles with the 54 and 36. You outlasted them all.

KAY van BERLO: The way it works in IMSA is with the full-course caution, anyone can catch up again. Even though we had a small gap in the beginning, we had a small gap in the middle of the race, as long as the checkered flag is not there, they can catch up easily.

As we all know, it's endurance racing. It's a long race. Even though we had some tough competition, we really focused on our own strategy, our own race, especially staying out of trouble.

The first six or eight hours was pretty difficult. There was a lot going on. We had small contact. Once we settled after eight hours, everyone seems to have found their rhythm. We were pretty clean from that point onwards.

As I said already, even though we pulled a gap at some point, we lost it already after a full course caution.

Yeah, it was difficult but worked out well.