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John Baldessari Blazes a Trail at the Daytona International Speedway With BMW Art Car #19

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"You’re asleep at 4:30 in the morning, and someone wakes you up in the motorhome and says you need to be in pit lane," says driver Alexander Sims. "You rush up there, and there’s a yellow, and you get in sooner than expected. Now you’re doing 180 miles an hour when you were asleep 30 minutes before. So that’s the strange and difficult part of an endurance race—getting your mind ready to jump in."