Laps, miles and a rail museum in Washington: A final look at the Rolex 24 at Daytona

A day's worth of racing was whittled down do just a couple of seconds of distance by the end of the 62nd Rolex 24 at Daytona on Sunday.

And in racing, it's always about the numbers: Hours and fractions of seconds, fuel mileage and tire wear, horsepower and gear ratios — on and on and on.

That list grows substantially when the event lasts a full 24 hours. From the eye-popping totals of laps, miles and turns on the 12-corner Daytona International Speedway road course to the margins of victory and the facts and figures within the race, the story of the event can largely be told by the statistics alone.

So, with that in mind, let's take a final look at the 2024 Rolex 24, by the numbers:

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• Unknown: The exact number of yet a new record crowd reported for this event. Attendance numbers are not provided

• 0: Full-time NASCAR drivers to compete in the Rolex 24 this year

• 1:35.554: The fastest lap of the race, turned by Tom Blomqvist in the No. 31 Cadillac on Lap 225

• 2.112: Official margin of victory for Felipe Nasr over Blomqvist in the overall standings

• 3.56: Miles that make up the Daytona International Speedway road course

• 9: Female drivers in the field, a new Rolex 24 record

• 14: The drought in years Porsche ended with an overall victory this year

• 15: Full-course caution flags

• 16: Men to have won both the Indianapolis 500 and the Rolex 24, a list that now includes Josef Newgarden

• 17 years, 6 months and 7 days: Age of Connor Zilisch, who helped drive the No. 18 Era Motorsports LMP2 team to a class win in his first endurance race.

• 23: Overall Rolex 24 wins for Porsche, the most of any manufacturer

• 24: Hours of the race, all of them, streamed on Peacock

• 32: Pit stops made by the winning No. 7 Penske Porsche car, one less than the No. 31 Cadillac, which finished second

• 34: Countries represented by drivers in the Rolex 24 field

• 53: Age of Ben Keating, the only driver to compete for two entries in different classes this year (No. 85 Porsche GTP and the No. 2 ORECA LMP2).

• 55: Years since team owner Roger Penske last won an overall Rolex 24 championship

• 82: Consecutive laps led in the GTD Pro Class by the No. 62 Ferrari to close out a class win

• 132 of 136: Laps led by the No. 18 Era Motorsports LMP2 team to close the Rolex 24

• 791: Laps completed by the GTP entries that finished on the lead lap

• 2,815.96: Miles driven by cars on the lead lap, the exact distance from Daytona International Speedway to the Inland Northwest Rail Museum in Rearden, Washington.

• 9,492: Turns negotiated by lead-lap GTP entries

• $15,000 (approx.): The value of the Rolex watches awarded to winning drivers

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Rolex 24 at Daytona: A by-the-numbers wrap up of the 2024 race