Posting from sunny Daytona Beach, where I arrived today after a grueling overnight train from Virginia. But enough about me. Preparing to watch the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona for my fifth straight year and thought why not a post about unicorns you can buy at CarMax that are also racing in this great endurance race?! There are in fact four sports cars racing this weekend that you can pickup at CarMax and add MaxCare for those unexpected pit stops. There would be five, but the Mercedes AMG GT S CarMax offered last week is no longer available. (Today in the four hour “sprint” race Mercedes AMG GT S’s took the three top spots!). So without further ado, here’s what’s racing that you can buy. 
The Corvette C8 makes its debut in endurance racing this weekend – the first mid-engine Corvette. I’ve stretched this a bit – you can’t buy a C8 Corvette from CarMax just yet, but I’ve been watching Corvettes dominate at Le Mans and Daytona for years and I have so much respect for this car. It’s world class performance for a pittance of what its competition charges. So here’s a Corvette Z06 you can actually buy and crush the local Ferraris if you so choose.
For the record, I root for the Corvettes because of how their V-8’s rumble like nothing else on the track – I giggle every lap – and also because at Le Mans in 2009 (I think) and Daytona in 2015 the two factory cars raced neck and neck on the last lap thrilling the crowd and scaring the owners. God bless America.
Likewise, I first watched Porsche 911’s race at Le Mans in 1981 (that sounds so old!) and I’m amazed that a car that came on line when I was three (1963!) has been continually updated and remains competitive a half-century later. Not to mention, I finally bought one (Etta) and I get their handling, acceleration, and mystique.
I have a good friend affiliated with the Corvette team here, and he complains that Porsche cheats – the 911’s that race are actually mid-engine cars and not rear-engined like real 911’s. Whatever. Here’s a CarMax 911 that at this time is the most expensive car they have.
The BMW M6 will be racing in the GT Daytona category this weekend (the new BMW M8 will be in the GT Le Mans category – none yet at CarMax) and I also have a fondness for this huge performance car. Before I bought Etta I found a 2008 BMW M6 V-10 with low miles at a New Jersey CarMax for only $23,998 and I passed. I was a fool. It was so old school brutish but what a car – 8,000 rpm redline. 
Anyway, the current M6’s are V-8’s that are even more powerful. Here’s a sweet and sinister looking M6 from CarMax that’s as close as you can come to this weekend’s race car.
Last, and I had totally forgotten these were racing, is a Lexus RC-F in the GT Daytona category (if you’re new to Le Mans and World Endurance racing, all four classes race at the same time – almost always the prototypes win the overall race and the other three compete for their class victory). 
This year one of the four drivers for the #14 RC-F will be none other than NASCAR driver Kyle Busch. I tend to root for upstarts like Toyota when they disrupted NASCAR and hope the RC-F’s do well. I wrote about this RC-F a few months ago, and lo and behold there’s another one for sale!
Will try not to annoy regular readers with too many updates during the race. Thanks for reading – Chuck.