201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, History, BfSB Transformation
The changes made were all part of an Army-wide transition to the Army Modular Force, future-concept ("Grow The Army Plan" of modernization) proposed by US Army Chief of Staff General Peter Schoomaker in 2007. The plan calls for eleven Surveillance Brigades, seven of which are designated to Army National Guard: the 58th BfSB from Maryland, the 67th BFSB from Nebraska, the 71st BfSB from Texas, the 142nd BfSB from Alabama, the 219th BfSB from Indiana, the 297th BfSB from Alaska, and the 560th BfSB from Georgia, all of which are moving to the objective designs by the scheduled completion of the Grow The Army Plan by fiscal year 2013.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, History, BfSB Transformation
The 109th Military Intelligence Battalion activated in October 2008 to resume its 25-year-old legacy at Fort Lewis as formerly the 9th Infantry Division's primary intelligence-gathering arm.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, History, BfSB Transformation
The 502nd Military Intelligence Battalion went through a transformation of its own to conform to the collection needs of the newly modular, self-sufficient brigade.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, History, BfSB Transformation
At a future date, Troop C (LRS), 38th Cavalry Regiment will be reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop (HHT), 3d Squadron, 38th Cavalry Regiment. The squadron will include Troops A and B (ground troops) and Troop C (LRS), which will be formed from the assets of the existing C-38th CAV.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, History, BfSB Transformation
The brigade was home to nearly 1,000 service men and women. The brigade and its organic intelligence systems played a major role in the Army's Transformation Project that took shape at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. This transformation included another overhaul of the current structure to the reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition (RSTA) format.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, History, EMIB Transformation
Along with the other two FORSCOM Intelligence Brigades (the 504th and 525th), the 201st BfSB further transformed into the 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade (EMIB), consisting of the 109th E-MI BN and the 502nd E-MI BN (the LRS elements were cut in this transformation). The BDE now consists of approximately 650 Soldiers between the two line BNs and HHC BDE.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, Insignia
Oriental blue and silver gray are the Military Intelligence branch colors. The two parts symbolize the responsibility for acquisition and processing of tactical and strategic intelligence. The sword symbolizes the aggressiveness, and physical danger inherent in Military Intelligence operations. The lightning bolts refer to the electronic warfare capabilities of the unit and the commander's need for accurate and ready intelligence from all sources.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, Insignia
The shoulder sleeve insignia was originally approved for the 201st Military Intelligence Brigade on 29 April 1987. It was redesignated effective 16 October 2008, for the 201st Battlefield Surveillance Brigade with the description updated.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, Insignia
Oriental blue and silver gray are the colors associated with the Military Intelligence branch. Black denotes secrecy. The blue disc superimposed by the silver polestar symbolizes the world and the far reaching capabilities of the unit. The blue and silver wavy bars allude to World War II campaign participation in the Pacific. The silver mountain peak is representative of the Korean campaigns. The griffin, having the keen eyesight of an eagle and the strength and courage of a lion, indicates the attributes of Military intelligence and also alludes to the motto "With Courage and Vision". The lightning flash is indicative of communications, electronic warfare capabilities and the origin of the unit as a signal unit.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, Insignia
The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 201st Military Intelligence Brigade on 29 April 1987. It was redesignated effective 16 October 2008, for the 201st Battlefield Surveillance Brigade with the description updated.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, Structure
The 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade improves situational awareness for commanders at division or higher so they can focus joint combat power in current operations while simultaneously preparing for future operations. The units have the tools to respond to the commanders need from unmanned aerial vehicles to signals gathering equipment and human intelligence collectors.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, Structure
Each expeditionary intelligence brigade consists of a headquarters and headquarters company (HHC). Active units have two military intelligence battalions, while the Army National Guard brigades have one. The brigades also have a signal company and a forward support company.


201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, Structure
The 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade currently consists of two Military Intelligence battalions (MI BNs), One deactivated Forward Support Company, One deactivated Network Support Company and a Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC).


201st Field Artillery Regiment
The 201st Field Artillery Regiment ("First West Virginia") is a West Virginia Army National Guard regiment. Based in Fairmont, West Virginia, it currently perpetuates the Virginia elements of the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment, which fought in the American Revolution. Organized in 1735, it is the oldest regiment in the U.S. Army still active today. Units also saw action on both sides of the American Civil War, with many companies of the regiment combined to form the Union Army's 1st West Virginia Infantry.


201st Field Artillery Regiment, 201st Infantry Regiment
On 6 January 1941 the 201st was inducted into federal service at Morgantown, West Virginia, and moved to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, on 10 January 1941 where it was attached to the Second Army. The regiment staged at Camp Murray, Washington, on 5 August 1941 until it departed the Seattle port of embarkation on 12 September 1941, arriving at Kodiak, Alaska, on 16 September 1941. The 201st transferred to Adak Island in November 1942 and to Amchitka in January 1943 before departing Alaska on 22 March 1944 and returning to the Seattle port of embarkation on 2 April 1944.


201st Field Artillery Regiment, 201st Infantry Regiment
The regiment moved to Camp Carson, Colorado on 10 April 1944 under the XVI Corps, and was reassigned to the XXXVI Corps on 17 July 1944. Beginning in April 1944, the regiment provided an accelerated six-week course of infantry training (four weeks of familiarization, qualification, and transition firing, and two weeks of tactical training) to men who were formerly members of disbanded anti-aircraft and tank destroyer units or who had volunteered for transfer to the infantry from other branches of the Army..


201st Field Artillery Regiment, 201st Infantry Regiment
It relocated to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on 10 September 1944 under IX Corps and was assigned to XXIII Corps on 25 September 1944. It arrived at Camp Rucker (now Fort Rucker), Alabama, on 3 March 1945 under the Replacement & School Command and was inactivated there on 26 September 1945.


201st Field Artillery Regiment, 201st Infantry Regiment
Following the war’s end the 201st reverted to state control where it was reorganized and redesignated as the 201st Field Artillery Battalion.


201st Field Artillery Regiment, Activities
In December 1990, the unit was called to serve in Operation Desert Storm. The unit was activated for 180 days unless sooner released or later extended. The 201st left Fairmont and went to Fort Campbell, Kentucky for training. It joined XVIII Corps Artillery, 18th Field Artillery Brigade. On the exact 256th anniversary of its founding, the unit fired 256 rounds downrange at Iraqi forces. David Tucker was a chaplain's assistant of the unit at the time and noted this in a letter to The Fairmont Times.


201st Field Artillery Regiment, Activities
The units of the 201st returned to their home base in May, 1991. The unit did not lose a single man during the war.


201st Field Artillery Regiment, Activities
In December 2003, the 201st was again called to active duty for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The soldiers trained at Fort Drum, New York in January and February, 2004 before going overseas. While in theater, the battalion was subordinated to the 197th Fires Brigade of the New Hampshire National Guard and commanded by Colonel James Guise. The 197th reported directly to III Corps Artillery, under the command of Brigadier General Richard Formica. The unit spent one year in Iraq before returning home in February 2005.


201st Field Artillery Regiment, Activities
The Battalion Headquarters (HHB) operated out of Camp Cedar II and Tallil Airbase, both of which are approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of An Nasiriyah in the Dhi Qar province of Iraq. B Battery and Service Battery were co-located with the HHB. A Battery operated out of Convoy Support Center (CSC) Scania and C Battery operated out of CSC Navistar in Kuwait. The Battalion's mission was convoy security and route clearance for Main Supply Route (MSR) Tampa, the primary route for supplies in Iraq at the time.


201st Field Artillery Regiment, Activities
C Battery would later move north to Camp Cedar II and Tallil Airbase and continue convoy security. Some members of C Battery were also attached to the 1st Cav Division in Jan 2005 to provide extra security in Baghdad (they were stationed in the Hotel District: the Baghdad, Palestine and Sheraton Hotels across the river from the Green Zone) for the first elections while the rest of the unit and battalion trained their replacements.


201st Field Artillery Regiment, Coat of arms
Background: The coat of arms was originally approved for the 201st Infantry Regiment on 21 November 1929. It was redesignated for the 201st Armored Field Artillery Battalion on 20 July 1953. It was redesignated for the 201st Artillery Regiment on 18 July 1960. The insignia was redesignated for the 201st Field Artillery Regiment on 19 July 1972.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico)
The 201st Fighter Squadron (Spanish: Escuadrón Aéreo de Pelea 201) was a Mexican fighter squadron, part of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force that aided the Allied war effort during World War II. The squadron was known by the nickname Águilas Aztecas or "Aztec Eagles", apparently coined by members of the squadron during training.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico)
The squadron was attached to the 58th Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during the liberation of the main Philippine island of Luzon in the summer of 1945. The pilots flew Republic P-47D-30-RA Thunderbolt single-seat fighter aircraft carrying out tactical air support missions.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico)
The Mexico City Metro Line 8 station Metro Escuadrón 201 is named after the squadron, whilst it was also the subject of the Mexican film Escuadrón 201, directed by Jaime Salvador and released in 1945. On November 22, 2004, the squadron was awarded the Philippine Legion of Honor, with a rank of Legionnaire, by then president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The unit is still active at present, flying the Pilatus PC-7.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Formation and training
The Escuadrón Aéreo de Pelea 201 (201st Air Fighter Squadron) was composed of more than 300 volunteers; 30 were experienced pilots and the rest were groundcrew. The ground crewmen were electricians, mechanics, and radiomen. Its formation was prompted by the attack by German submarines against Mexican oil tankers Potrero del Llano and Faja de Oro, that were transporting crude oil to the United States. These attacks prompted President Manuel Ávila Camacho to declare war on the Axis powers on May 22, 1942, and to join Brazil as the only two Latin American countries to actually send military forces overseas.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Formation and training
The squadron left Mexico for training in the United States on July 24, 1944, arrived at Laredo, Texas, on July 25, and moved on to Randolph Field in San Antonio, where the personnel received medical examinations and admission tests in weapons and flight proficiency. They received three months of training at Randolph, Foster Army Air Field in Victoria, Texas, and Pocatello Army Air Base. The pilots received extensive training in armament, communications and tactics.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Formation and training
The squadron arrived at Majors Field in Greenville, Texas, on November 30, 1944. Here, the pilots received advanced training in combat air tactics, formation flying and gunnery. The men were honored with graduation ceremonies on February 20, 1945, and the squadron was presented with its battle flag. This marked the first time Mexican troops were trained for overseas combat. In charge of the group was Colonel Antonio Cárdenas Rodríguez, and Captain First Class Radamés Gaxiola Andrade was named squadron commander.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Formation and training
Before leaving for the Philippines, the men received further instructions and physical examinations in Camp Stoneman in Pittsburg, California, in March 1945. The men left for the Philippines on the troop ship S.S. Fairisle on March 27, 1945. The squadron arrived in Manila on April 30, 1945, and was assigned as part of the Fifth Air Force, attached to the U.S. 58th Fighter Group, based  at Porac, Pampanga, in the Clark Field complex on the island of Luzon.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Combat operations
Beginning in June 1945, the squadron initially flew missions with the 310th Fighter Squadron, often twice a day, using borrowed U.S. aircraft. It received 25 new P-47D-30-RA aircraft in July, marked with the insignia of both the USAAF and Mexican Air Force. The squadron flew more than 90 combat missions, totaling more than 1,900 hours of flight time. It participated in the Allied effort to bomb Luzon and Formosa to push the Japanese out of those islands. During its fighting in the Philippines, five squadron pilots died (one was shot down, one crashed, and three ran out of fuel and died at sea); and three others died in accidents during training.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Combat operations
Among the missions flown by the squadron were 53 ground support missions flown in support of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division together with the Philippine Commonwealth troops and recognized guerrilla units in the break-out into the Cagayan Valley on Luzon between 4 June and 4 July 1945; 37 training missions flown 14–21 July 1945 (including missions to ferry new aircraft from Biak Island, New Guinea); four fighter sweeps over Formosa on 6–9 July 1945; and a dive bombing mission against the port of Karenko, Formosa, on 8 August.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Combat operations
When the 201st deployed, no provision for replacement pilots had been made and the pilot losses incurred in the Philippines hampered its effectiveness. Mexican replacement pilots were rushed through familiarization training in the United States, and two more pilots died in flight accidents in Florida. When the 58th Fighter Group left the Philippines for Okinawa on July 10, the Mexicans stayed behind. They flew their last combat mission as a full squadron on August 26, escorting a convoy north of the Philippines.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Combat operations
Not only did the pilots get into combat, but also the ground personnel encountered Japanese troops, having some fire-fights and capturing a number of enemy troops as well. The 201st Mexican Squadron was given credit for putting out of action about 30,000 Japanese troops  and the destruction of enemy held-buildings, vehicles, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns emplacements and ammunition depots.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Combat operations
The work of the 201st was recognized by General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Combat operations
The 201st returned to Mexico City on 18 November 1945. In a military parade in the Constitution Square the Fighter Squadron delivered the Mexican flag to President Manuel Ávila Camacho. The FAEM was disbanded after returning from the Philippines.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Combat operations
The Escuadrón Aéreo de Pelea 201 is still an active duty squadron, flying the Pilatus PC-7 from Cozumel, Quintana Roo, and saw extensive counter-insurgency service during the 1994 uprising in Chiapas.


201st Fighter Squadron (Mexico), Squadron pilots
Pilots marked with an asterisk (*) were killed during flying operations in the Philippines. Pilot marked by two asterisks (**) died in January 1945 during training exercises at the Army Air Base at Abilene, Texas. Pilot marked by three asterisks (***) was killed in a low altitude gunnery training exercise in March 1945 near Harlingen AAF in Texas.


201st Independent Infantry Brigade (Home)
The 201st Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) was a short-lived Home Defence formation of the British Army during the Second World War.


201st Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), Formation and Service
The 201st Independent Infantry Brigade was formed for service in the United Kingdom on 4 October 1940 by No 1 Infantry Training Group in Aldershot Command. It was commanded by Brigadier A.E. Lawrence, and comprised four newly raised infantry battalions from Southern England. 'Home' brigades had a purely static defence role.


201st Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), Service
The brigade moved from Aldershot Command to XII Corps on 10 October and then briefly to the West Sussex County Division (on 9 November), then to the Yorkshire Area (Military District) (on 21 February 1941), then to the Yorkshire County Division on 19 March, after that was formed on 24 February. The Yorkshire County Division was re-designated the East Riding Coastal Area on 1 December and the brigade went with it until it was disbanded on 13 December.


201st Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division
201st Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division(Chinese: 基本建设工程兵第201师) was activated in January 1972 from Unit 406, 3rd Bureau of Second Ministry of Machine Building. The division was composed of 601st, 602nd, 603rd and 604th Engineer Regiments.


201st Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division
The division was under the command of Shenyang Military Region. Headquartered in Shenyang, the division acted as a nuclear program-related geologic survey unit in Northeastern China.


201st Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division
In July 1975 the division was transferred to Infrastructure Construction Engineer Office, Ministry of Second Machine Industry's control.


201st Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division
In August 1978, the division was renamed as 26th Detachment of Infrastructure Construction Engineer(Chinese: 基建工程兵第26支队). All its regiments were renamed as follow:


201st Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division
In October 1978 the detachment was transferred to Second Machine Industrial Command, Infrastructure Construction Engineer's control.


201st Infrastructure Construction Engineer Division
On January 1, 1984, the detachment was demobilized and reorganized as Northeastern Geologic Survey Bureau of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry.


201st New York State Legislature
The 201st New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7, 2015, to December 31, 2016, during the fifth and sixth years of Andrew Cuomo's governorship, in Albany


201st New York State Legislature, State Senate, Senators
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Assembly members Roxanne Persaud and Todd Kaminsky were elected to fill vacancies in the Senate.


201st New York State Legislature, State Senate, Senators
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."


201st New York State Legislature, State Assembly, Assembly members
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.


201st New York State Legislature, State Assembly, Assembly members
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."


201st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
The 201st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Raised in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area during August 1864, the regiment initially guarded the Manassas Gap Railroad and detachment elements on provost duty in Virginia. The regiment then moved to Alexandria in November, where it performed guard and escort duty. After the end of the war the main body of the regiment garrisoned Fort Delaware before mustering out in mid-1865.


201st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, History
The 201st Pennsylvania was raised in the Harrisburg area during August 1864 for a one-year term in response to President Abraham Lincoln's call for 500,000 men. Within 30 days of the start of recruitment, it reached its required membership strength, and became the first of ten regiments to fulfill the state's assigned enrollment quota. Although the majority of its members were residents of Dauphin County, others came from Duncannon and Fairview, in Perry and Cumberland Counties while part of Company K was composed of men from Franklin County.


201st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, History
The regiment concentrated at Camp Curtin and was organized there on 29 August, under the command of Colonel F. Asbury Awl. Many of the 201st Pennsylvania's officers and enlisted men had served previously with other regiments from the state, including the entire group of field and staff officers who had fought with the 127th Pennsylvania Infantry at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.


201st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, History
Shortly after its organization, the regiment moved to Chambersburg, where it encamped five miles from the town near the Black Creek crossing of the Chambersburg turnpike. After training at the camp, the 201st went on a three-day march for exercise on 12 September. Company H was sent to York for duty at the army hospital there on 17 September, while Companies F and G were sent to Bloody Run on the same day to join the Juniata District under General Orris S. Ferry.


201st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, History
Company F soon transferred to McConnellsburg, and Companies F and G spent the northern hemisphere fall and winter arresting deserters, ultimately detaining nearly 500. Following the relief of Ferry in December, Major John T. Morgan of the regiment became district commander. Company E was moved to Scranton on 18 September, where it served on provost duty.


201st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, History
The six remaining companies went on a three-day exercise march alongside artillery on 22 September. The regiment began moving to Pittsburgh on 28 September, but when it reached Huntingdon the order was changed. The regiment instead entrained aboard the Washington and Alexandria Railroad to Manassas Junction, serving along the Manassas Gap Railroad with its headquarters at Gainesville. It later moved to Thoroughfare Gap, remaining there until the rail was broken up. This duty was to protect railroad work crews from being attacked by the Confederate partisan rangers of John Mosby.


201st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, History
The 201st moved to Alexandria on 13 November, where it was stationed at Camp Slough. For the rest of the war, the regiment served on guard duty in the city, in the defenses south of the Potomac, on railroad trains, and escorted recruits and stragglers towards the front. Many officers served on court martial boards, and Lieutenant Colonel J. Wesley Awl was appointed commander of the Alexandria Soldiers' Rest distribution camp in early May. Company G was sent to Pittsburgh on 24 May, where it served on provost duty.


201st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, History
The main body of the regiment was ordered transferred to Fort Delaware on 26 May, and served there for the rest of its term. It was stationed at the fort alongside the 215th Pennsylvania Infantry, and helped to process Confederate prisoners of war for release. In mid-June the regiment concentrated at Harrisburg, where it mustered out on 21 June. During its service, the regiment suffered a total of sixteen deaths: one enlisted man killed and fifteen died of disease.


201st Regional Support Group
The 201st Regional Support Group (201st RSG) is a regional support group of the United States Army and the Georgia Army National Guard. It was established as of October 1, 2013 from the former 78th Homeland Response Force. It is formally designated the "'Region IV HRF / 201st RSG"'. On November 1, 2010, the 201st RSG became the 201st Homeland Response Force. On October 1, 2013, it took its current designation.


201st Regional Support Group
Once home-stationed in Decatur, it has, since Jan. 11, 2011, occupied the former headquarters of Naval Air Station Atlanta at what has become the Clay National Guard Center since late September 2009. As 2011 progressed, many of the units that make up the Region IV HRF have been relocated from their present armories to facilities at Clay.


201st Regional Support Group, Mission
The Region IV HRF / 201st RSG mission is to man, train and equip a homeland response force that can provide a response capability to assist civil authorities in saving lives and mitigating suffering in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives incident. At the same time, the 201st must provide trained and ready troops to support overseas contingency operations.


201st Regional Support Group, Mission
The HRFs are designed to foster a dialogue between regional first responders and other agencies. The Region IV HRF plays an important role at the regional level in terms of helping develop and build regional plans and in working with southeastern emergency managers to build a functioning and cohesive connective tissue at the regional level. One of the important concerns the HRF construction seeks to alleviate is the need to respond to multiple, simultaneous disasters. Through these HRFs, the Georgia Department of Defense has the federal capacity to command and control response to multiple disasters or emergencies throughout the nation, simultaneously.


201st Regional Support Group, Deployments
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, every unit assigned to the Region IV HRF has mobilized and deployed in support of Overseas Contingency Operations, serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and various military bases across the United States.


201st Regional Support Group, Deployments
On February 8, 2009, The 110th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion prepared to deploy to Iraq for a year-long mission. While there, the 110th acted as higher headquarters for active, Guard and Reserve units, while also upgrading and repairing the equipment destined for return stateside as part of the draw-down of forces from Iraq.


201st Regional Support Group, Deployments
In Spring 2011, the 201st Regional Support Group-Agriculture Development Team 1 deployed to Southeastern Afghanistan. It is the first of three such Georgia Teams that are part of the National Guard Program to help the Afghans improve their farming and agribusiness techniques, thereby enhancing the country's agricultural economy and steering Afghan farmers away from growing poppy, which is used for making heroin.


201st Regional Support Group, Deployments
In July of 2018, the Headquarters / Headquarters Company (HHC) of the 201st RSG deployed to Iraq for a 9 month deployment. The mission was to conduct Base Operations in three separate locations in Iraq. Each location had a Base Operational Support - Integrator (BOS-I) staff that managed daily base operations and security. In addition to the BOS-I mission, the Brigade Commander and the Senior Enlisted Advisor of the 201st RSG deployed to Iraq to serve as the base command team for Al Asad Air Base.


201st Regional Support Group, Other HRF locations
There are ten HRFs in the National Guard throughout the nation, one per FEMA region. This allows closer and more familiar correspondence with regional and civilian responders. As a result, the reaction time to disasters will be much faster due to geographical locations. The 10 HRF (one per FEMA region) Guard Forces will consist of 577 personnel and be composed of:


201st Security Division (Wehrmacht)
The 201st Security Division, originally the 201st Security Brigade, was a German Army rear-area security division of World War II. The unit was deployed in German-occupied areas of the Soviet Union, and was responsible for large-scale war crimes and atrocities including the deaths of thousands of Soviet civilians. It was disbanded in January 1945


201st Security Division (Wehrmacht), Operational history, Formation
The division was formed in June 1942 on the basis of the 201st Security Brigade. The brigade had been deployed on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, and operated in the occupied regions of the Soviet Union behind Army Group Centre's front lines. While a brigade the unit participated in the murder of Jewish civilians alongside Einsatzkommando 9 of Einsatzgruppe B.


201st Security Division (Wehrmacht), Operational history, Operations
Upon formation, the division operated in the Vitebsk-Polotsk region of the north-western Belarus. Its duties included security of communications and supply lines, economic exploitation and combatting (partisans) in the Wehrmacht's rear areas. The so-called anti-partisan operations in "bandit-infested" areas amounted to the destruction of villages, seizure of livestock, deportation of the able-bodied population for slave labour to Germany, and the murder of those of non-working age.


201st Security Division (Wehrmacht), Operational history, Operations
In September 1942 the division reported killing 864 "partisans in combat" and handed over 245 individuals to the Wehrmacht's Secret Field Police for execution, while suffering 8 dead and 25 wounded itself. Only 99 weapons (rifles, machine-guns and pistols) were seized. In early 1943, the division carried out operations Schneehase, Kugelblitz and Donnerkeil, which resulted in the death of 2,737 "bandits". In the same period, the unit reported 109 German troops killed in action.


201st Security Division (Wehrmacht), Operational history, Operations
The division was sent to front-line duty in February 1943. The unit was largely destroyed during the Soviet Red Army summer offensive Operation Bagration in 1944, with only the staff and supply troops retreating north. In August 1944, it returned to rear-area security operations and spent the rest of its existence in the rear area of the Army Group North. It was disbanded in January 1945.


201st Tactical Fighter Squadron (JASDF)
The 201st Tactical Fighter Squadron (第201飛行隊 (dai-ni-hyaku-ichi-hikoutai)) is a squadron of the 2nd Air Wing of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) based at Chitose Air Base, in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. It is equipped with Mitsubishi F-15J/DJ and Kawasaki T-4 aircraft.


201st Tactical Fighter Squadron (JASDF), History
The squadron was formed at Chitose Air Base at Hokkaido in March 1963 as part of the 2nd Air Wing. Initially the squadron was responsible for training and interception duties, but later it focused exclusively on interception.


201st Tactical Fighter Squadron (JASDF), History
The squadron was disbanded in 1974, when it was replaced by the 302nd Tactical Fighter Squadron equipped with the McDonnell Douglas F-4EJ. Until the 1980s JASDF fighter squadron numbers were linked to the type of aircraft they operated. The 200-series squadrons were F-104 squadrons and the 300-squadrons were F-4EJ squadrons.


201st Tactical Fighter Squadron (JASDF), History
With the intensification of the Cold War in the 1980s the squadron was re-formed and equipped with F-15s.


201st Tactical Fighter Squadron (JASDF), Tail markings
During the squadron's F-104 era the tail marking was a "201". After the squadron was re-formed with the F-15 the tail marking became a brown bear. Brown bears are common in Hokkaido.


202
Year 202 (CCII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Antoninus (or, less frequently, year 955 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 202 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.


202 (Midlands) Field Hospital
202 (Midlands) Field Hospital is a unit of the Royal Army Medical Corps within the Army Reserve of the British Army.


202 (Midlands) Field Hospital, History
The hospital was formed upon the formation of the TAVR in 1967, from the amalgamation of 147th (South Midland) Field Ambulance, and 22nd (Birmingham) Field Dressing Station, as the 202 (Midland) General Hospital. During the Cold War, the hospital was under the command of the 143rd (West Midlands) Infantry Brigade, however upon transfer to war, it would re-subordinate to Commander Medical 1 (BR) Corps, and provide 800 beds with support from the Warwickshire Volunteer Band. During the reforms implemented after the Cold War, the hospital was re-designated as 202 (Midlands) Field Hospital. As a consequence of Army 2020, the unit now falls under 2nd Medical Brigade, and is paired with 22 Field Hospital.


202 (number)
202 (two hundred [and] two) is the natural number following 201 and preceding 203.


202 (number), In mathematics
202 is a Smith number, meaning that its digit sum and the sum of digits of its prime factors are equal. It is also a strobogrammatic number, meaning that when shown on a seven-segment display, turning the display upside-down shows the same number.


202 (number), In mathematics
There are exactly 202 partitions of 32 (a power of two) into smaller powers of two. There are also 202 distinct (non-congruent) polygons that can be formed by connecting all eight vertices of a regular octagon into a cycle, and 202 distinct (non-isomorphic) directed graphs on four unlabeled vertices, not having any isolated vertices.


202 BC
Year 202 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Geminus and Nero (or, less frequently, year 552 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 202 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.


202 Chryseïs
Chryseïs (minor planet designation: 202 Chryseïs) is a large, lightly coloured Main belt asteroid that is probably composed of silicate rocks. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on September 11, 1879, in Clinton, New York, and was named after the mythical Trojan woman Chryseis.


202 Chryseïs
The rotation period for this asteroid is close to a day long, so the construction of a complete light curve requires photometric observations from multiple locations at widely spaced latitudes. This task was completed in January and February, 2011, yielding a synodic rotation period of 23.670 ± 0.001 h, with a brightness variation of 0.20 ± 0.02 in magnitude


202-CoV
202-CoV is a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Shanghai Zerun Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Walvax Biotech.


2020
2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th  year of the 3rd millennium, the 20th  year of the 21st century, and the  1st   year of the 2020s decade.


2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Geospatial World also called it "the worst year in terms of climate change" in part due to major climate disasters worldwide, including major bushfires in Australia and the western United States, as well as extreme tropical cyclone activity affecting large parts of North America. A United Nations progress report published in December 2020 indicated that none of the international Sustainable Development Goals for 2020 were achieved. The year was also nominated by Time magazine to be one of "the worst years to be alive" in modern history.


2020
2020 was declared the "International Year of Plant Health" by the United Nations and "Year of the Nurse and Midwife" by the World Health Organization.


2020, Events, Date unknown
During the summer of 2020, the worst drought in almost a decade hits the Western, Midwestern and Northeastern United States.


2020 (Bon Jovi album)
2020 is the fifteenth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi. The album was initially set for release on May 15, 2020, through Island, but was later pushed back to October 2, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 (Bon Jovi album)
The album's debut single "Unbroken" was released in November 2019, and the second radio single "Limitless" was released on February 20, 2020. Both songs feature music videos. "American Reckoning" was released on July 10, 2020, along with a lyric video, and "Do What You Can" was released as a single on July 23, 2020. The music video for "Do What You Can" was released on August 25, 2020.


2020 (Bon Jovi album)
While in quarantine, lead singer Jon Bon Jovi wrote two more songs that would be included in the final album: "Do What You Can", which represents the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and "American Reckoning", a protest song about George Floyd's death, and written in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Before the postponement, the songs "Luv Can" and "Shine" were initially part of the album, but they were replaced with "Do What You Can" and "American Reckoning". The tracklist order also changed, as the first version of the album was set to start with "Beautiful Drug" and finish with "Blood in the Water".


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Background and recording
Recording of the album started on Saturday, March 9, 2019 in Ocean Way Recording studio in Nashville. On the same day, Jon posted 30-second long Instagram story videos showing him, Tico Torres, David Bryan, John Shanks, Hugh McDonald and Phil X tuning up their instruments in the same studio. Jon Bon Jovi recorded all the songs on his smartphone in poor audio quality and brought them to the rest of the band. During the period of 11 days in Nashville, band recorded bed tracks for 23 songs.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Background and recording
Then Bon Jovi picked his favorite 10 songs and for those songs band recorded vocals, guitar, piano, keyboard and percussion overdubs as well backing vocals sang by all of the band members. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the release of the album was postponed, and the tour was cancelled. The killing of George Floyd inspired him to write "American Reckoning", and the pandemic gave him the opportunity to write "Do What You Can". Both were written in his home studio.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Writing and themes
"Limitless" is a song that is encouraging optimism in an uncertain world and implores the listener to seize the day. "Do What You Can" is a song about COVID-19 pandemic. Bon Jovi wrote the song the day after his wife took a photo of him washing the dishes in Jon Bon Jovi's Soul Kitchen and published it on social media with caption "If You Can't Do What You Do… Do What You Can" and published it on social media. "American Reckoning" was inspired by the killing of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter Movement.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Writing and themes
Bon Jovi explained: "I was moved to write American Reckoning as a witness to history. I believe the greatest gift of an artist is the ability to use their voice to speak to issues that move us". "Story of Love" is a song about Bon Jovi's parenthood, family, children, wife and parents. The song takes a journey through the circle of life, where suddenly the child becomes the parent and the parents are getting older. "Let It Rain" is a song that calls for a cleansing of the spirit.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Writing and themes
It also calls for social justice, taking a stand and also calls for people to purge themselves from all of the hurt, hate and division and pursue them to search a man who is going to unify all the people. The last verse "somewhere there's a church bell/that's summoning the choir/somewhere there's a dreamer who would walk 1,000 miles" is a throwback to the Young Guns II (1990) era.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Writing and themes
"Lower the Flag" is inspired by the 2019 Dayton shooting. The song laments that the news cycle will move on before there is even time to grieve. It concludes with the narrator reciting the names of cities caught in the crossfire, including Las Vegas, Sandy Hook Elementary, Orlando, Florida, and Columbine. Bon Jovi started to write the song on the day the shooting happened and wrote the first draft of the song over a period of two days. He continued tweaking it and realized that he did not have a proper title and the chorus for the song.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Writing and themes
He came up with the working title "Four Dead in Ohio", which is derived from the lyrics of the song "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. After writing the song, Bon Jovi played the song for a group of people, including Shanks. When Bon Jovi rewrote the lyrics in a way that the last line repeated what the first line of the lyrics said, he came up with a title "Lower the Flag".


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Writing and themes
The bridge of the song was different for Bon Jovi from a compositional point-of-view, but the rhythm of the melody was something easy to compose for him. When he finished with the writing, he went in the studio with McDonald, Torres and Shanks. Bon Jovi played the guitar and Torres played drums. While playing drums, Torres realized that drums were hindering the progress of the song, so the band decided to exclude them in the end.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Writing and themes
"Blood In the Water" is a song that was written in 2018, and talks about migrants and the struggles they face. Bon Jovi explained: "Migrants who come to Italy or those who arrive in America from Mexico are looking for a better life. Yet we hear ignorant comments, 'I don't give a damn, let's send them back.'" "Brothers In Arms" is a song about social relevance and unity, featuring a direct reference to NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Bon Jovi came to idea for the song while staying in Alabama during football season.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Writing and themes
"Unbroken" was written for the film To Be of Service, released in 2019. The song discusses soldiers who have PTSD and is from their point of view. The song is meant to honor America's veterans and their service, but also discusses the reality of their daily lives and struggles. "Shine" is a song about a partner or a child that's grown up in front of you. "Luv Can" is a song about romantic love and how it can heal, as well as religion.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Album title and cover
Jon Bon Jovi revealed the album title Bon Jovi: 2020 during the Runaway to Paradise Mediterranean Cruise. Bon Jovi said he gave the album this particular title because "he now had a clear vision" after the album This House Is Not for Sale (2016), which dealt with personal issues, as well as 2020 being an American election year.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Album title and cover
The cover shows Jon Bon Jovi, in black and white, head tilted forward, mouth in his hand as if he's about to speak. There is an American flag in the reflection of a pensive Jon Bon Jovi's sunglasses. The words Bon Jovi 2020 are in the upper right corner. The zeroes in "2020" have stars in them. It is the first Bon Jovi album cover to feature only Jon Bon Jovi without any of the band members on it since their debut album Bon Jovi (1984), aside from their abstract album covers. The inspiration for the album cover is a photograph of President John F. Kennedy, taken by Michael Ochs in August 1962, of him reflecting upon a crowd in California.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Release and promotion
The first single "Unbroken", was released on November 1, 2019 featuring a music video. The band and Island Records donated 100 percent of net proceeds from the download of the single to the Patriotic Service Dog Foundation over the 12 months following its release. On February 6, 2020, it was announced that the next single of the album would be the song "Limitless". To preview the song, fans had to enter a contest and record themselves singing the song and then upload the video footage on the web page singbonjovi.com and post video on their Instagram story. On February 19, the winner (Jean Ramos, from Brazil) was announced. The performance date is still unknown. The song charted at number 27 on the Hot Rock and Alternative charts.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Release and promotion
On February 20, 2020, the band officially released the single "Limitless" which charted at number 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Charts. On the same day they announced the release date for the album which became available for pre-order on the band's web shop on vinyl, CD, digital download and in a T-shirt bundle version, coming with the instant download of the single "Limitless". The album was originally set to be released on May 15, 2020. On February 21, 2020, a music video for the single "Limitless" was released on YouTube.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Release and promotion
On March 27, 2020, "Unbroken" featuring the Invictus Game Choir was released as a digital single download and featured a new music video. All of the single's proceeds go to the Invictus Games Foundation, in support of the recovery and rehabilitation of international wounded, injured or sick military personnel.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Release and promotion
"American Reckoning" was released through all digital platforms on July 10, 2020. On the same day, lyrics and lyrical video were also released. All of the single's proceeds go to support the Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative until December 31, 2020.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Release and promotion
In the early days of quarantine, instead of playing the complete song "Do What You Can", Bon Jovi played only the first verse and chorus. He asked fans to write their verse and tell their story. He received thousands of fan-created verses on social media. The final version of the song written by Bon Jovi, was performed live acoustically for the first time on Jersey4Jersey benefit concert, raising 6 million dollars for the state of New Jersey which was hard hit during the pandemic.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Release and promotion
"Do What You Can" was released as a single on July 23, 2020 and charted at number 11 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Charts. On the same day, it was announced that the album's rescheduled release date will be October 2, 2020. Pre -orders for the album started and album track listing with songwriting credits was also announced.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Release and promotion
A new version of the song featuring Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles was released as a single on September 23, 2020, and featured a new music video. This version charted at number 28 on the Country Airplay charts.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Release and promotion
In 2021 "Story of Love" was released as a single with a music video and also charted on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Charts at number 13.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Release and promotion
Due to David Bryan's commitments to the musical Diana for which he composed the music, he was unable to participate in Bon Jovi's promotional performances for the album, with Greg Mayo filling in on keyboards.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Bon Jovi: 2020 Tour
Bon Jovi: 2020 Tour was officially announced on January 15, 2020, with dates across arenas in the United States. It was also announced that Bryan Adams would be the opening act for most of the concerts. Tickets went on sale to the general public on January 14, 2020, at 10 am. Every ticket sold included one copy of the album Bon Jovi: 2020. On April 20, 2020, it was announced that the entire tour would be canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Ticketholders received refunds.


2020 (Bon Jovi album), Track listing
All tracks are written by Jon Bon Jovi, except where noted.


2020 (Richard Dawson album)
2020 is a studio album by avant-garde folk musician Richard Dawson, released on 11 October 2019 by Domino Recording Company. Like its 2017 predecessor, Peasant, each song on the album is from the perspective of a different fictional narrator. Through these individual perspectives, 2020 explores the broad social attitudes and anxieties of modern British citizens. The album's press release describes Britain as "an island country in a state of flux; a society on the edge of mental meltdown".


2020 (Richard Dawson album), Reception
2020 received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82 based on fifteen reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".


2020 (miniseries)
2020: The Series (often referred to as simply 2020) is a web series produced by Wojciech Jeżowski and Krzysztof Krzysztofiak and created by Rik Ferguson, Katarzyna Ferguson, Wojciech Jeżowski and Krzysztof Krzysztofiak.


2020 (miniseries)
The series is a story set in the near future based on the White Paper "Project 2020: Scenarios for the future of Cybercrime" published by the ICSPA, Europol and Trend Micro. 2020 : The Series premiered on October 1, 2013 on the Trend Micro channel on YouTube.. New episodes were then released every week on Tuesdays until the season finale on November 26, 2013. This video project takes the form of a fictional web series presenting the evolution of society and technology in the world described by the report.


2020 (miniseries), Production
The series began as a project in January 2013. It was filmed in Warsaw, Poland and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in June/July 2013, over 7 days, and announced at a press conference in London on September 25, 2013 .


2020 (miniseries), Production
Supplemental content was also made available through the series' official website, providing extra images, text, and the ISCPA white paper, that tied into the story further.


2020 (miniseries), Background
The story takes place in a fictitious country in Central Europe; The Republic of South Sylvania. It is technologically, the most advanced country in the region, home to the best Digital Design University in the world, premier nano-technology research and is the crossroads of the main fibre optic lines flowing through the continent.


2020 (miniseries), Background
Every citizen uses multiple profiles in their everyday life. Their official profile, replacing the ID card, allows them to pay taxes, claim benefits, and pay parking fines or any other activities requiring official identification. Other profiles are used depending on the individual's activity or mood. One may be used for social interactions, one for shopping, one for gaming, one for family and friends and one or more for various financial transactions.


2020 (miniseries), Background
As the South Sylvanian consumer has fully embraced the digital world, nearly all advertising and marketing is now delivered through digital channels and perfectly tailored to individual interests, thanks to the Content Service Provider industry. Fixed advertising such as billboards is a thing of the past. South Sylvanians experience life through the filter of the Content Service Provider; everything is created for each potential customer individually in the augmented reality word. A centralised and highly secure hub, commonly known as The Switch, ensures that, when a citizen switches profile, every individual provides the right level of biometric authentication to assert their entitlement to assume one of their digital identities.


2020 (miniseries), Background
Everyone wears either digital contact lenses or glasses, which provide a Head-up Display overlaying the digital onto the real world around them, the concept of being “offline” has become anathema in South Sylvania. Digital content is modified and crafted for every individual based on consumer preferences and mood data that is being constantly collected by thousands of sensors, embedded in wearable tech, through Internet Service Providers and in the physical world.


2020 (miniseries), Background
We meet our heroes on an auspicious day, the day before the first all-digital national parliamentary elections are due to be held, facilitated of course by Switch technology, a Public/Private Initiative. To vote, a person must be using their official profile. Without warning and for no apparent cause the entire Switch system suffers a significant malfunction resulting in national chaos.


2020 (miniseries), Background
People cannot switch from their currently engaged profile to any other: surgeons are not allowed into the operating theatre because they cannot present their official credentials, citizens are unable to access pharmacy facilities, employees can no longer remotely access their corporate facilities and the financial system grinds to a halt. At the same time the country undergoes a wave of massive Denial of Service attacks aimed at crippling critical national infrastructure. Casualties are mounting; the authorities are trying desperately to discover what is happening and crucially, who is behind it.


2020 (miniseries), Reception
The Register described the series as "The production values for the videos, starring professional actors, are very high and the overall feel from the preview was reminiscent of spy and torture serial 24"


2020 (miniseries), Reception
USA Today wrote, "Take-downs of critical national infrastructure, identity theft on a grand scale and political mayhem incited by a low-level programmer all factor in."


2020 (miniseries), Reception
PC Magazine wrote "Cuing in the ominous music, the first episode sets up the most frightening scenario possible: an anonymous, massive cyber attack that causes a malfunction in The Switch."


2020 (miniseries), Reception
2020: The Series was shortlisted as a finalist in the 2014 Shorty Awards and has won several creative industry awards including the Gold Award in the category "Web: Business to Consumer", the Grand Award in the category "Web" and the overall Grand Prix in the intermedia WorldMediaFestival 2014


2020 -21 West African Football Academy season
The 2021–21 season of Ghanaian club West African Football Academy (WAFA). The season covered the period from 20 November 2020 to 8 August 2021.


2020 -21 West African Football Academy season, Season overview
West African Football Academy ended the 2020-21 season without a trophy after placing third  in the domestic the league and was knock out by Young Wise in the FA Cup


2020 -21 West African Football Academy season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 -21 West African Football Academy season, Squad, Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures
The season was delayed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, causing the team to start preparations in September 2020.


2020 1. deild
The 2020 1. deild was the 78th season of second-tier football in the Faroe Islands, and the 44th under the current format. Víkingur Gøta II won the league, but could not be promoted because the club already had a team in the Faroe Islands Premier League. 07 Vestur won promotion after the regular season. B68 Toftir which ended as 4th after the regular season played a promotion/relegation match against Argja Bóltfelag on 29 November 2020. B68 Toftir won the away match 2-3 with hat trick from Andri Benjaminsen, who is a young brother of record player of the Faroe Islands national football team Fróði Benjaminsen. The match ended 1-1 after 90 minutes, and after prolonged time B68 won with 3 goals against AB's 2 goals.


2020 1. deild, Teams
Skála ÍF II and EB/Streymur II were relgated last season to the 2. deild and replaced by the winners and runners-up FC Hoyvík and Argja Bóltfelag II respectively.


2020 1. deild, Results
Each team plays three times (either twice at home and once away or once at home and twice away) against every other team for a total of 27 matches each.


2020 1. deild karla
The 2020 1. deild karla (English: Men's First Division) is the 66th season of second-tier Icelandic football. Twelve teams contest the league. The season began on 19 June.


2020 1. deild karla, Teams
The league was contested by twelve clubs. Eight remained in the division from the 2019 season.


2020 1. deild kvinnur
The 2020 1. deild kvinnur (also known as Betri deildin kvinnur for sponsorship reasons) was the 36th season of women's league football in the Faroe Islands. KÍ Klaksvík were the defending champions, having won their 18th title the previous season. The season started on 24 May (delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic) and ended on 17 October. KÍ Klaksvík once again won the championship.


2020 1. deild kvinnur
After the football season was over the club Víkingur proclaimed that they wanted to end the co-operation with the two other clubs ÍF and B68. They wanted to continue on their own to develop football for girls and women from the next season and in the future.


2020 1. deild kvinnur, Teams
In 2020 the league will be contested by six teams, the same as in 2018, one team more from last season's five, as the women's team from the club NSÍ from Runavík entered the league.


2020 1. divisjon
The 2020 1. divisjon (referred to as OBOS-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) was a Norwegian second-tier football league season.


2020 1. divisjon, Teams
In the 2019 1. divisjon, Aalesund, Sandefjord and Start were promoted to the 2020 Eliteserien, while Notodden, Skeid and Tromsdalen were relegated to the 2020 2. divisjon.


2020 1. divisjon, Teams
Lillestrøm, Tromsø and Ranheim were relegated from the 2019 Eliteserien, while Stjørdals-Blink, Grorud and Åsane were promoted from the 2019 2. divisjon.


2020 1. divisjon, Play-offs, Promotion play-offs
The 3rd to 6th placed teams took part in the promotion play-offs; these were single leg knockout matches. In the first round, the 5th placed team played at home against the 6th placed team. The winner of the first round then met the 4th placed team on away ground in the second round. The winner of the second round then met the 3rd placed team on away ground. The winner of the third round advanced to play the 14th placed team in Eliteserien on neutral ground in the Eliteserien play-offs for a spot in the top-flight next season.


2020 1. divisjon, Play-offs, Relegation play-offs
The 14th placed team took part in a two-legged play-off against the winners of the 2. divisjon play-offs to decide who would play in the 2021 1. divisjon.


2020 1. divisjon (women)
The 2020 1. divisjon was the 36th season of the 1. divisjon, the second-tier Norwegian women's football division, and the 19th season under the current format. The season started on 11 July 2020 and ended on 22 November 2020


2020 1. divisjon (women)
Stabaek won the league and thus promoted to the Toppserien.


2020 1. divisjon (women)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season's starting date was delayed and the format changed, there will be no play-offs this season. Starting from 2021 the league will assume a new format.


2020 1. divisjon (women), Format
The teams were reduced from 12 teams to 10 as four teams relegated from the previous season, Grand Bodø were relegated after losing to KIL/Hemne at the relegation play-offs. In addition, Stabæk and Fart were relegated from the 2019 Toppserien. The winner will be promoted to the 2021 Toppserien automatically while the second placed team will enter a play-off with the 2020 Toppserien best relegating team, there would be no relegation this season.


2020 1. divisjon (women), Promotion play-offs
The league's runners-up, Medkila, faced Kolbotn, the 9th placed team in the 2020 Toppserien, in a two-legged play-off to decide who will play in the 2021 Toppserien.


2020 12 Hours of Monza
The 2020 Hankook 12 Hours of Monza was the 1st running of the 12 Hours of Monza. It is the third round of both the 2020 24H GT Series and the 2020 24H TCE Series, the second round of the Europe Series, being held on from 10 to 11 July at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza. The race was won by Jürgen Häring, Taki Konstantinou and Alfred Renauer driving for Herberth Motorsport.


2020 12 Hours of Monza, Schedule
The race was split into two parts, the first being 4 hours and the second being 8 hours long due to noise restrictions.


2020 12 Hours of Monza, Entry list
A total of twenty-three cars were entered for the event; 13 GT and 10 TCE cars.


2020 12 Hours of Sebring
The 2020 12 Hours of Sebring (formally known as the 68th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts) was an endurance sports car race held at Sebring International Raceway near Sebring, Florida from 11–14 November 2020, after being postponed from its original date on 14-15 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The race was the final round of the 2020 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as well as the final round of the Michelin Endurance Cup. Action Express Racing entered as the defending overall winners of the 12-hour event.


2020 12 Hours of Sebring, Background
The 2020 12 Hours of Sebring event is run in conjunction with the 2020 1000 Miles of Sebring, held on the Friday before the 12 Hours of Sebring. The two events are run in conjunction with each other as an agreement between the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA), the governing body of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and the FIA, to be a joint weekend, known colloquially as “Super Sebring.”


2020 12 Hours of Sebring, Background
The first joint weekend between the two events was run a year prior in 2019, to massive success, providing some of the largest attendance figures ever recorded in the history of the 12 Hours of Sebring. Initially announced on a one-year deal, the success of the 2019 Super Sebring would lead to confirmation that the 1000 Miles of Sebring and 12 Hours of Sebring would run together again for the following year.


2020 16 Hours of Hockenheimring
The 2020 Hankook 16 Hours of Hockenheimring was the 1st running of the 16 Hours of Hockenheimring. It is the fourth round of both the 2020 24H GT Series and the 2020 24H TCE Series, the third round of the Europe and Continent Series, and will be held from 5 to 6 September at the Hockenheimring. It was the first 24H Series event to take place in Germany. The race was won by Gijs Bessem, Harry Hilders and Marcel van Berlo.


2020 16 Hours of Hockenheimring, Schedule
The race was split into two parts, the first being 8 hours and the second being 8 hours long due to noise restrictions.


2020 16 Hours of Hockenheimring, Entry list
A total of fifteen cars were entered for the event; 8 GT and 7 TCE cars.


2020 2. deild
2020 2. deild was the 45th season of the third-tier football on the Faroe Islands.


2020 2. deild, Results
Each team plays two times (once at home and once away) against every other team for a total of 18 matches each.


2020 2. deild karla
The 2020 2. deild karla is the 55th season of third-tier football in Iceland. Twelve teams contest the league. The season began on 18 June 2020.


2020 2. divisjon
The 2020 2. divisjon (referred to as PostNord-ligaen for sponsorship reasons) was a Norwegian football third-tier league season. The league consisted of 28 teams divided into 2 groups of 14 teams. The groups were announced by the NFF on 7 December 2019.


2020 2. divisjon
Under normal circumstances, the league would have been played as a double round-robin tournament, where all teams play 26 matches. However, this season, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league was split after 13 rounds, meaning the teams only played each other once in this stage. The seven best ranked teams in each of the two groups qualified for a second stage, the promotion groups, where they were to play six more matches. The seven worst ranked teams in each of the two groups did not play any more matches after the first stage, and no teams were relegated.


2020 2. divisjon
On 12 November, four of the last six matches in group 1 were cancelled because the teams had nothing left to play for. The two teams finishing in first and second place had already been  determined. One match was also cancelled in group 2 for the same reason.


2020 2. divisjon, Promotion play-offs
The teams who finished in second place in their respective group qualified for the promotion play-offs, where they faced each other over two legs. The winner, Asker then played against the 14th placed team in the 1. divisjon for a place in the 2021 1. divisjon.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona
The 2020 24 Hours of Daytona (formally the 2020 Rolex 24 at Daytona) was an endurance sports car race sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The event was held at the Daytona International Speedway combined road course in Daytona Beach, Florida, on January 25–26, 2020. This event was the 58th running of the 24 Hours of Daytona, and the first of 12 races across multiple classes in the 2020 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as well as the first of four rounds in the 2020 Michelin Endurance Cup.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Background, Regulation changes
Prior to the start of the 2020 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, a series of regulation changes were made, including changes to driver eligibility for the secondary prototype class in the series, the Le Mans Prototype class (LMP2). The rule change stated that each LMP2 team is only allowed to enter one Platinum-rated driver across the entire season, and it must be for the opening round at Daytona, due to the 24-hour-length of this round. A requirement for a Bronze-rated driver for the full season was also passed for the LMP2 class, in addition to the removal of the 24 Hours of Daytona as a points-scoring event for the class, instead only being a round for Michelin Endurance Cup Points.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Background, Change of leadership
Four months prior to the event, on September 19, 2019, Scott Atherton announced retirement from his position as the President of the International Motor Sports Association at the end of 2019. He had held that role since the merger of IMSA's American Le Mans Series with the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series in 2014. One month following that announcement, then-director of Mazda's motorsports program in North America, John Doonan, was confirmed to be Atherton's replacement.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Background, Balance of Performance
On December 20, 2019, IMSA published a technical bulletin regarding the Balance of Performance (BoP) constraints for the 24 hour event, as well as announcing a revised process for adjusting said constraints from race to race. The constraints were exclusive to the 24 Hours of Daytona and its test session, the Roar Before The 24. In the Daytona Prototype International (DPi) class, the Cadillac DPi-V.R was made 20 kilograms heavier, bringing the car's weight to 950 kilograms. The Cadillac was also given 3.0 liter increase in fuel capacity. The Mazda RT24-P was given a five kilogram weight increase, bringing the total weight to 910 kilograms, 40 kilograms lighter than the Cadillac. By comparison, the Acura ARX-05 merely saw a 2.0 liter increase in fuel capacity.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Roar Before the 24, First Day
Mazda Team Joest set the fastest time in the second of the two qualifying sessions in the #77 RT-24P, with a 1:35.794, set by Olivier Pla, as the #77 went on to top the time sheets, having the fastest time of all the entries. The #77 was followed up by the #55, setting a time of 1:35.874, also in the second session, set by Oliver Jarvis. In the LMP2 class, the fastest laptime was a 1:38.315, set by the #52 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Roar Before the 24, First Day
The #25 Team RLL BMW M8 GTE set the fastest time of a 1:44.239. The highlight of the GTLM class was the Corvette Racing C8.R, which made its first competitive appearance. Sporting two cars, #4 and #5, the #4 set the best time of 1:45.009, placing sixth and seventh in the GTLM field. The AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 set the fastest time of the 1:47.031, with the Grasser Racing Team's #11 Lamborghini Huracán  Evo GT3, setting a 1:47.353, followed by the second of the AIM Lexus GT3 cars, third in the GTD class.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Roar Before the 24, Second Day
The DPi class-leading Mazda Team Joest car from day 1 decreased on their times drastically, to the point that Olivier Pla, who had the fastest time during the first day, set an unofficial time of a 1:33.324, beating the outright track record set by Oliver Jarvis in the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona. Second fastest was the #7 Team Penske ARX-05, setting a 1:33.543. The #6 ARX-05 followed closely behind with a 1:33.565. The #77 Mazda DPi set a 1:33.660 in fifth place. The field was rounded out by the JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillacs in sixth and seventh and the Wayne Taylor Cadillac last in the DPi field.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Roar Before the 24, Second Day
The LMP2 class was dominated by the #52 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07 once again with a 1:38.056. Second was the #81 Dragonspeed Orcea 07, followed by the #8 team of Tower Motorsport by Starworks.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Roar Before the 24, Second Day
All seven GTLM's were separated by 0.446 seconds. Risi Competizione's James Calado set a best time in the GTLM field of a 1:42.685 in the Ferrari 488 GTE, edging out Nick Tandy by a thousandth in the Porsche GT Team 911 RSR 19, which is also making a first time appearance, in a revised trim of the 911 RSR. The #4 Corvette C8.R was the third fastest in the GTLM category with a 1:42.793. The #24 Team RLL M8 GTE placed forth and the #912 Porsche placed fifth.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Roar Before the 24, Second Day
The #12 AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 set the best time in GTD with a 1:46.754, followed by the #86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 at a 1:46.873. The #96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 posted a 1:46.919.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Practice
The first practice took place on the morning of Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020. The track was damp, therefore times would not be at their quickest. Juan Pablo Montoya in the Team Penske #6 Acura ARX-05c was able to lead the first practice with a time of a 1:49.719, completing only six laps. Olivier Pla in the #77 Mazda RT-24P placed second close behind the Acura setting a 1:49.956 on the car's final practice lap. In total, both Mazda cars completed 36 laps. The fastest Cadillac DPi-V.R. was the #85 JDC-Miller MotorSports with a 1:50.316. In LMP2, David Heinemeier Hansson was the fastest driver in the category setting a 1:52.193 in the #8 Tower Motorsports Oreca 07. The #81 DragonSpeed Oreca 07 was second in LMP2 with a time of 1:53.555 set by Henrik Hedman.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Practice
The GTLM category was led by Porsche, with both 911 RSR 19's finishing first and second. The fastest of the factory RSR-19's was driven by Laurens Vanthoor in the #912, who set a 1:57.001. The #3 Corvette Racing C8.R fastest time was 1:57.991, which was fast enough for third place. In GTD, #88 WRT Speedstar Audi Sport R8 LMS driven by Mirko Bortolotti set a 1:58.763 to lead the class. The #9 Pfaff Motorsport Porsche was within a hundredth of a second of the leading R8 LMS. Shane Van Gisbergen placed the #12 Lexus RC F GT3 in third place in the class.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Practice
The second free practice was a drier one, led by #7 Acura ARX-05c. Ricky Taylor set the fastest time with a 1:34.904. Oliver Jarvis placed the #77 RT-24P in second place with a 1:35.119. The #81 DragonSpeed Oreca 07, driven by Ben Hanley, finished first in the LMP2 class, with a 1:37.418. Nicolas Lapierre put the #8 Tower Motorsports Oreca 07 in second place, setting a lap time of 1:38.371. Gabriel Aubry would put the Oreca 07 of #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports in third place.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Practice
Though not fastest initially, the #912 Porsche 911 RSR 19 was able to best the Corvette Racing C8.R's who started the second practice fastest in the GTLM field by the end of the session. The #912's time was a 1:42.508, which was under three tenths of the record in GTLM set by Nick Tandy in the previous generation 911 RSR. Turner Motorsport finished on top of the GTD class, followed by the Pfaff Motorsport Porsche. The top two were followed by Lamborghinis, with the GRT Grasser Car in third and the #48 Paul Miller Racing car in fourth place.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Practice
In Free Practice 3, Filipe Albuquerque was able to set the fastest time in the DPi class for the #31 Action Express Cadillac time, setting a 1:34.914. Another Cadillac followed behind him, with Renger Van Der Zande setting a 1:35.246 for the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing team. The #5 JDC-Mustang Sampling Racing Cadillac rounded out the top three cars in the DPi class, with Joao Barbosa clocking a 1:35.478 time. Neither of the two Mazdas, the #55 and #77, could partake in the third practice session and instead were in the garage. In the LMP2 class, the #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry was the fastest, with Gabriel Aubry setting a time of 1:37.084. Colin Braun in the #81 DragonSpeed Oreca 07 was second and Ryan Dalziel in the #8 Tower Motorsports Oreca 07 rounded out the top three in LMP2.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Practice
The #912 Porsche 911 RSR-19 continued to top the GTLM class, with Mathieu Jaminet clocking a 1:43.301. Augusto Farfus in the #24 BMW M8 GTE was able to post a 1:43.611, good enough for second in the 48 laps it ran in total. The sister #25 BMW was in the garage to fix a broken fuel pump, and only managed to complete 11 laps. Frederic Makowiecki was able to place the second of the Porsches, the #911 in third, setting a 1:43.863.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Practice
In GTD, the #16 Wright Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R topped the class with Klaus Bachler posting a 1:46.128. The #9 Pfaff Motorsports Porsche entry was behind in second, with Dennis Olsen setting a 1:46.203. Towards the end of their practice session, the #9 team lost its power en route to the pit box. The #48 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo rounded out the top three in GTD, with Andrea Caldarelli posting a 1:46.216.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Practice
Cadillac's success from last practice carried over to the next day for the final practice of the Rolex 24, on Friday before the race. The #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac led at the end of the final practice, improving its position from second in the previous practice session. Their fastest driver was the endurance veteran Kamui Kobayashi, his best lap being a 1:35.340. Second in the DPi class was Helio Castroneves in the #7 Team Penske Acura, which recovered well, sustaining its speed from its earlier sessions despite crashing in qualifying the previous day.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Practice
Castroneves' time was 1:35.733, 0.393 seconds off the pace of Kobayashi's time. Sébastien Bourdais drove the #5 JDC-Mustang Sampling Cadillac to third overall, with a time of 1:36.031. In LMP2, the #8 Tower Motorsports Oreca 07 was the fastest, with Nicolas Lapierre setting a 1:37.230 to lead the class. The PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07 was second quickest, with Gabriel Aubry posting a 1:37.249. The #38 Performance Tech Motorsports Oreca 07 cause a red flag that would end the session, as it crashed into the tire barrier at turn six, with the car's underbody leaned on top of the barrier.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Practice
Corvette Racing's Antonio Garcia would set the fastest time of all the GTLM cars in the #3 C8.R, with a time of 1:42.962, overtaking the dominant #912 Porsche later in the session. The #912, driven fastest by Earl Bamber, was 0.6 seconds off the pace of Antonio García. The #911 Porsche, driven fastest by Nick Tandy, would place in third. In GTD, only three cars participated in the final practice, with the #11 GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini setting a best class time of 1:46.308, driven by Franck Perera. The #63 Scuderia Corsa's fastest driver was Toni Vilander, setting a 1:46.430. The Black Swan Racing, after heavy damage from a previous crash, would also take to the track with a new car donated from Wright Motorsports. Black Swan's fastest driver, Jeroen Bleekemoelen, set a lap time of 1:46.467.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Qualifying
Oliver Jarvis placed the #77 Mazda RT-24P on the pole position for the 58th 24 Hours of Daytona, with a time of 1:33.711, besting the rest of the field by four tenths, but failing to beat the track record he set last year by .026 thousandths. Juan Pablo Montoya placed the #6 Team Penske Acura ARX-05c second overall with a time of 1:34.154. The sister #7 Team Penske Acura driven by Ricky Taylor would cause a red flag at the bus stop chicane which would shorten the session slightly.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Qualifying
Rounding out the top three was the #55 Mazda driven by Jonathan Bomarito with a close 1:34.169. Securing a pole position in the LMP2 class was the #52 PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07 with a time of 1:37.446, driven fastest by Ben Keating. Henrik Hedman set a time of 1:37.728 for the #81 DragonSpeed Oreca 07, and the #8 Tower Motorsports Oreca 07 placed third on the starting grid, with John Farano having a best time in the car of a 1:39.279.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Qualifying
The GTLM category's qualifying was another session in which Porsche asserted its dominance. The #911 Porsche 911 RSR 19 besting its sister #912, driven by Nick Tandy to first place in class as well as beating the GTLM lap record at Daytona set by himself. Nick Tandy's time was a 1:42.207. The #912 911 RSR 19 settled for second place with a 1:42.256, after taking the lead in the GTLM class earlier, driven fastest by Laurens Vanthoor. Corvette Racing would take the challenge to Porsche, trading times for positions early.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Qualifying
The #3 C8.R would get within three tenths of the Porsches with a 1:42.545 by Antonio Garcia, but  could not catch up to the Porsches. The #3 placed third. The #4 Corvette Racing C8.R would place fourth, its fastest driver being Tommy Milner. Phillip Eng would set a time for the #25 BMW Team RLL M8 GTE for fifth best in class at 1:42.941, with the sister car #24 M8 GTE setting a time in the low 1:43's.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Qualifying
1.4 seconds off the lead was Alessandro Pier Guidi in the Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE, which starts at the back of the GTLM grid. Pfaff Motorsports will lead the GTD field to the green flag, as Zacharie Robichon posted a 1:45.237, which also happened to be a new record at Daytona in the GTD category. Next the leading Porsche 911 GT3 R will be the #63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo, as Jeff Westphal drove the car the fastest to a time of 1:45.713.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Qualifying
The #57 Heindricher Racing with MSR Curb-Agajanian Acura NSX GT3 Evo placed third with a 1:45.837 by Trent Hindman. Fourth through sixth in the GTD class was closely contested. However, at the end of the session, the #96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 driven by Robbie Foley set a 1:45.872. The #96 BMW M6 GT3 was followed by the #11 GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo and #88 WRT Speedstar Audi R8 LMS, who were fifth and sixth respectfully. The #14 AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 sat out with an engine change. The #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3's penalty was changed, with the five minute penalty applying to the next practice session rather than qualifying. Both Aston Martins are placed eleventh and twelfth in the GTD grid.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The 58th running of the 24 Hours of Daytona got underway in clear conditions, with the #77 Team Joest Mazda RT-24P leading the field of thirty-eight strong to the green flag. Early on the first lap, Oliver Jarvis, opening driver for the #77 car, stretched out his lead to 1.5 seconds over the #7 Team Penske Acura ARX-05c and the #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac DPi-V.R. In GTLM, Nick Tandy lead the field in the #911 Porsche 911 RSR-19, with the #3 Corvette Racing C8.R in hot pursuit.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry being driven by Ben Keating stretched his lead out to seven seconds over the rest of the LMP2 class. Back in the overall battle, Felipe Nasr, of the #31 Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac team, would pass the #6 Acura of Juan Pablo Montoya for second position twenty minutes into the race. Ten minutes later, the #55 Team Joest Mazda was the first DPi car to pit, and eventually the rest of the DPi's would follow.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
At the same time, the battle for the lead in GTLM was closely contested between the #3 Corvette C8.R and the #912 and #911 Porsche cars, which sat in first and third at the time, respectively. The BMW M8 GTE's of Team RLL were in fourth and fifth, trailing the #911 Porsche by twelve seconds. The GTLM's would begin their first pit stop cycle 52 minutes in, with no position changes after the stop sequence ended.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
Four minutes into the second hour, Felipe Nasr in the #31 Cadillac was attempting to take the overall lead from the #77 Mazda of Oliver Jarvis. Soon enough, the second cycle of pit stops would start with the duo of Mazda prototypes, about forty minutes into both their stints. Just under thirty minutes into the second hour, the Corvette #3 now found itself in fourth place, dropping behind both the #912 Porsche and #25 BMW.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
However, trouble would be in store in the pits for the #25, with a slow stop that came from a problem with the removal of the left front wheel, costing them an extra minute in the pits. The #31 Cadillac would also have an unscheduled pit stop, using the stop to unclog the top roof intake. Their issue placed the #77 Mazda thirty seconds clear of the #6 Acura.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The pole sitting and leading #9 Pfaff Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Dennis Olsen, and the #96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 driven by Bill Auberlen, contested for the GTD lead at the start of the third hour. The third place runner in GTD was Bryan Sellers in the #48 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini, seventeen seconds off the lead battle. Twenty minutes later, in the overall battle, the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac's lengthy stints were taking their toll on the lead #77 Mazda.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
Forty-five minutes into the hour, the #10 Cadillac with WEC regular Kamui Kobayashi at the wheel was able to get on the inside of turn one to pass the #77 white Mazda of Tristan Nunez. Meanwhile, the #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07 and #9 Pfaff Motorsports Porsche lead the way comfortably in the LMP2 and GTD classes.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
Eleven minutes into the fourth hour, the #77 Joest Mazda reclaimed the lead from the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac in the bus stop chicane, which struggled on cold tires having recently just come out from the pits. Not much later, the #10 Cadillac received a speeding penalty after Kamui Kobayashi exited out of pit lane above the pit lane speed limit. They would serve a drive-through penalty. A more significant event was the encounter between the #55 Team Joest Mazda of Harry Ticknell and the #7 Team Penske Acura of Helio Castroneves.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
Ticknell dove underneath Castroneves at the entry of the bus stop chicane and the #7 Acura got into the #55 Mazda, sending the Castroneves around and into the tire barrier. The aftermath of the crash sent the damaged #7 Acura to the garage and potentially out of the race contention. Ticknell received a drive through penalty, knocking the #55 off the lead lap.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
A little after thirty minutes in the hour, the #24 BMW M8 GTE being driven by Chaz Mostert was able to pass the #912 Porsche in second place in GTLM, splitting the bond that the Porsches had since the first hour. The position change placed the #25 BMW three seconds behind the leading #911 Porsche. With nine minutes to go in the hour, the #6 Acura of Dane Cameron was able to pass the #77 Mazda of Olivier Pla for overall lead.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
Helio Castroneves re-joins the track after a thirty-seven minute repair. The car is twenty four laps off the lead. The second place LMP2, the #81 DragonSpeed Oreca 07 suffered a blown right rear tire ten minutes into the hour. It will lose time to the leading #52 Oreca, still leading the class. Entering the night, the #24 Team RLL BMW in the hands of Jesse Krohn gained the lead after the GTLM pit stops cycled through over both the Porsche GT Team cars.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The #6 Acura still kept the overall lead after the DPi pit cycle, despite having the worst fuel position amongst the DPi's. However, the #77 Mazda would eventually pass the #6 Acura on pace, and the #10 Cadillac was only twenty seconds behind, as Renger van der Zande recovered time quickly after the penalty. About forty-five minutes into the session, there would be a full course caution. The #23 Aston Martin crashed into the #47 Lamborghini sending both cars into the infield as they were entering pit lane. The #47 did not sustain much damage, but the #23 sustained significant front end damage. After the pits opened under the caution, the running order is the #6 Acura, #31 Cadillac, #77 Mazda, #5 Cadillac, #10 Cadillac (repaired rear light under caution), #85 Cadillac, #55 Mazda, and #7 Acura.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
After a short delay caused from the #25 BMW stopping on track, the race get under way. Within two minutes of the race restart, the #77 Mazda retakes the lead, overtaking both the #6 Acura of Simon Pagenaud and the #31 Cadillac. Soon after, the #24 BMW gains the lead to GTLM after passing both Porsches, #911 and #912. Toni Vilander, driving the #63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo passed the #48 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini for the lead in GTD. The #9 Pfaff Motorsport Porsche is behind, third in GTD.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
With about fifteen minutes to go in the hour, Nicky Catsburg in the #3 Corvette C8.R was in second place. It is also confirmed that the #25 BMW, which stopped on track is now in the garage with a damaged oil line. In the last ten minutes of the hour, Pedro Lamy's #98 Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT3 made contact with the #3 Corvette after spinning under braking at turn one. Both would pit soon after, the #3 Corvette with no repairs, but the #98 clipped the pit exit wall on the way out, causing more damage than the turn one event. Lamy would return to the pits.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The GTLM lead is  being contested tightly between the first three cars, the #912 Porsche, #24 BMW, and #911 Porsche, so close that even the #24 and #911 touch, but without any major incident. The #77 Mazda had dropped back to fourth as well in the hands of Oliver Jarvis. Two retirements were confirmed in the race and both were Aston Martins, the #98 and #23 entries forty minutes into the hour. Seven minutes before the hour ended, the #77 has regained some of its lost positioning  was a half-second behind second place, being occupied by the #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac, thanks to a solid stint by Olivier Pla. Five minutes later Pla would pass the #31 Cadillac.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The #912 Porsche 911 RSR-19 driven by Earl Bamber passed the #24 BMW M8 GTE raced by Augusto Farfus in the international horseshoe, with a little under thirty minutes to go in the hour. The #24 BMW would retake the lead in GTLM around the forty minute mark in the hour. Around the same time, the #5 Cadillac being driven by Sebastian Bourdais went down a lap to the overall lead. Two Cadillacs, two Mazdas, and one Acura remain on the lead lap.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
Three-fourths in the hour, the second full course caution, came out, to rescue the #38 Performance Tech Oreca 07 LMP2 in the International Horseshoe, six laps down off the lead in LMP2. All the DPi's pitted in for fuel except the #77 Mazda and #10 Cadillac. The #55 Mazda was able to change front bodywork after the earlier incident with the Acura DPi and did not lose a lap. The #10 Cadillac pitted before the caution. The #24 BMW and #48 Lamborghini both pitted under the caution and retained their class leads.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
Twenty-four minutes into the ninth hour, Ben Hanley in the #81 DragonSpeed passed the #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry. They still remained up to that point the only two cars on the lead lap in LMP2. A little while after, the #912 Porsche of Mathieu Jaminet passed the #24 BMW of Augusto Farfus for third in GTLM. When the #3 Corvette and #62 Ferrari pit, they will take the place of first and second.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
In the GTD class, the #9 Pfaff Motorsport Porsche has reached the lead once again after floating around in second and third two minutes into the tenth hour. Thirty minutes into the hour, the slower C8.R, the #4 Corvette, would enter the garage with an oil leak. Six minutes before the end of the hour, Ryan Briscoe's #10 Cadillac spun in the infield on his outlap with new tires.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The #19 Lamborghini has caused a full course caution after stopping on the apron of the speedway. The #10 Wayne Taylor Racing and #31 Mustang Sampling Cadillacs pit under the caution to change brakes, They drop to fifth and sixth in class. The #77 Mazda took the lead. At midnight, the race went back to green. However, five minutes into the next day, trouble found the #77 Mazda, as it served a drive through penalty for improper safety car procedures. The #5 Mustang Sampling car took control of the lead, just ahead of the #55 Mazda. The #77 would rejoin the competition in sixth place, thirty-seven seconds back. A little below forty minutes into the hour, the #48 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini passed the #9 Pfaff Motorsport Porsche for first in GTD.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The seven car field of GTLM has five of its entries within two and a half seconds of each other. The #9 Pfaff Motorsport Porsche, lost track position, and was then tenth in class, with an issue refueling, about twenty minutes into the hour. Halfway through the race the top three in DPi were the #5 Cadillac, #10 Cadillac, and #77 Mazda. The #52 Oreca 07 was leading and the only car on the lead lap in the class. The #911 and #912 in second and third were chasing the #24 BMW. The #48 Lamborghini was leading over the #88 Audi and #44 Lamborghini.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The fourth place #12 AIM Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 was delayed, preventing Shan Van Gisbergen from quickly entering the race. The #12 was not the only car losing time. Ten minutes later, the #6 Acura was a minute and a half off the lead, getting ever so close to being lapped. More mistakes in GTD would come as the class leading #48 Paul Miller Racing car was forced to serve a drive through penalty for illegal wheel rotation during a pit stop.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
As the two o’ clock hour started, Joao Barbosa in the #5 Cadillac was being challenged for the lead by the #10 of Kamui Kobayashi, and soon as the forty minute mark in the hour, after consistent pressure, Kobayashi would make the pass at turn one for the overall lead. His pace has been very quick ever since he entered the car, and twelve minutes before the end of the hour, he would lap the #6 Acura which was bottoming out at high speeds.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The #6 Acura would come into the pit to attempt to resolve the bottoming out issue about fifteen minutes into the hour, changing the front bodywork as well. Forty minutes into the hour, another Acura would suffer from a problem, this time in the GTD class. The Meyer Shank Racing team had to fix its #86 car's front splitter. Towards the end of the hour, brake changes and driver changes in the GTD class places the #44 GRT Magnus Racing entry in the lead.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The #48 Lamborghini would move into first place in GTD after passing the #44 Lamborghini. Later in the hour, the battle at the front of the GTLM would return, with the #24 BMW M8 GTE and the #912 Porsche 911 RSR-19. Porsche's Mathieu Jaminet erased a solid lead that the leader Chaz Mostert had in GTLM upfront within thirty minutes. Soon the #912 would get past the #24 by virtue of a driver change, which placed Jesse Krohn in the #24 and cold tires when the #24 BMW rejoined the track.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
Eleven minutes into hour sixteen, Mathieu Jaminet would gain a little more than a second lead on Jesse Krohn in the #24 BMW. Outside the battle for first, the #911 in third had a battle on its hands with the only competitive Corvette, the #3 C8.R of Antonio Garcia. The #9 Pfaff Porsche went behind the wall thirty-five minutes into the hour. Fifteen minutes before the end of the hour, the leading #912 Porsche in the hands of Laurens Vanthoor was passed by Jesse Krohn in the #24 BMW in the international horseshoe. By the forty-fifth minute in the hour, the Mazda #77 would gain steadily on the lead of the race, advancing past the #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac of Felipe Nasr, trailing the #5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac in second place.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
Going into the early morning, in the six o’ clock hour, the #24 BMW M8 GTE performed a pit stop for a brake change. When the car rejoined the track, it was a minute out of the lead. Renger van der Zande in the #10 Cadillac continued to pave the way at the front of the field, getting ever so closer to the back of the last car on the lead lap in the DPi field, the pole-sitting #77 Mazda. Later in the hour, the #10 would set the fastest race lap up to this point of 1:34.6. The #9 Pfaff Porsche, which was running well earlier in the race, returned to the action back on track, at current being out of contention for class honors of any sort.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
This hour would mark the longest green flag run in the history of the 24 Hours of Daytona running. The #4 Corvette would also make a re-entrance back into the race after a lengthy garage stay fifteen minutes into the hour. The #10 Cadillac was also able to lap the #77 Mazda at seven o’ clock, meaning that the #10 and #5 Cadillacs were the only cars on the lead lap of the race overall. The #10 also was ahead of the field on pit strategy.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
Forty minutes into the hour, the #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca, who was leading LMP2, came into the pit to fix an internal issue, and as a result the lead switched hands to the #81 DragonSpeed car. Two bent toe links were the reason for the stop, and the car rejoined the track four laps down. Five minutes before the end of the hour, the #31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac, which was moving on the apron of the speedway slowly came into the pit to replace a flat tire. The problem gives the #55 fourth place, two laps down off the lead.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The long green flag run would come to an end as the #74 Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 was smoking heavily. With the full course caution, both Mazda prototypes were placed back on the lead lap behind the #10 and #5 Cadillacs. The #81 DragonSpeed Oreca 07 lead by three laps over the #52 Oreca 07. In GTLM, the #912 and #911 Porsches were first and second, while the #24 BMW stood in third. The #3 Corvette was in fourth. All four GTLM cars were on the lead lap.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The #48 Paul Miller Lamborghini was leading the #88 WRT Speedstar entry, and #44 GRT Magnus Racing Lamborghini. The #16 Wright Motorsports Porsche sat in fourth. Thirty minutes into the hour, the race went back to green flag conditions. Quickly out of the caution, the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac received a sixty-second stop and hold penalty for a red light violation during their last pit stop, handing the lead over to the #5 Cadillac driven by Loic Duval. The #55 Mazda had an exhaust issue thirty-five minutes into the hour. About ten minutes to go in the hour, the first place #5 Cadillac was nearing a lead of ten seconds.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The fifth full course caution led off the hour at the NASCAR turn three area, with the #19 GEAR Racing Lamborghini coming to a fiery halt on the apron. Christina Neilsen, driving the car at the time was able to get out safely, but the damage was terminal for the #19 team. During the time under yellow, the #10 Cadillac was able to get back on the lead lap by virtue of a wave around (to get back on the lead lap).


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
An emergency pit stop for the #77 (a pit stop while pit lane was closed), promoted the #55 to second. The #62 Ferrari GTLM and #57 Acura GTD also were able to wave around to place themselves back on the lead lap in their respective classes. At nine o’ clock in the morning, the race resumed back to green flag conditions. The #55 Mazda struggling with an exhaust issue, was passed by both its sister car, the #77 and the #10.


2020 24 Hours of Daytona, Race, Report
The #912 which had the lead entering green flag conditions was under pressure once again from the #24 BMW M8 GTE, driven by John Edwards, coming close to making contact at a time. Within the next couple of minutes, Edwards would make the pass in the first turn for the lead. Thirteen minutes into the green flag stint, the sixth full course caution would come out, with the #47 Precision Performance Lamborghini stopped in the infield. The race resumed to normal after ten minutes, and the #5 Cadillac got out to a four-second lead quickly.