12H of Sebring: Deletraz (Acura) takes the win from Bourdais (Cadillac) in the final minutes

12H of Sebring: Deletraz (Acura) takes the win from Bourdais (Cadillac) in the final minutes


After various other changes, the remaining V-Series of Sébastien Bourdais led the middle of the night, but was passed five minutes from the checkered flag by a very aggressive Louis Deletraz in traffic. The young Swiss, teammate of Wayne Taylor and Colon Herta, thus gave Acura (Honda in the United States) its first success at the time of Florida, the first victory for Wayne Taylor Racing and the Andretti team since 2017.

Acura’s (Honda) first victory during the tour of Florida. ©IMSA

Victory in LMP2 for Merriman-Dalziel-Zilisch’s Oreca 07 Era Motorsport, tenth overall.

After a penalty at the start of the race for a field time violation, Vasser Sullivan Racing’s Lexus RC F GT3 took revenge at Daytona with a GTD Pro victory for Hawksworth-Barnicoat-Kirkwood ahead of the Ferrari Risi of Serra- Rigon-Calado and the Lamborghini Iron Lynx of Perera-Pepper-Bortolotti.

Twenty-seventh and eighth in GTD Pro, Fred Vervisch leads the winner of the GTD category, Ward-Ellis-Dontje’s Winward Racing Mercedes, in his new Ford Mustang GT3. A big platform in this small form of Porsche Wright Motorsports where we found our transfer to the USA Jan Heylen.

No luck this time, however, for Sarah Bovy, Lambo of the Iron Dames, who recovered well at the start of the race, completing just 128 laps before retiring following engine power problems.