Next, Acura wins the 12 Hours of Sebring

Twelve hours of pure chaos at Sebring: this is how the historic Endurance race can be summed up Florida valid as a second attempt of the season Imsa. That event will go down in history as one of the most chaotic and hard-fought American endurance championships everdue to a series of obstacle factors on and off the track. Even the battle for overall victory was somehow resolved: not by a sophisticated combination of strategy and calculation, but with a good measure of doors and contacts as in “easy” racing. The Acura ARX-06 came out on top Jordan Taylor, Colton Herta and Louis Deletrazwhich emerged victorious after a spirited comparison with the Cadillac V-Series.R of Sebastien Bourdais, Renger Van der Zande and Scott Dixon. Only a tenth separated the two cars under the checkered flag.

DERANI “VOLA” E VA KO

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For the sake of Cadillac The ride at Sebring ends in the worst possible way and it is the second defeat in a row after the mockery of Daytona. The bad accident he pulled off also made the day more painful Pipe in Deraniamong the favorites for victory: a collision with a Ferrari 296 AF Corse driven by Simon Mann sent America’s GTP to the curb causing overturning at high speed, fortunately without causing physical harm. So he took command for the first time Bmw M Hybrid V8 Martin, Yelloly and De Philippi, who fought for the lead for a long time before dropping a little in the final power. which immediately brought him down to the foot of the general platformbehind the best Porsche 963 Campbell, Nasr and Cameron.

WEEKEND GRIGIO FOR PENSKE

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The Penske Motorsport However, he was not happy with finishing his stage, A sad “sop” after a very stressful weekend. 963 second team “boss” Roger lost any chance of success when Fred Makowiecki he ended up remove the tire after colliding with Monk’s Acura NSX GT3. When the Frenchman managed to get to the pit lane and change the tyre, any chance of victory for him, Tandy and Jaminet were now lost: their race ended in a disappointing ninth place behind the 963 Proton Championship Gimmi Bruni, Alessio Picariello and Julien Andlauer. Another “big loser” of the day was the second WTR Andretti Acura crew created by Ricky Taylor, Brendon Hartley and Filipe Albuquerquewho lost a thigh in the decisive stages of the race with the rear end of their Acura ARX-06. The technicians did it right”too much work” managing to repair the car losing only one cycle thanks to the environmental alert phase, but subsequent recovery efforts did not produce the expected results and fifth place overall. The home environment is very different Lamborghiniwith beauty seventh place of SC 63 of Matteo Cairoli, Andrea Caldarelli and Romain Grosjean. Excellent placement, the result of good team work, achieved by a car in constant development: rival teams in Imsa and FIA WEC are warned…

CLADO SECOND EXCITING IN GTD PRO

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Inside of LMP2animated by a large group of Oreca 07 Gibsons, a win for Merriman, Dalziel and Zilisch of Era Motorsport after a fierce battle with Thomas, Jensen and McElrea of TDS Competition. Third parties Goldburg, Di Resta and Garg of United USA who threw away the win with a poor pit stop technique late in the race. In GTD Pro double day for Ferrari 296s: Mann had to stop after colliding with Derami with the left front tire completely strippedbut James Calado, Davide Rigon and Daniel Serra will save the honor of Prancing Horse second in the class behind the Lexus RC F GT3 of Barnicoat, Kirkwood and Hawksworth. To the staff of Risi Competizione went very well after a dangerous lap at the start of the race and a “high risk” restart.; Corvette also entered the fight for the division victory Dani Juncadella who however ended up against the barriers five minutes from the end, risking everything. The Lamborghini Huracan of Perera, Pilipili and Bortolotti benefited from the accident who placed third in the class hands down after a good performance. Sixth place in class for another Huracan GT3 Evo2 Pulcini, Cressoni and Schiavoni.

GTD, FIRE SECOND IN THE FINAL OF…FIRE

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Completing the overview of the Sebring winners there is GTD “easy” and second place Ferrari 296 Cetilar Racing by Antonio Fuoco, Roberto Lacorte and Giorgio SernagiottoHe was really beaten in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 race Ward, Ellis and Dontje of the Tournament of Champions. Little glory for 296 of Franco/Costa Balboa/Sbirrazzuoli e Triarsi/Scardina/Rovera ended up in backup positions. Forty-five cars they completed the Florida marathon, which ended in a “hot” way: The classic and discussed “sofa fire”the burning of a pile of old sofas immediately after the end of the race, he risked getting to the stand resulting in a replay of the famous 1985 Bradford disaster: luckily the situation was quickly brought under control without harm to the public…

12 HOURS OF SEBRING, FINAL TITLE

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Here is the final lineup for the 12 Hours of Sebring, IMSA’s second round of 2024:

1. Jordan Taylor/Colton Herta/Louis Deletraz (Acura ARX-06 – WTR Andretti) in 12.00’54”;
2. Renger Van der Zande/Sebastien Bourdais/Scott Dixon (Cadillac V-Series.R – Cadillac Racing) in 0”891;
3. Felipe Nasr/Dane Cameron/Matt Campbell (Porsche 963 – Penske Motorsports) a 8”898;
4. Nick Yelloly/Maxime Martin/Connor De Philippi (Bmw M Hybrid V8 – Bmw M Team RLL) a 12”056;
5. Ricky Taylor/Brendon Hartley/Filipe Albuquerque (Acura ARX-06 – WTR Andretti) a 13”398.