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By IMSA Wire Service SEBRING, Fla. – For the second consecutive year, Tristan Vautier will start the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts on the pole. This season, however, when he takes the green flag Saturday, there won’t be any cars in front of him. That’s because his Motul Pole Award in 2017 came in the GT Daytona (GTD) class driving a Mercedes-AMG – the first in history for the German manufacturer. This time around, it’s in the top Prototype class driving the No. 90Read More

By IMSA Wire Service SEBRING, Fla. – Connor De Phillippi delivered BMW Team RLL its first pole position of the season and the first pole in history for the new BMW M8 GTLM race car, bettering the No. 62 Ferrari driven by James Calado by only .058-seconds to earn the top starting spot for the GTLM class for Saturday’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts. Fellow BMW Team RLL driver Jesse Krohn will start third. The Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GTs driven by RichardRead More

In perhaps the most dramatic qualifying session of Friday afternoon’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts time trials, Daniel Serra put the No. 51 Spirit of Race Ferrari on pole position for the 18-car IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GT Daytona (GTD) class. The Ferrari will start alongside the Audi R8 LMS GT3 driven by Christopher Mies – the difference between them only a half second. Jack Hawksworth was third fastest in the session in the No. 15 3GT Racing Lexus RC F GT3. Leadership changedRead More

By FIA It’s strong enough to support the weight of two African elephants and sturdy enough to deflect a large, full suitcase at a speed of 225kph. So how is motor sport’s new Halo device made to withstand such forces? It all starts with titanium. Lots of titanium. “We had to buy about 10 tonnes of high-strength titanium within one-and-a-half months, and receive it all in time and in perfect quality,” says Steffen Zacharias of Germany’s CP Autosport, one of the three manufacturers chosen by the FIA as official suppliersRead More

By IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts always will have a special place in the hearts of No. 33 Mercedes-AMG GT3 co-drivers Ben Keating and Jeroen Bleekemolen. It was at this race last year when those two drivers and then-co-driver Mario Farnbacher broke through to win the GT Daytona (GTD) class, the first victory for Mercedes-AMG in just its second IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship start. It was an especially sweet victory for Keating, as it was hisRead More

By FIA After more than three years at the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, Laurent Mekies, FIA Safety Director and Deputy to the F1 Race Director, is to leave the Federation. Mr Mekies joined the FIA in October 2014 as Safety Director, being responsible for all Safety and Medical matters for the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile across all its Championships, as well as R&D and homologation activities for both track and road. At the start of 2017 he was appointed Deputy F1 Race Director in addition to his existing duties. InRead More

By IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The last time a team operated by Joest Racing appeared at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts, it came away with a 1-2. The year was 2013, the final season for the American Le Mans Series, and the Joest-operated Audi factory LM P1 team dominated the proceedings. The driver lineup in the winning car consisted of Benoit Treluyer, Marcel Fassler and Oliver Jarvis. While Treluyer isn’t entered in this year’s race, and Fassler has since returnedRead More

By IMSA Wire Service The 66th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts scheduled for Saturday, March 17 features a 43-car IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship entry list. The field includes 16 Prototypes, nine GT Le Mans (GTLM) cars and 18 GT Daytona (GTD) entries. Live FOX Sports television coverage of the race begins at 10:30 a.m. ET on FS1 and the entire race will be streamed live on FOX Sports Go with FS1 authentication. Live IMSA Radio coverage is available on IMSA.com, RadioLeMans.com and via SiriusXMRead More

By IMSA Wire Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Let’s just get this out of the way right now. Corvette Racing is good at Sebring International Raceway. Like really good. In 19 starts at Sebring, Corvette Racing has annually demonstrated the speed and reliability it takes to win the demanding Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts with 11 class wins – tied for the most at any venue in team history (Canadian Tire Motorsport Park) – and three consecutive wins dating back to 2015. With that kind of success,Read More

By Road to Indy ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – More than four years after winning two races in the 2013 Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda, Anglo-Frenchman Alexandre “Alex” Baron marked his return with the new Swan-RJB Motorsports team by scoring an impressive victory from the pole in this afternoon’s Cooper Tires USF2000 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Allied Building Products. Japanese-born Brazilian Igor Fraga (Exclusive Autosport) and fellow countryman Lucas Kohl (Pabst Racing) finished second and third to perfectly illustrate the wide-open nature of this year’s USF2000Read More