2016 12 Hours of Sebring

The 64th Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida was an endurance sports car racing event held at Sebring International Raceway near Sebring, Florida from 16 to 19 March 2016. The race was the second round of the 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as well as the second round of the North American Endurance Cup. It was the final time that the original Daytona Prototypes participated in the race, as, for 2017, they were replaced with the new DPi cars.

The race was won by Tequila Patrón ESM's Honda HPD-Ligier JS P2 driven by Scott Sharp, Johannes van Overbeek, Ed Brown, and Pipo Derani after completing a pass for the lead in the final moments of the race.[1] The Prototype Challenge class was won by the No. 54 CORE Autosport entry driven by Colin Braun, Mark Wilkins, and Jon Bennett. GT Le Mans was won by the No. 4 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R from Corvette Racing, driven by Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner, and Marcel Fässler. The GT Daytona class was won by the No. 63 Ferrari 488 GT3 from Scuderia Corsa, driven by Christina Nielsen, Alessandro Balzan, and Jeff Segal. The race saw a stoppage of roughly two hours and 15 minutes due to heavy rain and lightning just before the halfway-point of the event.[2][3]

Practice

Practice 1

The first practice session took place at 10:00 am ET on Thursday and ended with Dane Cameron topping the charts for Action Express Racing, with a lap time of 1:52.447.[4]

Pos. Class No. Team Driver Time Gap
1 P 31 Action Express Racing Dane Cameron 1:52.447 _
2 P 5 Action Express Racing Scott Pruett 1:53.226 +0.779
3 P 2 Tequila Patrón ESM Johannes van Overbeek 1:53.312 +0.865
Source:[5]

Practice 2

The second practice session took place at 2:25 pm ET on Thursday and ended with Christian Fittipaldi topping the charts for Action Express Racing, with a lap time of 1:53.850.[6]

Pos. Class No. Team Driver Time Gap
1 P 5 Action Express Racing Christian Fittipaldi 1:53.850 _
2 P 31 Action Express Racing Scott Pruett 1:54.283 +0.433
3 P 24 Alegra Motorsports Daniel Morad 1:54.334 +0.484
Source:[7]

Night Practice

The night practice session took place at 7:30 pm ET on Thursday and ended with Filipe Albuquerque topping the charts for Action Express Racing, with a lap time of 1:52.832.[8]

Pos. Class No. Team Driver Time Gap
1 P 5 Action Express Racing Filipe Albuquerque 1:52.832 _
2 P 55 Mazda Motorsports Jonathan Bomarito 1:53.882 +1.050
3 P 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Jordan Taylor 1:54.088 +1.256
Source:[9]

Final Practice

The fourth and final practice session took place at 10:15 am ET on Friday and ended with Dane Cameron topping the charts for Action Express Racing, with a lap time of 1:52.135.[10]

Pos. Class No. Team Driver Time Gap
1 P 31 Action Express Racing Dane Cameron 1:52.135 _
2 P 5 Action Express Racing Filipe Albuquerque 1:52.228 +0.093
3 P 60 Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian Olivier Pla 1:53.067 +0.932
Source:[11]

Qualifying

Qualifying results

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by .

Pos. Class No. Team Driver Time Gap Grid
1 P 60 United States Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian France Olivier Pla 1:51.217 _ 1
2 P 2 United States Tequila Patrón ESM Brazil Pipo Derani 1:51.391 +0.174 2
3 P 31 United States Action Express Racing United States Dane Cameron 1:51.943 +0.726 3
4 P 5 United States Action Express Racing Brazil Christian Fittipaldi 1:52.205 +0.988 4
5 P 55 United States Mazda Motorsports United States Tristan Nunez 1:52.951 +1.734 5
6 P 90 United States VisitFlorida Racing Belgium Marc Goossens 1:53.185 +1.968 6
7 P 70 United States Mazda Motorsports United States Tom Long 1:53.513 +2.296 7
8 P 10 United States Wayne Taylor Racing Brazil Rubens Barrichello 1:53.576 +2.359 8
9 P 81 United States DragonSpeed France Nicolas Minassian 1:54.171 +2.954 9
10 P 24 United States Alegra Motorsports Canada Daniel Morad 1:54.193 +2.976 10
11 P 0 United States Panoz DeltaWing Racing United Kingdom Andy Meyrick 1:54.274 +3.057 11
12 PC 54 United States CORE Autosport United States Colin Braun 1:54.910 +3.693 12
13 PC 52 United States PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports United Kingdom Tom Kimber-Smith 1:55.843 +4.626 13
14 PC 20 United States BAR1 Motorsports United Kingdom Johnny Mowlem 1:56.661 +5.444 14
15 PC 38 United States Performance Tech Motorsports United States James French 1:57.189 +5.972 15
16 PC 8 United States Starworks Motorsport Venezuela Alex Popow 1:57.241 +6.024 16
17 P 50 United States Highway to Help United States Jim Pace 1:57.422 +6.205 17
18 PC 85 United States JDC-Miller MotorSports Canada Misha Goikhberg 1:57.630 +6.413 18
19 PC 88 United States Starworks Motorsport United States Sean Johnston 1:58.218 +7.001 19
20 GTLM 25 United States BMW Team RLL United States Bill Auberlen 1:58.402 +7.185 20
21 GTLM 100 United States BMW Team RLL United States John Edwards 1:58.592 +7.375 21
22 GTLM 68 United States Scuderia Corsa Brazil Daniel Serra 1:58.637 +7.420 22
23 GTLM 67 United States Ford Chip Ganassi Racing United Kingdom Richard Westbrook 1:58.708 +7.491 23
24 GTLM 3 United States Corvette Racing Spain Antonio García 1:58.856 +7.639 24
25 GTLM 4 United States Corvette Racing United Kingdom Oliver Gavin 1:58.878 +7.661 25
26 GTLM 911 United States Porsche North America France Patrick Pilet 1:59.009 +7.792 26
27 GTLM 62 United States Risi Competizione Finland Toni Vilander 1:59.020 +7.803 27
28 GTLM 66 United States Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Germany Dirk Müller 1:59.053 +7.836 28
29 GTLM 912 United States Porsche North America France Frédéric Makowiecki 1:59.170 +7.953 29
30 GTD 63 United States Scuderia Corsa United States Jeff Segal 2:02.350 +11.133 30
31 GTD 33 United States Riley Motorsports Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen 2:02.386 +11.169 31
32 GTD 96 United States Turner Motorsport Germany Jens Klingmann 2:02.660 +11.443 32
33 GTD 23 United States Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing Germany Mario Farnbacher 2:03.037 +11.820 33
34 GTD 22 United States Alex Job Racing United States Leh Keen 2:03.241 +12.024 34
35 GTD 73 United States Park Place Motorsports United States Patrick Lindsey 2:03.284 +12.067 35
36 GTD 51 Italy Spirit of Race Italy Raffaele Giammaria 2:03.340 +12.123 36
37 GTD 16 United States Change Racing United States Spencer Pumpelly 2:03.455 +12.238 37
38 GTD 97 United States Turner Motorsport Finland Markus Palttala 2:03.625 +12.408 38
39 GTD 21 Austria Konrad Motorsport Austria Christopher Zöchling 2:03.822 +12.605 39
40 GTD 9 United States Stevenson Motorsports United States Lawson Aschenbach 2:03.856 +12.639 40
41 GTD 11 United States Change Racing United States Townsend Bell 2:03.861 +12.644 41
42 GTD 27 United States Dream Racing Italy Fabio Babini 2:03.933 +12.716 42
43 GTD 98 United Kingdom Aston Martin Racing Canada Paul Dalla Lana 2:04.204 +12.987 43
44 GTD 48 United States Paul Miller Racing United States Bryce Miller 2:04.260 +13.043 44
45 GTD 28 Austria Konrad Motorsport Germany Christopher Brück 2:04.302 +13.085 45
46 GTD 44 United States Magnus Racing United States John Potter 2:04.857 +13.640 46
47 GTD 540 United States Black Swan Racing United States Tim Pappas 2:07.095 +15.878 47
48 GTD 45 United States Flying Lizard Motorsports United States Tracy Krohn 2:07.338 +16.121 48
49 GTD 6 United States Stevenson Motorsports No Time Established 49
Source:[12]

Race

Results

Class winners are denoted in bold.

Final race classification
Pos Class No. Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps Time/Retired
Engine
1 P 2 United States Tequila Patrón ESM United States Scott Sharp
United States Ed Brown
United States Johannes van Overbeek
Brazil Pipo Derani
Ligier JS P2 C 238 12:00:59.881
Honda HR35TT 3.5 L V6 Turbo
2 P 31 United States Action Express Racing United States Dane Cameron
United States Eric Curran
United States Scott Pruett
Coyote Corvette DP C 238 +2.926
Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
3 P 5 United States Action Express Racing Portugal João Barbosa
Brazil Christian Fittipaldi
Portugal Filipe Albuquerque
Coyote Corvette DP C 238 +3.940
Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
4 P 81 United States DragonSpeed Sweden Henrik Hedman
France Nicolas Lapierre
France Nicolas Minassian
Oreca 05 C 238 +4.339
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
5 P 90 United States VisitFlorida Racing Belgium Marc Goossens
United Kingdom Ryan Dalziel
United States Ryan Hunter-Reay
Coyote Corvette DP C 238 +18.078
Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
6 P 55 United States Mazda Motorsports United States Jonathan Bomarito
United States Tristan Nunez
United States Spencer Pigot
Mazda Prototype C 238 +29.735
Mazda MZ2.0T 2.0 L I4 Turbo
7 P 60 United States Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian United States John Pew
Brazil Oswaldo Negri Jr.
France Olivier Pla
Ligier JS P2 C 237 Did Not Finish
Honda HR35TT 3.5 L V6 Turbo
8 P 70 United States Mazda Motorsports United States Tom Long
United States Joel Miller
United Kingdom Ben Devlin
Japan Keiko Ihara
Mazda Prototype C 237 +1 Lap
Mazda MZ2.0T 2.0 L I4 Turbo
9 PC 54 United States CORE Autosport United States Jon Bennett
United States Colin Braun
Canada Mark Wilkins
Oreca FLM09 C 236 +2 Laps
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
10 PC 52 United States PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports United Kingdom Tom Kimber-Smith
Mexico José Gutiérrez
United States Robert Alon
Oreca FLM09 C 236 +2 Laps
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
11 GTLM 4 United States Corvette Racing United Kingdom Oliver Gavin
United States Tommy Milner
Switzerland Marcel Fässler
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 235 +3 Laps
Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
12 GTLM 25 United States BMW Team RLL United States Bill Auberlen
Germany Dirk Werner
Canada Bruno Spengler
BMW M6 GTLM M 235 +3 Laps
BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8
13 GTLM 912 United States Porsche North America New Zealand Earl Bamber
France Frédéric Makowiecki
Denmark Michael Christensen
Porsche 911 RSR M 235 +3 Laps
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
14 GTLM 62 United States Risi Competizione Italy Giancarlo Fisichella
Finland Toni Vilander
Italy Davide Rigon
Ferrari 488 GTE M 235 +3 Laps
Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
15 GTLM 67 United States Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Australia Ryan Briscoe
United Kingdom Richard Westbrook
New Zealand Scott Dixon
Ford GT M 235 +3 Laps
Ford 3.5 L EcoBoost V6
16 GTLM 100 United States BMW Team RLL United States John Edwards
Germany Lucas Luhr
Canada Kuno Wittmer
BMW M6 GTLM M 235 +3 Laps
BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8
17 PC 8 United States Starworks Motorsport Venezuela Alex Popow
Netherlands Renger van der Zande
Denmark David Heinemeier Hansson
Oreca FLM09 C 233 +5 Laps
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
18 GTLM 68 United States Scuderia Corsa Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi
Brazil Daniel Serra
Italy Andrea Bertolini
Ferrari 488 GTE M 233 +5 Laps
Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
19 PC 85 United States JDC-Miller MotorSports Canada Misha Goikhberg
United States Chris Miller
South Africa Stephen Simpson
United States Kenton Koch
Oreca FLM09 C 232 +6 Laps
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
20 PC 38 United States Performance Tech Motorsports United States James French
Canada Kyle Marcelli
United States Josh Norman
Oreca FLM09 C 231 +7 Laps
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
21 P 0 United States Panoz DeltaWing Racing United Kingdom Katherine Legge
United States Sean Rayhall
United Kingdom Andy Meyrick
DeltaWing DWC13 C 229 Did Not Finish
Élan (Mazda) 1.9 L I4 Turbo
22 GTD 63 United States Scuderia Corsa Denmark Christina Nielsen
Italy Alessandro Balzan
United States Jeff Segal
Ferrari 488 GT3 C 229 +9 Laps
Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
23 GTD 96 United States Turner Motorsport United States Bret Curtis
Germany Jens Klingmann
United States Ashley Freiberg
BMW M6 GT3 C 229 +9 Laps
BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8
24 GTD 44 United States Magnus Racing United States John Potter
United States Andy Lally
Germany Marco Seefried
Audi R8 LMS C 229 +9 Laps
Audi 5.2 L V10
25 GTD 23 United States Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing Germany Mario Farnbacher
Spain Alex Riberas
United Kingdom Ian James
Porsche 911 GT3 R C 229 +9 Laps
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
26 GTLM 66 United States Ford Chip Ganassi Racing United States Joey Hand
Germany Dirk Müller
France Sébastien Bourdais
Ford GT M 229 +9 Laps
Ford 3.5 L EcoBoost V6
27 GTD 22 United States Alex Job Racing United States Cooper MacNeil
United States Leh Keen
United States Gunnar Jeannette
Porsche 911 GT3 R C 229 +9 Laps
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
28 GTD 48 United States Paul Miller Racing United States Bryce Miller
United States Bryan Sellers
United States Madison Snow
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 229 +9 Laps
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
29 GTD 97 United States Turner Motorsport United States Michael Marsal
Finland Markus Palttala
Finland Jesse Krohn
BMW M6 GT3 C 229 +9 Laps
BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8
30 GTD 6 United States Stevenson Motorsports United Kingdom Robin Liddell
United States Andrew Davis
United States Connor De Phillippi
Audi R8 LMS C 229 +9 Laps
Audi 5.2 L V10
31 GTD 51 Italy Spirit of Race Italy Matteo Cressoni
Italy Raffaele Giammaria
United States Peter Mann
Ferrari 488 GT3 C 229 +9 Laps
Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
32 GTD 98 United Kingdom Aston Martin Racing Canada Paul Dalla Lana
Portugal Pedro Lamy
Austria Mathias Lauda
New Zealand Richie Stanaway
Aston Martin Vantage GT3 C 229 +9 Laps
Aston Martin 6.0 L V12
33 PC 20 United States BAR1 Motorsports United Kingdom Johnny Mowlem
United States Marc Drumwright
United Kingdom Ryan Lewis
United States Don Yount
Oreca FLM09 C 228 +10 Laps
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
34 GTD 16 United States Change Racing United States Spencer Pumpelly
United States Corey Lewis
United States Al Carter
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 227 +11 Laps
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
35 GTD 33 United States Riley Motorsports United States Ben Keating
Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen
United States Marc Miller
Dodge Viper GT3-R C 227 +11 Laps
Dodge 8.3 L V10
36 GTD 540 United States Black Swan Racing United States Tim Pappas
Netherlands Nick Catsburg
United States Patrick Long
United States Andy Pilgrim
Porsche 911 GT3 R C 226 +12 Laps
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
37 GTD 28 Austria Konrad Motorsport Austria Franz Konrad
United States Terry Borcheller
Germany Christopher Brück
United Kingdom Josh Webster
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 226 +12 Laps
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
38 GTD 45 United States Flying Lizard Motorsports United States Tracy Krohn
Sweden Niclas Jönsson
Germany Pierre Kaffer
Audi R8 LMS C 220 +18 Laps
Audi 5.2 L V10
39 P 50 United States Highway to Help United States Jim Pace
United States Byron DeFoor
United Kingdom David Hinton
United States Dorsey Schroeder
Riley Mk XXVI DP C 212 Did Not Finish
Dinan (BMW) 5.0 L V8
40 PC 88 United States Starworks Motorsport United States Sean Johnston
Germany Maro Engel
United Kingdom Michael Lyons
Oreca FLM09 C 209 Did Not Finish
Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8
41 GTLM 3 United States Corvette Racing Spain Antonio García
Denmark Jan Magnussen
Germany Mike Rockenfeller
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R M 202 +36 Laps
Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
42 P 24 United States Alegra Motorsports United States Carlos de Quesada
Canada Daniel Morad
United States Cameron Lawrence
Germany Dominik Farnbacher
Riley Mk XXVI DP C 195 +43 Laps
Dinan (BMW) 5.0 L V8
43 P 10 United States Wayne Taylor Racing United States Ricky Taylor
United States Jordan Taylor
Italy Max Angelelli
Brazil Rubens Barrichello
Dallara Corvette DP C 169 Did Not Finish
Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
44 GTD 9 United States Stevenson Motorsports United States Lawson Aschenbach
United States Matt Bell
South Africa Dion von Moltke
Audi R8 LMS C 165 Did Not Finish
Audi 5.2 L V10
45 GTD 73 United States Park Place Motorsports United States Patrick Lindsey
Germany Jörg Bergmeister
United States Matt McMurry
Belgium Jan Heylen
Porsche 911 GT3 R C 145 Did Not Finish
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
46 GTLM 911 United States Porsche North America France Patrick Pilet
United Kingdom Nick Tandy
France Kévin Estre
Porsche 911 RSR M 116 Did Not Finish
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
47 GTD 11 United States Change Racing United States Bill Sweedler
United States Townsend Bell
Italy Richard Antinucci
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 30 Did Not Finish
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
48 GTD 27 United States Dream Racing Italy Paolo Ruberti
Monaco Cédric Sbirrazzuoli
Italy Fabio Babini
Italy Luca Persiani
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C 27 Did Not Finish
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
DNS GTD 21 Austria Konrad Motorsport Germany Pierre Ehret
Austria Christopher Zöchling
Germany Jürgen Krebs
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 C - Did Not Start
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
Source:[13]
Tyre manufacturers
Key
SymbolTyre manufacturer
CContinental
MMichelin

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