Sports car endurance race
The
63rd Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida
was an
endurance
sports car racing
event held at
Sebring International Raceway
from March 18-21st. The race was the second round of the
2015 United SportsCar Championship
as well as the second of four events in the
North American Endurance Cup
.
The race was won by
Action Express Racing
's No. 5
Corvette Daytona Prototype
, piloted by
Sebastien Bourdais
,
Joao Barbosa
, and
Christian Fittipaldi
, finishing a full lap ahead of any else in the field. The Prototype Challenge class was won by the No. 52 entry from PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports piloted by Mike Guasch,
Tom Kimber-Smith
, and
Andrew Palmer
, securing their second consecutive victory in the season. In the GT Le Mans class, victory went to
Corvette Racing's
No. 3
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R
driven by
Antonio Garcia
,
Ryan Briscoe
, and
Jan Magnussen
. Finally, in GT Daytona, victory went to the No. 23
Porsche 911 GT America
from
Alex Job Racing
and
Team Seattle
driven by Mario Farnbacher,
Ian James
, and
Alex Riberas
, though it only took the lead with roughly four minutes to go when the No. 33
Riley Motorsports
Dodge Viper GT3-R
suffered overheating issues.
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Practice
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There were four practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Saturday, three on Thursday and one on Friday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Thursday morning and afternoon. The third held later that evening ran for 90 minutes; the fourth on Friday morning lasted an hour.
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Practice 1
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The first practice session took place at 10:15 am
ET
on Thursday and ended with
Joao Barbosa
topping the charts for
Action Express Racing
, with a lap time of 1:52.485.
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Practice 2
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The second practice session took place at 2:25 pm
ET
on Thursday and ended with
Olivier Pla
topping the charts for
Krohn Racing
, with a lap time of 1:52.731.
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Night Practice
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The night practice session took place at 7:15 pm
ET
on Thursday and ended with
Olivier Pla
topping the charts for
Krohn Racing
, with a lap time of 1:51.973.
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Final Practice
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The fourth and final practice session took place at 9:50 am
ET
on Friday and ended with
Oswaldo Negri Jr.
topping the charts for
Michael Shank Racing
with
Curb/Agajanian
, with a lap time of 1:52.096.
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Qualifying
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Qualifying was broken into four sessions. The first session of qualifying was for the GTD class. The No. 33
Riley Motorsports
entry driven by
Jeroen Bleekemolen
set the fastest time in GTD.
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The second session of qualifying was for the GTLM class.
Frederic Makowiecki
qualified on pole for the class driving the No. 912
Porsche North America
, besting
Patrick Pilet
in the No. 911
Porsche North America
entry.
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The third session of qualifying was for the PC class.
Martin Plowman
qualified on pole driving the No. 16 car for BAR1 Motorsports.
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The final session of qualifying was for the P class.
Olivier Pla
qualified on pole driving the No. 57 car for
Krohn Racing
, beating
Ryan Dalziel
in the No. 1
Tequila Patron ESM
by just over three tenths of a second.
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Qualifying results
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Pole positions
in each class are indicated in
bold
and by ‡.
Race
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Start and early hours
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Post-race
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Race result
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Class winners are denoted in
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References
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Pruett, Marshall (March 21, 2015).
"IMSA: Action Express throttles field at Sebring"
.
Racer.com
. Racer Media & Marketing, Inc. Archived from
the original
on August 5, 2015
. Retrieved
June 21,
2017
.
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Dagys, John (March 18, 2015).
"Continental Tire Keys to the Race: 12H Sebring"
.
sportscar365.com
. Retrieved
July 14,
2023
.
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"RACER's 12 Hours of Sebring Resource Guide"
.
racer.com
. March 18, 2015
. Retrieved
July 14,
2023
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"TUSCC: 12 Hours of Sebring, Free Practice 1 & 2 Round Up, Barbosa Sets Early Pace"
.
dailysportscar.com
. March 19, 2015
. Retrieved
July 11,
2023
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"ResultsQuery"
(PDF)
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dailysportscar.com
. March 19, 2015
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July 11,
2023
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DiZinno, Tony (March 19, 2015).
"Pla Paces Second Practice at Sebring"
.
sportscar365.com
. John Dagys Media
. Retrieved
July 11,
2023
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"ResultsQuery"
(PDF)
.
dailysportscar.com
. March 19, 2015
. Retrieved
July 11,
2023
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"TUSCC: 12 Hours of Sebring, Free Practice 3 & 4 Report, Krohn & Michael Shank Quickest"
.
dailysportscar.com
. March 20, 2015
. Retrieved
July 11,
2023
.
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"ResultsQuery"
(PDF)
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dailysportscar.com
. March 20, 2015
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July 11,
2023
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DiZinno, Tony (March 20, 2015).
"Negri Leads Friday Morning Practice at Sebring"
.
sportscar365.com
. John Dagys Media
. Retrieved
July 11,
2023
.
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"ResultsQuery"
(PDF)
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dailysportscar.com
. March 20, 2015
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July 11,
2023
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Dagys, John (March 20, 2015).
"Porsche 1-2 GTLM Qualifying at Sebring"
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sportscar365.com
. Retrieved
July 14,
2023
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"TUSCC: 12 Hours of Sebring, Qualifying Report, Pla Puts Krohn On Pole"
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dailysportscar.com
. March 21, 2015
. Retrieved
July 14,
2023
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DiZinno, Tony (March 20, 2015).
"Pla Powers Krohn Ligier-Judd to Pole at Sebring"
.
sportscar365.com
. Retrieved
July 14,
2023
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"ResultsQuery"
(PDF)
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dailysportscar.com
. Retrieved
July 14,
2023
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"ResultsQuery"
(PDF)
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dailysportscar.com
. March 22, 2015
. Retrieved
July 14,
2023
.
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"tudor_championship_sebring_race_official_1.pdf"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2016-09-10.
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