Super Sebring is finally here! All eyes in the sportscar racing world will be fixed on Sebring International Raceway in Florida this coming weekend (March 17th-18th), as the “Super Sebring” event brings together the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). BimmerLife’s David Haueter will be on the ground at Sebring International Raceway, covering the event with race updates, pictures, and driver comments. Check back in to this post for lots of great daily content, as well as separate daily recaps. —Mike Bevels
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It's race day! 12 Hours of Sebring starts at 10:10am and finishes tonight at 10:10pm. We caught up with Paul Miller Racing driver Bryan Sellers right before the race to talk about what's coming up.
Had time to visit the “Gallery of Legends” display at Sebring today, which includes this fantastic 1973 CSL. This one sees a lot of racing action on the vintage/historic circuit.
Here's info on the IMSA 12 Hours of Sebring race tomorrow: https://www.imsa.com/events/2023-mobil-1-twelve-hours-of-sebring/
There's no BMWs racing today, but with an hour left the Corvette Racing team is leading the GTE-AM class in the FIA WEC 1,000 Miles of Sebring. Great to see them doing so well in this series on home ground!
It was a difficult qualifying session for the BMWs at Sebring earlier today.
In GTP, the M Hybrid V8 LMDh cars qualified in sixth and eighth for the 12 Hours of Sebring. Augusto Farfus put in a lap time of 1:46.756 to put the #24 M Hybrid V8 in sixth, which was around a second off the pole time of the #31 Cadillac. Connor De Phillippi was eighth in the #25 car, just couple tenths behind Farfus.
In GTD PRO, the Turner Motorsport #95 car was not able to put in a qualifying lap before the session ended under a red flag after the Pfaff Motorsport crashed into turn one. The GTD PRO pole went to the #3 Corvette driven by Antonio Garcia. In GTD, Madison Snow was the fastest of the BMWs in sixth with a 2:00.229 lap, around a half-second off the pace of the pole-sitting Acura NSX GT3. Patrick Gallagher qualified the #96 Turner Motorsport M4 GT3 in seventh with a 2:00.504 lap.
The 12 Hours of Sebring starts at 10:10am on Saturday morning.