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We’ve been waiting for this and now, good friend Andy Blackmore has launched his Spotters Guide for this weekends 12 Hours of Sebring. The Guide is a must have for those at the track or watching live coverage on SPEED TV. Detailed livery on both cars and helmets, team information and more. We like to print it out and laminate them.
Thanks Andy for the amazing work!
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The 2010 12 Hours of Sebring marks the 50th anniversary of Hans Herrmann’s victory at the legendary event in his 1960 Porsche RS 60. This year, the pair of Flying Lizard Porsche GT3 RSRs are on hand to defend their 2009 championship title.
Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long, both Porsche factory drivers, discuss what its like to race at Sebring and to be part the Porsche driver legacy. It was a close battle in GT2 last year between the Lizards and Corvette Racing, making this year all that more important.
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American Le Mans Series, round 1 in Sebring, USA
*#90 Rahal Letterman BMW failed post-qualification technical inspection and will start from the back of the grid, moving the No. 45 up to the pole.
The Porsche 911 GT3 RSR racers take up the 12 hour race in Sebring from good starting positions. During qualifying for the long distance classic in Florida, which kicks off the 2010 American Le Mans season on Saturday, Porsche works driver Joerg Bergmeister posted the second quickest time. The title defender shares driving duties in the 911 GT3 RSR fielded by Flying Lizard Motorsports with his factory pilot teammates Patrick Long (USA) and Marc Lieb (Germany). ‘My lap was very good, but I couldn’t have done any more today,’ he said. ‘Second place on the grid for a twelve hour race is an excellent starting position.’
Wolf Henzler (Germany) made a great start with his new team Falken Tire on the airfield circuit in the heart of the sunshine state. As third fastest in Friday’s qualifying the Porsche works driver exceeded all expectations. Henzler is joined in the cockpit of his 911 by factory driver Patrick Pilet (France) as well as Bryan Sellers (USA). ‘I’m over the moon. No one in our new team expected such a great result,’ he said. ‘We don’t want to get our expectations for the race up too high. It’ll be very hard to hold on to this position over the distance. But we’re certainly going to give it our best shot.’
In the LMP2 Prototype class, Klaus Graf (Germany) achieved the second quickest time with the Porsche RS Spyder run by the American customer team Cytosport. His teammates are Sascha Maassen (Germany) and Greg Pickett (USA).
The Sebring 12 Hours, where Porsche is the most successful manufacturer with 18 overall and 63 class victories by now, takes off on Saturday at 10.30 hours local time (15.30 hrs CET).
Result Qualifying GT2 class
1. Dirk Müller (D), BMW E92 M3, 2:00.782 minutes
2. Jörg Bergmeister (D), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, + 0.368 seconds
3. Wolf Henzler (D), Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, + 0.419
4. Jaime Melo (BR), Ferrari 430 GT, + 0.454
5. Jan Magnussen (DK), Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, + 0.576
6. Oliver Gavin (GB), Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, + 0.846″
If tomorrow’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh From Florida is anything like today’s qualifying session for the LMP2 pole position, Muscle Milk Team CytoSport is in for quite the battle to the finish.
The top three LMP2 cars registered times within two tenths of a second with Muscle Milk Team CytoSport placing second in class and sixth overall on the grid, only five hundredths of a second behind the first place LMP2 car. (continue reading…)
The Volkswagen Racing Cup is expected to boast a capacity grid at the opening rounds of the season. With four weeks to go before the Fuchs Lubricants-backed championship gets underway at Oulton Park, series promoter RacingLine has 31 firm registrations, several more in the pipeline, and looks likely to require a reserve list for the Easter Monday (5 Apr) openers. (continue reading…)
“Hello again! Today I’m writing to you from Florida where we’ve been busy testing our Le Mans car for this year, the R15 plus, since Monday. Before I left for the United States, I made a quick stop at Audi Sport’s workshop in Ingolstadt. Even there I could really feel that the new season is just around the corner and everyone’s just dying for the first race to start – whether they’re part of our sports car team, the DTM squad or in customer sport with the R8 LMS. (continue reading…)
The technical journal ‘Automotive Engineering International’ (AEI) published in the USA has honoured the VarioCam Plus technology applied in the 911 GT2 and 911 Turbo with the ‘AEI Tech 2001 Award’ within the framework of a readers survey. The readers of the internationally renowned journal regard VarioCam Plus as one of the most outstanding technical innovations which have been presented at the ‘SAE-Congress’ (Society of automotive engineering) in Detroit in March. Approximately 1000 engineers and technicians of the international automobile industry meet there annually to keep themselves informed about the latest technical developments in their field. (continue reading…)
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