This morning, The 12 Hours of Sebring has begun. At 10:43am this morning. The two Audi TDI R10’s were 1-2 followed by the 2 Porsche RS Spyders. The was a problem for the #2 Audi and it had to start from pit lane. This meant that after all cars/classes hit green, the Audi then took off, yes in last.
It didn’t take logn for the #2 Audi to move into 2nd place overall.
What a start to the 2006 American Le Mans Series. The Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring will go down as history as Frank Biela became the first driver to lead the classic endurance race with a diesel-powered sports car in the No. 1 Audi R10 TDI.
At the end of the first hour, Biela was more than 40 seconds ahead of teammate Rinaldo Capello in the No. 2 car, which had to start the race from pit lane after switching out a heat exchanger. Capello flew through the field and passed Timo Bernhard in the No. 7 Penske Racing Porsche RS Spyder for second on lap 19, just 35 minutes in.
Bernhard led in P2 over Clint Field in the No. 37 Intersport Racing Lola B05/40-AER. Ron Fellows in the No. 3 Corvette Racing C6.R led in GT1, as did David Brabham in GT2 in the No. 50 Multimatic Motorsports Team Panoz Esperante GTLM.
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