Sebring Hour 6: Van der Zande leads in #01 Cadillac at halfway mark

Renger van der Zande had the #01 Chip Ganassi out front at the halfway mark of the 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race.  The #01 led the #55 Mazda of Oliver Jarvis by a comfortable 23 seconds.

Oliver Pla was 3rd in the #60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura, but Alexander Rossi was closing in the #10 Wayne Taylor Acura. The #10 had to make an extra stop when a fuel hose was still partially engaged when Rossi was sent out too early when he first got in the car.  Rossi is turning laps as fast as the leading Cadillac and is closing on the 2nd and 3rd place cars.

#10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05 driven by Alexander Rossi turning fast laps to make up for blotched pit stop

The No. 48 Action Express Racing Cadillac of Simon Pagenaud runs in fifth, with the car having been off-sequence since Jimmie Johnson’s accident in the opening hour of the race.

Scott Huffaker led LMP2 in the No. 52 Oreca, while Spencer Pigot is out front in LMP3 in the No. 74 Riley Motorsports Ligier JS P320 Nissan.

Antonio Garcia kept the #3 Corvette in the lead by 2.9 seconds over the #25 BMW of Phillip Eng as the two cars have run 1-2 in GTLM from the start. John Edwards runs third in class on the tail end of the lead lap in the sister BMW entry.

#25 BMW Team RLL BMW M8 GTE, GTLM has battled the #3 Corvette all race long.

The #16 Porsche of Trent Hindman leads in the GTD class over the #9 Porsche of Lars Kern.

Hour 6 Standings

Pos No. Car Class Team DRIVER_1 DRIVER_2 DRIVER_3 Laps Behind Gap
1 01 Cadillac DPi DPi Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing Renger van der Zande Kevin Magnussen Scott Dixon 180 0.000s 0.000s
2 55 Mazda DPi DPi Mazda Motorsports Oliver Jarvis Harry Tincknell Jonathan Bomarito 180 23.254 23.254
3 60 Acura DPi DPi Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian Dane Cameron Olivier Pla Juan Pablo Montoya 180 30.965 7.711
4 10 Acura DPi DPi Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05 Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque Alexander Rossi 180 31.757 0.792
5 48 Cadillac DPi DPi Ally Cadillac Racing Jimmie Johnson Kamui Kobayashi Simon Pagenaud 180 1’30.773 59.016
6 5 Cadillac DPi DPi Mustang Sampling / JDC-Miller MotorSports Tristan Vautier Loic Duval Sebastien Bourdais 179 1 Laps 1 Laps
7 31 Cadillac DPi DPi Whelen Engineering Racing Felipe Nasr Mike Conway Pipo Derani 177 3 Laps 2 Laps
8 52 ORECA LMP2 07 LMP2 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Ben Keating Mikkel Jensen Scott Huffaker 176 4 Laps 1 Laps
9 8 ORECA LMP2 07 LMP2 Tower Motorsport John Farano Gabriel Aubry Tim Buret 175 5 Laps 1 Laps
10 18 ORECA LMP2 07 LMP2 Era Motorsport Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley Ryan Dalziel 174 6 Laps 1 Laps
11 22 ORECA LMP2 07 LMP2 United Autosports James McGuire Wayne Boyd Guy Smith 171 9 Laps 3 Laps
12 3 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTLM Corvette Racing Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nicky Catsburg 171 9 Laps 39.412
13 25 BMW M8 GTE GTLM BMW Team RLL Connor De Phillippi Philipp Eng Bruno Spengler 171 9 Laps 3.880
14 24 BMW M8 GTE GTLM BMW Team RLL John Edwards Jesse Krohn Augusto Farfus 170 10 Laps 1 Laps
15 79 Porsche 911 RSR – 19 GTLM WeatherTech Racing Cooper MacNeil Mathieu Jaminet Matt Campbell 170 10 Laps 27.084
16 74 Ligier JS P320 LMP3 Riley Motorsports Gar Robinson Spencer Pigot Scott Andrews 168 12 Laps 2 Laps
17 7 Duqueine D08 LMP3 Forty7 Motorsports Stevan McAleer Oliver Askew Austin McCusker 168 12 Laps 45.955
18 33 Ligier JS P320 LMP3 Sean Creech Motorsport Joao Barbosa Yann Clairay Lance Willsey 167 13 Laps 1 Laps
19 38 Ligier JS P320 LMP3 Performance Tech Motorsports Rasmus Lindh Dan Goldburg Mateo LLarena 167 13 Laps 31.907
20 91 Ligier JS P320 LMP3 Riley Motorsports Jim Cox Dylan Murry Jeroen Bleekemolen 167 13 Laps 3.180
21 54 Ligier JS P320 LMP3 Core Autosport Jonathan Bennett George Kurtz Colin Braun 167 13 Laps 42.847
22 4 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTLM Corvette Racing Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims 167 13 Laps 8.662
23 83 Duqueine D08 LMP3 WIN Autosport Matthew Bell Rodrigo Sales Niklas Kruetten 166 14 Laps 1 Laps
24 16 Porsche 911 GT3R GTD Wright Motorsports Patrick Long Trent Hindman Jan Heylen 164 16 Laps 2 Laps
25 9 Porsche 911 GT3R GTD Pfaff Motorsports Zacharie Robichon Laurens Vanthoor Lars Kern 164 16 Laps 11.779
26 23 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 GTD Heart Of Racing Team Ian James Roman De Angelis Ross Gunn 163 17 Laps 1 Laps
27 12 Lexus RC F GT3 GTD Vasser Sullivan Frankie Montecalvo Zach Veach Robert Megennis 163 17 Laps 2.522
28 1 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 GTD Paul Miller Racing Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Corey Lewis 163 17 Laps 33.416
29 44 Acura NSX GT3 GTD Magnus with Archangel John Potter Andy Lally Spencer Pumpelly 163 17 Laps 10.477
30 88 Porsche 911 GT3R GTD Team Hardpoint EBM Christina Nielsen Katherine Legge Bia Figueiredo 163 17 Laps 2.740
31 14 Lexus RC F GT3 GTD Vasser Sullivan Aaron Telitz Jack Hawksworth Kyle Kirkwood 162 18 Laps 1 Laps
32 75 Mercedes-AMG GT3 GTD Sun Energy 1 Kenny Habul Maro Engel Mikael Grenier 160 20 Laps 2 Laps
33 96 BMW M6 GT3 GTD Turner Motorsport Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Aidan Read 152 28 Laps 8 Laps
34 99 Porsche 911 GT3R GTD Team Hardpoints EBM Rob Ferriol Earl Bamber Trenton Estep 123 57 Laps 29 Laps
35 28 Mercedes-AMG GT3 GTD Alegra Motorsports Daniel Morad Michael de Quesada Billy Johnson 91 89 Laps 32 Laps
36 19 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 GTD GRT Grasser Racing Team Stephen Simpson Franck Perera Tim Zimmermann 91 89 Laps 0.261
37 11 ORECA LMP2 07 LMP2 WIN Autosport Steven Thomas Tristan Nunez Thomas Merrill 90 90 Laps 1 Laps