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.
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.
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 |