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Photo: Brandon Badraoui/IMSA Porsche Penske Motorsport continued to hold control of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring as the race reached the halfway mark. The No. 7 Porsche 963 of Felipe Nasr held a 1.667-second lead over teammate Kevin Estre in the sister No. 6 machine with six hour completed, following what’s been a 90-minute green flag run. Nick Yelloly ran third in the No. 93 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06, with Fred Vesti and Tom Blomqvist having completed the top-five. Drama struck the No. 25 Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 of Marco Wittmann in the fifth hour when Brendan Iribe spun his No. 70 Inception Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo and got collected by the German as the FIA Bronze-rated driver crept forward. Wittmann lost 15 laps in the garage undergoing left-rear suspension repairs, in what was the first, and only, significant setback for a GTP class entry so far. LMP2 was led by the No. 99 AO Racing Oreca 07 Gibson of Dane Cameron, who was ahead of the No. 11 TDS Racing mac...

Photo: NLS Max Verstappen, Dani Juncadella and Jules Gounon have been disqualified from their victory in the opening Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie race of the season after their Winward Racing-run Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo used too many sets of tires. The Verstappen Racing entry had finished almost a minute clear of its rivals, having battled the Scherer Sport PHX Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II of Christopher Haase in the early stages of the race, to seemingly give four-time Formula 1 champion Verstappen a second NLS win in his second top-class start. However, approximately two hours after the race’s conclusion, the trio were disqualified having breached the category’s rules concerning tire use. It was found that the Verstappen Racing car had used seven different sets of tires during the race day when regulations only permit six sets for each crew. Verstappen, Juncadella and Gounon were therefore disqualified and the victory instead was awarded to the No. 99 ROWE Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO of D...

Photo: Racingpixels/Creventic HAAS RT’s No. 21 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II led the opening part of the Michelin 12H Mugello at the overnight intervention. Father-and-son duo Peter and Nicolas Guelinckx, who are the only two-driver lineup on the grid, held the lead as the opening five-and-a-half hours of the event came to a close Peter Guelinckx took the car to the flag with a lead of 39.637 seconds over the No. 44 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO of ARC Bratislava. The No. 21 GT3-Am class Audi started the race in 10th position and endured several battles in the mid-field in the early hours. Varied pitstop strategy after a series of brief Code 60 cautions saw HAAS RT’s car rise up to the head of the field. Herberth Motorsport’s Ralf Bohn overtook the HAAS RT No. 21 car for the lead in the final hour, but chose to pit for fuel in the final minutes after a late-race Code 60. All of the cars will be kept under parc fermé conditions until the race restarts on Sunday. Herberth Motorsport chos...

Photo: Jake Galstad/IMSA Michael Cooper and Moisey Uretsky came out on top in Friday’s Alan Jay Automotive Networks 120 at Sebring International Raceway, in a race marred by a nine-car GS class pileup at the start of the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge round. Cooper, in the No. 44 Ibiza Farm Motorsport McLaren Artura GT4, took a 2.506-second win over the No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT4 of Daan Arrow and Bryce Ward. It came after the first quarter of the two-hour contest was wiped out when nearly ten cars were eliminated before even taking the green flag that led to various strategy options in both classes. While the No. 54 Panam Motorsport Toyota GR Supra GT4 of Caio Chaves stayed out and led at the halfway mark on a planned one-stop strategy, a two-stop race for the McLaren, and several others, ultimately paid off. Chaves and co-driver Thiago Camilo came home fourth, behind the No. 95 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 EVO of Dillon Machavern and reigning class champion Luca Ma...

Photo: Brandon Badraoui/IMSA Jack Aitken edged out Tom Blomqvist to claim pole for Saturday’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in a hard-fought GTP qualifying session for the second round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Aitken, whose initial pole-winning run for the Rolex 24 was thrown out due to a technical infraction, reeled off a chart-topping 1:46.153 in his No. 31 Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R. It was 0.109 seconds quicker than Blomqvist, in the No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06, who will line up alongside the Cadillac on the front row. Filipe Albuquerque qualified the No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac third, while the best Porsche 963 was Kevin Estre’s No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport entry in fourth, after the team dominated the opening two practice sessions. The No. 40 WTR Cadillac of Louis Deletraz completed the top-five, ahead of Felipe Nasr in the No. 7 Porsche and Kaylen Frederick’s privateer JDC-Miller Motorsports entry. She...

Photo: Porsche Laurens Vanthoor led the way in the first practice session of the weekend for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, which saw Porsche Penske Motorsport entries take the top two positions. Vanthoor, in the special Mobil 1-liveried No. 6 Porsche 963, recorded a best lap of 1:47.985 in the 90-minute session to edge out teammate Felipe Nasr in the No. 7 entry by 0.026 seconds. Jack Aitken was third quickest in the No. 31 Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R, while Louis Deletraz slotted in ahead of Wayne Taylor Racing teammate Filipe Albuquerque, who completed the top-five in their Cadillacs. The No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 of Tom Blomqvist was sixth quickest, meanwhile. LMP2 was led by the No. 22 United Autosports Oreca 07 Gibson of Paul di Resta, thanks to a 1:50.700 lap set by the Peugeot factory driver. It was 0.048 seconds quicker than Ferdinand Habsburg in the No. 18 Era Motorsport entry, with the No. 99 AO Racing Oreca classified third in class...

Photo: Jessica Johnk/Porsche A late flyer in second practice put Tyler Maxson atop the combined timesheets following the first two practice sessions of the season for Porsche Carrera Cup North America at Sebring International Raceway. Maxson took his No. 77 Topp Racing Porsche 911 Cup to a 2:00.775 in the closing minutes of Wednesday afternoon’s Practice 2 to outpace the No. 24 Kellymoss Porsche of Aaron Jeansonne by 0.248 seconds. Carrera Cup competitors are giving the new Type-992.2 Porsche 911 Cup, equipped with Pirelli tires for the first time, its North American debut this weekend. Jared Thomas, who was quickest in the opening session, was third in the No. 96 JTR Motorsports Engineering entry, thanks to his time from the morning. Kiwi Callum Hedge, in his series debut, was fourth quickest in his No. 9 JDX Racing Porsche, with Topp’s Cole Kleck, a graduate of Porsche Sprint Challenge North America, completing the overall top-five, all in the Pro class. The Pro-Am class was...