This weekend is the Super Sebring Weekend doubleheader: FIA WEC 1000 Miles of Sebring Friday evening (1400 MDT start) and the IMSA 12 Hours of Sebring on Saturday (0840 MDT Start).
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Always like Sebring, but good god that surface is in bad shape. Bumps can be good for spectators, but it looks like the entire thing is run on rumble strips.
Also read that one of the Project 1 991RSR's was completely destroyed in a fire during testing. They're hoping they can get a replacement before the weekend.
CNBC supposedly airs the first few hours of the IMSA race and then an NBC/CNBC sports channel picks it up. Now and then (eg, Le Mans and Daytona), Discovery Velocity in Canada picks up the feed, but I don't see any racing on their schedule this weekend. It's just as well, the NBC broadcasters aren't very good. Check out IMSA.TV for a stream.
You will have to stream the WEC race or wait until WEC puts the race up on their Youtube page.
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also read that one of the project 1 991rsr's was completely destroyed in a fire during testing. They're hoping they can get a replacement before the weekend.
The Toyotas are simply in a different dimension. At Sebring, though, The Privateer LMP1s had a chance to compete, but they all had their issues and Sebring proved to be too much of a car-breaker for LMP1. SMP #11 had a puncture early but the rest of the race was smooth for them Rebellion Racing had a terrible race.
Jackie Chan Racing finished P1 in LMP2.
As usual, GTE PRO was the most competitive and carries all of the excitement of WEC racing. Porsche #91 stole the race from BMW #81 during the last pit stop. BMW needed an extra splash of fuel on top of tire change and that was enough to allow Porsche #91 to leave the pits in P1. It was shaping up to be a fantastic finish but an LMP2 crashed into the wall, bringing out the yellow and the safety car. The track officials couldn't get the mess cleaned up in time so the race ended under caution. The Ford Gt #67 were leading much of the race, and then they weren't I don't know what happened. They finished P3. The Ferraris did better than expected while Aston and Corvette fell below expectations.
In the GTE AM, Patrick Dempsey's Porsche #77 finished first. The Project 1 team did very well, all things considered, and were in P1 at various stages of the race. There was a controversial collision with a Ferrari (P2) that dropped Project 1 down to P3. Aston Martin had their issues here, too. It looked like they left parts of their diffuser all over the track.
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