2016 12 Hours of Sebring
The 64th Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida was an endurance sports car racing event held at Sebring International Raceway near Sebring, Florida from 16 to 19 March 2016. The race was the second round of the 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, as well as the second round of the North American Endurance Cup. It was the final time that the original Daytona Prototypes participated in the race, as, for 2017, they were replaced with the new DPi cars.
The race was won by Tequila Patrón ESM's Honda HPD-Ligier JS P2 driven by Scott Sharp, Johannes van Overbeek, Ed Brown, and Pipo Derani after completing a pass for the lead in the final moments of the race.[1] The Prototype Challenge class was won by the No. 54 CORE Autosport entry driven by Colin Braun, Mark Wilkins, and Jon Bennett. GT Le Mans was won by the No. 4 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R from Corvette Racing, driven by Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner, and Marcel Fässler. The GT Daytona class was won by the No. 63 Ferrari 488 GT3 from Scuderia Corsa, driven by Christina Nielsen, Alessandro Balzan, and Jeff Segal. The race saw a stoppage of roughly two hours and 15 minutes due to heavy rain and lightning just before the halfway-point of the event.[2][3]
Practice
Practice 1
The first practice session took place at 10:00 am ET on Thursday and ended with Dane Cameron topping the charts for Action Express Racing, with a lap time of 1:52.447.[4]
Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap |
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1 | P | 31 | Action Express Racing | Dane Cameron | 1:52.447 | _ |
2 | P | 5 | Action Express Racing | Scott Pruett | 1:53.226 | +0.779 |
3 | P | 2 | Tequila Patrón ESM | Johannes van Overbeek | 1:53.312 | +0.865 |
Source:[5] | ||||||
Practice 2
The second practice session took place at 2:25 pm ET on Thursday and ended with Christian Fittipaldi topping the charts for Action Express Racing, with a lap time of 1:53.850.[6]
Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap |
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1 | P | 5 | Action Express Racing | Christian Fittipaldi | 1:53.850 | _ |
2 | P | 31 | Action Express Racing | Scott Pruett | 1:54.283 | +0.433 |
3 | P | 24 | Alegra Motorsports | Daniel Morad | 1:54.334 | +0.484 |
Source:[7] | ||||||
Night Practice
The night practice session took place at 7:30 pm ET on Thursday and ended with Filipe Albuquerque topping the charts for Action Express Racing, with a lap time of 1:52.832.[8]
Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap |
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1 | P | 5 | Action Express Racing | Filipe Albuquerque | 1:52.832 | _ |
2 | P | 55 | Mazda Motorsports | Jonathan Bomarito | 1:53.882 | +1.050 |
3 | P | 10 | Wayne Taylor Racing | Jordan Taylor | 1:54.088 | +1.256 |
Source:[9] | ||||||
Final Practice
The fourth and final practice session took place at 10:15 am ET on Friday and ended with Dane Cameron topping the charts for Action Express Racing, with a lap time of 1:52.135.[10]
Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap |
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1 | P | 31 | Action Express Racing | Dane Cameron | 1:52.135 | _ |
2 | P | 5 | Action Express Racing | Filipe Albuquerque | 1:52.228 | +0.093 |
3 | P | 60 | Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian | Olivier Pla | 1:53.067 | +0.932 |
Source:[11] | ||||||
Qualifying
Qualifying results
Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡.
Pos. | Class | No. | Team | Driver | Time | Gap | Grid |
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1 | P | 60 | ![]() |
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1:51.217 | _ | 1 ‡ |
2 | P | 2 | ![]() |
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1:51.391 | +0.174 | 2 |
3 | P | 31 | ![]() |
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1:51.943 | +0.726 | 3 |
4 | P | 5 | ![]() |
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1:52.205 | +0.988 | 4 |
5 | P | 55 | ![]() |
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1:52.951 | +1.734 | 5 |
6 | P | 90 | ![]() |
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1:53.185 | +1.968 | 6 |
7 | P | 70 | ![]() |
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1:53.513 | +2.296 | 7 |
8 | P | 10 | ![]() |
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1:53.576 | +2.359 | 8 |
9 | P | 81 | ![]() |
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1:54.171 | +2.954 | 9 |
10 | P | 24 | ![]() |
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1:54.193 | +2.976 | 10 |
11 | P | 0 | ![]() |
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1:54.274 | +3.057 | 11 |
12 | PC | 54 | ![]() |
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1:54.910 | +3.693 | 12‡ |
13 | PC | 52 | ![]() |
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1:55.843 | +4.626 | 13 |
14 | PC | 20 | ![]() |
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1:56.661 | +5.444 | 14 |
15 | PC | 38 | ![]() |
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1:57.189 | +5.972 | 15 |
16 | PC | 8 | ![]() |
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1:57.241 | +6.024 | 16 |
17 | P | 50 | ![]() |
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1:57.422 | +6.205 | 17 |
18 | PC | 85 | ![]() |
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1:57.630 | +6.413 | 18 |
19 | PC | 88 | ![]() |
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1:58.218 | +7.001 | 19 |
20 | GTLM | 25 | ![]() |
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1:58.402 | +7.185 | 20‡ |
21 | GTLM | 100 | ![]() |
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1:58.592 | +7.375 | 21 |
22 | GTLM | 68 | ![]() |
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1:58.637 | +7.420 | 22 |
23 | GTLM | 67 | ![]() |
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1:58.708 | +7.491 | 23 |
24 | GTLM | 3 | ![]() |
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1:58.856 | +7.639 | 24 |
25 | GTLM | 4 | ![]() |
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1:58.878 | +7.661 | 25 |
26 | GTLM | 911 | ![]() |
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1:59.009 | +7.792 | 26 |
27 | GTLM | 62 | ![]() |
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1:59.020 | +7.803 | 27 |
28 | GTLM | 66 | ![]() |
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1:59.053 | +7.836 | 28 |
29 | GTLM | 912 | ![]() |
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1:59.170 | +7.953 | 29 |
30 | GTD | 63 | ![]() |
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2:02.350 | +11.133 | 30‡ |
31 | GTD | 33 | ![]() |
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2:02.386 | +11.169 | 31 |
32 | GTD | 96 | ![]() |
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2:02.660 | +11.443 | 32 |
33 | GTD | 23 | ![]() |
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2:03.037 | +11.820 | 33 |
34 | GTD | 22 | ![]() |
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2:03.241 | +12.024 | 34 |
35 | GTD | 73 | ![]() |
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2:03.284 | +12.067 | 35 |
36 | GTD | 51 | ![]() |
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2:03.340 | +12.123 | 36 |
37 | GTD | 16 | ![]() |
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2:03.455 | +12.238 | 37 |
38 | GTD | 97 | ![]() |
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2:03.625 | +12.408 | 38 |
39 | GTD | 21 | ![]() |
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2:03.822 | +12.605 | 39 |
40 | GTD | 9 | ![]() |
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2:03.856 | +12.639 | 40 |
41 | GTD | 11 | ![]() |
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2:03.861 | +12.644 | 41 |
42 | GTD | 27 | ![]() |
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2:03.933 | +12.716 | 42 |
43 | GTD | 98 | ![]() |
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2:04.204 | +12.987 | 43 |
44 | GTD | 48 | ![]() |
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2:04.260 | +13.043 | 44 |
45 | GTD | 28 | ![]() |
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2:04.302 | +13.085 | 45 |
46 | GTD | 44 | ![]() |
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2:04.857 | +13.640 | 46 |
47 | GTD | 540 | ![]() |
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2:07.095 | +15.878 | 47 |
48 | GTD | 45 | ![]() |
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2:07.338 | +16.121 | 48 |
49 | GTD | 6 | ![]() |
No Time Established | 49 | ||
Source:[12] | |||||||
Race
Results
Class winners are denoted in bold.
References
- "64th Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida – Race Report" (PDF).
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- Myrehn, Ryan (March 18, 2016). "Action Express Tops Final Practice at Sebring". sportscar365.com. John Dagys Media. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
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- "Race Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2017-06-22.