Photo: John Dagys
Porsche have taken a double victory in the second round of the 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, with a sweep of the GT Le Mans and GT Daytona classes in the 62nd Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
The No. 912 Porsche North America Porsche 911 RSR matched the feat achieved by the sister No. 911 entry at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, taking the win in the second straight round of the Tequila Patron North American Endurance Cup.
Patrick Long and Jorg Bergmeister, Porsche’s longtime pairing, teamed with Sebring debutante and class polesitter Michael Christensen to secure the victory. The trio won by 5.296 seconds.
It was a mostly clean race for the No. 912, although there was one incident of contact approaching the eight-hour mark when the No. 912 contacted the No. 49 Spirit of Race Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 on entry to Turn 7. IMSA officials later admitted after the race that an incorrect penalty had been assessed.
In GTD, roughly five or six cars had a shot at the class win before Magnus Racing ultimately prevailed with the No. 44 Porsche 911 GT America.
The trio of Andy Lally, John Potter and new third driver Marco Seefried delivered the new car’s first victory, and the team’s first Sebring win as well, by 1.864 seconds.
Lally, like Bergmeister in GTLM, was able to pit earlier than the rest of the class competition ahead of that last caution period and jumped to the lead when others needed to complete their final pit stops.
AIM Autosport came home in second on its TUDOR Championship debut, with the lineup of Townsend Bell, Bill Sweedler, Jeff Segal and Maurizio Mediani in the No. 555 Ferrari 458 Italia GT3.
Alex Job Racing came up just short of its record-10th Sebring class victory with third and fourth for its two Porsche 911 GT Americas.
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