The first hour of the 60th Anniversary Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring is in the books and, while the front of the field has stayed relatively stable, other teams and manufacturers haven’t been so fortunate.
Ferrari, in particular, has had a fraught start to its afternoon, with four of the eight 458s entered encountering some sort of problem. The No. 58 Luxury Racing 458, the polesitting GTE Am entry … More
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Allan McNish led an Audi one-two-three by just over 38 seconds on the one-hour mark of the Sebring 12 Hours, the opening round of the new FIA World Endurance Championship.
McNish, who is sharing the #2 Audi R18 TDI with Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello, led the early going before  … More
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SEBRING, Fla. – The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón kicks off its 2012 season this weekend with the 60th version of the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Race organizers were anticipating a crowd in excess of 150,000 and a grid of 64 cars for America’s oldest and most grueling sports-car race. The 3.74-mile circuit in central Florida not only welcomes the opening round of the ALMS but the debut of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Sebring represents the … More
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Porsche has set a new best-ever time for its Boxster S nameplate at what has become the benchmark for all of the latest sports and exotic cars: the famed Nurburgring.
The freshly introduced and thoroughly reinvented Boxster S managed a very brisk 7:58 (seven minutes and fifty-eight seconds for those entirely unfamiliar with the track) lap time … More
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