12 Hours of Sebring - H+6: The No. 7 Porsche takes the lead at the halfway point

While the No. 31 Cadillac spent most of the first six hours of the race in first place, it was the No. 7 Porsche that took the lead at the 12 Hours of Sebring at half distance.

Published 15/03/2025 à 21:15

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12 Hours of Sebring – H+6: The No. 7 Porsche takes the lead at the halfway point

Cadillac No. 31 leads the 12 2025 Hours of Sebring at the halfway point - Photo Fabrizio Boldoni / DPPI

Mixed fortunes for Cadillac during the first six hours of the 12 Hours of Sebring. The second round of the 2025 season of theIMSA has not been kind to the two Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.Rs so far. The No. 10 of Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque and Will Stevens lost a lap after a collision with a GT, while the No. 40 of Jordan Taylor, Louis Delétraz and Brendon Hartley conceded two at the head of the race after the New Zealander went off the track.

Replacing Alex Lynn in the #40 Cadillac, Hartley crashed in the final corner and hit the tire barrier. The Kiwi damaged the front-left side of his prototype, causing a Full Course Yellow. After several minutes, the driver Toyota en WEC managed to get back to the pits with a badly damaged front end. After a hood change, the chrome-plated Caddy returned to the track in last place in the GTP class. To make matters worse, a 60-second penalty added to the #40 Cadillac's next stop was applied for an intervention that went beyond emergency refueling while the track was closed.

Cadillac, however, can look back on a perfect first half of the race for the #31 Action Express Racing car. Co-driven by Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber and Frederik Vesti, the red prototype climbed from last in its class on the grid to first. Aitken propelled the car to seventh during his stint, then took the lead during a pit stop sequence. Vesti took over and quickly maintained a gap of more than seven seconds on the track. Bamber, however, lost the lead to Porsche official n°7 of Felipe Nasr, Nick Tandy and Laurens Vanthoor on a very nice overtaking on the outside by the Brazilian just before the halfway point.

On the side ofAston Martin, the Gaydon prototype is in a respectable eighth place at the halfway point without having encountered any major problems during the first six hours.

The #07 Crowdstrike by APR Oreca 04 co-driven by George Kurtz, Malthe Jakobsen and Tobby Sowery leads LM P2 at the halfway point. In GTD Pro, we find the #3 Ford Mustang GT64 of Mike Rockenfeller, Seb Priaulx and Ben Barker at the helm. Mercedes-AMG GT3 No. 32 (Koch, Lucas, Goetz) leads the GTD.