USC – 12 Hours of Sebring EL1: Ganassi signals from the start

For Ganassi's debut at the 12 Hours of Sebring, the trio of the No. 02 Riley-Ford of Tony Kanaan - Sage Karam - Scott Dixon monopolized the top of the timesheet for the first free practice session in Florida. Scott Dixon set the best mark in 1'52"357. They are ahead of the Oak Racing Morgan-Nissan driven by the Olivier Pla – Alex Brundle – Gustavo Yacaman trio (1’52″858) and the Action Express Racing Corvette DP of Sébastien Bourdais – Joao Barbosa – Chrsitian Fittipaldi, winners of the opening round of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship season at the 24 Hours of Daytona (1'53″404). simon pagenaud is 10th in the DP category and 11th overall (1'55″382) with the Extreme Speed ​​Motorsports HPD ARX-03b, which he shares with Ed Brown and Johannes van Overbeek.

In the Prototype Challenge, Jon Bennett's Core Autosport ORECA FLM09 was the fastest. In the GTLM category, it is the Ferrari 458 Italia of the Risi Competizione of Gianmaria Bruni – Giancarlo Fisichella – Matteo Malucelli who signed the best performance ahead of the two Corvette C7.Rs of Corvette Racing of Tommy Milner – Oliver Gavin – Robin Liddell and Jan Magnussen – Antonio Garcia – Ryan Briscoe. Patrick Pilet, engaged in the Porsche 911 RSR No. 911 from Porsche North America ranks 10th in GTLM.

Finally in GTD, it is theAston Martin V12 Vantage of the TRG-AMR from Block-Carter-Davison which achieved the best performance.