USC – 12 Hours of Sebring EL2: Justin Wilson at the front.

It was Justin Wilson, driver of Dale Coyne Racing in IndyCar, who posted the best performance in the second free practice session for the 12 Hours of Sebring, on behalf of Michael Shank Racing.

Published on 13/03/2014 à 22:35

Pierre Tassel

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USC – 12 Hours of Sebring EL2: Justin Wilson at the front.

The times did not fall for this second free practice session on the Sebring track, scene of the 12 Hours, second round of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship, most of the teams having reviewed different set-ups on the cars. If Justin Wilson, associated with John Pew and Osvaldo Negri in the No. 60 Riley-Ford of Michael Shank Racing, was the fastest in these free practices 2 (1'53″621), the driver of Dale Coyne Racing in IndyCar did not improve the best mark established for the moment by another resident of the Indy series, Scott Dixon in EL1.

At the end of a session marked by three interruptions, Wilson-Pew-Negri are ahead of the Corvette DP of Wayne Taylor Racing led by Ricky and Jordan Taylor and the Monegasque Max Angelelli (1'53″912) and the ORECA-Nissan of Muscle Milk Racing of the trio Klaus Graf – Lucas Luhr – Jann Mardenborough (1’54″267). Third during the first session, Sébastien Bourdais ranks 8th in the Action Express Racing Corvette DP. simon pagenaud is 12th with the HPD ARX-03b from Extreme Speed ​​Motorsports and Tristan Vautier, associated with Trsitan Nunez and Joel Miller on the Mazda SkyActiv-D from the Speedsource team takes 44th position.

In the other categories, it was the ORECA FLM09 from Performance Tech Motorsports with Charlie Shears, Raphael Matos and David Ostella which was the fastest (1'58″239) in the Prototype Challenge category. In GTLM, it is the Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Long, Jörg Bergmeister and Michael Christensen which dominated this second free practice session in 2'00″289 ahead of the official Corvette C7.R of Robin Liddell, Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin and the BMW Z4 GTE of Andy Priaulx – Joey Hand and Bill Auberlen. Patrick Pilet and his Porsche 911 RSR from Porsche North America is 7th in the category just in the wheels of the Ferrari 458 Italia of the Italian trio Bruni-Malucelli-Fisichella of Risi Competizione.

Finally in GTD, Porsche took over Aston Martin, BMW and Audi with the 911 GT America of Rum Bum Snow Racing of Matt Plumb – Madison Snow – Jan Heylen.

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