USC – 12 Hours of Sebring EL3: Ganassi takes back his property

Ganassi, who is making his big debut in the 12 Hours of Sebring, intends to leave his mark on this second round of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship. After the best time achieved in EL1, Scott Dixon (accompanied by Indy 500 champion Tony Kanaan and Sage Karam) distinguished himself again in EL3 in his No. 02 Riley-Ford, contested at night, by setting the best time of the session in 1'53″090. He is ahead of the Action Express Racing Corvette DP driven by the Sébastien trio Bourdais – Christian Fittipaldi – Joao Barbosa in 1'53″654 and the other Riley-Ford from Justin Wilson's Michael Shank Racing – John Pew – Osvaldo Negri, 3rd in 1'53″671. Unlike the 24 Hours of Daytona where the Corvettes dominated, it seems that the small adjustments of Balance of Performance, as well as the return to a higher downforce aerodynamic package, favor the Ford-powered cars.

simon pagenaud, entered in the HPD ARX-03b of Extreme Speed ​​Motorsports, ranked 5th in the session just behind the second Riley-Ford of Ganassi of the Pruett-Rojas-Franchitti trio. On his Speedsource Mazda SkyActiv-D, Tristan Vautier is 35th.

In the PC category, the ORECA FLM09 from Junqueira-Ende-Heinemaier posted the best performance (1'57″001). In GTLM, the Corvette C7.R from Corvette Racing finally set the best time, driven by the team Oliver Gavin – Tommy Miler – Robin Liddell. The American is finally ahead of the BMWs and others Ferrari ou Porsche since it is the two Z4s of Team RLL of Dirk Müller – Dirk Werner – John Edwards and that of Bill Auberlen – Andy Priaulx – Joey Hand which complete the top 3 in the category. The Porsche 911 RSR of Patrick Pilet took 11th place in the category.

Finally in GTD, Porsche still dominates the debates with the 911 GT America from Alex Job Racing of the trio Cooper McNeil – Leh Keen – Philipp Frommenweiler.