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Club Sebring II Tickets Now Available
Thursday, March 2, 2017


Club Sebring, Sebring’s premium ticket, has sold out. Since the demand has far exceeded the supply, Sebring Raceway is now offering another pit suite with the same amenities at the same price.
Club Sebring II is a four-day ticket (March 15-1 that features a suite overlooking the pits and the front straight. Light snacks and beverages are included, with catered meals on Saturday. Parking in the Ulmann Straight lot is included at no additional charge. The Club Sebring II suite is the ultimate Sebring experience – whether you are a serious race fan or you just want to treat your employees, guests or customers to the best ticket at the 65[SUP]th[/SUP] Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida.
Club Sebring tickets are $550 ($275 for children 12 and under). To order call 800.626.7223 or purchase online at sebringraceway.com.

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Ozz Negri Competing for Camp Boggy Creek in Las Olas Triathlon

Wednesday, March 1, 2017






Donate here: http://teamozz.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=1171012
As Michael Shank Racing gears up for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring on March 18, driver Ozz Negri is adding another grueling event to his schedule during race week with the Las Olas Triathlon in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 12.

Negri, who drives the No. 86 Acura NSX GT3 for Michael Shank Racing, is utilizing the event as a way to raise money for Camp Boggy Creek – a proud charity of IMSA.
The Olympic distance triathlon consists of a .93-mile swim, 25-mile bike ride, and a 6.2-mile run for a total distance of 32.13 miles – that’s almost nine laps around the Sebring International Raceway circuit!
Camp Boggy Creek, located outside of Orlando, Florida, was founded by Paul Newman and General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. The camp welcomes children ages 7-16 with serious illnesses, free of charge. Open year round, the state-of-the-art medical camp provides week-long summer sessions for more than 1,100 children each year. Camp Boggy Creek also provides retreat programs for more than 550 families between September and April.
The programs at Camp Boggy Creek work to reverse some of the emotional and physical damage caused by illness and the ordeals of treatment. The camp also aims to instill in both the children and family members an outlook that is both positive and sustainable as well as a sense of strength, courage and confidence that lasts well beyond their stay at camp. Above all else, Camp Boggy Creek inspires hope by helping children to forget their illness and to embrace the many wonderful reasons to live.
"Camp Boggy Creek is a really special place," said Negri. "When I signed up for the triathlon, I thought about how I could use that as a way to raise awareness and donations for Boggy Creek. We've already had so many donations come in and I am truly grateful to all of those that have donated already! We'd love to reach our goal in the next ten days, and maybe even double it!"
With no cost to any family that attends, Camp Boggy Creek exists strictly because of generous donors and volunteers. Negri's fundraising goal is $2,500 which covers the cost for one child to experience a life-changing summer camp session.
As of March 1, Negri had reached the halfway point of his goal. Please join Negri in his campaign to raise funds for this incredible camp by visiting http://teamozz.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=1171012.

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Taylor Cadillac leads IMSA Sebring testing times

Friday, 24 February 2017
By Marshall Pruett / Image by LAT

IMSA's two-day test at Sebring International Raceway was topped by Wayne Taylor Racing's No. 10 Cadillac DPi-V.R. From the four sessions spread across Thursday and Friday, Jordan Taylor posted the fastest time of the event with a lap of 1m49.600s.
Despite IMSA's efforts to slow the Rolex 24 at Daytona-winning Cadillac model through Balance of Performance changes made leading into the test, all three factory DPi-V.R entries combined to run 1-2-3 in every session.

Taylor's best lap was 1.616s below the 2016 pole position, which is to be expected with the increased power and overall performance capabilities with the new 2017 LMP2-based prototypes.
"It was our first time there with the new car, and there was a lot to learn," Taylor told RACER. "So much of the testing we did over the winter going into Daytona was about durability running that we haven't actually been able to do a lot of performance testing with the car. It didn't start off well the first morning over the bumps, but we worked on the springs and dampers and ride height and overall it was really productive. We're leaving happy."
The WTR Cadillac drivers and those in the two Cadillacs fielded by Action Express Racing were instructed by the manufacturer to run as hard as possible during the test in an effort to dispel the belief its DPi-V.Rs were sandbagging. Taylor says he enjoyed attacking the 3.56-mile road course and pointed to the effort exerted by new WTR endurance driver Alex Lynn as an indicator of the approach taken by the Cadillac camp.
"To be honest, as a driver it's the best thing you can hear – to be told to go out and run as hard as you can," he continued. "It was great; it's an intense track in high-downforce configuration. We were definitely not leaving anything on the table; Alex actually rubbed the wall exiting Turn 17, so if that's not proof we were pushing hard, I don't know what is."
With Taylor's 1m49.600s lap as the Prototype class standard, the No. 5 AXR Cadillac (1m49.651s) and sister No. 31 DPi-V.R (1m49.687s) set nearly identical times.
The best WEC-spec P2 was fourth with JDC-Miller Motorsports' No. 85 ORECA 07 (1m50.348s) and fifth went to PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports' Ligier JS P217 (1m50.682s). Of the remaining DPis, Tequila Patron ESM's fastest Nissan Onroak DPi (1m50.767s) and Mazda Motorsports lead RT24-P (1m50.828s) were close to each other, but well shy of the Cadillacs.
In GT Le Mans, Corvette Racing's Jan Magnussen paced the class in his No. 3 Corvette C7.R (1m58.525s). The No. 3's test concluded prematurely when a drive belt problem in the engine bay sent Antonio Garcia back to the garage with approximately 30 minutes left in the final session.
The Porsche GT Team's No. 912 Porsche 911 RSR came within a few thousandths of a second of the Corvette (1m58.531s) and the No. 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT was just over a tenth away from the No. 3 (1m58.636s).
Two-time Indy 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya got his first taste of GTLM machinery after completing a handful of laps in the No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE, and appeared to enjoy the experience.
"It's fun. It's different. I only ran, probably, eight laps just to get the hang of it a little and I'm going to try to get in a little bit later. It's fun. I've never really run the big track. It's pretty bumpy," he said.
GT Daytona was led by CORE autosport's Colin Braun in the No. 54 Porsche 911 GT3 R (2m02.476s). The continually impressive No. 29 Montaplast by Land-Motorsport Audi R8 LMS GT3 was second (2m02.662s), and Audi stablemate Stevenson Motorsports was third with its No. 57 R8 LMS GT3 (2m02.772s).
The two-car PC class was led by Chuck Quinton in the No. 8 Starworks Motorsport entry (1m56.120s).
IMSA's next WeatherTech SportsCar Championship action will take place when the series returns for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring March 16-18.

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[h=2]IMSA Sebring test Cadillac's DPi-V.R "Balance of Power" changes[/h]

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Ford Chip Ganassi Racing to field 3 GTs at Sebring

Thursday, 02 March 2017

By RACER Staff / Image by LAT

Ford Chip Ganassi Racing and Ford Performance are ramping up efforts to sweep three of the most prestigious sports car races in the world in theGT Le Mans category within nine months.
Ganassi Racing will add the No.68 Ford GT to the 12 Hours of Sebring, piloted by World Endurance Championship regulars Stefan Mucke, Olivier Pla and Billy Johnson. Sebastien Bourdais again will join the lineup in the No. 66 with Joey Hand and Dirk Muller, and Scott Dixon will complete the No.67 lineup with Ryan Briscoe and Richard Westbrook.

"We wish we could send all four cars like we did at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, but the WEC cars will already be prepped for The Prologue test at Monza and the first race at Silverstone," said Dave Pericak, global director of Ford Performance. "Even though it's impossible to bring all of our Ford GTs, we didn't want to see this important opportunity to continue our cross-development pass us by."
Pla, Mucke and Johnson, who will join the full-timers at the first FIA World Endurance Championship race of the year, begin the FIA WEC season at The Prologue, the official pre-season test for the series, at Monza the week after the 12 Hours of Sebring, with the first race to follow at Silverstone in April.
The WEC crew who run the car for Mucke and Pla during the regular season will campaign the No. 68 Ford GT at Sebring.
"This is another great opportunity for our WEC and IMSA teams to work together as the opportunity to data share is invaluable," Chip Ganassi said. "There are not a lot of opportunities for us to get together, so when we have the chance we will always try to take advantage of it. Plus, to be able to bring another car to a legendary endurance event like Sebring is something special to all of us."
Ford ran two cars at Sebring last year; Dixon, Briscoe and Westbrook finished fifth in class, while Hand, Muller and Bourdais came home eighth in class.