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IMSA Sebring
Sebring 12h: Hr 4 – Ford settles into 1-2, as Corvette hangs on
Ford GTs are leading the GT Le Mans class at Sebring, chased hard by Mike Rockenfeller in the #3 Corvette, as Filipe Albuquerque continues to lead overall for Cadillac.
David Malsher-Lopez
Edited: Mar 18, 2017, 6:54 PM
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GT Le Mans
Ford's Richard Westbrook still needs a yellow to get back on sequence, but the Chip Ganassi Racing Ford team have their options covered either way, as Sebastien Bourdais has the #66 car running second, a couple of seconds ahead of Corvette's Mike Rockenfeller, who in turn is nine seconds ahead of Olivier Pla in the third Ford.
Giancarlo Fisichella has taken over from James Calado in Risi’s Ferrari, and is being chased hard by Bill Auberlen in the #25 BMW M6, while the Porsche 911s continue in seventh and eighth, Patrick Pilet ahead of Kevin Estre.
Prototype
Filipe Albuquerque continues to lead in the #5 Action Express Cadillac DPi-V.R, with a 36sec margin over Wayne Taylor Racing’s similar car, in which Jordan Taylor has taken over from Alex Lynn.
Third, and 40sec behind WTR, is Chris Miller in JDC/Miller’s Oreca, a lap ahead of Rebellion’s Oreca with Sebastien Buemi at the wheel, pursued by Bruno Senna in the #22 ESM Nissan.
Four laps down is Mike Conway in the #31 Cadillac, while – sadly – the Visit Florida Multimatic Riley is now 25 laps down after suffering a fly-by-wire throttle failure.
GT Daytona
Offering some of the best action of the race (predictably), Jeroen Bleekemolen continues to lead the class in the Riley Motorsports Mercedes AMG GT3, but Jan Heylen delivered a startling a run in the Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R and climbed to second – legitimately on track rather than through strategy - before stopping and handing over to Patrick Lindsey.
And so it is now Andrew Balzan in the Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488, who is Bleekemolen’s closest challenger with Australian Supercars champ Shane van Gisbergen third in the #50 Mercedes, chased by Richard Antinucci’s #11 Lamborghini Huracan and Jules Gounon in the Land-Motorsport Audi R8.
Ex-IndyCar drivers Jack Hawksworth and Sage Karam run sixth and seventh in the Lexus RC F pair of 3GT Racing.
Prototype Challenge’s leading pair, James French in the Performance Tech car and Max Hanratty in the Starworks entry, are sixth and seventh overall and running a quarter-minute apart.
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