Sebring 12h: Hr 5 – Action Express keep Taylor car at a distance
Joao Barbosa finished the fifth hour at the wheel of the #5 Action Express Racing Cadillac and some 24sec ahead of Jordan Taylor in the WTR entry.
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Prototype
A truly professional and unhurried effort from Filipe Albuquerque kept the #5 Caddy comfortably ahead of its Daytona nemesis, the #10 WTR DPi-V.R, and that style was maintained by Barbosa as he led the field past the 150-lap mark.
The only other car on the lead lap at this point, albeit 78sec from P1, was the JDC/Miller-Oreca which is now being steered by the underrated Stephen Simpson.
Two laps adrift but in fourth, ex-F1 star Nick Heidfeld kept plugging on in Rebellion’s Oreca, about 2m30s ahead of Bruno Senna’s ESM Nissan DPi.
GT Le Mans
Scott Dixon stepped into the #67 Ford GT for the first time today, taking over the lead car from Richard Westbrook who never got the chance to get back on sequence.
But still, Ganassi has the on-sequence #66 car in second, with Joey Hand having replaced Sebastien Bourdais, and currently running 15sec ahead of the Mike Rockenfeller-steered Corvette C7.R.
“Rocky” is under pressure from Olivier Pla’s is fourth-placed Ford which in turn has been joined on track by Toni Vilander in the Risi Ferrari.
The Porsches, meanwhile, appear to have nothing for the opposition in the 80-plus degree heat, and though they remain on the lead lap in class, they are sixth and seventh.
GT Daytona
Cooper MacNeil bravely limped back to pits in his Riley Motorsports #50 Mercedes AMG GT3 after left-front A-arm failed, but the car is now completely out of contention.
However, the other Riley Mercedes, the #33, currently leads the class in the hands of Mario Farnbacher, with Christina Nielsen second in the #63 Ferrari, Rolf Ineichen third in the Grasser Lamborghini and Jules Gounon in Land Motorsport’s Audi.
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 two minutes apart.
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