Sebring 12 Hours: tough battle in the GT class
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Sebring 12 Hours: tough battle in the GT class

 

Photo : JEAN MICHEL LE MEUR - DPPI Media

With less than one hour to go in the race, the nr2 and nr3 Audis are still leading but the second Audi is now one lap behind. Tom Kristensen remained in the leading car during last pit-stop, and Timo Bernhard took over from Loic Duval in nr3 Audi.

The nr22 car received a stop + 20 second penalty for an extra man over the wall during pit-stop.

The nr44 HPD-Honda passed nr055 HPD-Honda for the lead in the LMP2 class. Nice move.

The nr12 Rebellion Racing Lola-Toyota is stopped on the side of the track, their podium chances now gone.

Great fight in GT with 5 cars. The leader is changing at each pit-stop amongst the five cars.

Events of eleventh hour from FIAWEC tweet feed:

20:35 Loic Duval in #3 Audi has fallen back from Tom Kristensen in the leading #2 Audi R18 - gap now 49 seconds
20:41 Battle in LM GTE Pro. Joey Hand in #56 BMW has a narrow lead on Tommy Milner in Corvette #4 and Jorg Muller in BMW #155
20:48 Julien Jousse in Pescarolo Judd #16 makes a pitstop. Currently 5th in LMP1 and 8th overall
20:50 Loic Duval in #3 Audi continues to fall back from Kristensen in #2 - gap now 104s
20:55 Joey Hand in #56 BMW being chased by TommyMilner in #4 Corvette for GTE Pro lead, just 0.41s gap
20:58 Sarrazin in #44 Starworks HPD passes Joao Barbosa in #055 Level 5 HPD for the lead in LMP2
21:05 #2 Audi in for fuel stop Kristensen stays in car
21:06 Second placed Duval in #3 Audi in pits for fuel
21:09 Timo Bernhard now in the second placed #3 Audi after pitstop.
21:13 Nicolas Prost in #12 Rebellion Lola going very slowly on Ullman straight
21:15 Pescarolo #16 passes stricken #12 Lola to take 4h place.
21:22 Julien Jousse in the #16 Pescarolo Judd is 6 laps behind leader but in solid 4th place
21:27 Olivier Beretta in #71 AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia pits from lead of GTE Pro
21:29 Jordan Taylor in Corvette #03 also pits and hands over to Magnussen.
21:30 1 hour remaining!
 
Photo: SEBRING (FLORIDA, UNITED STATES), SEBRING INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, 12 HOURS OF SEBRING, SATURDAY 17 MARCH 2012, RACE.

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