The experience of Infineon Team Joest showed through Sunday as the team won the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring for the fourth consecutive year.
Drivers Frank Biela, Marco Werner and Phillipp Peter steered the Audi R8 to a 13.493-second victory over the ADT Champion Racing Audi R8. The Champion car, driven by Emanuele Pirro, Stefan Johansson and JJ Lehto, led most of the race before the Joest team asserted itself in the last two hours.
The win was Biela's second in the Sebring event and his 10th in the American Le Mans Series, while his co-drivers were winning for the first time in the series.
The Dyson Racing Lola EX257-MG survived a race of attrition to win the LMP 675 class for smaller Prototypes, the first win in ALMS competition for the team. Didier de Radigues, Chris Dyson and Chad Block drove the car. Finishing second in class was the Intersport Lola-MG of Jon Field, Duncan Dayton and Michael Durand.
Winning the GTS class for the second straight year was the factory Corvette team. Ron Fellows, Johnny O'Connell and Franck Freon drove the Chevrolet Corvette C5-R to a 16-lap win over the Veloqx Prodrive
Ferrari 550 Maranello of
Anthony Davidson, Kelvin Burt and Darren Turner.
Lucas Luhr won the GT class for the fourth straight year, the third consecutive time with co-driver Sascha Maassen. The Alex Job Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RS finished one lap ahead of the Petersen Motorsports Porsche of Johnny Mowlem, Nic Jonsson and Craig Stanton.
Race result:
1.
Biela/Werner/Peter Audi R8
LMP900/GTP 367 laps
12 hours 00mins 23.360s
2.
Pirro/Lehto/Johansson Audi R8
LMP900/GTP 367 laps
3.
Herbert/Brabham/Blundell Bentley Speed 8
LMP900/GTP 363 laps
4.
Kristensen/Capello/Smith Bentley Speed 8
LMP900/GTP 362 laps
5.
Beretta/Jeannette/Papis Panoz LMP01
LMP900/GTP 352 laps
6.
Kane/McCarthy/Salo Audi R8
LMP900/GTP 351 laps
7.
Theys/Lienhard/vd Poele Dallara-MG
LMP900/GTP 336 laps
8.
Fellows/O'Connell/Freon Chevrolet Corvette C5-R
GTS 332 laps
9.
Leuenberger/Graham/Maxwell Panoz LMP01
LMP900/GTP 324 laps
10.
Luhr/Maassen Porsche 911 GT3 RS
GT 320 laps
11.
Mowlem/Jonsson/Stanton Porsche 911 GT3 RS
GT 319 laps
12.
Lewis/Drissi/Cosmo Riley & Scott MkIIIC-Lincoln
LMP900/GTP 318 laps
13.
Davidson/Turner/Burt Ferrari 550 Maranello
GTS 316 laps
14.
Rosa/Caffi/Chiesa Porsche 911 GT3 RS
GT 312 laps
15.
Gregoire/Babini/Pescatori Ferrari 360 Modena
GT 311 laps
16.
Andrews/Keen/Oberto Lola B2K10-Judd
LMP900/GTP 307 laps
17.
Bernhard/Bergmeister Porsche 911 GT3 RS
GT 307 laps
18.
Dyson/de Radigues/Block Lola EX257-MG
LMP675 306 laps
19.
Gleason/Bunting/Wagner Porsche 911 GT3 RS
GT 299 laps
20.
Stanton/May/Barff TVR
GT 297 laps
