Talk:12 Hours of Sebring

Track Name

I added the name of the track so I could create a page for the track. I'll return to try and flesh out this entry some more- this is one of my favorite tracks and races... --- User:Atombaby 5 November 2004

2007 Edition

Man, that was a sketchy end to the GT2 race... Fhayashi 02:25, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Noting Porsche RS Spyder as P2 class

I added the class of the Porsche that won the 2008 race. It has since been removed. Now, I know that there's no rule about which class is supposed to win, but as the race was closing down, the TV guys mentioned that if the Porsche won, it would be only the third time in the race's 50+ year history that a car from a class other than the "premier" category has won the race. I think that's significant enough to note, not to belittle the win, but to note the car did something fairly special, beating the bigger cars. Gentgeen (talk) 02:23, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I thought about it when I added the entry, but the fact that three other cars did it seemed to me to make it no necessarily noteworthy. Maybe in the history of the event it could be mentioned, but I wouldn't necessarily put it on the List of Winners itself. Granted, the fact that Audi ran diesels is noted. The359 (talk) 02:26, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

4 Hours of Sebring

Should we also mention the somewhat lesser known 4 Hours of Sebring? // Liftarn (talk) 17:50, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes. 166.152.32.247 (talk) 00:14, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

A little consistency; style guidelines

Let's try to keep the years in question "full length" years, "00" adds no clarity to "2000" and actually diminishes it, and it's not like you're even saving paper, ink, or other resources, really. 166.152.32.247 (talk) 00:18, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

2014

i started working on an article for the 2014 race, but it's late and i can't finish it. If someone could take what i have so far and finish it up, that would be great.

qualifying .pdf: http://www.imsa.com/sites/default/files/race_result_files/TUDOR%20Sebring%20Qualifying%20Unofficial.pdf race .pdf (includes qualifying driver, as the above doesn't): http://www.imsa.com/sites/default/files/race_result_files/TUDOR%20Sebring%20Race%20Unofficial.pdf

The 61st Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring was an endurance sports car race held on March 15, 2014 at the Sebring International Raceway in Florida, United States. It was the first edition of the race to be held under the United SportsCar Racing banner, the first race since 1998 to not feature the top category of Le Mans Prototypes, and the first to feature Daytona Prototypes.

Chip Ganassi Racing won the race in their first attempt, in their #01 Ford Ecoboost powered Riley Mk XXVI Daytona Prototype after a late race full course caution forced other cars to pit for fuel behind the safety car.

==Qualifying==

===Qualifying result===

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	Team	Driver	Lap Time
1	P	#5 Action Express Racing	Sébastien Bourdais	1:51.917
2	P	#42 OAK Racing	Olivier Pla	1:52.086
3	P	#10 Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor	1:52.544
4	P	#1 Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ryan Dalziel	1:52.662
5	P	#6 Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	Klaus Graf	1:52.667
6	P	#02 Chip Ganassi Racing	Scott Dixon	1:53.098
7	P	#90 Spirit of Daytona Racing	Richard Westbrook	1:53.147
8	P	#2 Extreme Speed Motorsports	Johannes van Overbeek	1:53.393
9	P	#01 Chip Ganassi Racing	Scott Pruett	1:53.456
10	P	#9 Action Express Racing w/ Delta-ADR	Jon Fogarty	1:53.590
11	P	#60 Michael Shank Racing	Oswaldo Negri Jr.	1:54.062
12	PC	#09 RSR Racing	Bruno Junqueira	1:54.839
13	P	#78 Starworks Motorsport	Pierre Kaffer	1:55.081
14	P	#0 DeltaWing Racing Cars	Andy Meyrick	1:55.468
15	P	#31 Marsh Racing	Eric Curran	1:55.594

— Preceding unsigned comment added by DragonDance (talk • contribs) 10:07, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Precision of distances in table

I have a hard time believing that "1,447.766 km (899.600 mi)" and the like are truly precise to three decimal places. Where are these taken from, anyway? Arcorann (talk) 06:06, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

From the sources in each article of each season. If you just bother looking for it. And since a lap at a Sebring track doesn't isn't a perfect round number like 8 km, or 3 miles but 5.192 miles/8.356 kms in 1952, and the winner in 1952 completed 173 laps, its just a question of multiplying 173 per lap distance. But well, maybe they were just idiots. Maybe this was just staged in a Hollywood barn and the earth is flat.Rpo.castro (talk) 12:11, 12 April 2024 (UTC)