American Le Mans Series

Sebring Winter Test – Test Session 3 Result

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Like yesterday and as expected the Lola Aston Martin set the fastest time of the session again. The #009 Aston Martin Racing car set its fastest time after only 6 of 76 completed laps around the Sebring International Raceway. Stefan Mücke set the fastest time of 1:46.894.

Three red flags briefly interrupted the session this morning when the Level 5 Motorsports LMPC car stopped and was towed back to the pit, while the Genoa Racing LMPC stopped twice at Turn 3.

With the Lola Aston Martin fastest on the track all the time it was a matter of who would be the next best thing. This time it was the HPD ARX-01c of Brabham, Pagenaud and Franchitti. The Patrón Highcroft Racing #1 was 1.259s slower than the #009, but over three tenths of a second quicker than the #16 Dyson Racing Lola Mazda.

Fastest of the LMPC cars this morning was the Level 5 Motorsports car of Tucker and Bouchut. The Oreca FLM09 posted its fastest lap in 1:57.054, just 0.009s quicker than the #99 Green Earth Team Gunnar. The Genoa Racing #36 was third fastest, some seven tenths of a second behind the two leaders. Despite having had Larry Connor’s name on the timing only yesterday the team had brought in Andy Wallace and JR Hildebrand as well.

Eleventh overall and first of the GT2 cars was the #62 Risi Competizione Ferrari F430 GT of Gianmaria Bruni and Jaime Melo, in 2:02.559. The Italian car was almost four tenths of a second quicker than the #44 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche 997 GT3 RSR of Darren Law and Seth Neiman and another tenth quicker than the #45 Lizards Porsche of Bergmeister and Long. Like yesterday the new Jaguar XKRS struggled to find the proper GT2 pace, the #75 finishing in 21st overall, over five seconds behind the Risi Ferrari and just 0.061s ahead of the first GT Challenge Porsche.

That Porsche was the #65 Kelly Moss Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car again. Walton beat Brent Holden in the #44x by six tenths of a second, while the Curtis/Sofronas #32 Porsche finished third in class, a second and a half behind Walton.

Full results can be found here.