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14 P 90 GT2 BMW E92 M3 Dirk Mueller 3 2:00.782 -15.568 1 --- 2:51.211 2 0:11:01.969 Dirk Mueller
15 P 45 GT2 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Jorg Bergmeister 5 2:01.150 -15.936 2 -0.368 37:51.074 3 0:58:50.572 Jorg Bergmeister
16 P 17 GT2 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Wolf Henzler 6 2:01.201 -15.987 3 -0.419 16:41.779 5 0:29:13.586 Wolf Henzler
17 P 62 GT2 Ferrari 430 GT Jaime Melo 7 2:01.236 -16.022 4 -0.454 2:21.352 3 0:21:15.003 Jaime Melo
18 P 3 GT2 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Jan Magnussen 5 2:01.358 -16.144 5 -0.576 2:14.594 4 0:25:24.095 Jan Magnussen
19 P 4 GT2 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Oliver Gavin 5 2:01.628 -16.414 6 -0.846 2:24.158 2 0:26:01.446 Oliver Gavin
20 P 01 GT2 Ferrari 430 GT Johannes van Overb 8 2:01.914 -16.700 7 -1.132 2:17.222 3 0:23:48.000 Johannes van Overb
21 P 92 GT2 BMW E92 M3 Bill Auberlen 5 2:01.922 -16.708 8 -1.140 2:11.504 3 0:19:05.168 Bill Auberlen
22 P 02 GT2 Ferrari 430 GT Guy Cosmo 9 2:02.242 -17.028 9 -1.460 2:14.756 4 0:26:23.346 Guy Cosmo
23 P 40 GT2 Doran Design Ford GT David Murry 6 2:03.622 -18.408 10 -2.840 2:14.866 4 0:23:58.881 David Murry
24 P 75 GT2 Jaguar XKRS Marc Goosens 10 2:04.804 -19.590 11 -4.022 14:20.903 5 0:35:47.608 Marc Goosens

Z06Norway

Corvette team is used to be in front, now BMW has almost a second faster lap time

Hope someone in Pratt&Miller can find a second FAST
Dan Brinks please give Jan a faster car, he need a solid tool to spank Bergmeister



Rune

redazz

qualifying is one thing ,endurance racing another. corvette team is hard to beat over the long haul
john

shifter77

Wait until it starts. The vettes will be ROCKING.

gbvette62

Unfortunetly, the Flying Lizard Porsches are pretty good too and they're in front of the Corvettes.....for now. Oh, and the Vettes just moved up one spot each, it sounds like the Bimmer fail post qualifing tech!

johnodrake

If the above is correct, it is .576 sec..... ~.2 off of second. The BMW sister car is in 8th - I would be more worried if they were 1-2.

davidfarmer

Corvette isn't showing their hand until the HAVE to. Unless they have a crash or failure, they'll be competitive at the end!

johnodrake

No one wins on lap one.

vette6aut0x

Sprint races and enduros are two different animals.

USAsOnlyWay

Don't know how I missed this.

I hope it is as competitive as the quals show. I'd rather have 8 cars about equal battling it out over the long haul than the team with the deepest pockets (most spares etc) winning it.

Top 8 are 0.01.14 seconds apart. That sounds like a great race to me.

Bonus: Video Prequel of Porsche v Corvette
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/19/v...rs-of-sebring/

dvandentop

going to be a great race, cant wait for it!

jhester

Full grid may be found here

90 BMW failed the stall test in post-qualifying tech, which assumes that they are bypassing the restrictor in some way. I doubt it, but they failed regardless.

The story of qualifying is the Team Falken tire Porsche at P2; Henzler is a massive hot shoe, but having a non-Michelin, non-Dunlop development (BMW) car that fast is a huge vote of confidence for Falken tires.

The story will be (as in years past) can any of the teams' tires hold up to double stints like the Michelins can? If you look at race data and plot flying laptimes over stint length you will see the Michelins do not fall off, even over a double stint. That should gap the Michelin cars out over the balance and at that point it will come down to race day setup and strategy.

I agree with the above posts; a 12-hour race is very little about qualifying times, but it does show you that there are 9 cars across 4 makes (Corvette, Porsche, BMW, Ferrari) with very quick pace, and should make for a very heated race.

I can't wait

1stZ

Gotta give to Dirk muller & BMW. They're on Dunlops. The norm upfront is usually Michelin cars. That said, most beleive that the factory corvette is the favorite this year. No excuses this year! Let's see who comes out on top?!?! I'm haven't been this excited in a while.

dfinke23

Now that is a bumpy track! Looks like motorcross bikes going through the woops.

TLGunman

On Speed, they said the Vette's were running in Lemans trim too, so that may slow them a bit at Sebring.

I feel bad for Marc Goosens, that jaguar is the suck. Go #62 and #02!!

AU N EGL

The Pratt & Miller Pit crew is second to none. Even endurance races have been won or lost by the pit crews experience and the teams preparedness.

Sebring is more demanding on the cars then Le Mans

jhester

That makes some sense that the Corvettes were running a LeMans setup, if they want to treat Sebring as a LeSarthe test versus an independent race.

I agree with the condolences to Goose, although the guy is a flat-out great test driver, so I am sure the Jag will be making some improvements the more wheel time Marc gets.

All of that said; it is a shame that the Jag is going to France, as it is obviously off pace and has yet to finish a race.

Should make for a very entertaining day of racing.

redazz

it's on

AU N EGL

Sebring 12 hour SPRINT RACE, DAMN

TLGunman

I heard Bill Riley is on the box for them too, so that should help them get it sorted. It's just nice to see Goose back in a car!!