The action for the second round of the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will begin on Thursday, March 17, with three practice sessions, while qualifying is set for Friday, before the World Endurance Championship’s season-opening 1000km race. The Twelve Hours will start at 10.10am ET on Saturday.
Oliver Jarvis is aiming to become the first driver to win IMSA’s four endurance races in succession. Last year he won the Six Hours of Watkins Glen and Petit Le Mans, sharing the Mazda RT24-P with Harry Tincknell and Jonathan Bomarito. With Mazda’s departure, he moved to Meyer Shank Racing’s Acura, and won January’s Rolex 24 Hours with full-time partner Tom Blomqvist, as well as Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud.
With the latter two absent due to the IndyCar race at Texas Motor Speedway, Jarvis and Blomqvist will tackle Sebring with former Formula 1 driver, Stoffel Vandoorne.
For LMP2 and LMP3, this is the first points-scoring race of the season, so that DragonSpeed’s victorious Rolex 24 line-up of Colton Herta, Pato O’Ward, Devlin DeFrancesco and Eric Lux – the first three, of course, racing IndyCars at Texas next weekend – are gone to be replaced by the full-season line-up of Juan Pablo Montoya and Henrik Hedman, with third-driver duties carried out by JPM’s very promising 16-year-old son, Sebastian.
Bill Auberlen, a three-time class winner at the Twelve Hours of Sebring, will be making his 500th start in a BMW in the race, sharing the Turner Motorsport BMW M4 in GTD with Robby Foley and Michael Dinan. Auberlen is IMSA’s all-time leader in race victories, with 64 to his name.
Defending overall race-winners is the JDC Miller MotorSports team, for whom Tristan Vautier and Loic Duval return, but with Vautier’s full-season teammate now Richard Westbrook.
LMP2 defending winners Ben Keating, Mikkel Jensen and Scott Huffaker are reunited in the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports entry, while LMP3 winners from 2021, CORE autosport, also have an unchanged line-up of Colin Braun, Jon Bennett and George Kurtz.
Pfaff Motorsports, whose Porsche 911 GT3R conquered GTD class at Sebring last year with Zach Robichon, Laurens Vanthoor and Lars Kern, have moved up to the new-for-’22 GTD Pro class, with the fearsome line-up of Mathieu Jaminet, Matt Campbell and Felipe Nasr.
Robichon remains in a Porsche, however, accompanying Jan Heylen and Ryan Hardwick in the Wright Motorsports GTD entry – a combo which, along with Richard Lietz, won its class in the Rolex 24 two months ago.
Full entry list for 70th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring
| N° | Team (Sponsors) | Car | Drivers |
DPi – 7 cars | |||
| 01 | Cadillac Racing (Cadillac V-Performance Academy) | Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 02 | Cadillac Racing (Cadillac Accessories) | Cadillac DPi-V.R |
TBA |
| 5 | JDC-Miller MotorSports (Mustang Sampling / Cadillac / Galp /Misahara) | Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 10 | Konica Minolta Racing (Konica Minolta) Wayne Taylor Racing | Acura ARX-05 |
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| 31 | Whelen Engineering Racing (Whelen Engineering) Action Express Racing | Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 48 | Ally Cadillac (Ally) Action Express Racing | Cadillac DPi-V.R |
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| 60 | Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian (AutoNation / Sirius XM / Arctic Wolf) | Acura ARX-05 |
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LMP2 – 8 cars | |||
| 8 | Tower Motorsport by Starworks (Tower Events) | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 11 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports TAFS / End ALZ | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 18 | Era Motorsport (Motul / Mechanixwear) | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 20 | High Class Racing (Polar Handtools / Polar Seafood / Mascot Workwear / HRX / Motul / Skaarup / Ceramic Speed / Stobag / Wexler / ATS) | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 22 | United Autosports (Aero / HRX / Maria Mallaband / Attis Insurance / Motul) | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 29 | Racing Team Nederland | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 52 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports (Wynns / Rain-X / Four Horsemen / Client Command / Max Connect) | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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| 81 | DragonSpeed | Oreca 07-Gibson |
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LMP3 – 10 cars | |||
| 6 | Muehlner Motorsports America (H&R Das Fahrwerk / H&R Special Springs) | Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan |
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| 7 | Forty7 Motorsports (Drive Capital) | Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan |
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| 13 | AWA (Orlando Corp / OMP / Sonic Tools / Racing Spirit / Urbinco / Westrock / Motul / Projekt / C17 Media) | Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan |
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| 30 | Jr III Racing (AirBnB / S2 Cyber )
| Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 33 | Sean Creech Motorsports (Exelixis / Focal One / Alta) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 36 | Andretti Autosport (Galant / Window World)
| Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 38 | Performance Tech Motorsports (Cardio Access / DOGOH.jp / Copec / Emasa / AIG Technologies) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 40 | FastMD Racing (FastMD Healthcare Solutions / Track King / Archer Luxury Travel ) | Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan |
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| 54 | CORE autosport (Crowdstrike / Motul / Flex-Box) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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| 74 | Riley Motorsport (74 Ranch Resort) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan |
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GTD Pro – 11 cars | |||
| 3 | Corvette Racing | Corvette C8.R |
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| 9 | Pfaff Motorsports (Driveway / Motul / Pfaff Porsche) | Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 14 | Vasser Sullivan Racing | Lexus RC F GT3 |
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| 23 | Heart of Racing Team | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 |
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| 24 | BMW M Team RLL (BMW of North America / Motul) | BMW M4 GT3 |
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| 25 | BMW M Team RLL (BMW of North America / Motul) | BMW M4 GT3 |
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| 62 | Risi Competizione
| Ferrari 488 GT3 |
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| 63 | TR3 Racing (Lamborghini Miami / Canoe) | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 |
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| 79 | WeatherTech Racing Proton Competition | Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 93 | Racers Edge Motorsports with WTR (Harrison Contracting Co. / HPD)
| Acura NSX GT3 |
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| 97 | WeatherTech Racing Proton Competition
| Mercedes AMG GT3 |
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GTD – 17 cars | |||
| 1 | Paul Miller Racing (TOTAL Lubricants / UIS and Paul Miller Auto Group) | BMW M4 GT3 |
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| 12 | Vasser Sullivan Racing | Lexus RC F GT3 |
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| 16 | Wright Motorsports (1st Phorm / Mountain Motorsports / Una Vida Tequila) | Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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| 21 | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GT3 |
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| 27 | Heart of Racing Team | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 |
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| 28 | Alegra Motorsports (Navisec Cyber Security) | Mercedes-AMG GT3 |
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| 32 | Gilbert Korthoff Motorsports (Marine Data Solutions) | Mercedes AMG GT3 |
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| 39 | CarBahn with Peregrine Racing (Accel / Menlo / SailPoint / DataRobot / Palantir / Optimizely) | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 |
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| 42 | NTE/SSR (Southwest Funding / Lamborghini Dallas / Dropup / Fuquette) | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 |
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| 44 | Magnus Racing | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 |
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| 47 | Cetilar Racing (Cetilar) | Ferrari 488 GT3 |
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| 57 | Winward Racing (Techemet / First Horizon / Exxon Mobil) | Mercedes AMG GT3 |
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| 59 | Crucial Motorsports (Motul / JDRF / Lincoln Equities Group / Belle Haven Investments / Notlad Racing) | McLaren 720S GT3 |
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| 66 | Gradient Racing (Investment Cayman / Unit Nutrition / Acura / HPD) | Acura NSX GT3 |
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| 70 | Inception Racing | McLaren 720S GT3 |
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| 96 | Turner Motorsport (Turner Motorsport / LiquiMoly / Barletta Engineering) | BMW M4 GT3 |
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| 99 | Team Hardpoint (GRIDRIVAL / GNARLY Premium Cut Jerky) | Porsche 911 GT3 R |
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