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 | Sebastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Ryan Hunter-Reay |
02 | Cadillac Racing (Cadillac Accessories) | Cadillac DPi-V.R | Earl Bamber Alex Lynn TBA |
5 | JDC-Miller MotorSports (Mustang Sampling / Cadillac / Galp /Misahara) | Cadillac DPi-V.R | Tristan Vautier Richard Westbrook Loic Duval |
10 | Konica Minolta Racing (Konica Minolta) Wayne Taylor Racing | Acura ARX-05 | Ricky Taylor Filipe Albuquerque Will Stevens |
31 | Whelen Engineering Racing (Whelen Engineering) Action Express Racing | Cadillac DPi-V.R | Pipo Derani Tristan Nunez Mike Conway |
48 | Ally Cadillac (Ally) Action Express Racing | Cadillac DPi-V.R | Kamui Kobayashi Mike Rockenfeller Jose Maria Lopez |
60 | Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian (AutoNation / Sirius XM / Arctic Wolf) | Acura ARX-05 | Oliver Jarvis Tom Blomqvist Stoffel Vandoorne |
LMP2 – 8 cars | |||
8 | Tower Motorsport by Starworks (Tower Events) | Oreca 07-Gibson | John Farano Louis Deletraz Rui Pinto de Andrade |
11 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports TAFS / End ALZ | Oreca 07-Gibson | Steven Thomas Jonathan Bomarito Josh Pierson |
18 | Era Motorsport (Motul / Mechanixwear) | Oreca 07-Gibson | Dwight Merriman Ryan Dalziel Kyle Tilley |
20 | High Class Racing (Polar Handtools / Polar Seafood / Mascot Workwear / HRX / Motul / Skaarup / Ceramic Speed / Stobag / Wexler / ATS) | Oreca 07-Gibson | Dennis Andersen Anders Fjordbach Fabio Scherer |
22 | United Autosports (Aero / HRX / Maria Mallaband / Attis Insurance / Motul) | Oreca 07-Gibson | James McGuire Guy Smith Duncan Tappy |
29 | Racing Team Nederland | Oreca 07-Gibson | Giedo van der Garde Frits van Eerd Dylan Murry |
52 | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports (Wynns / Rain-X / Four Horsemen / Client Command / Max Connect) | Oreca 07-Gibson | Scott Huffaker Ben Keating Mikkel Jensen |
81 | DragonSpeed | Oreca 07-Gibson | Henrik Hedman Juan Pablo Montoya Sebastian Montoya |
LMP3 – 10 cars | |||
6 | Muehlner Motorsports America (H&R Das Fahrwerk / H&R Special Springs) | Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan | Moritz Kranz Ugo de Wilde Efrin Castro |
7 | Forty7 Motorsports (Drive Capital) | Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan | Mark Kvamme Anthony Mantella Trenton Estep |
13 | AWA (Orlando Corp / OMP / Sonic Tools / Racing Spirit / Urbinco / Westrock / Motul / Projekt / C17 Media) | Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan | Orey Fidani Kuno Wittmer Lars Kern |
30 | Jr III Racing (AirBnB / S2 Cyber )
| Ligier JS P320-Nissan | Garett Grist Dakota Dickerson Ari Balogh |
33 | Sean Creech Motorsports (Exelixis / Focal One / Alta) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan | Joao Barbosa Lance Willsey Malthe Jakobsen |
36 | Andretti Autosport (Galant / Window World)
| Ligier JS P320-Nissan | Jarett Andretti Josh Burdon Gabby Chaves |
38 | Performance Tech Motorsports (Cardio Access / DOGOH.jp / Copec / Emasa / AIG Technologies) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan | Rasmus Lindh Dan Goldburg Cameron Shields |
40 | FastMD Racing (FastMD Healthcare Solutions / Track King / Archer Luxury Travel ) | Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan | Max Hanratty Todd Archer James Vance |
54 | CORE autosport (Crowdstrike / Motul / Flex-Box) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan | Jon Bennett Colin Braun George Kurtz |
74 | Riley Motorsport (74 Ranch Resort) | Ligier JS P320-Nissan | Kay van Berlo Felipe Fraga Gar Robinson |
GTD Pro – 11 cars | |||
3 | Corvette Racing | Corvette C8.R | Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nicky Catsburg |
9 | Pfaff Motorsports (Driveway / Motul / Pfaff Porsche) | Porsche 911 GT3 R | Matt Campbell Mathieu Jaminet Felipe Nasr |
14 | Vasser Sullivan Racing | Lexus RC F GT3 | Jack Hawksworth Ben Barnicoat Aaron Telitz |
23 | Heart of Racing Team | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | Ross Gunn Alex Riberas Maxime Martin |
24 | BMW M Team RLL (BMW of North America / Motul) | BMW M4 GT3 | Philipp Eng Marco Wittmann Nick Yelloly |
25 | BMW M Team RLL (BMW of North America / Motul) | BMW M4 GT3 | Connor De Phillippi John Edwards Augusto Farfus |
62 | Risi Competizione
| Ferrari 488 GT3 | Eddie Cheever III Daniel Serra Davide Rigon |
63 | TR3 Racing (Lamborghini Miami / Canoe) | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | Mirko Bortolotti Andrea Caldarelli Marco Mapelli |
79 | WeatherTech Racing Proton Competition | Porsche 911 GT3 R | Cooper MacNeil Julien Andlauer Alessio Picariello |
93 | Racers Edge Motorsports with WTR (Harrison Contracting Co. / HPD)
| Acura NSX GT3 | Ashton Harrison-Henry Kyle Marcelli Tom Long |
97 | WeatherTech Racing Proton Competition
| Mercedes AMG GT3 | Cooper MacNeil Maro Engel Jules Gounon |
GTD – 17 cars | |||
1 | Paul Miller Racing (TOTAL Lubricants / UIS and Paul Miller Auto Group) | BMW M4 GT3 | Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Erik Johansson |
12 | Vasser Sullivan Racing | Lexus RC F GT3 | Frankie Montecalvo Scott Andrews Richard Heistand |
16 | Wright Motorsports (1st Phorm / Mountain Motorsports / Una Vida Tequila) | Porsche 911 GT3 R | Jan Heylen Ryan Hardwick Zacharie Robichon |
21 | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GT3 | Simon Mann Luis Perez Companc Toni Vilander |
27 | Heart of Racing Team | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | Roman de Angelis Ian James Tom Gamble |
28 | Alegra Motorsports (Navisec Cyber Security) | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | Michael de Quesada Maximilian Goetz Daniel Morad |
32 | Gilbert Korthoff Motorsports (Marine Data Solutions) | Mercedes AMG GT3 | Mike Skeen Stevan McAleer Daniel Juncadella |
39 | CarBahn with Peregrine Racing (Accel / Menlo / SailPoint / DataRobot / Palantir / Optimizely) | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | Robert Megennis Corey Lewis Jeff Westphal |
42 | NTE/SSR (Southwest Funding / Lamborghini Dallas / Dropup / Fuquette) | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | Jaden Conwright Don Yount Mateo Llarena |
44 | Magnus Racing | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | Andy Lally John Potter Spencer Pumpelly |
47 | Cetilar Racing (Cetilar) | Ferrari 488 GT3 | Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco |
57 | Winward Racing (Techemet / First Horizon / Exxon Mobil) | Mercedes AMG GT3 | Russell Ward Philip Ellis Marvin Dienst |
59 | Crucial Motorsports (Motul / JDRF / Lincoln Equities Group / Belle Haven Investments / Notlad Racing) | McLaren 720S GT3 | Jon Miller Patrick Gallagher Paul Holton |
66 | Gradient Racing (Investment Cayman / Unit Nutrition / Acura / HPD) | Acura NSX GT3 | Till Bechtolsheimer Mario Farnbacher Kyffin Simpson |
70 | Inception Racing | McLaren 720S GT3 | Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Jordan Pepper |
96 | Turner Motorsport (Turner Motorsport / LiquiMoly / Barletta Engineering) | BMW M4 GT3 | Bill Auberlen Robby Foley Michael Dinan |
99 | Team Hardpoint (GRIDRIVAL / GNARLY Premium Cut Jerky) | Porsche 911 GT3 R | Rob Ferriol Katherine Legge Stefan Wilson |