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David Malsher-Lopez

53 cars entered for Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring

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

Team (Sponsors) Car Drivers

DPi – 7 cars

01

Cadillac Racing

(Cadillac V-Performance Academy)
Chip Ganassi Racing

Cadillac DPi-V.R

 Sebastien Bourdais

 Renger van der Zande

Ryan Hunter-Reay

02

Cadillac Racing

(Cadillac Accessories)
Chip Ganassi Racing

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

Germany Mike Rockenfeller

Argentina Jose Maria Lopez

60

Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian

(AutoNation / Sirius XM / Arctic Wolf)

Acura ARX-05

 Oliver Jarvis

Tom Blomqvist

Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne

LMP2 – 8 cars

8

Tower Motorsport by Starworks

(Tower Events)

Oreca 07-Gibson

 John Farano

Switzerland 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

Switzerland 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

Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya

Colombia Sebastian Montoya

LMP3 – 10 cars

6

Muehlner Motorsports America

(H&R Das Fahrwerk / H&R Special Springs)

Duqueine M30-D08 Nissan

Germany Moritz Kranz

 Ugo de Wilde

Dominican Republic 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 

Germany 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

Colombia 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

Germany 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

Germany 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

Australia 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

Argentina 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

Germany Maximilian Goetz

 Daniel Morad

32

Gilbert Korthoff Motorsports

(Marine Data Solutions)

Mercedes AMG GT3

 Mike Skeen

 Stevan McAleer

Spain 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

Guatemala 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

Switzerland Philip Ellis

Germany 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

Germany Mario Farnbacher

Barbados Kyffin Simpson

70

Inception Racing

McLaren 720S GT3

 Brendan Iribe

 Ollie Millroy

South Africa 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

 

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