Author: Josh Tons

SEBRING, Fla. – Freedom Autosport will be racing at Sebring International Raceway for the first time when the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Series heads there next weekend, but the team’s drivers have plenty of history there already. For Randy Pobst and Andrew Carbonell, who co-drive the No. 26 Freedom Autosport Mazda MX-5, going to Sebring is something of a homecoming. Pobst ran his first professional race at Sebring in 1985, driving in the Firestone Firehawk Series, the predecessor of the Continental Tire Series. The start of the race was…

BATAVIA, Ohio, March 7 — Wright Motorsports will go for its third straight driver and team championship in the IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama in 2014. The Batavia, Ohio-based team won the series’ top class, called the Platinum Cup, in 2012 and 2013 with Sean Johnston and Madison Snow, respectively. Kasey Kuhlman of Cincinnati, who finished seventh overall in the Platinum point standings last year and second in that division’s Masters class, returns to the team with a brand-new Kuhlsport Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car, #15. The Masters…

LEBANON, Ohio, March 7 — Buoyed by strong performances at a test Feb. 20-21 at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Fla., Doran Racing hopes for some excellent results in the second IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge (CTSCC) race of the year at the same track at 1 p.m. Friday, March 14. The Lebanon, Ohio-based team is campaigning two Nissan 370Z NISMO RCs in the Grand Sport class for the 12-event series this year instead of just one car. Although it’s double the work, running two cars also provides double the data, which…

Houston-based Risi Competizione is all about ‘new’ for next weekend’s second round of the TUDOR United Sportscar Championship, the Twelve Hours of Sebring on Saturday, March 15. A newly re-built car, a new driving suit (for Malucelli), new lights and new resolve and determination to get back to what Risi Competizione does best: succeeding in endurance racing. Following the horrific accident which involved the No.62 Ferrari 458 Italia of Matteo Malucelli, from which the Italian driver impressively bounced back in a relatively short time, Risi’s car has been completely rebuilt and…

BRASELTON, Ga (March 10, 2014) — Sebring holds a prominent place in the DeltaWing story, as the historic Florida road racing circuit saw not only the public on-track debut of the DeltaWing roadster in 2012, but the first glimpse of the DeltaWing coupe last year. Now the story comes full circle, as the coupe version of the revolutionary prototype competes in one of sports car racing’s endurance classics, the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. Development of the coupe continues, with Sebring the third endurance race in which the car has competed.…

Sebring, Fla. (11 March 2014) – The next chapter in Luis Bacardi’s Rum Bum Racing history will be written this Saturday as the team takes on the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida. The outing marks the team’s first-ever IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar Championship effort as the Florida-based team takes on a new challenge with a step up to the bigs in the 62nd running of the 12 Hour. Drivers Jan Heylen, Madison Snow, and Matt Plumb tested the No. 13 Rum Bum Racing Porsche GT America machine…

Denver, N.C. (4 March 2014) – After getting off to a fast start to the 2014 IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, Action Express Racing will look to keep that momentum going at Sebring International Raceway. The team is pleased to announce that Jon Fogarty has been signed to co-drive the No. 9 Action Express Racing Corvette DP with Burt and Brian Frisselle in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida. Fogarty holds the record for pole positions in Daytona Prototype qualifying (25) and has amassed…