The 2010 12 Hour of Sebring saw very little passing for position (except for the BMW #92 which started from pit lane end ended up on the podium in GT2 and Emanuele Pirro terrorizing the field in the early stages) . As most endurance raced do, this year's edition settled into al long procession with results determined by errors: the Corvettes taking each other out in the pits, two top Porsches done in by one wheel, a Ferrari with a slight overheating problem. P1 was beyond boring, I mean in a class with 5 cars where 3 are factory Peugeots and one did not make the grid? ....snore.
GT2 was better but the race was determined by a caution period with the Risi Competizione Ferrari F430 GTC gaining a one lap advantage it would hold to the end. There was very little on track passing and I wonder if there will be an uproar like after the Formula 1 season opener. What was amazing was the pace, all the cars in the GT2 field lapped at near qualifying pace for 12 hours straight. That is simply put, astounding.
Pos Cl Drivers Car Time/Gap
1. P1 Gene/Wurz/Davidson Peugeot 12h00m54.362s
2. P1 Lamy/Bourdais/Minassian Peugeot + 13.817s
3. P1 Mucke/Primat/Fernandez Lola-Aston Martin + 3 laps
4. P2 Pickett/Graf/Maassen Porsche + 14 laps
5. P2 Brabham/Pagenaud/Franchitti HPD + 18 laps
6. GT2 Melo/Bruni/Kaffer Ferrari + 36 laps
7. GT2 Auberlen/Milner/Werner BMW + 37 laps
8. GT2 Muller/Hand/Priaulx BMW + 37 laps
9. GT2 Bergmeister/Long/Lieb Porsche + 38 laps
10. PC Tucker/Bouchut/Wilkins ORECA + 40 laps
11. GT2 Law/Neiman/Lietz Porsche + 42 laps
12. P1 Drayson/Cocker/Pirro Lola + 43 laps
13. GT2 Brown/Cosmo/Barbosa Ferrari + 44 laps
14. GT2 Krohn/Jonsson/van de Poele Ferrari + 46 laps
15. GT2 Magnussen/O'Connell/Garcia Corvette + 47 laps
16. GT2 Beretta/Gavin/Collard Corvette + 47 laps
17. PC Zugel/Jeannette/Julian ORECA + 56 laps
18. GTC Gonzalez/Leitzinger/Keen Porsche + 59 laps
19. GTC Sweedler/Kapudija/Lueders Porsche + 62 laps
20. GTC Gonzalez/Diaz/Kelly Porsche + 63 laps
21. P2 Dyson/Smith/Meyrick Lola-Mazda + 64 laps
22. GTC Rodriguez/Bieker/Friedman Porsche + 65 laps
23. GT2 Robertson/Robertson/Murry Doran Ford + 67 laps
24. GTC Lewis/Vento/Aschenbach Porsche + 68 laps
25. GTC Richard/Ende/Lally Porsche + 85 laps
26. PC Wallace/Sutherland/Hildebrand ORECA + 86 laps
27. GTC Curtis/Sofronas/Pilgrim Porsche + 87 laps
28. GT2 Sharp/van Overbeek/Farnbacher Ferrari + 96 laps
29. GT2 Sellers/Henzler/Pilet Porsche + 112 laps
30. PC Feinberg/Marcelli/Weickardt ORECA + 133 laps
31. PC Pagerey/Wong/Ducote ORECA + 135 laps
32. PC Tucker/Hunter-Reay/Gue ORECA + 143 laps
33. GT2 Gentilozzi/Goossens/Dalziel Jaguar + 356 laps
34. P1 Willman/Burgess/Ehret Lola + 367 laps
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I heard what happened to the Peugeots, (the stewards mixed up the cars) What hapened in GT2? Did the SC pick up the wrong car?
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