With six hours remaining in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, title contenders Wayne Taylor Racing have seen their championship hopes smashed after a collsion with Oliver Jarvis.
Scott Dixon was driving the #10 Cadillac DPi-VR at the sharp end of the field when he was tagged into a spin by the #77 Mazda RT24-P of Oliver Jarvis, damaging the radiator and putting the car behind the wall for repairs.
After Acura Team Penske hit trouble earlier, and with this issue for Wayne Taylor Racing, it now puts Whelen Engineering in prime position for winning the DPi championship.
Matheus Leist currently leads the class in the #85 JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac DPi-VR, with the #6 Acura ARX-05 of Juan Pablo Montoya second and Sebastien Bourdais third in the #5 Mustang Sampling Cadillac DPi-VR.
In LMP2, Patrick Kelly continues to lead in the #52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA 07-Gibson. One of his rivals, Kuba Smiechowski’s #51 Inter Europol Competition ORECA is no longer in the race after the Polish driver crashed heavily before the halfway point of the race.
Nick Catsburg leads GTLM in the #3 Corvette C8.R, with Connor de Phillippi second in the #25 BMW M8 GTE and Nick Tandy’s #911 Porsche 911 RSR-19 in third place.
In GTD, Paul Miller Racing’s Corey Lewis leads after a shake-up in the pitstops following a full course yellow caused by an incident between Turner Motorsports’ Nick Yelloly and Meyer Shank Racing’s Mario Farnbacher. Yelloly tagged Farnbacher into a spin and was penalized for the infraction.
After the restart, Lewis led in the #48 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo, with Jan Heylen second in the #16 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R and third place held by the #63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo of Jeff Westphal.
