Vanthoor celebrates 1st time in Sebring with pole

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For his first race at Sebring International Raceway Dries Vanthoor won the pole for the 73rd annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in a shortened GTP Qualifying session. The session was red flagged as Jack Aitken didn’t manage to go further than turn three with his #31 Cadillac Whelen.

#24 Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 in pole

Vanthoor clinched his second straight GTP pole with a 1:47.091. Together with Philipp Eng, and Kevin Magnussen they will lead the pack in their #24 Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 with the aim to renew the BMW first Sebring win 50 years ago.

Dries Vanthoor in #24 BMW M Hybrid V8

📷© Luc Warnotte at Sebring. Dries Vanthoor in #24 BMW M Hybrid V8.

Blomqvist was 25 milliseconds short for pole

Tom Blomqvist was second of the session in the #60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing ARX-06 with a 1:47.116.

#60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing ARX-06

📷© Luc Warnotte at Sebring. #60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing ARX-06 ahead of Porsche #6 and Sister #93 in post red flag session.

Both Porsche Penske Motorsport in second row

Both red-white-black Porsche 963 will start from second row as Rolex 24 at Daytona winner Felipe Nasr in the #7 did set a 1:47.522, 0.076 better than Mathieu Jaminet in sister #6.

📷© Luc Warnotte at Sebring. #7 Porsche 963 ahead sister #6 in qualifying.

Neel Jani fifth with customer Porsche

A third Porsche 963 will start from the inside of row 3 as Neel Jani in the #5 Proton Competition Porsche turned in a great lap to go fifth-fastest in 1:48.074.

#5 Proton Competition Porsche 963

📷© Luc Warnotte at Sebring. #5 Proton Competition Porsche 963.

TDS Racing #11 in pole of LMP2

Steven Thomas took the pole of LMP2 class with a 1:51.804 in the #11 TDS Racing ORECA 07 confirming his teammate M. Jensen fastest lap in combined practices

#11 TDS Racing ORECA 07

📷© Luc Warnotte at Sebring. #11 TDS Racing ORECA 07.

73rd Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring

The Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring is due to start at 10 a.m. ET March 15.

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