2024 12 Hours of Sebring
It was the second round of both the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship and the Michelin Endurance Cup.
[1] It was the eleventh consecutive year it will be a part of the IMSA SCC, and the 72nd 12 Hours of Sebring.
[1] The 2024 edition marked the first time since 2021 in which the IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship would not compete during the same weekend; for the past two years, the 1000 Miles of Sebring joined the 12 hour event.
The Cadillac received 30 kilograms of additional weight after their dominant Rolex 24 showing, whilst getting a 10 kilowatt power increase.
[3] In GTD Pro and GTD, the BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes, and Porsche received weight increases, whilst the Ford and Lexus received weight breaks.
[3] Before the race, Dane Cameron, Matt Campbell, Felipe Nasr, and Josef Newgarden led the GTP Drivers' Championship with 380 points.
[4] In LMP2, Ryan Dalziel, Dwight Merriman, Christian Rasmussen, and Connor Zilisch were leading the Drivers' Championship with 370 points.
[4] The GTD Pro Drivers' Championship was led by James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi, Davide Rigon, and Daniel Serra with 376 points; 21 points ahead of Michael Christensen, Laurin Heinrich, and Sebastian Priaulx in second position.
[4] With 364 points, Philip Ellis, Indy Dontje, Daniel Morad, and Russell Ward were leading the GTD Drivers' Championship.
[7] In the first session, Renger van der Zande set the fastest lap in the No.
14 VasserSullivan Lexus of Jack Hawksworth led with a lap of 2 minutes, 00.202 seconds.
5 Proton Competition Mustang Sampling Porsche stopped on track early in the session, with Gianmaria Bruni at the wheel.
74 Oreca, 0.136 seconds ahead of Toby Sowery's CrowdStrike car.
[12] One red flag was shown during the session: Davide Rigon stopped on track mid-session in the No.
47 Cetilar Ferari recorded the fastest time amongst all GTD cars, followed by Philip Ellis' No.
Jaminet had his best two laps from the session deleted for causing a red flag, effectively leaving him with no time set.
10 WTR entry lost all its lap times due to the car being worked on during the red flag.
[19] The session ended prematurely when Andersen's MDK by High Class Racing car stopped on track.
[19] In the GT session, Jack hawksworth set a new qualifying track record for GTD Pro to take pole position for Vasser Sullivan, with a lap of 1:58.714.
[19] Sims and his teammate Milner would start at the back of the GTD Pro field after their cars failed post post-qualifying technical inspection where it was discovered that their Corvettes diffusers had been modified.
However, the team were sent to the back of the GTD grid after the car failed post-qualifying technical inspection where it was discovered that the Mecredes-AMG had installed non permitted sensors.
83 Iron Danes Lamborghini failed to record a time after Sarah Bovy suffered a puncture on her out lap.
The final results kept Cameron, Campbell, and Nasr atop the GTP Drivers' Championship with 706 points on countback over race winners Louis Delétraz, Colton Herta, and Jordan Taylor.
[27] The final results of GTD Pro meant Calado, Rigon, and Serra extended their advantage to 98 points as Sellers, Snow, and Verhagen advanced to second.
Barnucoat, Hawksworth, and Kirkwood jumped from eleventh to third while Christensen, Heinrich, and Priaulx dropped to fourth.
Fuocco, Lacorte, and Sernagiotto moved from tenth to second with 589 points, 19 in front of Adelson, Heylen, and Skeer.
