The 63rd Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida was an

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event held at

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from March 18-21st. The race was the second round of the

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as well as the second of four events in the North American Endurance Cup. The race was won by

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's No. 5

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, piloted by

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, and

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, finishing a full lap ahead of any else in the field. The Prototype Challenge class was won by the No. 52 entry from PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports piloted by Mike Guasch,

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, and Andrew Palmer, securing their second consecutive victory in the season. In the GT Le Mans class, victory went to Corvette Racing's No. 3

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driven by Antonio García,

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, and

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. Finally, in GT Daytona, victory went to the No. 23 Porsche 911 GT America from

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and Team Seattle driven by Mario Farnbacher, Ian James, and

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, though it only took the lead with roughly four minutes to go when the No. 33

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Dodge Viper GT3-R suffered overheating issues.

Practice

There were four practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Saturday, three on Thursday and one on Friday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Thursday morning and afternoon. The third held later that evening ran for 90 minutes; the fourth on Friday morning lasted an hour.

Practice 1

The first practice session took place at 10:15 am ET on Thursday and ended with

topping the charts for

, with a lap time of 1:52.485.

Practice 2

The second practice session took place at 2:25 pm ET on Thursday and ended with

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topping the charts for

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, with a lap time of 1:52.731.

Night Practice

The night practice session took place at 7:15 pm ET on Thursday and ended with

topping the charts for

, with a lap time of 1:51.973.

Final Practice

The fourth and final practice session took place at 9:50 am ET on Friday and ended with

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topping the charts for

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with Curb/Agajanian, with a lap time of 1:52.096.

Qualifying

Qualifying was broken into four sessions. The first session of qualifying was for the GTD class. The No. 33

entry driven by

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set the fastest time in GTD. The second session of qualifying was for the GTLM class.

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qualified on pole for the class driving the No. 912 Porsche North America, besting

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in the No. 911 Porsche North America entry. The third session of qualifying was for the PC class.

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qualified on pole driving the No. 16 car for BAR1 Motorsports. The final session of qualifying was for the P class.

qualified on pole driving the No. 57 car for

, beating

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in the No. 1

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by just over three tenths of a second.

Qualifying results

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s in each class are indicated in bold and by .

Race

Start and early hours

Afternoon

Sunset to finish

Post-race

Race result

Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡.

References

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