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53 cars entered for Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring

53 cars entered for Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring

The action for the second round of the 2022 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will begin on Thursday, March 17, with three practice sessions, while qualifying is set for Friday, before the World Endurance Championship’s season-opening 1000km race. The Twelve Hours will start at 10.10am ET on Saturday.

Oliver Jarvis is aiming to become the first driver to win IMSA’s four endurance races in succession. Last year he won the Six Hours of Watkins Glen and Petit Le Mans, sharing the Mazda RT24-P with Harry Tincknell and Jonathan Bomarito. With Mazda’s departure, he moved to Meyer Shank Racing’s Acura, and won January’s Rolex 24 Hours with full-time partner Tom Blomqvist, as well as Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud.

With the latter two absent due to the IndyCar race at Texas Motor Speedway, Jarvis and Blomqvist will tackle Sebring with former Formula 1 driver, Stoffel Vandoorne.

For LMP2 and LMP3, this is the first points-scoring race of the season, so that…

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