SEBRING, Fla. The 73rd running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring settled into an easy groove as the middle third of the classic IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship event at Sebring International Raceway ran essentially caution-free.

After four full-course cautions flew during the races first two hours, hours three through eight saw green flag action briefly paused just once when Brendon Hartley nosed the No. 40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac V-Series.R into the tire barrier outside Sunset Bend (Turn 17) early in the fifth hour. The No. 60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb Agajanian Acura ARX-06 held the overall and Grand Touring Prototype class lead at that point, but the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R again soon powered to the front after starting from the back of the GTP field due to a technical problem in qualifying.

But less than five minutes prior to the races halfway point, Felipe Nasr in the No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 took advantage of traffic to pass the Cadillac into Turn 2. The two top contenders in Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) and overall maintained a solid cushion over Porsche Penske Motorsports No. 6 car, which pitted just before the eight-hour mark to hand third place back to the No. 60 Acura. After eight hours, Nasr in the No. 7 Porsche led Jack Aitken in the No. 31 Cadillac by 7.466 seconds.

LMP2 

In the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class, the No. 04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR ORECA LMP2 07 moved into the lead near the end of the fifth hour and maintained a tight grip on the top spot, even after being assessed a penalty for failing to adhere to tire operational requirements just before eight hours of the race had elapsed. Malthe Jakobsens lead over Bijoy Garg in the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition ORECA LMP2 07 after eight hours was a comfortable 53.242 seconds.

GTD Classes 

In GTD PRO, Paul Miller Racings pair of BMW M4 GT3 EVOs led the field, with Dan Harper in the No. 48 leading Neil Verhagen in the No. 1 by 5.076 seconds. Their closest competition came from AO Racings No. 77 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992), which was 13 seconds back and working hard to get back on the same pit stop sequence as the class leader.

The battle in the Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) class took a turn heading into the seventh hour when the leading No. 32 Korthoff Competition Motors Mercedes-AMG GT3 ground to a halt on the circuit with Kenton Koch behind the wheel. That set up an intriguing battle between the No. 27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo and the class Motul Pole Award-winning No. 21 Af Corse Ferrari 296 GT3, with the cars running roughly half a stint apart on fuel.

The No. 57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 was also a strong GTD contender until incurring a procedural penalty just prior to the eight-hour mark. Alessandro Pier Guidi kept the top spot in the Af Corse Ferrari despite a lurid run through the grass just after he had passed Zacharie Robichon in the Aston Martin for the class lead. At the eight-hour mark, Pier Guidi held a 2.352-second advantage.

At the eight-hour mark, the unofficial top scoring Michelin Endurance Cup cars at Sebring were the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen entry in GTP (first and second in the two segments), No. 11 TDS ORECA in LMP2 (first and third), No. 1 PMR BMW in GTD PRO (first and second), and No. 21 Af Ferrari (first both segments).

IMPERIAL, Pa. Meeting the demand of on-track battles of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Motor Speedway Speedway, the POWRi Honest Abe Roofing FAST on DIRT Sprint Series presented by Ti Performance would witness A.J. Flick claiming the victory in rousing feature action in the opening weekend.

Starting the first night of seasonal competition action with twenty entries among the POWRi FAST on DIRT competitors, Cole Duncan set a qualifying quick time of 15.021 seconds.

Ricky Peterson, Flick and Matt Farnham each earned heat racing victories as Brandon Spithaler attained the high-point qualifier award.

Sailing into wing sprint feature green flag racing would find front-starting Spithaler out-duel the field out of the first pair of corners as Spithaler would shoot to the preferred position for the first eleven laps.

Overtaking for the top spot just after the mid-point of the event, Flick would earn his first career-sanctioned victory in the POWRi FAST while outrunning pole-starter and runner-up placement Spithaler to capture the feature win in an epic final lap.

Speedy Farnham would clinch third as Peterson finished fourth with Michael Bauer rounding out the top-five finishers.

Feature Finish (20 Laps)

1. 2-AJ Flick[3]; 2. 32B-Brandon Spithaler[1]; 3. 7NY-Matt Farnham[5]; 4. 98-Ricky Peterson[4]; 5. 46-Michael Bauer[6]; 6. 68G-Tyler Gunn[12]; 7. 6-Bob Felmlee[11]; 8. 20B-Cody Bova[8]; 9. 13-Brandon Matus[9]; 10. 25R-Jordan Ryan[10]; 11. 11-Carl Bowser[18]; 12. 3-John Jerich[7]; 13. 3J-Jacob Begenwald[13]; 14. 33H-Derek Hauck[15]; 15. 9-Lance Heinberger[14]; 16. 5-Jeremy Weaver[17]; 17. 33-Brent Matus[16]; 18. 08-Danny Kuriger[2]; 19. 86-Micheal Lutz[19]; 20. 22-Cole Duncan[20].

The BG Products Southern Sprint Car Shootout Series announced Saturday that P1 Chassis has agreed to sponsor the series for the remainder of the season beginning with the April 12 event at Auburndale Speedway.

The series will now be known as the BG Products Southern Sprint Car Shootout Series Presented by P1 Chassis. Exact details of the sponsorship will be announced prior to the next event.  

P1 Chassis is the brainchild of Florida pavement sprint car drivers Troy DeCaie and Chaz Hambling. DeCaire will be participating in all Southern Sprint Car Shootout Series events in 2025. Hambling is currently recovering from a racing accident that occurred at Punta Gorda, Florida in 2019.

We chose to sponsor the series because its a series that I started in, its in our backyard, its in our home state of Florida, and were gonna be racing all of the races, explained Hambling.

It just makes sense to sponsor locally and get out car and chassis out there.

The goal of P1 Chassis is to sell winged pavement sprint cars chassis, kits, components, and complete cars coast to coast. The chassis is still in the development stage, but the company expects cars to be available for sale soon.

Were on our second chassis right now. Its kinda like 2.0 for us. Each race we find things we dont like and make changes to them. Well probably have one or two more changes that well probably make to them. Then well start welding the frames together and youll see them at the track this season.

Weve incorporated the driven seat mounting to our cars. We have our front ends so guys can run bumps if they wanna run bump stops. There are things I want in the car as a bigger guy. There are things Troy wants in the car based on past performances, Hambling said. There are also ideas we have together that weve incorporated.

We have a few silent partners involved with us as well. We have some serious backers. Were based out of Ft. Myers, Florida. One of the partners in P1 is Chris Ratteree. He has our shop in Meridian, Idaho. He has secured our West Coast shop for us. Our goal is to have five race cars ready as rollers and kits for sale at our Idaho shop.

We wanna start in Florida because its our backyard and it just makes sense. As we get the new applications and adjustments built into the frames, then well be ready for production. Right now, its still early in the testing phase. I thought it made sense to sponsor the series since well be competing in it this season. We need to increase the purse and prize money. We have way too many cars sitting in Florida, not racing. By sponsoring the series, maybe we can help get cars on the track.

LAS VEGAS On Friday night, Justin Allgaier saw the Eagles in concert. On Saturday, he was flying.

Holding off Aric Almirola over a 102-lap green-flag run, Allgaier finally claimed victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after finishing second four times at the 1.5-mile track.

Allgaiers victory in The Liuna! was his first of the season, the 26th of his career and the 90th for JR Motorsports in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The reigning series champion crossed the finish line 1.067 seconds ahead of Almirola, who lost ground trying to run the outside lane with just over three laps left.

The decisive moment in the race, however, may have come much earlier. Allgaier lost the lead to Almirola during an exchange of pit stops midway through the final stage, but he regained it in traffic on Lap 152 and remained out front the rest of the way.

With the victory, Allgaier qualified for the first Xfinity Dash4Cash race next Saturday at Homestead-Miami Speedway, along with third-place finisher Jesse Love, fourth-place Austin Hill and fifth-place Sam Mayer. The highest finisher among the four earns a $100,000 bonus.

Almirola isnt scheduled to run the Homestead race.

It was amazing, said Allgaier. This whole teamI just cant say enough. Aric and I were going at it. Hats of to him; he ran a heck of a race

Rick Brandt (of sponsor Brandt) was here last night. He took us to a great concert, Eagles concert Everyone at JR Motorsports, I cant say enough about how proud I am of what we have here. Its been special.

After Allgaier took the lead on Lap 152, he opened an advantage of more than two seconds over Almirola, who spent the next 40 laps whittling the margin down to a car-length. But Almirola couldnt find a way past Allgaier in the closing laps.

You always hate to finish second, but Justin and that team was I felt like the class of the field today, Almirola said. We were close, but they could just take off so much faster than I could. I think thats really the difference.

I thought my only hope was to cycle in front of him on the green-flag stop, and we did, but I just got caught up behind some lapped traffic there that I misjudged. I wasnt sure which way they were going, and he got by me and built such a big gap that I used my stuff up trying to get back to him.

The green-flag stops in the final stage proved costly to Sunoco rookie Connor Zilisch, who streaked into the lead on Lap 100 and held it until Allgaier nosed ahead at the start/finish line on Lap 127.

During the stops on Lap 145, however, Zilisch drew a speeding penalty and served a pass-through that dropped him to the back of the lead lap. He rallied to finish ninth, the last driver on the lead lap.

Allgaier led 102 of the 200 laps, followed by Almirola (51) and Zilisch (28). Brandon Jones, Ryan Seig, Harrison Burton, Zilisch and Sheldon Creed completed the top 10.

Allgaier, who won the first stage by 8.262 seconds and finished second in Stage 2, took over the series lead by 19 points over Love.