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SEBRING — An historic sports-car race added another chapter to international racing lore on Saturday night.
Nick Tandy adds an overall Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring victory to previous overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2015) and the Rolex 24 At Daytona (2025), all with Porsche, to become the 10th driver in sports-car history to win the unofficial “Triple Crown of Endurance Racing.”
The other nine are A.J. Foyt, Hans Herrmann, Jackie Oliver, Al Holbert, Hurley Haywood, Mauro Baldi, Andy Wallace, Marco Werner and Timo Bernhard.
This also builds on Tandy’s personal “Tandy Slam” of major 24-hour endurance races achieved at Daytona, Le Mans, the Nurburgring and Spa-Francorchamps. Tandy completed that set at Daytona in January.
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He shared the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class and overall winning No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 with co-drivers Felipe Nasr and Laurens Vanthoor as he did in Daytona. All have past Sebring wins; this is Tandy’s fourth Sebring win (GTLM – 2018, 2019, 2020), the third for Vanthoor (GTD – 2021 and GTD PRO – 2023) and the second for Nasr (DPi – 2019).
The No. 7 Porsche is also the first car to win back-to-back IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races in Daytona and Sebring in the same season since Wayne Taylor Racing achieved the feat in 2017 with a Cadillac DPi-V.R, albeit with different driver lineups.
The Porsches came alive in the cooler night conditions after fighting most of the race with the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R. The No. 7 Porsche beat the sister No. 6 Porsche, driven by Mathieu Jaminet, Matt Campbell and Kevin Estre by 2.239 seconds, with the No. 93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian Acura ARX-06 in third.
Inter Europol Competition scored the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class victory with a mix of good strategy, able to emerge in podium position after the final round of pit stops, plus a sprinkle of luck when the leading No. 04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR car ran aground of a Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) class car inside the final 20 minutes. Tom Dillmann, Bijoy Garg and Jeremy Clarke shared the winning No. 43 ORECA LMP2 07.
Porsche doubled up victories with the Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) class with the No. 77 AO Racing Porsche 911 R GT3 (992), shared by Laurin Heinrich, Klaus Bachler and Alessio Picariello. They beat the pair of BMW M4 GT3 EVOs fielded by Paul Miller Racing, the No. 48 car finishing ahead of the No. 1 car.
Winward Racing repeated its 2025 GTD class win with the same trio of Russell Ward, Philip Ellis, Indy Dontje in the No. 57 Mercedes-AMG GT3. A forceful pass by Ellis on last year’s GTD PRO winner, Jack Hawksworth, netted the Winward Mercedes-AMG the top spot.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Sebring, like Rolex, goes to Penske Porsche. Mercedes gets a win too
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Nick Tandy adds an overall Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring victory to previous overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2015) and the Rolex 24 At Daytona (2025), all with Porsche, to become the 10th driver in sports-car history to win the unofficial “Triple Crown of Endurance Racing.”
The other nine are A.J. Foyt, Hans Herrmann, Jackie Oliver, Al Holbert, Hurley Haywood, Mauro Baldi, Andy Wallace, Marco Werner and Timo Bernhard.
This also builds on Tandy’s personal “Tandy Slam” of major 24-hour endurance races achieved at Daytona, Le Mans, the Nurburgring and Spa-Francorchamps. Tandy completed that set at Daytona in January.
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He shared the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class and overall winning No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 with co-drivers Felipe Nasr and Laurens Vanthoor as he did in Daytona. All have past Sebring wins; this is Tandy’s fourth Sebring win (GTLM – 2018, 2019, 2020), the third for Vanthoor (GTD – 2021 and GTD PRO – 2023) and the second for Nasr (DPi – 2019).
The No. 7 Porsche is also the first car to win back-to-back IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races in Daytona and Sebring in the same season since Wayne Taylor Racing achieved the feat in 2017 with a Cadillac DPi-V.R, albeit with different driver lineups.
#IMSA - 1-2 VICTORY AT SEBRING!#PorschePenskeMotorsport’s #7 #Porsche963 has won the @IMSA#Sebring12 ahead of the #6 sister car!
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P1 - #7 @Team_Penske
P2 - #6 #PorschePenskeMotorsport
P6 - #5 @ProtonRacing
P8 - #85 @JDCMotorSports#Racebornpic.twitter.com/6cZgEB6zJ0
— Porsche Motorsport (@PorscheRaces) March 16, 2025
The Porsches came alive in the cooler night conditions after fighting most of the race with the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R. The No. 7 Porsche beat the sister No. 6 Porsche, driven by Mathieu Jaminet, Matt Campbell and Kevin Estre by 2.239 seconds, with the No. 93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian Acura ARX-06 in third.
Inter Europol Competition scored the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class victory with a mix of good strategy, able to emerge in podium position after the final round of pit stops, plus a sprinkle of luck when the leading No. 04 CrowdStrike Racing by APR car ran aground of a Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) class car inside the final 20 minutes. Tom Dillmann, Bijoy Garg and Jeremy Clarke shared the winning No. 43 ORECA LMP2 07.
Porsche doubled up victories with the Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) class with the No. 77 AO Racing Porsche 911 R GT3 (992), shared by Laurin Heinrich, Klaus Bachler and Alessio Picariello. They beat the pair of BMW M4 GT3 EVOs fielded by Paul Miller Racing, the No. 48 car finishing ahead of the No. 1 car.
Winward Racing repeated its 2025 GTD class win with the same trio of Russell Ward, Philip Ellis, Indy Dontje in the No. 57 Mercedes-AMG GT3. A forceful pass by Ellis on last year’s GTD PRO winner, Jack Hawksworth, netted the Winward Mercedes-AMG the top spot.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Sebring, like Rolex, goes to Penske Porsche. Mercedes gets a win too
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