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#5529 - 03/18/22 09:08 AM WEC 1,000 Mile @ Sebring  
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The race has started on 12 PM ET
Should be about 8 hours long

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Corvette leads GTE-Pro after the opening round of stops after the 1st hour of race

Nick Tandy in the No. 64 Corvette C8.R jumped ahead of the pole sitting No. 92 Porsche 911 RSR-19 driven by Kevin Estre after the Briton had put heavy pressure on the Frenchman prior to their respective stops.

Tandy started the race in third place, but pulled in front of the No. 91 Porsche of Gianmaria Bruni in the opening stint.

Both Estre and Bruni have been given fifteen-second stops and hold penalties to be served during their next stop for start procedure infringements.


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#5531 - 03/18/22 12:01 PM Re: WEC 1,000 Mile @ Sebring [Re: teamzr1]  
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With three hours into the race, how the GTE Pro cars stack up

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Heavy accident for the race-leading Toyota GR010 Hybrid driven by Jose Maria Lopez caused a red flag three and a half hours into the 1000 Miles of Sebring.
Lopez’s No. 7 Toyota dramatically overturned after running hard into the right-side tire barriers at Turn 14.

The Argentine driver walked away from the scene of the crash, and Toytoa Gazoo Racing has stated that he attended the medical center with “no reported injuries”.
That impact came only a few moments after Lopez slid into the right-side barriers at the Turn 9 kink, following a touch between his car’s right-front corner and the left-front of Julien Andlauer’s Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19.

Lopez was managing a slender lead over Brendon Hartley in the No. 8 Toyota, although the two Toyotas were theoretically behind the Alpine A480 Gibson on pit strategy.
Alpine has controlled the first three and a half hours of the WEC season-opener, with Andre Negrao stepping into the grandfathered LMP1 car around 17 minutes before the red flag.

C8.R Corvette Racing held the upper hand in GTE-Pro as the two Porsche entries embarked on a joint recovery from 15-second penalties due to inappropriate actions during the starting procedure.

Tommy Milner possessed a 17-second buffer over Kevin Estre in the No. 92 factory Porsche when Lopez crashed, with Gianmaria Bruni third for the No. 91 Porsche crew.
Nick Tandy took the lead at the first round of stops when he opted for a double stint while the Porsches changed tires.
The gap reduced in the second hour, but Tandy kept Michael Christensen at bay up to the second stops, when Porsche observed its penalties.
The AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evos have not yet featured in the Pro battle, with the Italian marque’s No. 52



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Before the red flag, the C8.R was like 20-30 seconds ahead of the others in class and now with
5 hours into the race, they are about 40 seconds behind the leader smile




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The WEC 1000 Miles of Sebring has been red flagged for a second time with just over an hour remaining in the race.
This time, the race has been stopped because of a thunderstorm approaching the circuit.

‘We are calling the red flag, not because of an incident, but because of the law,” said FIA WEC race director Eduardo Freitas over the team radio.
“There is a thunderstorm approaching the circuit and the marshals need to be brought in to be protected.”

They ended the race with 10 minutes left on the clock frown

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C8.R Corvette Racing made quite the impact in its first race as a full-time entrant in the FIA World Endurance Championship on Friday with a runner-up GTE Pro finish for Tommy Milner, Nick Tandy and the No. 64 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R in a rain- and storm-shortened 1,000 Miles of Sebring.

Three red-flag sessions impacted the race, the final two coming inside the 70 minutes for continuous lightning and inclement weather in the vicinity of Sebring International Raceway. Milner was in the midst of a double-stint to the end when the race stopped just outside the five-hour mark.
He enjoyed a five-second gap to Richard Lietz’s Porsche in third place, and was about 35 seconds behind class leader Michael Christensen.

The second red flag turned into a safety-car period, which brought Milner right on the rear of Christensen’s car.
Unfortunately for Corvette Racing, the third and final red flag came only minutes after, with officials halting the race.

The Corvette C8.R led early with a strong opening double-stint from Tandy and his durable Michelin tires. In his opening two hours, Tandy set the fastest race lap which he bettered twice later in the event in the first two hours before handing off to Milner.
He led for a significant portion of his stint and by as much as 24 seconds, even while running his second stint with used left-side tires and new right-side tires, before the race’s first red flag for a heavy accident for one of Toyota’s Hypercars.

The stoppage wasn’t helpful to the team’s tire strategy for the end of the race.
On the restart, the GTE Pro field was mired in traffic, with Milner getting hit from behind by an LMP2 car.
The contact knocked the driver’s side door on the Corvette askew, and the team lost time getting the door to relatch when Milner stopped for a change back to Tandy with 3:15 left.

The Corvette moved back up to second when one of the Porsches had a pit-stop issue of its own.
Tandy swapped back over to Milner with 1:45 left with the American holding off a challenge from Richard Lietz in the 91 Porsche before the red flag.
The next round of the FIA World Endurance Championship is the Six Hours of Spa on May 5-7.
It will be Corvette Racing’s second straight appearance at historic Spa-Francorchamps.

TOMMY MILNER, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R SECOND IN GTE PRO:

“It definitely was a weird race with the red flags. The first one really hurt us and put us on the back foot a little bit with strategy. The second one probably was going to help us slightly to help us close the gap to the leader.
They still had an advantage on fuel. I don’t know if they were holding back on pace to go two laps longer than us or what it was. All things said, I was really happy with second place. Nick did an awesome job at the start. He was really, really fast. My first double-stint was going OK until the first red flag. We were really sitting ducks big-time there, with the other cars on newer tires. My last stint felt a lot better.
I was able to hold the 91 off and stay ahead of him. That was the race for second on the podium. We’re happy with that.”

NICK TANDY, NO. 64 MOBIL 1/SiriusXM CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R – SECOND IN GTE PRO:

I’m really pleased with the start of our season. At one point, it looked like things could be turning south pretty quickly.
But in the end, we’ve come out with a podium and second-place finish. More importantly, this was a competitive showing.

I’m very pleased with the team, the car, the work we’ve been doing with Michelin and everything else.
Today, the luck didn’t play out in our favor. We had a good strategy with double-stinting tires; we were a bit off-sequence on fuel strategy, and the red flag hurt us.
At that point, it looked like we could be fighting for fourth. To finish up P2 is a very pleasing start. We can be confident going ahead, Spa and proud of what we’ve done this week


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