PLNewman

Both Spec Boxster Sprint races at the Sebring 48 Hours ended under double yellow because of incidents in Turns 3-4-5. In Orange Sprint 1, a crash of 944s led to a final lap winner-take-all race to the finish. Texas Tommy Vieth passed Topher Everett for the lead in T3 but ran wide, got two wheels in the dirt, shot back on the track and slammed into Javier Ripoll. Everett won the race under double yellow. In Orange Sprint 2, also won by Everett, Rodrigo Herrera ran wide in T3, sheared off his oil pan, and in a cloud of smoke, continued down the track leaving a river of oil through Big Bend, the whole way to T7. The race was stopped when trailing cars slid off track. Here's a 17-minute video from Sprint 2. The race-ending incident is near the end of the video.

PGas32

Thanks for posting - I was following along on RaceHero all weekend. Was wondering what happened at the end of Sprint 1

Gary R.

Good ol Rodrigo... he brought 944 oil dumps to SPB!

LuigiVampa

Looks like some good racing for most of the race. When you have smoke in the cabin your race is over!

53 car should have pulled off but I won't judge harshly as the decisions we make behind the wheel in the later part of a race are not always logical. Hopefully none of the cars which went off track had any damage otherwise that is a little more than a party foul. We have to take care of each other out there and oil on the track is one of the worst dangers to us all. Many times the first inkling you have that there is a problem is when cars go flying off the track!

Paseb

Loll

Lemming

I have to question why the stewards gave us the "hail Mary" last lap in sprint 1. The race was scheduled for 25 minutes and we were well over that time when they waived the green flag.