BMW’s Maxime Martin leads at Sebring with 4 hours remaining, as the race steams towards its final stages.
Martin, in the #25 BMW M Hybrid V8, assumed the lead in the pitstop cycle after Pipo Derani’s huge crash about 30 minutes before the four hour mark. The Brazilian, in the #31 Action Express Cadillac V-Series.R, had led for much of the race alongside his teammates Jack Aitken and Tom Blomqvist. But Derani’s crash, which saw him flip the Cadillac after contact with the #21 Ferrari of Miguel Molina, has blown the race wide open.
The race is currently under yellow again, the eighth FCY, for debris from a Ford Mustang which went over the grass and lost some of the diffuser bodywork.
Second is Mathieu Jaminet in the #6 Porsche 963, and third is Ricky Taylor in the #10 WTRAndretti Acura ARX-06. At the restart after Derani’s crash Jesse Krohn, in the sister #24 BMW, was second, but by the end of the lap had dropped to fifth.
In LMP2, Tom Dillmann leads in the #52 Inter Europol Oreca 07-Gibson. Mikkel Jensen is second, driving the #11 TDS Racing Oreca 07-Gibson, while Bijoy Garg is third in the #22 United Autosports Oreca 07-Gibson.
Michael Christensen leads GTD Pro, in the #77 AO Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R. Second in class is Madison Snow, driving the #1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3, while Alexander Sims is third in the #3 Corvette C8.R.
Finally, Frederik Schandorff is leading the GTD class, onboard the #70 Inception McLaren 720S GT3. Second is Zach Robichon in the #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo, while third is Onforio Triarsi in the #023 Triarsi Ferrari 296 GT3.
