{"id":5638,"date":"2023-03-17T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2023-03-17T14:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:57:19","slug":"meyer-shank-racing-to-start-fifth-for-mobil-1-twelve-hours-of-sebring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/meyer-shank-racing-to-start-fifth-for-mobil-1-twelve-hours-of-sebring\/","title":{"rendered":"Meyer Shank Racing to Start Fifth for Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sebring, Fla. (17 March 2023) \u2013 Meyer Shank Racing (MSR) will start fifth for Saturday\u2019s 71st<\/sup>running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, with a late red flag preventing MSR driver Tom Blomqvist from an attempt at a second-consecutive IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pole position.<\/p>\n

MSR experienced an up and down first day of practice on Thursday with the team working to find solutions for some\u00a0electrical gremlins during Practice 1 with the No. 60 MSR Acura LMDh only clocking in seven laps. After working through the lunch hours, MSR diagnosed the issue\u00a0and closed out Practice 2 at the top of the time sheets – a breath\u00a0of fresh air before heading into night practice.<\/p>\n

MSR was hoping to continue its pace into qualifying on Saturday. Taking the wheel for the 20-minute qualifying session Blomqvist was running second with an early lap of 1:46.603-seconds in the No. 60 AutoNation \/ SiriusXM Acura ARX-06. The team called Blomqvist into pit lane midway through the 20-minute session for a tire change – a new feature for the 2023 season which allows GTP cars to utilize one of its 11 sets of qualifying and race\u00a0Michelin tires.<\/p>\n

Falling to fifth during his stop, Blomqvist returned for a late run with under 10-minutes on the clock. However, a competitor slammed a barrier with four-minutes, 30-seconds remaining, effectively ending the session before the MSR Acura could score another quick\u00a0lap.<\/p>\n

Blomqvist will join Colin Braun and four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves for 12 grueling hours on the bumpy circuit carved from a former World War II airport training base on Saturday.<\/p>\n

While Blomqvist is making his third start at Sebring \u2013 he placed fifth last season with MSR in DPi and seventh in GTLM in 2019 \u2013 his co-drivers are both experienced at Sebring. Braun is a three-time winner in 12 races, scoring in PC in 2014 and 2016 in addition to an LMP3 triumph in 2021. Castroneves is a four-time competitor in the lead class, with his best finish fourth in 2019 in an Acura DPi.<\/p>\n

The Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring will go green on Saturday at 10:10am ET with flag-to-flag coverage on Peacock starting at 10:05am ET. USA Network will pick up coverage starting at 4:30pm ET. \u00a0SiriusXM will also host live IMSA Radio coverage on XM Ch. 392.<\/p>\n

Meyer Shank Racing Sebring 12 Hour Qualifying Driver Quote:<\/p>\n

Tom Blomqvist:<\/strong>
\n\u201cWe definitely didn’t get the most out of that session, especially with the untimely red flag. I don’t think we had the pace for pole, but we were definitely getting close to it. It\u2019s not super important really where you start for a 12 hour race. We just need to keep chipping away and finding more ways to improve, but I\u2019m confident we can get to a place where we have a solid race car for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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