{"id":5906,"date":"2023-03-17T07:43:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2023-05-10T07:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T11:44:47","slug":"new-ferrari-296-in-striking-distance-in-qualifying-for-sebring-12-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/new-ferrari-296-in-striking-distance-in-qualifying-for-sebring-12-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ferrari 296 in striking distance in qualifying for Sebring 12 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>SEBRING, FL (17 March 2023)<\/strong> \u2013 Ferrari posted competitive laps with its new Ferrari 296 GT3 in Friday morning\u2019s qualifying for Saturday\u2019s 12 Hours of Sebring, Round 2 of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The endurance classic marks the second outing for the all-new platform, having debuted in the season-opening Daytona 24 hour event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ferrari factory driver Daniel Serra recorded the fifth-fastest time in the GTD Pro category, running 1:59.939-seconds in the No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 296 GT3. Factory pilot Davide Rigon will co-drive for the Houston-based team, joined by Gabriel Casagrande.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IMSA newcomer Triarsi Competizione led Ferrari\u2019s GTD contingent for teams with Pro-Am lineups.\u00a0 Factory driver Alessio Rovera was sixth-fastest in the category, running 2:00.124-seconds in the No. 023 Ferrari of Central Florida \/ Ferrari of Tampa Bay Ferrari 296 GT3. Onofrio Triarsi and Charlie Scardina will co-drive for the Orlando-based team, which took 10th in the season-opening Daytona 24 Hours, the international debut of the 296 in international competition. Scardina and Triarsi won at Sebring in the team\u2019s professional debut in 2021 in a GT World Challenge America event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celilar Racing, the 2022 Sebring GTD winner, qualified 11th with Giorgio Sergagiotto running 2:01.451-seconds in the blue No. 47 Ferrari. Factory driver Antonio Fuoco joins Roberto Lacorte in the return of last year\u2019s winning lineup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AF Corse will line up 12th in GTD, with Simon Mann turning a lap of 2:01.588-seconds in the No. 21 Ferrari 296 GT3. The car will be co-driven by factory driver Miguel Molina and Francesco Castellacci.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 71st 12 Hours of Sebring takes the green flag at 10:10 a.m. ET on Saturday morning. Live coverage on USA Network picks up at 4:30 p.m. ET.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEBRING, FL (17 March 2023) \u2013 Ferrari posted competitive laps with its new Ferrari 296 GT3 in Friday morning\u2019s qualifying for Saturday\u2019s 12 Hours of Sebring,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ferrari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5907,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions\/5907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}