{"id":6847,"date":"2024-03-11T13:17:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2024-03-12T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T17:18:07","slug":"sean-creech-motorsport-ready-for-more-at-sebring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/sean-creech-motorsport-ready-for-more-at-sebring\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Creech Motorsport ready for more at Sebring"},"content":{"rendered":"

JUPITER, Fla. (11 March 2024) \u2013 Returning to an iconic track where the team has raced to victory in the past, Sean Creech Motorsport (SCM) heads to Sebring to contest the 72nd Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring (9:40 a.m. EDT Saturday, Peacock and USA Network) this weekend.<\/p>\n

With a long history of competition at the tough track \u2013 including a win in the LMP3 class two years ago \u2013 Florida-based SCM considers Sebring to be their home track and will arrive at the circuit packing the momentum and fresh notes from a successful test with the LMP2-class No. 33 SCM Focal One Ligier JS P217 at the track last month.<\/p>\n

Completing a 12-hour race simulation over the two-day test and checking more items off the setup database the team continues to develop, drivers Lance Willsey, Jo\u00e3o Barbosa, and Jonny Edgar look forward to a solid outing for the No. 33 SCM Focal One Ligier JS P217.<\/p>\n

The team has re-introduced the Ligier to IMSA competition for the 2024 season, racing against teams that have worked with the Oreca chassis for years. Despite the challenge at hand, Barbosa reiterates the team\u2019s commitment to the Ligier, and confidence in its potential.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team is 100% committed to this program with Ligier,\u201d said Barbosa, a two-time series champion. \u201cWe knew it would be a challenge to bring this car back \u2013 we\u2019re writing the database for this car and competing against teams who have thousands of miles on their chassis, but we all know the potential is there to be quite competitive. Daytona (in which the team finished 9th) was not representative of what we know this car can do, but each race will be that much better as we learn what the car wants for each track and weather condition. It\u2019s a matter of using our test and practice time wisely and continuing to move the program forward \u2013 and we\u2019re doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edgar, who has been named as the team\u2019s third driver for the remaining four Michelin Endurance Cup races \u2013 Sebring, Watkins Glen, Indianapolis and Road Atlanta \u2013 was well aware of the track\u2019s notoriously bumpy surface (which has its own hashtag, #RespectTheBumps). But the 20-year-old was pleasantly surprised by how the Ligier reacted over those bumps during the test.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the bumpiest track I\u2019ve been on, but perhaps not as bumpy as I expected,\u201d said Edgar. \u201cBased on what everyone says, I actually expected worse but that\u2019s down to how well the Ligier handles the changing surface. But we\u2019ve definitely made strides since Daytona in closing the gap. We were able to try a lot of different things over the day and a half \u2013 some things worked and some didn\u2019t but as long as you know why they didn\u2019t work, it gives you a direction to go. The balance is in trying to adjust something without causing a different problem, but the team is doing a good job of that and most of what we tried did work. And I got some laps in the dark \u2013 it\u2019s quite a bit darker than Daytona so it was good to get used to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it’s nice to be doing the rest of the endurance races with SCM,\u201d continued Edgar. \u201cKnowing everyone even better after a couple of weeks at Daytona and having more experience with the car, I\u2019m getting more confident every day. If we can keep improving as we are, and for me, as I learn the car and understand more how to maximize what I can do, I think we\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team principal Sean Creech was pleased with the two-day test, despite losing much of the first morning to rain. But the 30-year veteran of sports car racing, with too many races at Sebring to count, knows that the only thing that doesn\u2019t change about the racing surface is how quickly it can change \u2013 and he feels the team is prepared for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made good progress at the test last month, in the wet and the dry,\u201d said Creech. \u201cWe know the track will be completely different on the race weekend, but we left the test with some more confidence. We went through all our test plan, trying most everything we wanted to. We completed a full 12-hour race sim over the two days with no problems, and that gives the team a good read on what we need to do to make the car fast and safe for 12 hours. Sebring is always challenging, you\u2019re always finding new bumps, but this car reacts very well over them. We have a good baseline to start with in the first official practice on Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n

SCM thanks partner Focal One for its continued support.<\/p>\n

The 72nd Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring takes the green flag Saturday at 9:40 a.m. Eastern. The race will be broadcast live in the U.S. on Peacock, with the final five and a half hours on USA Network. International viewers can watch via IMSA.tv, with IMSA Radio also available at IMSA.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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