{"id":3523,"date":"2010-03-20T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2010-03-20T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:24:36","slug":"porsches-running-well-in-lmp2-gt2-gtc-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/alms\/porsches-running-well-in-lmp2-gt2-gtc-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"PORSCHES RUNNING WELL IN LMP2, GT2, GTC CLASSES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Amazing Porsches performance at the 58th Mobil1 Twelve Hours of Sebring<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From Wolf Henzler grabbing the GT2 lead at the start of the race in the #17 Team Falken Tire Porsche 911 GT3 RSR to Joerg Bergmeister, Patrick Long, and Marc Lieb all leading the class during their stint in the #45 Flying Lizard Porsche, the battle among the world&#8217;s best sports car manufacturers has lived up to its predictions running the first four hours of the 58th running of the Mobil1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ferrari, BMW, and Corvette have all led the class, with current standings showing the Melo\/Bruni\/Kaffer Ferrari running first, the Bergmeister\/Long\/Lieb Porsche second, and the Werner\/Milner\/Auberlen BMW third.\u00a0 The Falken Tire Porsche with Henzler\/Pilet\/Sellers is currently sixth, one lap down.\u00a0 The factory Corvettes were contesting for the lead at the three-hour mark when the #4 Corvette hit their #3 teammate in the pit lane.<\/p>\n<p>In LMP2, Greg Pickett opened the race for the #6 Muscle Milk Porsche RS Spyder, and the car owner drove a double stint, leaving the car in good shape in second place for teammate Klaus Graf, who is also driving a double stint.\u00a0 Sascha Maassen will climb into the car he helped develop later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>In the new GT Challenge class for Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars, the Alex Job Racing entities are running one-two, with the Bill Sweedler\/Romeo Kapudija\/Jan-Dirk Lueders Battery Tender Porsche in front, and the #81 Mission Foods Porsche piloted by Leh Keen\/Butch Leitzinger\/Juan Gonzales second.<\/p>\n<p>In the Michelin Green X Challenge, which measures efficiency and petroleum displacement and carbon credits among the LMP and GT competitors, the defending champions, the #44 Flying Lizard Porsche squad of Seth Neiman\/Darren Law\/Richard Lietz, with their E85 ethanol fuel use, are leading their class.\u00a0 This Porsche won the season-long Michelin Green X Challenge last year.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Courtesy ALMS \u00a9 RIF<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing Porsches performance at the 58th Mobil1 Twelve Hours of Sebring \u00a0 From Wolf Henzler grabbing the GT2 lead at the start of the race in the #17 Team Falken Tire Porsche 911 GT3 RSR to Joerg Bergmeister, Patrick Long, and Marc Lieb all leading the class during their stint in the #45 Flying Lizard &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[1078,5302,5264,5334,5275,228,81,848,213,5277,279,224,210,5323,5321],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}