{"id":3574,"date":"2010-03-21T21:51:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2010-03-21T21:51:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T01:51:44","slug":"extreme-speed-motorsports-suffers-disappointing-debut-in-sebring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/alms\/extreme-speed-motorsports-suffers-disappointing-debut-in-sebring\/","title":{"rendered":"EXTREME SPEED MOTORSPORTS SUFFERS DISAPPOINTING DEBUT IN SEBRING"},"content":{"rendered":"
Team Finishes 6th in GT2 Class in No. 02 Car, Endures Sad Ending in No. 01<\/span><\/h5>\n

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For 10 of the 12 hours in today\u2019s 58th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida, the day was progressing favorably for Extreme Speed Motorsports\u2019 debut race in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Then coming into Turn 17, just after the competition\u2019s 10-hour mark this evening, a major rear fire ended the race for the team\u2019s No. 01 Ferrari F430 GTC, driven by Scott Sharp, Johannes van Overbeek, and Dominik Farnbacher. Extreme Speed Motorsports\u2019 No. 02 car, driven by Ed Brown, Guy Cosmo, and Joao Barbosa, went on to complete the race in sixth place in the highly competitive GT2 Class.<\/p>\n

The problem in the No. 01 car began shortly after the team made a change to the front brakes. With Sharp behind the wheel coming out of the pit, he heard a thumping noise coming from the car, which accelerated as it gained speed. Sharp pitted again, the problem was inspected, and determined to be ok. The noise continued though as Sharp got back on the track, and then on the back straightaway during lap 271 the car started \u201cglowing,\u201d Sharp said.<\/p>\n

Sharp was able to quickly exit the car, unhurt, and the IMSA safety team swiftly extinguished the fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a sad ending to our first race, but it was a very good day until then and I\u2019m incredibly proud of the hard work and professionalism of this team,\u201d Sharp said after the race. \u201cEverybody did their job and gave it everything they had \u2013 we came a long way and it\u2019s a shame we couldn\u2019t finish both cars, but I\u2019m very pleased with our overall performance out there today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s No. 02 Ferrari started in ninth position on the grid this morning, advancing into the seventh place spot mid-race, and finished the 12 hours on the track in sixth place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is undisputedly one of the toughest competitions in motorsports, and to finish in sixth place, for a new team like our\u2019s, I\u2019m extraordinarily proud of our team and the effort everyone put in,\u201d said Brown. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate what happened with our No. 01 car, especially for as hard as we worked out there, but we\u2019re pleased that our No. 2 car finished, and we\u2019ll build from what we learned today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Extreme Speed Motorsports is sponsored by Tequila Patr\u00f3n, along with support from Ferrari Corse Clienti and the team\u2019s official tire technical partner Michelin. Patr\u00f3n, a longtime supporter of motorsports racing, also recently signed on as a sponsor of the full American Le Mans Series.<\/p>\n

Courtesy ALMS \u00a9 RIF<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Team Finishes 6th in GT2 Class in No. 02 Car, Endures Sad Ending in No. 01 \u00a0 For 10 of the 12 hours in today\u2019s 58th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida, the day was progressing favorably for Extreme Speed Motorsports\u2019 debut race in the American Le Mans Series presented …<\/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":[833,5264,5334,234,5290,5289,792,5291,750,64,5280],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574"}],"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=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3575,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}