Where is the Jaguar?

Posted Mar 20, 2010 by Earl Fannin

Updated Mar 20, 2010 at 09:02 AM

The #75 JaguarRSR XKRS was the most significant entry that missed Saturday morning’s warm-up for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh From Florida at Sebring International Raceway.  The GT2 team had a huge fire in testing Wednesday that fused the bell housing to the engine and was struggled in practice all week.

Joey Hand crashed the #90 BMW E92 M3 in Turn 17 during the morning warm-up, and the crew is furiously working on the car in the paddock making repairs.

The #16 Dyson BP Lola B09 86 Mazda completed only one lap in warm-up before suffering a transmission oil leak. Chris Dyson was driving.

Sebastien Bourdais put the #08 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP on top of the time chart in the warm-up with a lap of 1:45.743 = 125.966 mph with fellow Peugeot-er Alexander Wurtz second in the #07 diesel protype at 1:47.454 = 123.960 mph.

Simon Pagenaud was quickest in P2 with a lap of 1:48.307 = 122.984 mph in the #1 Patron Highcraft Honda Performance Development ARX-01c.

Some of the other class fastest cars were not the pole winners:

James Gue was quickest in LMPC with a lap of 1:58.877 = 112.049 mph in the #95 Oreca FLM09.

Gianmari Bruni was quickest in GT2 with a lap of 2:01.542 = 109.592 mph in the #62 Risi Ferrari 430 GT.

Pierre Ehert was quickest in P1 with a lap of 1:54.113 = 116.726 mph in the #12 Autocon Lola B 06 10.