Myclassic ALERT: Mercedes Wins Pole at Sebring

Mercedes-AMG GT3 Wins GTD Pole in 12 Hours of Sebring Debut

Sebring. The No. 75 SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 and team driver
Tristan Vautier gave the Mercedes-AMG GT3 pole position in qualifying for the
Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. This pole position, the first for Mercedes-
AMG Motorsport Customer Racing, comes in just the second round of the 2017
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Vautier drove the No. 75
SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 to a top lap time of 1.59.738 on the
3.74-mile Sebring road course to top the GTD field.

Tristan Vautier said: “The Mercedes-AMG GT3 is very good here. The track has a lot of mid-speed corners,which are really the corners where the car performs at its best. The setup was
good, we chased some issues yesterday, but after the night practice we knew we
had the car where we needed to be to battle for the pole position. It was a very
good session overall. It’s cool, we are a brand-new team, only in our second race
and we are on the pole position. Tomorrow we have 12 hours of racing, the pace
should be there and it is just going to be about execution, not making any mistakes,
and being there for the last two hours to set us up to race to the end.”

Race-day on Saturday, March 18th, begins with a 20-minute warm-up at 8:00 a.m.
EDT before the scheduled start of the 65th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring at 10:40
a.m. EDT.
Coverage of the 65th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring begins Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
on FOX Sports 1 (FS1). Flag-to-flag online coverage will begin at 10:30 a.m. EDT on
www.FOXSportsGo.com or with the FOX Sports GO mobile app. More information
and live timing and scoring is available on www.imsa.com.

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