Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
3/20/23 11:59 a.m.
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Even though the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring is half the length of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, that doesn’t mean fans got half the thrills or the drama.

Less than 20 minutes before the checkered flag waved, the No. 10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-06 impacted the race-leading No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsports 963. The No. 7 Porsche …

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Aaron_King
Aaron_King GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
3/20/23 12:54 p.m.

That was a crazy last 20 minutes of that race.

DirtyBird222
DirtyBird222 PowerDork
3/20/23 1:03 p.m.

You mean the Porsche forced the Acura off the track, thus causing a massive pile up? 

Aaron_King
Aaron_King GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
3/20/23 3:41 p.m.

No, it looked to me like aggressive driving on every ones part collided with traffic and things went sideways.

wvumtnbkr
wvumtnbkr GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
3/20/23 3:54 p.m.
Aaron_King said:

No, it looked to me like aggressive driving on every ones part collided with traffic and things went sideways.

That's how I saw it too.

 

Basically, the car that was the leader made a move to go around slower traffic right where the track kinda narrows.  This also happened at night.  With 20 mins to go.  

 

I'm not sure anybody could have done much different other than simply slowing down and getting single file through there.

 

 

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