MOTUL AT THE 1000 MILES OF SEBRING: THE SPIRIT OF LE MANS RETURNS TO THE USA

This weekend, the town of Sebring in southern Florida will roar to the sound of engines as season 10 of the FIA’s World Endurance Championship gets underway with the 1000 Miles of Sebring. Thirty-nine cars will line up on the starting grid at the Sebring International Raceway for the second running of the event (2020 and 2021’s events were cancelled due to Covid). Over the course of about 268 laps, Hypercars, LMP2 cars and sportscars will compete for endurance glory.

Gérard Neveu, Le Mans Endurance Management CEO (FIA WEC and ELMS), said: “Motul has been a valued and faithful partner to the WEC and has contributed greatly to the championship. It is not only a technical partner of proven excellence and reputation, offering competitors the consistency and performance they seek in order to win world-class races, but also a key player in our paddocks in many other ways.” 

“Like Motul, the ACO has been at the forefront of automotive development and technology for a very long time, but we continually look to the future. We share many common values with the ACO and, more recently with the WEC, as competition is in our blood and indeed in our DNA.”

The 1000 Miles of Sebring is the first race of the 2022 WEC championship. Taking place on the 3.74-mile (6.02km) Sebring International Raceway, America’s oldest road racing track, it is an endurance race set over 1000 miles, hence the name, with a time limit of eight hours. The track has more than six decades of competition history and is based around a World War II airbase. In fact, the concrete runways still form part of the circuit, helping give the circuit a unique quality with its bumps that are a real challenge for both drivers and cars. The first 1000 Miles of Sebring was held in 2019 as the sixth round of the WEC.

The 1000 Miles of Sebring runs on Friday 18 March at 12:00ET (five hours behind CET), ahead of the IMSA Twelve Hours of Sebring, which will take place a day later on Saturday 19 March.

Not only is Motul an official partner of the WEC, but it will partner a number of teams for the 1000 Miles of Sebring, providing high-quality lubricants designed to help them achieve the ultimate blend of performance and reliability.

Team: Glickenhaus Racing
Car: Glickenhaus 007 LMH
Drivers: Olivier Pla, Romain Dumas, Ryan Briscoe

Team: Vector Sport
Car: Oreca 07 - Gibson
Drivers: Nico Müller, Ryan Cullen, Mike Rockenfeller

Team: United Autosports USA
Car: Oreca 07 - Gibson
Drivers: Philip Hanson, Filipe Albuquerque, William Owen

Team: United Autosports USA
Car: Oreca 07 - Gibson
Drivers: Paul di Resta, Oliver Jarvis, Joshua Pierson

Team: Jota Sports
Car: ORECA LMP2
Drivers: Oliver Rasmussen, Edward Jones, Jonathan Aberdein 

Team: Jota Sports
Car: ORECA LMP2
Drivers: Roberto Gonzalez, Antonio Felix Da Costa, William Stevens

Team: Inter Europol Competition
Car: Oreca 07 - Gibson
Drivers: Jakub Smiechowski, Alex Brundle, Esteban Gutierrez

Team: Algarve Pro Racing
Car: Oreca 07 - Gibson
Drivers: Steven Thomas, James Allen, Rene Binder

Team: Iron Dames
Car: Ferrari 488 GTE EVO
Drivers: Rahel Frey, Michelle Gatting, Sarah Bovy

Team: Algarve Pro Racing
Car: Oreca
Drivers: Steven Thomas, James Allen, Rene Binder

Team: Algarve Pro Racing
Car: Oreca
Drivers: John Falb, Sofia Floersch

Team: Iron Lynx
Car: Ferrari 488 GTE EVO
Drivers: Claudia Schiavoni, Matteo Cressoni, Giancarlo Fisichella

Pictures: © Teams, Motul, WEC, Adrenalmedia, Joao Filipe