Surviving Sebring: The Real Story of Endurotech Racing’s 2026 12 Hour

Twelve hours. Multiple teams. Multiple splits. Every crew went into the iRacing Sebring 12 Hour 2026 with a plan: tailored setups, fuel strategies mapped to the lap, stint rotations locked in. Sebring ate most of those plans before the first hour was done. Here is the honest account of how it all went.

2026 Sebring 12 Hour | EDR Results at a Glance

Team	Split	Class	Start	Finish
Sam, Jarrod, Brock (Race 1)	Split 18	GT3	P34	P56 / DNF
Sam, Jarrod, Brock (Race 2)	Split 18	GT3	P25	P28
Dom, Chris, Halden	TBC	GT3	P6	P26 / DNF
Tom W, Joey, Tom H	TBC	GT3	P29	P11
Jake and Aden	TBC	GT3	P2	P23 / DNF
Erik and Larry	TBC	LMP2	TBC	P6

Split numbers updated as confirmed. DNF positions reflect running order at time of retirement. Meet the full EDR driver lineup here.

Sam, Jarrod and Brock | Split 18 | GT3

They did it twice. Back to back. Twelve hours, DNF, re-enter, go again. Before a word is said about lap times or positions, that commitment deserves to be front and centre.

Race 1: P34 Start / DNF P56

It unravelled early. Qualified P34, the race went against them quickly, and they ended up classified P56 at retirement. Not the result anyone was after. They regrouped, re-entered, and came back for more.

Race 2: P25 Start / P28 Finish

Qualified P25. Two laps in, mechanical failure triggered a crash and eight minutes of repairs that buried them at the back. P55, ten laps down. Fuel strategy out the window. Most teams would have gone through the motions from there.

Not these three. An improvised driver swap, heads down, and they got on with it. Their pace was the second fastest in the lobby and they used every lap of it, quietly climbing through the field. A mid-race iRacing crash threatened to undo all the work, but the time already banked kept them moving. Four hours of clean, composed racing later, they crossed the line in P28.

Dom, Chris and Halden | GT3

Provisional pole. Race-winning pace. A result that should have been something special. It was not, and that is what made it so hard to take.

Chris went out in qualifying and put in a mega lap to take provisional pole. A small mistake on lap two gave it away, but the pace was impossible to miss. We lined up P6.

Green flag. Cold tyres. Sunset. The slow-motion spin looked like it might resolve itself until a backmarker arrived and made the decision for us. Meatball flag, six laps in the pits, back out in P33. The fuel strategy and the stint plan were already gone.

Watch: Chris’s opening spin at Sunset

What came next was some of the most frustrating driving EDR has produced, frustrating because it was genuinely fast. We carved back to P28 on strong, consistent lap times. A win was on the table. That is not exaggeration. It is what made every subsequent incident so brutal to absorb.

Halden put in a clean double stint and hauled us up to P26. Dom took over and was picking people off methodically. Clever strategy and a well-executed undercut cycled us up to P21 once the stop sequence cleared. Then the car ahead disconnected mid-session. It did not ghost. It auto-braked. Dom had nowhere to go and no time to react. Straight into the back of it. Steering destroyed. Four minutes of repairs and all the ground was gone.

Watch: Dom’s unavoidable rear-end

Halden rejoined and was barely up to speed on the front straight when a prototype appeared on the inside. The spotter missed the call. Contact. Enough to break the steering again. Another limp back to the pits.

Watch: Halden’s prototype contact

Dom went back in for a third stint, found his rhythm, then completely misjudged a move into Sunset. His own words: brain fade. Took out the P9 car. Called it from there. Classified P26 at retirement.

Watch: Dom’s race-ending moment

Tom W, Joey and Tom H | GT3

While much of the EDR fleet was absorbing chaos, these three quietly put together the best team result of the day.

Qualified P29. No catastrophic damage stops, no lengthy repairs to recover from. They managed their incidents, kept the car clean, and just kept working through the field with the kind of steady, intelligent driving that endurance racing actually rewards. Twelve hours later they were P11.

Jake and Aden | GT3

Started P2. The pace was there all race. Fuel saving was in the plan. At various points a top result looked genuinely achievable. Endurance racing does not care about any of that.

What Went Well

• Qualified P2 with strong pace from both drivers throughout
• Multiple clean overtakes climbing from P10 to P2 mid-race
• Aden ran nearly the full race without a fault-incident point to his name
• Three consecutive stints with no mental fade
• Fought back from P11 to P4 after being knocked out of position
• Managed prototype traffic smartly using experience gained from time in the GTP

What Hurt

• Aden collected on pit entry by a GTP. One minute thirty of repairs and half a second per lap lost on the straights for the rest of the race
• A 2x slide mid-stint turned a two-second gap into a full stint of re-closing work
• GT3 contact into T1. Small damage, ten to twenty seconds thrown away
• Jake clipped the back of a GTP through a slow corner. Six seconds of repairs taken mid-refuel stop

The Ugly

• A GTP rear-ended them from P2 and dropped the team to P10 with significant repair time. Mostly the other car’s call, but positioning could have been communicated earlier
• Fought all the way back to P4. Then with two hours from the flag, Jake went into the wall at T1 in the dark
• Forty-five minutes of repairs. The engine sits in the boot on these cars. It did not forgive the wall. Classified P23 at retirement.

Erik and Larry | LMP2

The race started badly before a competitive lap had been turned. A tough qualifying result was followed by a 40-second hold on pit entry with traffic stacking up at Sunset on the formation lap. Whatever fuel window had been planned around was already being rewritten.

When racing got underway, the pace was genuinely there. Six hours of clean, progressive laps moved them steadily up to P4 with P3 and P2 both in sight. A podium in LMP2 is never a given, but it was a real conversation at that point in the race.

On an outlap at Sunset, Erik lost the rear, went backwards into the barrier, and eight minutes of repairs erased everything. P6 at the restart, P5 pulling away, three laps in arrears of P4. No way back. They held P6 to the flag.

The Rest of the Field

More EDR crews were out across the various splits on the day. Not all of them reported back, but the effort was there regardless. To anyone who put in the hours without making the debrief list: it counts. And to Sam, Jarrod, and Brock, mentioned again deliberately. A DNF in Race 1 and they came straight back for Race 2. That mentality is exactly what this team is being built on.

Want to know who races under the EDR banner? The full Endurotech Racing driver lineup is on the drivers page.

Setups, Strategy and the Reality of Endurance Racing

Every EDR team ran a different setup going into Sebring. Not the same base, not the same philosophy. Each entry was built around its specific car, class, split conditions, and the drivers behind the wheel. Some were tuned for outright pace in a tighter lobby. Others prioritised tyre life and long-run consistency to support extended stints and cleaner fuel windows.

Fuel saving plans were locked in across the board. Target lap counts calculated, margins stress-tested, stint structures agreed. Sebring tore almost all of it up within the first hour. Incidents, damage stops, and extended repairs shifted fuel loads and changed stint windows on the fly, pushing every driver away from the prepared plan and into real-time improvisation instead.

That is what endurance racing actually is. The strategy is a starting point, not a guarantee. The teams who perform across twelve hours are the ones who can adapt mid-race without losing composure, rebuild position after setbacks, and keep each other sharp when everything goes sideways. There were moments of exactly that from every EDR crew on the day.

Stewards Report

Twelve hours of racing across multiple teams and multiple splits generated a lot of content worth revisiting. Disconnection ghosts that do not ghost, prototype contact with no spotter call, a meatball flag on lap one, and more than one brain fade into Sunset. The EDR Stewards Report had a very good day at Sebring 2026. Plenty of material to work through.

FAQ | iRacing Sebring 12 Hour 2026

Final Word

A team that ran twice when once was already brutal. A provisional pole that became a DNF. The steadiest drive of the day from a crew that barely made a noise. A P2 qualifier buried under forty-five minutes of repairs with two hours left. A P4 podium fight ended on an outlap in the dark.

That is the full picture of Sebring 2026 for Endurotech Racing. No results were as clean as the pace deserved. Every team kept going anyway. We take the lessons and come back harder.

See you at the next one.