Surviving Sebring: Endurotech Racing’s 2026 12 Hour Race Report

Twelve hours, multiple cars, multiple splits and almost no race that followed the original plan. The 2026 iRacing Sebring 12 Hour delivered recovery drives, technical failures, major repair stops and two strong finishes for Endurotech Racing.

EDR results at a glance

Positions are based on the team’s recorded post-race debrief. Unknown split and qualifying details have been removed rather than shown as placeholders.

Sam, Jarrod and Brock: two attempts in one day

Race 1: P34 to DNF

The first attempt unravelled early and ended with the car classified P56 at retirement. Instead of calling the day finished, the crew regrouped and entered the next available race.

Race 2: P25 to P28

Mechanical failure caused a crash two laps into the second attempt and brought roughly eight minutes of repairs. The team rejoined near the back of the field, around ten laps down, with the original fuel and stint strategy no longer usable.

They improvised the driver rotation, kept the car running and recovered to P28. Their long-run pace remained among the strongest in the lobby, and they completed the race despite another mid-event iRacing interruption.

Dom, Chris and Halden: front-running pace, repeated setbacks

Chris briefly held provisional pole before a mistake on the second qualifying lap. The car started P6 with genuine front-running pace.

An opening-lap spin at Sunset led to contact from a backmarker, a meatball flag and six laps in the pits. The team rejoined around P33 and began a long recovery. Halden completed a clean double stint, and Dom continued the climb as strategy cycled the car toward P21.

The recovery ended when a car ahead disconnected but did not ghost cleanly, forcing Dom into an unavoidable impact. Further prototype contact damaged the steering again. A later mistake into Sunset ended the attempt, with the car classified P26.

Tom W, Joey and Tom H: P29 to P11

This was EDR’s best GT3 result of the event. The crew avoided the catastrophic damage stops that affected several other entries, managed traffic and incidents, and kept progressing throughout the full race.

Starting P29 and finishing P11 represented eighteen positions gained through disciplined, low-drama endurance racing.

Jake and Aden: P2 pace undone late

Jake and Aden qualified P2 and remained competitive whenever the car was undamaged. Contact on pit entry caused an early repair and reduced straight-line performance. The team continued to recover, including a climb back toward the front after additional GT3 and prototype incidents.

With approximately two hours remaining, the car hit the wall at Turn 1 in darkness. The resulting repair was around 45 minutes, and the engine damage ended the attempt. The entry was classified P23.

Erik and Larry: P6 in LMP2

A difficult opening sequence included a lengthy hold on pit entry during the formation lap, forcing an immediate rethink of the fuel window. Once the race settled, Erik and Larry progressed to P4 and entered a genuine podium discussion.

An outlap spin at Sunset caused around eight minutes of repairs. They rejoined in P6, several laps behind the next position, and held that place to the finish.

What Sebring reinforced

Every EDR entry used a setup and strategy tailored to its drivers, class and expected split conditions. Incidents and repairs changed most of those plans within the opening hours.

The key lesson was not that preparation failed. It was that endurance preparation must include the ability to abandon the original plan without losing structure. Driver order, fuel targets and pit windows all had to be recalculated while the races continued.

Across the event, EDR showed strong raw pace and several high-quality recoveries. The next step is converting more of that speed into clean, complete races.

Final word

Sebring produced a P11 GT3 finish, a P6 LMP2 finish, several DNFs and more front-running pace than the final results suggest. It was not a clean weekend, but it provided a clear technical and operational debrief for the next major endurance event.