Report 1991 12 Hours of Sebring

1 report

1.1 entry
1.2 qualifying
1.3 race

report
entry

a total of 54 cars entered event, across 4 classes ranging through gto /gtu gtp. of these 51 cars practised.

qualifying

the nissan npt-90 of geoff brabham, partnered derek daly , younger brother, gary brabham took pole position. joined on front row nissan performance team-mates chip robinson, bob earl , julian bailey.

the race winning nissan npt-90 of brabham/daly/brabham


race

in front of crowd of approximately 80,000, race held on 12 hours, on sebring international raceway. race started in cool conditions, finished wet. of running, #6 joest racing porsche 962c of bob wollek, bernd schnieder , massimo sigala lead. apart pit stops, car lead until lap 80, when pole winning nissan took control of race. brabham brothers , daly lead lap 81 until saw flag on lap 298. in between, team-mates (robinson/earl/bailey) lead total of 41 laps, losing lead last time, 6 laps home.

during race, there 7 full-course cautions covering 54 laps, lasting total of 3 hours , 14 minutes. despite brabham/daly/brabham took winner spoils don devendorf’s nissan performance technology inc. team. partnership, driving nissan npt-90, won in time of 12hr 02:01.391mins., averaging speed of 91.626 mph. covered distance of 1,102.6 miles. 1 lap adrift in second place fellow nissan npt-90 of robinson/earl/bailey. front runners, wolleck/schnieder/sigala brought porsche home @ third lap further back. porsche joest came home in fourth, driven frank jelinski, henri pescarolo , ”john winter”. top jaguar fifth in hands of davy jones, raul boesel , john nielsen.