Ellis Quickest on Friday at Sebring

Photo: Fabian Lagunas/SRO

Philip Ellis was quickest on Friday at Sebring International Raceway following a pair of practice sessions for Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS.

The Regulator Racing driver reeled off a best lap time of 2:00.040 in the No 91 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo in the second hour-long session to edge out the No. 29 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 of Robby Foley by 0.127 seconds.

It was less than a tenth quicker than Tom Sargent’s time-topping lap from the morning session.

Trent Hindman made a series of late-session improvements to put the No. 85 RS1 Porsche third overall and quickest of the Pro class cars, thanks to a 2:00.757 lap time.

The No. 93 Racers Edge Motorsports Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 of Zach Veach was second quickest of the Pro entries in fourth overall, followed by the No. 120 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R of Elliott Skeer in fifth.

It was followed by the pair of ST Racing BMWs, with the Pro-Am class No. 38 car ahead of the Pro-entered No. 28 entry.

Bryan Sellers, meanwhile, posted the eighth quickest time overall in the debuting No. 08 DXDT Racing Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R.

The 60-minute session had a single red flag period in the second half of the running for debris.

Qualifying is set to get underway Saturday at 9 a.m. EDT with live coverage on SRO’s GT World YouTube channel and on Twitch.

RESULTS: Practice 2

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