Post Race - 12hrs of Sebring

The season has officially kicked off for Doodleco Motorsport with the 12hrs of Sebring on Saturday. This is the first championship entry for the team and expectations were low but through a mixture of consistent driving and a great performance by last minute entry, Joito05, the Doodleco Acura came across the line in 13th position.

After a messy start to the race due to the leader clearing off on the formation lap, Tango Wh1skey held position and claimed his first victim when passing slow traffic. After being held up, the Lola Mazda which was ahead of Tango made an error trying to pass a Ford GT on the inside of a corner. Tango took the opportunity to follow the Mazda through but as he got on the power the Mazda appeared to back off causing Tango to nudge the Mazda into a spin, taking position in the process.

After the first driver change there was contact once again with the Mazda who ran wide through Turn 17 and then had a bad entry into turn 1. The Doodleco car made a move on the outside and had the position but the Mazda failed to back off into the chicane and ended up facing the wrong way for the second time, but now suffering damage.

Approaching the halfway point in the race, it was clear that the car was starting to settle in and was setting new personal best times. With more cars pulling into the pits with technical problems, Doodleco was working up into the top 15. Shortly before the 7 hour mark however, disaster struck as Tango Wh1skey locked up into the hairpin, slamming into a Viper and causing major damage to the bodywork of both cars. After a slow crawl back to the pits it was obvious that the engineers had some work to do but only one hour later the car was back and in the hands of Joito05. The delay had cost the team most of its hard work and was sitting 33rd overall with just 4 hours remaining.

Joito05 stormed back through the GTE cars, pushing hard to make up for the time lost. His effort was not wasted as the flag dropped with Doodleco Motorsport sitting in 13th position, ahead of all the GTEs.

With such a performance we thank Joito05 and announce that it would be our privilege for him to return with the team at Le Mans in June. In the mean time we will be testing and developing the car ready for round two of the TORA Endurance Championship.