Yahoo Autos The WEC Is Coming to Sebring With a 1500-Mile Race
The FIA World Endurance Championship is bidding farewell to its annual North American stop at Circuit of The Americas and replacing it with a visit to Sebring International Raceway.
In 2019.
As the second part of a doubleheader with IMSA for its traditional mid-March Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring date.
And it’s going to last 1500 miles.
And it starts at Midnight, two hours after IMSA’s 12-hour race is completed.
What could go wrong with that stupendously absurd plan crafted by the FIA WEC and its partners at the ACO, whose organization run the 24 Hours of Le Mans?
Ignore the series’ absence from our market in 2018, and the staggering call to begin an international event after the headlining act completes its race, and the hard sell for major manufacturers - those whose millions of advertising dollars make the WEC possible - to have CEOs, VIPs, and other dignitaries turn up to watch the green flag wave at an hour where they’re usually in bed, and minus those caveats, the 1500 Miles of Sebring is destined for greatness.
“With the support of the WEC’s friends and partners at IMSA, agreement has been reached to return to Sebring with the 12 Hours of Sebring in the WEC calendar and we are really delighted about this,” said ACO president Pierre Fillon.
We’ll check back in 543 days, after the March 17 race is complete, to get an update on that delight.
Pictured above: Last year's Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring, part of the IMSA WeatherTech Championship.
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