ENTRIES NOW OPEN FOR CREVENTIC’S 24-HOUR EVENT AT SEBRING
ENTRIES NOW OPEN FOR CREVENTIC’S 24-HOUR EVENT AT SEBRING
GENNEP (3 June, 2021) – As the 24H SERIES powered by Hankook moves into its traditional summer break, attention has already turned to both the Hankook 24H SEBRING and the Hankook 24H DUBAI, the 24-hour events that will close and open CREVENTIC’s 2021 and 2022 endurance racing campaigns respectively.
CREVENTIC will host its fourth North American round of the 24H SERIES in five years this November as the Sebring International Raceway joins the calendar for the very first time on 18-19-20 November. Established in 1950 as a 5.632km road course on the former United States Army Air Forces base Hendricks Field, the ‘Birthplace of American Endurance Racing’ was officially inaugurated on New Year’s Eve by the Sam Collier Six Hours Memorial. The event proved so popular (if a little primitive) that it made its return 14 months later on a revised and more intricate 8.368km layout across the former base’s runways as an event that would go on to shape American motorsport across the next six decades: the Sebring 12 Hours.
Alongside its most famous endurance event, Sebring has hosted the inaugural rounds of both the FIA World Championship Sports Car Championship (in 1953) and the FIA World Endurance Championship (in 2012), has welcomed every motor racing series of repute, and was even the North American home of Formula 1 for one year in 1959.
On 18-19-20 November, CREVENTIC hopes to add yet further to Sebring’s illustrious heritage with the circuit’s longest international motor race to-date. A formidable challenge, albeit in the idyllic climes of Florida, for both North American teams familiar with the Floridian venue and European teams keen to take on a fresh opportunity with the 24H SERIES. Unsurprisingly, over 40 entries have already registered for the first-ever Hankook 24H SEBRING. Notable North American entrants include 24H SERIES stalwart CP Racing, Overall GT Teams’ championship contender ST Racing, former series class winner Classic BMW, and IMSA favourite Atlanta Speedwerks. Europe meanwhile is set to be represented by British GT Champion Barwell Motorsport, former series class champions Speed Lover and CWS Engineering, series frontrunners Leipert Motorsport and Rutronik Racing by TECE, and reigning Overall TCE Teams’ champion Autorama Motorsport by Wolf-Power Racing. So far, and with 24 weeks left until the green flag drops, a dozen nations are already set to be represented at Sebring.