Strong Early Start to 2025 Season Continues for Porsche Penske Motorsport
SEBRING, Fla. – Porsche Penske Motorsport’s momentum from its 2024 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship-winning effort and a 2025 season-opening victory in last month’s Rolex 24 At Daytona continued in IMSA-sanctioned testing Wednesday at Sebring International Raceway.
Mathieu Jaminet finished the day atop the time charts in the No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 on the strength of a best lap of 1 minute, 48.465 seconds (124.131 mph) set in the first of the day’s three testing sessions. Jaminet was 0.592 seconds faster than second-fastest Scott Dixon, who turned in a best lap of 1:49.057 in the second session of the day in the No. 60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Acura ARX-06.
Jaminet was also quickest in night testing, putting up a best time of 1:48.836 in the No. 6 machine he’s sharing with Matt Campbell, Kevin Estre and – for this test – IndyCar star Scott McLaughlin.
“It felt good in the car, honestly, straight away in the morning,” Jaminet said. “When I started, the car felt in a decent window. I think we could go through our program. We had quite a bit test list of items, new things we wanted to try. It was a busy day, to be honest. It was good to give some laps to Kevin, who hasn’t been here in two years.
“The car feels alright. Obviously, it’s nice to be on the top of the time sheet, but you never know if the others are playing some games and the programs of the different people. But let’s say from our side, yes, Car 6 seems to be working well. We’re pretty happy with our car and how the day went for sure.”
Overall, the top eight cars in GTP were covered by less than one second on the combined time sheet.
In Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2), reigning WeatherTech Championship class champion Tom Dillmann led the way, clocking a best lap of 1:50.065 in the No. 43 Inter Europol Competition ORECA LMP2 07 he is sharing with co-drivers Bijoy Garg and Jon Field.
For the second consecutive day, the Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) class was quickest of the two GT classes led by Maxi Goetz in the No. 32 Korthoff Competition Motors Mercedes-AMG GT3. Goetz best lap of 2:00.867 came in the Wednesday evening session in the car he shares with Kenton Koch and Seth Lucas.
Jesse Krohn led GTD PRO in the No. 48 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO he shares with Dan Harper and Max Hesse. Krohn’s best lap – posted Wednesday afternoon – was 2:02.237.
A total of 39 cars participated in testing on Wednesday with only the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 sitting out the day’s activities after running on Tuesday. Testing concludes Thursday with two more sessions for only the GTP and LMP2 classes.