Peugeot takes lead in the first turn.

SEBRING, Fl — As expected that No. 08 Peugeot (Lamy/Bordais/Minassian) jumped into the lead at the start of the 58th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh From Florida. What is a surprise is that the Drayson Lola Judd with Emmanuel Pirro at the wheel clawed his was into second place and at the end of the first hour was only 1.7 seconds off the pace set by the French Lion.

Using traffic to his advantage, Pirro , the former Audi works driver, used the ferocious GT2 battle to get round the Peugeot and into second place. Pirro’s experience is showing in the performance of the car and it will be interesting to see how the young Jony Cocker does in his turn along with car owner Paul Drayson. One ace up the Drayson team’s sleeve is Team Manager Dale White who has won the Sebring event on three other occasion in the GT2 class.

The second Peugeot is in third and the Aston Martin is off the pace about 18 second behind the leading Peugeot.

In LMP2 it is the Patron sponsored Acura (Brabham/Pagenaud/Franchitti) with a small lead over the Porsche R8 Spyder.

GT2 is the battle royale that was expected, as the CorvetteC6 R (Magnussen/O’Connell/ Garcia) have a sliver of lead over the Flying Lizards Porsche 911 GT3 (Bergmeister/ Lieb/ Long). The second Vette (Beretta/ Gavin/ Collard) is in third place a little more than a half second back.

There are a passle of other GT2s following closely behind.