The Acura with Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon at the wheel had the fast time.

SEBRING, Fl — Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon drove the #66 Acura ARX O2a to top time in the LMP1 class during qualifying for the 57th running of the Mobil 1 12 hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida Thursday afternoon.

But Dixon’s late lap charge gave him the top time for the afternoon session, but it was not faster than the current Audi record and was only .082 second faster than the new #2 Audi R-15. In third place was the #07 Peugoet 908, which about a tenth of a second slower than the Audi.

Scuttlebutt in the pits prior to the qualifying session was that both the Acura and the Audi had run faster than the record in testing sessions. However, neither could surpass McNish’s record that was set with the R-10 two years ago.

The #1 Audi had the fourth fastest time while the #08 Peugeot was fifth fastest followed by the#9 Acura in sixth.

The Acura team made it a clean sweep as Adrian Fernandez in the turned fast time for the LMP2 class in his # 15 Acura ARX-01b car to lead drivers in that class.

In the GT 1 class Oliver Gavin pushed the # 4 C6R Corvette to the best time of the class as the Vette continued to dominate the GT1 class here at Sebring. In the GT2 class is was the # 87 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Dirk Werner that topped the field.