Priaulx leads Kelly-Moss Racing 1-2 at Sebring Carrera Cup NA testing

Sebastian Priaulx finished the second day of testing for the new Porsche Carrera Cup North America at the top of the timesheets, making a clean sweep of all four sessions over the two days of testing at Sebring International Raceway.

The Guernsey driver heads in to the new season as a championship favourite after showing fantastic pace. While he was unable to beat the time that he set on the opening day he ended the sessions 0.509 seconds ahead of Kelly-Moss Racing team-mate Kay van Berlo with a time of 2:00.870.

Leh Keen rounded out the top three places in the Pro class for 311RS Motorsport as championship competitors got their first taste of the new 992 based Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car, marking the first official running in the world of the cars by customers.

Alan Metni claimed the fastest time of the Pro-Am competitors in the iFLY Racing/Kelly-Moss Cup car with a time of 2:03.078. Efrin Castro for Team Hardpoint EBM was second fastest in class and John Goetz for Wright Motorsports was third fastest.

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Joining the Pro and Pro-Am classes on track this year is the Pro-Am 991 class which features the previous generation of the Porsche GT3 Cup car. Matt Halcome took his Goldcrest car to the top of the timing sheet to claim the fastest time in class with a lap of 2:05.214. Goldcrest team-mate Jeff Majkrzak finished in second place while Frank Raso rounded out the top 3 times for Topp Racing.

Combined testing times (from 4 sessions)

Pos	Driver	Team	Class	Time	Gap
1	Sebastian Priaulx	Kelly-Moss Road and Race	Pro	2:00.870
2	Kay van Berlo	Kelly-Moss Road and Race	Pro	2:01.379	+0.509
3	Lehman Keen	311RS Motorsport	Pro	2:01.745	+0.875
4	Max Root	Moorespeed-Wright Motorsports	Pro	2:01.778	+0.908
5	Riley Dickinson	Team Hardpoint EBM	Pro	2:01.956	+1.086
6	Ryan Gates	311RS Motorsport	Pro	2:02.424	+1.554
7	Sebastian Carazo	Kelly-Moss Road and Race	Pro	2:02.532	+1.662
8	Dylan Murry	BGB Motorsports	Pro	2:02.652	+1.782
9	T.J. Fischer	Topp Racing	Pro	2:02.906	+2.036
10	Sean McAlister	JDX Racing	Pro	2:02.998	+2.128
11	Alan Metni	iFLY Racing/Kelly-Moss	Pro-Am	2:03.078	+2.208
12	Parker Thompson	JDX Racing	Pro	2:03.381	+2.511
13	Efrin Castro	Team Hardpoint EBM	Pro-Am	2:03.386	+2.516
14	John Goetz	Wright Motorsports	Pro-Am	2:03.913	+3.043
15	Hutton McKenna	Wright Motorsports	Pro	2:04.352	+3.482
16	Curt Swearingin	ACI Motorsports	Pro-Am	2:04.361	+3.491
17	Tim Pappas	JDX Racing	Pro-Am	2:04.397	+3.527
18	Matt Halcome	Goldcrest	Pro-Am 991	2:05.214	+4.344
19	Rene Robichaud	Kelly-Moss Road and Race	Pro-Am	2:05.485	+4.615
20	Vernon McClure	TPC Racing	Pro-Am	2:05.854	+4.984
21	Thomas Collingwood	BGB Motorsports	Pro-Am	2:05.871	+5.001
22	Jeff Majkrzak	Goldcrest Motorsports	Pro-Am 991	2:06.104	+5.234
23	Frank Raso	Topp Racing	Pro-Am 991	2:06.722	+5.852
24	Grady Willingham	Goldcrest Motorsports	Pro-Am 991	2:06.872	+6.002
25	Phillip Martien	Goldcrest Motorsports	Pro-Am 991	2:07.050	+6.180
26	Craig Conway	Irish Mike’s Racing	Pro-Am 991	2:07.485	+6.615
27	Joe Lombardo	Kelly-Moss Road and Race	Pro-Am 991	2:07.634	+6.764
28	Bill Smith	Topp Racing	Pro-Am	2:08.018	+7.148
29	Joe Still	Goldcrest Motorsports	Pro-Am 991	2:08.348	+7.478
30	Tom Balames	Kelly-Moss Road and Race	Pro-Am 991	2:09.689	+8.819
31	Mateo Llarena	Molitor Racing	Pro

Competitors will continue to take part in various tests around the US ahead of the new season which begins on 17-20 March at Sebring International Raceway before visiting Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Watkins Glen International, Toronto Indy, Road America, VIRginia International Raceway, Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta and another yet to be confirmed circuit.

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