Mazda wins at Sebring, but Castroneves is finally a champion

Just over a decade since his career in car racing began, British sportscar ace Harry Tincknell has become an overall winner of one of the major endurance blue-ribands for the first time. Tincknell triumphed in the Sebring 12 Hours, a race his manager Allan McNish won four times, as part of Mazda’s winning line-up alongside Jonathan Bomarito and IndyCar star Ryan Hunter-Reay.

While Mazda won the race, three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor claimed the IMSA SportsCar Championship crown with their Team Penske Acura ARX-05. It brought down the curtain on Castroneves’s Penske career, and remarkably is the first time he has won a championship since he scooped a Brazilian national karting title in 1989. That