Sebring 2026 Season Opener The 2026 season opener at Sebring International Raceway saw one of the largest International GT entries ever at the historic raceway.  After qualifying, the field was set for our first sprint race on Friday afternoon.   Unfortunately, the skies opened for a brief shower while the IGT cars sat on grid.  Some chose not to take the green after a couple pace laps but the 32 cars (of the 45 entries) that did race, had a very competitive run.   Friday night after the sprint race we held our traditional celebration of the previous year’s champions.  It was a fantastic evening which we will cover in detail in the next newsletter.   Sprint race 1 was won overall by TADAS KARLINSKAS #213, owner of XO9 Racing. Tadas was one of 12 entries in the brand-new International GT category, GT992. Tadas dominated the category all weekend, not always taking the overall win but always on top of the GT992 class – four wins in four races! Also having a very strong run in the new Porsche 992 class was ANTHONY YEZEK #374 from AutoQuest Motorsports out of Ft Myers, FL.  Anthony took second in all three sprint races.   Things switched up a bit in the enduro and second went to TROY PETERSEN #272 with co-driver DARIUS TRINKA from XO9 Racing (more on Darius a bit later).  Troy in his super bright yellow ROYAL Pet Porsche also stood on the podium in sprint race 2. To round out the GT992 category, ROBERTO DALLA COSTA #17 came in third in sprint race 1 and the always enthusiastic DAVID TUATY #268 from South Florida’s TLM USA took a pair of thirds in sprint race 3 and the enduro.  With such a full GT992 category there were several