2023 1000 Miles of Sebring

The 2023 1000 Miles of Sebring was an endurance sportscar racing event held at the Sebring International Raceway, Florida, United States on 17 March 2023, as the opening round of the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship. It was the third running of the event.

Background
The 1000 Miles of Sebring was the first race for new and returning manufacturers to the top class of endurance racing: Porsche, Ferrari, Cadillac and Vanwall entered cars in the Hypercar category for the race. They joined returning manufacturers Toyota, Peugeot and Glickenhaus. Alpine was forced to leave the Hypercar class for a 1-year hiatus, with plans of returning for the 2024 season.

Customer teams also joined the Hypercar grid. Both Proton Competition and Jota Sport will receive a Porsche 963 later in the year. Unfortunately, these cars will not be delivered to the teams until at least mid-April, but in Proton's case probably until after Le Mans.

This is the first year of the World Endurance Championship without the LMGTE Pro category, after it got dropped in 2022 since manufacturers did not express enough interest in the class.

During the last 17 minutes of the race, on the official stream, the Falcon 9 carrying the SES-18 and SES-19 satellites was visible from the track.

Entry list
The entry list was revealed on 1 March 2023. The list of entries for the event consisted of 37 cars across three classes. There were 11 entries in Hypercar, 12 entries in LMP2, and 14 entries in LMGTE Am. Porsche customer Hertz Team Jota entered the No. 48 car in the LMP2 class, due to the fact that the customer Porsche 963's were not yet ready to be delivered.

After an accident in FP2, Proton Competition withdrew their No. 88 Porsche 911 RSR-19 from the event after a collision with the No. 2 Cadillac V-Series.R. The car sustained extensive chassis damage that prevented it from taking part in the race. This withdrawal brought the amount of starting cars down to 36.

Free practice

 * Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Qualifying
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Race result
The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 136 laps. Class winners are in bold and ‡.

Standings after the race

 * 2023 Hypercar World Endurance Drivers' Championship


 * 2023 Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers' Championship


 * 2023 FIA Endurance Trophy for LMP2 Drivers


 * 2023 FIA Endurance Trophy for LMP2 Teams


 * 2023 FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGTE Am Drivers


 * 2023 FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGTE Am Teams

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 * Note: Only the top five positions are included for all championship standings.