IMSA: De Phillippi and von Moltke set for Sebring with Stevenson Motorsports

After fighting to a double-finish for both team Audi R8 LMS machines in the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona, Stevenson Motorsports will now look ahead to building momentum in the 2016 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season starting with the 64th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring on March 19. Stevenson Motorsports will feature a revised driver lineup for the event. In the Rolex 24, full-season Stevenson Motorsports drivers Andrew Davis, Robin Liddell, Matt Bell, and Lawson Aschenbach fought to a 15th-place GTD class finish together in the No. 6 Stevenson Motorsports Audi R8 LMS (ABOVE). That foursome will now become two pairs as Stevenson looks to back up its 2015 championship-winning season with a strong run in the IMSA WeatherTech ranks.

Liddell and Davis will continue in the No. 6  Stevenson Motorsports Audi R8 LMS entry, with young American talent Conner De Phillippi set to join the duo for the upcoming Sebring event. De Phillippi (LEFT), who raced Stateside in open-wheel before moving to drive in the Porsche Supercup, opened the 2016 season with a headline-grabbing drive in the 24 Hours of Dubai on board an Audi R8 LMS.

The No. 9 Stevenson Motorsports Audi R8 LMS will see Bell and Aschenbach joined by Dion von Moltke (RIGHT), who has extensive experience behind the wheel of Audi machinery including his effort with the team in the Rolex 24.“It was great to have Kenny (Habul), Tristian (Vautier), and Boris (Said) as well as SunEnergy1 with us for the 24, and getting both our Audis to the finish the first time out with them was a solid start,” said team owner John Stevenson. “It will be good to take what we learned at Daytona and see what we can do at Sebring. We’ve had some very good days there and it would be great to have another good one! I think our full-season guys are very strong and it will be great to have Connor and Dion with us for Sebring, so we are very much looking forward to getting going!” Sebring’s 12 Hours is renowned for its large and enthusiastic spring break crowds, often unrelenting Florida heat, as well as for the challenging and bumpy 3.74-mile circuit track surface. The track has a fond place in the Stevenson Motorsports history books, as it was the site of the breakthrough victory in Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge competition for the team with the Camaro Z/28.R in 2014, with the group going 2 for 2 when they added another victory at the track in 2015. The team will begin preparations for the 12 Hour with two days of testing at the track next week as IMSA stages an open test ahead of the event. Source: Stevenson Motorsports