Sixteen starts. Three podiums. Two poles. Zero wins. That’s Meyer Shank Racing’s record at the Twelve Hours of Sebring, and it sits like a splinter in the team’s otherwise impressive resume. Sebring is the only marquee endurance race on the IMSA calendar that MSR has never conquered.
This Saturday the team rolls into Florida’s battered concrete airfield circuit with something to prove after a Daytona that went sideways in the worst possible ways. The Rolex 24 in January should have been a statement. The No. 93 Acura ARX-06 started from pole.
Then late-race chaos and shifting conditions shredded whatever advantage the team had built, leaving the two cars to crawl home fifth and ninth. Not exactly the season launch anyone in Pataskala, Ohio, had scripted.
Now the 74th running of Sebring becomes the reset button. Acura Meyer Shank Racing fields two electrified ARX-06 prototypes in the GTP class. The driver lineups read like a who’s who of open-wheel royalty moonlighting in sports cars.
The No. 60 carries full-season drivers Colin Braun and Tom Blomqvist, bolstered by six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon. The No. 93 pairs Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly with four-time IndyCar champion and reigning Indy 500 winner Alex Palou. Between the two endurance ringers, Dixon and Palou account for ten IndyCar titles.
Braun is the only driver across both entries who has actually won at Sebring, doing so three times. Dixon, for all his greatness, has never stood on the top step here in 13 starts. Van der Zande has seven Sebring podiums and nothing higher.
Palou has made exactly one start, finishing third with the 93 crew last year. The hunger is real and widespread.
The No. 93 car carries added significance this season. Honda Racing Corporation USA now handles strategy and race engineering directly, a manufacturer-first arrangement that began last year and represents HRC’s deeper fingerprints on the program. Whether HRC’s direct involvement can close the final gap from podium to victory is the quiet subplot of this entire campaign.
Acura’s broader Sebring history is strong. The brand won the GTP class here in 2024 with Jordan Taylor, Louis Deletraz, and Colton Herta. Combined with HPD and HRC US efforts, the manufacturer claims nine Sebring victories across various classes, including an overall win in 2016.
The machinery has proven it can win at this place. The specific team running it now has not.
Blomqvist didn’t sugarcoat the situation. He called Daytona “disappointing” and admitted Sebring has been “a bogey track” for the 60 car. Dixon was more direct: “Let’s win this thing.”
The 55-car field across four classes will hammer Sebring’s 3.74-mile, 17-turn layout for 12 hours, starting under Florida’s midday sun and finishing in darkness. The surface punishes cars and drivers unlike anything else on the calendar. Bumps that rattle fillings, concrete patches that eat tires, traffic that turns strategy into survival.
Peacock carries flag-to-flag coverage starting at 10:00 a.m. ET, with NBCSN picking up television broadcast from 5:00 p.m. through the checkered flag. International viewers can stream via IMSA’s YouTube channel.
The pieces are in place — the cars, the champions, the engineering support from the factory. What MSR doesn’t have is a Sebring trophy. For a team with this much firepower, seventeen starts without a win borders on inexplicable. Saturday night will tell us whether 2026 is the year that finally changes, or whether Sebring keeps its grip on the one team it refuses to let win.
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