The 64th Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida was an endurance sports car racing event held at Sebring International Raceway near Sebring, Florida from 16 to 19 March 2016. The race was the second round of the 2016 IMSA SportsCar Championship, as well as the second round of the North American Endurance Cup. It was the final time that the original Daytona Prototypes participated in the race, as, for 2017, they were replaced with the new DPi cars.

The race was won by Tequila Patrón ESM's Honda HPD-Ligier JS P2 driven by Scott Sharp, Johannes van Overbeek, Ed Brown, and Pipo Derani after completing a pass for the lead in the final moments of the race.^[1][2] It was the first overall 12 Hours of Sebring win for both ESM and Honda.^[3][4] The Prototype Challenge class was won by the No. 54 CORE Autosport entry driven by Colin Braun, Mark Wilkins, and Jon Bennett. GT Le Mans was won by the No. 4 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R from Corvette Racing, driven by Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner, and Marcel Fässler. The GT Daytona class was won by the No. 63 Ferrari 488 GT3 from Scuderia Corsa, driven by Christina Nielsen, Alessandro Balzan, and Jeff Segal. The race saw a stoppage of roughly two hours and 15 minutes due to heavy rain and lightning just before the halfway-point of the event.^[5][6]

International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed the race was part of the schedule for the 2016 IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA SCC) in August 2015.^[7] It was the third consecutive year the event was held as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and the 64th 12 Hours of Sebring.^[7] The 12 Hours of Sebring was the second of twelve scheduled automobile endurance races of 2016 by IMSA, and the second in the four round North American Endurance Cup (NAEC).^[7] It was held at the 17-turn, 3.741-mile (6.021 km) Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida on March 19, 2016.^[7]

Before the race, Ed Brown, Pipo Derani, Johannes van Overbeek, and Scott Sharp were leading the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 36 points.^[8] With 36 points, Misha Goikhberg, Kenton Koch, Chris Miller, and Stephen Simpson led the PC Drivers' Championship.^[8] GTLM was led by Marcel Fässler, Oliver Gavin, and Tommy Milner with a three-point advantage over Antonio García, Jan Magnussen, and Mike Rockenfeller.^[8] In GTD, the Drivers' Championship was led by Andy Lally, John Potter, René Rast, and Marco Seefried with 36 points.^[8] Honda, Chevrolet, and Audi were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Tequila Patrón ESM, JDC-Miller MotorSports, Corvette Racing, Magnus Racing each led their own Teams' Championships.^[8]

There were four practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Saturday, three on Thursday and one on Friday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Thursday morning and afternoon. The third held later that evening ran for 90 minutes; the fourth on Friday morning lasted an hour.^[9]

In Friday afternoon's 90-minute four-group qualifying, each category had separate 15-minute sessions. Regulations stipulated that teams nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each class' starting order. IMSA arranged the grid to put Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM and GTD cars.^[18][9]

Qualifying results

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡. All Prototype and Prototype Challenge cars were grouped together on the starting grid, regardless of qualifying position.

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Pos.	Class	No.	Team	Driver	Time	Gap	Grid
1	P	60	Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian	Olivier Pla	1:51.217	_	1 ‡
2	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Pipo Derani	1:51.391	+0.174	2
3	P	31	Action Express Racing	Dane Cameron	1:51.943	+0.726	3
4	P	5	Action Express Racing	Christian Fittipaldi	1:52.205	+0.988	4
5	P	55	Mazda Motorsports	Tristan Nunez	1:52.951	+1.734	5
6	P	90	VisitFlorida Racing	Marc Goossens	1:53.185	+1.968	6
7	P	70	Mazda Motorsports	Tom Long	1:53.513	+2.296	7
8	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Rubens Barrichello	1:53.576	+2.359	8
9	P	81	DragonSpeed	Nicolas Minassian	1:54.171	+2.954	9
10	P	24	Alegra Motorsports	Daniel Morad	1:54.193	+2.976	10
11	P	0	Panoz DeltaWing Racing	Andy Meyrick	1:54.274	+3.057	11
12	PC	54	CORE Autosport	Colin Braun	1:54.910	+3.693	12‡
13	PC	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Tom Kimber-Smith	1:55.843	+4.626	13
14	PC	20	BAR1 Motorsports	Johnny Mowlem	1:56.661	+5.444	14
15	PC	38	Performance Tech Motorsports	James French	1:57.189	+5.972	15
16	PC	8	Starworks Motorsport	Alex Popow	1:57.241	+6.024	16
17	P	50	Highway to Help	Jim Pace	1:57.422	+6.205	17
18	PC	85	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Misha Goikhberg	1:57.630	+6.413	18
19	PC	88	Starworks Motorsport	Sean Johnston	1:58.218	+7.001	19
20	GTLM	25	BMW Team RLL	Bill Auberlen	1:58.402	+7.185	20‡
21	GTLM	100	BMW Team RLL	John Edwards	1:58.592	+7.375	21
22	GTLM	68	Scuderia Corsa	Daniel Serra	1:58.637	+7.420	22
23	GTLM	67	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Richard Westbrook	1:58.708	+7.491	23
24	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Antonio García	1:58.856	+7.639	24
25	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin	1:58.878	+7.661	25
26	GTLM	911	Porsche North America	Patrick Pilet	1:59.009	+7.792	26
27	GTLM	62	Risi Competizione	Toni Vilander	1:59.020	+7.803	27
28	GTLM	66	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Dirk Müller	1:59.053	+7.836	28
29	GTLM	912	Porsche North America	Frédéric Makowiecki	1:59.170	+7.953	29
30	GTD	63	Scuderia Corsa	Jeff Segal	2:02.350	+11.133	30‡
31	GTD	33	Riley Motorsports	Jeroen Bleekemolen	2:02.386	+11.169	31
32	GTD	96	Turner Motorsport	Jens Klingmann	2:02.660	+11.443	32
33	GTD	23	Team Seattle/Alex Job Racing	Mario Farnbacher	2:03.037	+11.820	33
34	GTD	22	Alex Job Racing	Leh Keen	2:03.241	+12.024	34
35	GTD	73	Park Place Motorsports	Patrick Lindsey	2:03.284	+12.067	35
36	GTD	51	Spirit of Race	Raffaele Giammaria	2:03.340	+12.123	36
37	GTD	16	Change Racing	Spencer Pumpelly	2:03.455	+12.238	37
38	GTD	97	Turner Motorsport	Markus Palttala	2:03.625	+12.408	38
39	GTD	21	Konrad Motorsport	Christopher Zöchling	2:03.822	+12.605	39
40	GTD	9	Stevenson Motorsports	Lawson Aschenbach	2:03.856	+12.639	40
41	GTD	11	Change Racing	Townsend Bell	2:03.861	+12.644	41
42	GTD	27	Dream Racing	Fabio Babini	2:03.933	+12.716	42
43	GTD	98	Aston Martin Racing	Paul Dalla Lana	2:04.204	+12.987	43
44	GTD	48	Paul Miller Racing	Bryce Miller	2:04.260	+13.043	44
45	GTD	28	Konrad Motorsport	Christopher Brück	2:04.302	+13.085	45
46	GTD	44	Magnus Racing	John Potter	2:04.857	+13.640	46
47	GTD	540	Black Swan Racing	Tim Pappas	2:07.095	+15.878	47
48	GTD	45	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Tracy Krohn	2:07.338	+16.121	48
49	GTD	6	Stevenson Motorsports	No Time Established			49
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