Different series, different team, same domination?

Chip Ganassi Racing stars Scott Dixon and Alex Palou once again will be teammates on a race weekend but in different machinery and with a different team Saturday, March 15 for the 73rd annual 12 Hours of Sebring, the second race of the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Dixon and Palou will drive in the premier Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class for Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian in the once-around-the clock classic at Sebring International Raceway. Six-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Dixon will share the No. 60 Acura ARX-06 with former INDYCAR SERIES drivers Tom Blomqvist and Colin Braun. Three-time and two-time reigning series champion Palou will be behind the wheel of the team’s No. 93 Acura with Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly.

Live coverage of the race on the historic, 3.741-mile Sebring circuit starts at 10 a.m. ET Saturday on Peacock. The race will finish in darkness 12 hours later.

Palou and Dixon finished 1-2 in the opening race of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES season, the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg presented by RP Funding. History indicates that might be a tough feat to repeat Saturday in a sports car at Sebring.

Only one active full-time driver on this year’s INDYCAR SERIES grid has won the 12 Hours of Sebring overall – Colton Herta, last year as part of the Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti team, which edged Dixon’s team by just .891 of a second for victory. Herta isn’t back to defend his title.

Twelve hours give drivers and teams plenty of time to climb the starting order. But Dixon’s team won’t need to climb far, as Blomqvist put the No. 60 on the front row during qualifying Friday, just 25-thousandths of a second behind the pole-winning No. 25 BMW driven by Dries Vanthoor and fielded by INDYCAR SERIES standout Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.

Palou’s No. 93 Acura qualified sixth in the 13-car GTP field at the hands of van der Zande.

Two other INDYCAR drivers – both from Andretti Global – will race Saturday at Sebring.

INDY NXT by Firestone veteran James Roe is competing in the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class, sharing the No. 73 Pratt Miller Motorsports ORECA car with INDYCAR SERIES veteran Pietro Fittipaldi and Chris Cumming.

NTT INDYCAR SERIES race winner Kyle Kirkwood will share the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus RC F GT3 in the GT Daytona Pro (GTDPRO) class, which features cars based on production models. He is sharing the machine with Aaron Telitz and Jose Maria Lopez.

Joining Kirkwood in GTD PRO will be FOX INDYCAR analyst James Hinchcliffe, sharing the No. 9 Pfaff Motorsports Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 with Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli.