Nick Tandy can’t stop celebrating – after taking overall victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring, he now has more trophies that make him a legend
Nicholas Tandy didn’t have to wait seven weeks to be promoted from king of endurance racing to emperor: Together with his teammates Felipe Nasr and Laurens Vanthoor, the 40-year-old Briton clinched the second overall victory of the 2025 IMSA season, thus continuing his winning streak: He is only the 12th driver to win the “Triple Crown” of endurance racing and the first driver to win the “Big Six”.
The Triple Crown of endurance racing consists of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring. These are the three oldest races on the Le Mans scene. By achieving this, he joined the ranks of legends in endurance racing (see end of article), although he has long been one himself.
In the “Big Six”, on the other hand, he is all alone in the wide corridor. At Daytona, Tandy was already celebrated as the first person to win all four major, prestigious 24-hour races: Le Mans, Nürburgring, Spa-Francorchamps and Daytona, in short: the “Endurance Grand Slam”.
Now the 12 Hours of Sebring and the Petit Le Mans are added to that. He sensationally won the latter in 2015 with a GT car against the prototypes in a rain-soaked battle.
Unique track record
The Porsche works driver admits that the hype surrounding his successes took him a little by surprise: “It’s incredible, because I never thought that winning all four 24-hour races would be such a big deal. But then it was talked about all over the world.”
The subject of overall victory only came up again recently, because Tandy had already clinched a GTLM class victory at Sebring in 2018 and thus already won the “small triple crown”: “I remember when I won at Sebring for the first time in 2018 [in the class], I said, ‘That makes my set complete’. They were the four big races, the IMSA Enduros and Le Mans.“
”Then someone approached me and talked about the ‘sextuple’, which no one had ever achieved before.” Tandy had already secured overall victories at Le Mans and Petit Le Mans (both in 2015). He had already secured the Daytona class victory in the GTLM in 2014. This was followed by victory at the Nürburgring 24-hour race in 2018 and at Spa in 2020.
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It was only when Porsche started the LMDh program that the overall victories that Tandy has now achieved within seven weeks became possible. “Achieving this is likely to be even harder than ‘just’ the 24-hour races. I’m just happy that I have such good people helping me on the way there. It’s just great.“
”36h Florida” won with a flawless performance
With the one-two, he and Nasr and Vanthoor also achieved another major success: for the first time since 2017 (Wayne Taylor Racing with Jordan and Ricky Taylor), a team won the “36 Hours of Florida”, consisting of the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring.
“It just shows what Porsche and Porsche Penske have put together for a group of people,“ says Tandy. ‘They simply don’t make any mistakes and that’s what makes our success possible in the first place.’
”In racing, you can make mistakes so quickly. Whether it’s on the driver’s side or in the choice of strategy, in the pits, in everything. It’s just incredible that we had this run in the last two races. It’s rare to see a team complete a single event without making a single mistake. And we, along with about 40 people, worked flawlessly for 36 hours.”
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“I think our car has been in the leading group in every round of the year so far. We have probably led more than 25 percent of the laps. With both cars, we have taken four out of a possible four podium finishes. It’s just incredible. From everyone involved.”
Urs Kuratle, Head of LMDh Works Motorsport, echoes this sentiment: “That was one of the very best races for us, absolutely flawless. I’m over the moon. All the drivers and the entire team have done an enormously strong job: pit stops, strategy, car – everything went perfectly.”
“Triple Crown” of endurance racing: These drivers have made it
– Phil Hill (1964)*
– Dan Gurney (1967)*
– Hans Herrmann (1970)
– Jackie Oliver (1971)
– Jacky Ickx (1972)
– Hurley Haywood (1977)
– A.J. Foyt (1985)
– Al Holbert (1986)
– Andy Wallace (1992)
– Mauro Baldi (1998)
– Marco Werner (2005)
– Timo Bernhard (2010)
– Nick Tandy (2025)
Not all sources accept Phil Hill, Dan Gurney and Jacky Ickx in this list because their Daytona victories did not include a 24-hour race. In 1962 (Gurney) it was over 2,000 kilometers, in 1964 (Hill) over three hours, in 1972 (Ickx) over six hours. In all cases, however, it was the same organizer as for the 24-hour race.
