GMG Racing will do a “Florida Double” this weekend with a pair of Porsches competing in both the Miami Grand Prix IMSA Carrera Cup North America doubleheader and the Fanatec GT World Challenge and GT America powered by AWS series races at the SRO America event at Sebring International Raceway. Kyle Washington competes at Sebring in both the Fanatec GT World Challenge with co-driver Tom Sargent and the single-driver GT America sprint races in a pair of No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R entries. Meanwhile, in Miami debuting GMG Racing driver Ofir Levy makes his first IMSA Carrera Cup race starts in the No. 3 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. Levy races in the Carrera Cup Pro-Am division alongside GMG Racing Founder and Principal and Team Driver James Sofronas in the No. 14 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.

“We have two IMSA Carrera Cup entries at the Grand Prix of Miami Formula 1 race for Ofir Levy and myself,” Sofronas said. “At Sebring, Kyle Washington will be focusing on his full-season championship campaign in Fanatec GT World Challenge with his coach and co-driver Tom Sargent. Kyle will also compete in the Sebring weekend’s pair of GT America races.”

Running multiple programs is more than familiar and practically standard operating procedure for Sofronas and everyone at the championship-winning GMG Racing organization.

“We are up for and honestly excited about the dual events in Florida this weekend,” Sofronas said. “Running parallel programs is familiar to everyone at GMG Racing. Whether it’s at the same track running multiple cars in different series, or doing the same thing at two different tracks a couple hundred of miles apart, it doesn’t change the focus or at-track approach. Everyone knows their roles and responsibilities and we will have competitive cars and maximum effort at both Miami and Sebring.”

Washington and Sargent run their second GT World Challenge race weekend together at Sebring after debuting in the Pro-Am class in the season-opening SRO America race weekend at Sonoma Raceway in the Type 992 No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R. The team and drivers shook off some mechanical gremlins and in-race issues in the weekend’s opening round to run on a competitive pace with the other contenders and score a seventh-place Pro-Am finish in Sunday’s final 90-minute race. Washington turned his fastest laps of the weekend in the second half of the Sunday finale after an equally strong race-opening stint by Sargent, who was making his Sonoma debut.

Washington also competes in the Sebring weekend’s dual GT America powered by AWS races after strong and near-podium runs in the year’s first doubleheaders at Sonoma and the Grand Prix of Long Beach less than two weeks ago. Washington drives in GT America his Type 991.2 No. 32 GMG Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R, which he calls a favorite among the cars he owns.

Until recently, Washington was slated to compete at both the Sebring and Miami events. In addition to his SRO America programs, Washington also races in Carrera Cup and scored a third-place Masters Class finish in the season-opening doubleheader weekend in March that was held, ironically, at Sebring.

“Doing the Sebring/Miami double with Kyle was always our intention, but a recent change that moved the Sunday GT World Challenge race up to an earlier start time really threw a monkey wrench into the plan,” Sofronas said. “It basically made doing the Sunday races in both Sebring and Miami impossible, and we had to choose Sebring as Kyle is contesting his first full season of major competition this year in GT World Challenge.”

A native of Australia, Sargent returns to a Sebring circuit on which he secured a pair of second-place Carrera Cup finishes in his American racing debut last year.

“I’m very excited to go back to Sebring, and hopefully we can have a strong showing,” Sargent said. “Kyle did very well in Carrera Cup at Sebring in March. He had a successful result that weekend, and so did James, and that gives us a good starting block. I do feel for Kyle not being able to run under all of the glitz and glamour of the Miami Formula 1 race this weekend too, but the good news is he will be up in Canada very shortly in June for Carrera Cup at the Montreal Formula 1 race, which is a big event for him being a Canadian. For now, we set focus on just the Sebring side of it and GT World Challenge, which is the main championship Kyle is running for this season.”

Levy is a longtime friend of GMG Racing and is part of the team’s driver development program based at The Thermal Club in California, where GMG opens its new headquarters facility this summer.

“It should be exciting, I’m looking forward to it, the platform is new for me, but one I have been interested in,” said Levy, who also competes this season and in recent years in the IMSA Lamborghini Super Trofeo series. “I have known James for years, and we used to work together on the street side before I got into racing. He’s kind of the Porsche expert that I knew, and so far it has been so good. He’s a good driver, but having a good car is imperative, and James has had some recent wins, which is a testament to what GMG Racing is able to do. I thought it would be a natural fit to go with GMG.”

Sofronas won the season-opening Carrera Cup Pro-Am race at Sebring and a victory in Miami’s first race on Saturday would give him a stout tally of four victories in the last five races. The winning run started with a sweep of 2023’s year-end Carrera Cup doubleheader at Circuit of The Americas and the third-straight win in the Sebring opener.

“First and foremost, we want to welcome Ofir to the racing team and we are going to do everything we can to help make his first Carrera Cup race weekend a success,” Sofronas said. “We wish Kyle was with us, and he should be, but we will be keeping a close eye on him and Tom all weekend in Sebring from Miami. Kyle made it to the podium at Miami last year and we plan to build on that success even more with more podiums and hopefully even a victory.”

This weekend’s GT World Challenge and GT America races at Sebring can be viewed live on SRO’s GT World channel on YouTube.

The Carrera Cup races in Miami can be viewed live on NBC’s Peacock streaming app, IMSA.tv and PorscheCarreraCup.us.

The 40-minute GT America sprints in Sebring begin the day’s racing action on both Saturday at 12:55 p.m. and Sunday at 8:40 a.m. EDT. The first 90-minute GT World Challenge race goes green at 3:05 p.m. on Saturday and is followed by Carrera Cup Round One in Miami at 5:50 p.m. EDT.

The Carrera Cup weekend finale starts Sunday at 10:30 a.m. in Miami with the 11:15 a.m. EDT GT World Challenge race at Sebring wrapping up GMG Racing’s full weekend schedule of six races later that morning.