12 Hours of Sebring

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Andi Miata, when I've told this story before, but I went to the 12 hours of Sebring and I photographed the race

and I

managed to stay up the entire 12 hours.

So this is Scott Pruett.

He lives in, he's a s- race car driver, Am- one of America's winningest endurance race drivers, 24 Hours Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring.

Now that he's retired, Michael knows him.

I know him.

Sure.

In the meanwhile, after the first Sebring race, uh, Ullman kind of went on his own direction and started the 12 Hours of Sebring, which the first one was held in 1952.

Right.

And then-

Uh, IMSA news.

In another road Atlanta wreck fest in the IMSA season finale with a record 16 full course cautions, the 29th annual Petit Le Mans was finally claimed overall by Porsche, as after 21 prior Rolex 24 at Daytona overall wins, 20 at the 12 Hours of Sebring, and 19 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, they finally claimed the crown jewel they were missing in the race that was inspired by the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

If you don't know, Petit is just tiny in French, and it's a 10-hour race instead of the full 24-hour race that happens in France.

Uh, Lawrence VanThoor, Kevin Estre, and Matt Campbell guided the number six Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 to not only the overall victory, but also top honors in the grand touring prototype GTP class.

Well, back in, in the '80s, you had ser- you had races that were just the prototypes.

Sometimes it was just the GTOs, and then you would get them together for like the Sebring 12, for the Da- for the Rolex 24, uh, and stuff like that.

So they did have to go in there.

But when you come to sim racing, you do get that because i- just the way it is.

That was the movie Le Mans, about the 24 hours.

And McQueen, he had driven in the 12 hours of Sebring earlier that year and was leading the race in the final hour when Mario Andretti was able to slip past.

Now, in endurance racing, there were multiple drivers.

And McQueen's co-driver, Peter Revson, did most of the driving.

The Carrera began with a name Jack Heuer heard at a racetrack.

In 1962, while Heuer was supplying timing equipment at the Twelve Hours of Sebring, Jack Heuer heard stories about the Carrera Panamericana, the dangerous Mexican road race of the early 1950s.

He loved the word Carrera because it sounded fast, international, and easy to pronounce.

A year later, the first Heuer Carrera chronograph appeared.