1957 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL 12 HOURS OF SEBRING GRAND PRIX OF ENDURANCE MOTOR RACE 54604
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2017
- “12 To Go” covers the 1957 Florida International 12 Hour Grand Prix of Endurance of the Amoco Trophy. The sports car endurance race was held at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida. Mark 00:35 introduces us to David Ash, who between 1952 and 1957 earned the title of “Mr. MG’" as the only driver to start and finish five twelve-hour-long endurance races at Sebring in five tries. Ash “pleads” with his wife to allow him to participate in the race and sets off from New York to Florida at mark 04:05, pulling his racer behind him. Arriving at the racecourse at mark 05:40, we watch Ash register and enter the line-up for a vehicle inspection before going over the course rules. Meanwhile, mechanics are shown tinkering with cars at mark 07:10 for peak performance, and at mark 08:36 we get an aerial view of the track. Walking through the pits we see Jaguars, Ferraris, Alfa Romeros, and others along with drivers such as Carroll Shelby (mark 10:54), Juan Manuel Fangio, Harry Schell, and Donald Healey. The race is on starting at mark 12:30 and we see aerial views of the cars maneuvering hairpin turns and speeding down straightaways. Ash makes a pitstop at mark 14:41 as the race grinds on. The narrator details the action onscreen including an explanation of car colors at mark 20:32 (such as red for Italian entries, green for British cars, white for American, silver for German, and blue for French). Night begins to fall at mark 23:30 as the race rolls on and headlights peer from the darkness of the screen. Fireworks fill the sky at mark 24:28 signaling the end of the race, as Fangio claims victory for the second consecutive year. As the film comes to a close, we watch Ash (who finished second in his class) load up his car at mark 25:55 and head out on the long drive home.
The 12 Hours of Sebring is an annual motorsport endurance race for sports cars held at Sebring International Raceway, on the site of the former Hendricks Army Airfield World War II air base in Sebring, Florida. The event is the second round of the United SportsCar Championship and in the past has been a round of the now defunct World Sportscar Championship, IMSA GT Championship and American Le Mans Series. In 2012, the race was the opening event of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
The track opened in 1950 on an airfield and is a road racing course styled after those used in European Grand Prix motor racing. The first race was a six-hour race on New Year's Eve 1950, with the next race held 14 months later as the first 12 Hours of Sebring. The race is famous for its "once around the clock" action, starting during the day and finishing at night. From 1953 to 1972 the 12 Hour was a round of the FIA’s premier sports car series which was contested under various names including the World Sportscar Championship and the International Championship for Makes.
In its early years, the Sebring circuit combined former airport runways with narrow two-lane service roads. The 1966 event was a turning point in Sebring history, as the facilities and the safety of the circuit were heavily criticized. Five people were killed during the race, which was more people killed than in the race's prior 15-year history combined. Bob McLean crashed while approaching the hairpin; his car rolled several times, struck a utility pole and then exploded, landing in a ditch and killing McLean.
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Years later, when I was the motorsports correspondent for the New York Times, I knew David Ash, the PR & marketing guy who made this film. More to the point, in 2003 my friend Bruce McCaw invited me to drive the 1957 race-winning #19 Maserati 450 S, which he now owns, at Pacific Raceways in Kent, WA. That was a memorable afternoon for me. The car was wonderful to drive! Watching this film and seeing Fangio and Behra behind the wheel of the car brought a broad smile to my face.
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Terrific video. Just the right mix of "cheese" and reality. And all those great old cars.
Man and cars are a beautiful thing 👍🏁🏎️🏆🥰
Great vintage racing. I loved it!
What a fantastic video, the master Fangio !!! So many great old classic vintage cars, only 17 comments ?????
Imagine asking your girlfriend if she wants to take a vacation to Florida and you end up racing your little Mazda Miata in the 12 hours of Sebring.
Different times, for sure...
Poor guy! Ha! Hope she's a better lover than co-pilot. Living in Sebring was allot of fun, while I worked for Skip Barber Racing. So much history.
Real and proper race cars!
Awesome!! 👍 👌 👏 😍
Duececoupe
A friend of mine was into sprint cars. He had this bumper sticker: Real Race Cars Don't Have Fenders! :-)
Those head lights in the dark a reminder of the movie Le Mans
That’s a Fairchild C-82 Packet at 21:53. The same kind of plane is the subject of the movie “Flight of the Phoenix” starring Jimmy Stewart.
Nicely done Crow!
That was great.
nice car's,
Oh so 1950s: "Do you have to bring your MG into the house piece by piece?" Then it's more of a good bracing documentary. Thanks to Periscope Films and Amoco.
Excellent. Thank’s to share : Good old golden race cars time !
The 50s, when you could trailer your MG down and race in the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Great footage, note to the announcer (not that it really matters at this point), it's a Maserati not a Matzerati! But then he also pronounced that Dauphine's manufacturer as "Ray Nalt". Oh, for the good old days when these were "Foreign Cars".
Back when "American made cars" were actually "American made". Now, there are more "foreign" cars made in the States than there are American. In my home state alone we have Toyota, Mercedes and Honda manufacturing plants but not a single Ford, Chevy/GM or other "American made" car plant.
Moss Serati, sounds like a Star Wars bad guy. :)
I resemble that remark....
I think that motel / inn is still open , stayed there in the 90s for a vintage race.
"The wives are cooking supper" wow lmao strange times
Took me half the show to realize I've seen that MG at Katies Cars and Coffee.
15:03 "Hold it honey! You'll get us disqualified! Only two men allowed in the pits, ya stupid broad!"
But David? *Slap* 😭
Unfortunately the hotel at 25:54 is now all boarded up .
Sheesh. That watermelon at 10:31 looks like it was crossed with a hog.
A fumbled safety belt or a snarled foot in the peddles can cost more than a few seconds! Let man's start not a good idea.
RIP KEN MILES
R.I.P to all the great drivers and pit crew🙏✝️✡️❤️👍🏁🏎️🏆the racing gods🙏✝️✡️❤️👍🏁🏎️🏆
That nagging wife had to drop off a big steamer at the Amoco station.
💩
Thats hilarious!
Really, he should have left her. I mean look at the way she decorated the house.
STOP LEAVING THE MG IN THE KITCHEN