DONE//INCOMPLETE
1958
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-22.html
Luigi Musso +OFFLINE (?)
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/musso58sebring.jpg
Nigel Smuckatelli
1964
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-21.html
William McKelvy/Richard Holquist + 5 OFFLINE
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/tn_sebring1964.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/holquist_mc ... ebring.jpg
sebringrace.com
Art Tattersall + OFFLINE
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/sebring1964volvo.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1964sebringnotag.jpg
„The articles culminated in "Project Volvo at Sebring" in 1964, wherein the Christy white car, Riley's *14* and Art Tattersall's red coupes -- numbered 50, 51 and 49, respectively -- were entered by Volvo and were considered as a factory team, although really three quite independent efforts. Through mix-ups in rules interpretation, the FIA-affiliated Automobile Racing Club of Florida, the ARCF, as sanctioning body forced the three cars to run in the Prototype Category, where their fitted headers (and Weber carburetors, and a host of other goodies they did not bring) would be legal -- but the "team" would be no match for the factory Porsche 904s. This was moot, for Tattersall rolled under the MG bridge in the esses breaking his back, never again to race; Christy and Dave Jordan retired due to the camshaft boring a hole in the front cover due to hasty preparation, and Riley's car, after many lost laps due to a thrown fan blade and a broken spindle, crossed the line in the hands of Nick Coné in a shower of sparks, 4th in class but well down -- the second spindle having gone on the last lap.”
The Sebring Story
1978
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-18.html
Peter Gregg +OFFLINE
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/petergregg.jpg
https://www.racingsportscars.com/result ... 03-18.html
1982
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-20.html
John Fitzpatrick +OFFLINE (?)
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1982sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/brumosporschesebring1982.JPG
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DONE
1952
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-15.html
Gary McDonald/Bob Kennedy
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/kennedy_mcd ... ebring.jpg
The slippery surface put the Jag out of the race after only 37 laps.
Year: 1952
Driver(s): Gary McDonald/Bob Kennedy
Description: The slippery surface put the Jag out of the race after only 37 laps.
Year: 1952
Driver(s): Gary McDonald/Bob Kennedy
Category: Sports cars
Series: World Sportscar Championship
Vehicle: Jaguar XK120
Country: United States
Circut: Sebring
Event: 12 Hours of Sebring
Fatal: No
1955
https://www.racingsportscars.com/result ... 03-13.html
Jack McAfee, Fire
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1955mcafeesebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1955mcafeesebring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/mcafee55sebring3.jpg
Jean Rédélé
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1955sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1956sebring-4.jpg
Bob Said
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/said55sebring.jpg
The Ferrari 750 Monza of Masten Gregory and Bob Said was forced to retire from the 1955 Sebring 12 Hours after Said crashed collided with an ambulance only three laps into the race.
racingsportscars.com
Phil Stewart & Ted Boynton
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/boynton_ste ... ebring.jpg
racingsportscars.com
1956
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-24.html
Len Bastrup
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/bastrup56sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/bastrup56sebring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/chapman56sebring1.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/bastrup56sebring4.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/sebringfirelotus.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/chapman56sebring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/bastrup.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/bastrup56sebring8.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/bastrup56sebring9.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/chapman56sebring3.jpg
“Meanwhile Colin Chapman had arrived at Sebring with his new creation, the Eleven. The car had been brought from New York by Briggs Cunningham for Chapman and Len Bastrup to drive in its world race debut. Eleven #156 had the first 1500cc Climax FWB under the bonnet, an MG-A transmission, limited-slip differential and long range fuel tanks. It was built to win the race. Just two years earlier a 1,500cc OSCA had won, and this time Chapman knew his car was faster. But it all ended when Bastrup took the car out for practice on Friday. It looked particularly quick, as Sheppard recalls, going down the pit straight, and on through the two sweeping left hand bends after that. The next turn, a much tighter left, that led onto a short straight where the MG bridge would be built a year later, was where Bastrup came in too hot, dropping a wheel over the edge and plowing out into the hay bales. The Eleven caught the sand and flipped over, trapping Bastrup inside. Onlookers righted the car, but as Bastrup sat up dazed in the cockpit, flames erupted from under the bonnet. The debut Eleven then went up in smoke. Chapman was devastated by that crash. It upset him to no end. Although the car was rebuilt later, at Cunningham's shop in New York, it was through as the Team Lotus entry at Sebring. On race day, spectacular stop-action photographs of the Eleven demolishing itself were featured in newspapers across the country -- including the front page of the New York Times. In many papers, the little English Lotus got more attention than the race itself. Of course Chapman took little consolation from the publicity. He needed a ride.”
lotuseleven.org; sportscardigest.com
Julio Pola/Enrique Muro
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/sebring56pola.jpg
“What a bunch of ludicrous hats.”
Carlos Menditeguy INJURED
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/menditeguy2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/menditeguy1.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/mendi ... ebring.JPG
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/mendit1.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/mendit2.jpg
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http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/mendit4.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1956sebringmenditeguy.jpg
Argentina's Carlos Menditeguy turned over in his 2.9-liter Maserati, and was rushed to the hospital with a fractured skull.
Lance Macklin/Archie Scott-Brown
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sebring1956.jpg
1957
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-23.html
http://www.racingsportscars.com/results ... 03-23.html
Bob Goldich FATAL
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/bgo1.JPG
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/goldich57fatal2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/goldich57fatal3.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/bgo3.JPG
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/bgo4.JPG
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/bgo5.JPG
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1957goldichfatal.jpg
theselvedgeyard.com
Ray Cuomo
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/cuomo57sebring.jpg
uniquecarsandparts.com
1958
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-22.html
Luigi Musso & Archie Scott-Brown
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1958sebring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1958sebring.jpg
Luigi Musso +OFFLINE
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/musso58sebring.jpg
Nigel Smuckatelli
George Crowder
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1958crowdersebring.jpg
1959
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-21.html
Walt Hansgen/Dick Thompson
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/hansgen59a.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/hansgen59b.jpg
M. R. J. Wyllie/Skip Lange/Margaret Wyllie
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/sebring59.jpg
Edwin Lawrence, FATAL
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1959edlawrencefatal.JPG
http://motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=1396
1960
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-26.html
Fred Spross
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/spross60sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/spross60sebring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/spross60sebring3.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/fredsprossSEB60a.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/sebring60.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/spross60sebring6.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/sebring60b.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/fredsprosssebring1960.jpg
Year: 1960
Driver(s): Fred Spross/John Colgate
Category: Sports cars
Series: World Sportscar Championship
Vehicle: Austin-Healey 3000
Country: United States
Circut: Sebring
Event: 12 Hours of Sebring
Fatal: No
Photo Credit: Dave Nicholas; Willem Oosthoek
Jim Hughes (driver) & George Thompson (photographer), FATAL
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/hughes_thom ... 0fatal.jpg
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http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/hughes_thom ... fatal3.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1960sebringfatal.JPG
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/sebring1960.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/hughes_thom ... fatal6.jpg
Pete Lyons
http://motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=1550
John Fitch
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/johnfitchsebring1960.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/johnfitchsebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1960briggsey.jpg
Ed W. Crawford
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/crawford60.jpg
1961
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-25.html
Lars Giertz/Bob Liess
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/sebr.jpg
Bob Liess
Leo May
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/may61sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/may61sebring2.jpg
Leo May rolled his AC Cobra during the 1961 12 hours at Sebring. The roll bar gave way during the incident.
racingsportscars.com; sportscardigest.com
Formula Junior
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/formula2/FJ61_W18.htm
Jean Lloyd
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1961FJ1960jeanlloyd.jpg
1962
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-24.html
Denise McCluggage/Allen Eager
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1962sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/mccluggage62sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/mccluggage62sebring2.jpg
In 1962 at Sebring she co-drove a 1-liter NART OSCA with boyfriend Allen Eager. He spun out after just getting the car handed to him by Denise and was T-boned by Ken Miles in a Sunbeam Alpine. Apart from substantial body damage, the incident caused the car's throttle to stick wide open and Eager abandoned it on the course and walked back to the pits. Denise was disgusted that he left the car so she jogged/walked to where it was and pushed the OSCA back to the pits, where the NART mechanics deemed it beyond repair.
sebringrace.com
Art Tweedale/Ben Warren/Alan Ross
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/sebr62.jpg
Don Yenko/Ed Lowther
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/yenko ... guez62.jpg
Support race
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 3-24g.html
Clark/Mabry's pre-race wreck (1) for the 1962 3-hour support race
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/clark_mabry62sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/clark_mabry62sebring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/clark_mabry62sebring3.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/clark_mabry62sebring4.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/clark_mabry62sebring5.jpg
sebringrace.com
Bruce McLaren
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/sebr62.jpg
http://www.formula2.net/FJ62_W18.htm
Charlie Parsons +OFFLINE
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1962charlieparsons.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/parsons62sebring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/parsons62sebring3.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/parsons62sebring4.jpg
sebringrace.com
1963
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-23.html
Howard Franklin & Jack Wright
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1963sebsaab.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1963sebsaab1.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1963sebsaab2.jpg
https://sebringrace.com/page17.html
George McClure
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1963semkomccluresebring.jpg
Description: The sandbank at the hairpin was a well visited place. This is the #53 TVR Grantura of George McClure and Dick Semko. A.J. Foyt in the Corvette avoids the scene. Both cars retired later with engine problems.
Year: 1963
Driver(s): George McClure/Dick Semko
Category: Sports cars
Series: World Sportscar Championship
Vehicle: TVR Grantura
Country: United States
Circut: Sebring
Event: 12 Hours of Sebring
Fatal: No
Photo Credit: racepace.se
Hap Sharp
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/tn_hapsharp1963scca.JPG
SCCA, Cooper
1964
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-21.html
Ken Miles
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/miles64sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/miles64sebring2.jpg
dailysportscar.com; Pete Lyons
Art Tattersall
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/sebring1964volvo.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1964sebringnotag.jpg
„The articles culminated in "Project Volvo at Sebring" in 1964, wherein the Christy white car, Riley's *14* and Art Tattersall's red coupes -- numbered 50, 51 and 49, respectively -- were entered by Volvo and were considered as a factory team, although really three quite independent efforts. Through mix-ups in rules interpretation, the FIA-affiliated Automobile Racing Club of Florida, the ARCF, as sanctioning body forced the three cars to run in the Prototype Category, where their fitted headers (and Weber carburetors, and a host of other goodies they did not bring) would be legal -- but the "team" would be no match for the factory Porsche 904s. This was moot, for Tattersall rolled under the MG bridge in the esses breaking his back, never again to race; Christy and Dave Jordan retired due to the camshaft boring a hole in the front cover due to hasty preparation, and Riley's car, after many lost laps due to a thrown fan blade and a broken spindle, crossed the line in the hands of Nick Coné in a shower of sparks, 4th in class but well down -- the second spindle having gone on the last lap.”
The Sebring Story
Newton Davis/Paul N. Layman in the Hairpin (they finished the race):
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1964seb.jpg
Charlie Kolb/Tom O’Brien/Ronald Hutchinson
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/obrien_kolb64sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/obrien_kolb64sebring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/obrien_kolb64sebring3.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/sebring64a.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/sebring64b.JPG
Description: The NART-Ferrari of Tom O'Brien (USA)/Charlie Kolb (USA)/Ronald Hutchinson (USA) catches fire on lap 31. This resutled in a retirement. Driver Kolb escaped unhurt.
Year: 1964
Driver(s): Charlie Kolb
Category: Sports cars
Series: World Sportscar Championship
Vehicle: Ferrari 250 LM #5149
Country: United States
Circut: Sebring
Event: 12 Hours of Sebring
Fatal: No
Photo Credit: Dave Friedman/ Tom Burnside/ Pete Biro
Bob Johnson & Consalvo Sanesi
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/sanesi19641.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/sanesi19642.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/dayto ... itfire.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sportscars/sanesi64.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/sanesi19643.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/sanesi19644.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/sanesi64b.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1964sebringfirecrash.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/sanesi64sebring9.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/sanesi64sebring10.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/sanesi64sebring11.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/bobjohnsonsebring1964.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/sanesi64sebring13.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1964sanesisebring.JPG
Sanesi's Alfa was hit by Johnson (and went up in flames?????)
zagato-cars.com
Delmo Johnson/Dave Morgan
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/johnson_morgan64sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/johnson_mor ... bring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/johnson_mor ... bring3.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/johnson_mor ... bring4.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/johnson_mor ... bring5.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/johnson_mor ... bring6.jpg
sebringrace.com
1965
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-27.html
Roger Heftler/John Norris
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/heftler_norris65sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/heftler_nor ... bring2.jpg
sebringrace.com; sportscardigest.com
Al Pease/Brad Picard
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pease_picard65sebring.jpg
sebringrace.com
Nick Cone/Art Riley
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/cone_riley65sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/cone_riley65sebring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/heftler_norris65sebring.jpg
sebringrace.com; sportscardigest.com
Peter Bolton
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/sebring1965.png
Richard Holquist
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1965sebringflip1.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1965sebringflip2.jpg
Richard Holquist lost control of his Abarth-Simca in the Esses and flipped. He remained unhurt.
Silvio Moser
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/moser65sebring.jpg
mycarquest.com
“The other Iso Grifo entry driven by Silvio Moser went off course and hit a spectator's car.”
Mike Gammino
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1965sebring2.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/rainvilleandgamminoSebring65.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/gammino65sebring3.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/gammino65sebring4.jpg
sportscardigest.com
“As Paul Rainville tells it, his father Charlie brought in the Bizzarrini Iso Grifo he was driving for a scheduled pit stop and driver change. The rain was still pounding down when co-driver Mike Gammino got into the car. He didn’t bother to fasten his safety belt before reentering the race.
Two or three laps later the car hydroplaned on the start/finish straight and struck the Mercedes-Benz Bridge abutment broadside cutting the car in two.
When the corner workers arrived to render assistance they found Gammino in his seat in the front half of the car. His hands were still on the steering wheel. The driver’s seat was still firmly affixed to the floor. His firmly affixed seat belts were with the back half of the car which was now twenty-plus feet distant. It was a lucky day for Mike Gammino.
When the corner workers initially assisted Gammino from the car it was still raining heavily and he really didn’t take note of the condition of the car. After determining that he didn’t suffer any serious injuries he was allowed to walk back to the pits. When he got there Charlie Rainville asked, “how bad’s the car?” He replied, “don’t know.” Charlie said, “Well, let’s go see.”
When they arrived at the accident scene Gammino took one look at the car cut in two with the pieces over twenty feet apart and promptly fainted.”
George Reed, Chuck Stoddard, Nick Cone
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pileup65sebring1.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pileup65sebring2.jpg
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http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pileup65sebring4.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1965sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/1965sebringreed.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pileup65sebring6.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pileup65sebring7.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pileup65sebring8.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pileup65sebring9.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pileup65sebring10.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Gemtilnyhd/65seb.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pileup65sebring.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/cpdb/pileup65sebring13.jpg
http://www.the-fastlane.co.uk/images/Benhuset/Sebring1965.jpg
racingsportscars.com, Rick Hayden, sebringrace.com,
https://www.racingsportscars.com/result ... 03-27.html
1966
https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/ ... 03-26.html
Bob McLean FATAL
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Description:During the race Bob McLean went off the with his Comstock-GT40. He hit a telephone and somersaulted. McLean just came from an pitstop with full tanks. Those split and burst into flames. McLean was trapped in the car and perished. Near the crash scene was a fire truck but they only had water, which didn't help for the burning magnesium wheels. Also they only had two 10-pound dry chemical extinguishers which were quickly used up. The car had just made a pit stop right before the accident and was fully loaded with gas. The heat was so intense that the magnesium wheels ignited and burst into white hot sparks. The fire drew a ghoulish crowd of 2000 and police had trouble controlling the mob and the police roughed up some people including a television cameraman.
Later in the race 4 spectators were killed.
The wrecked GT40 is possibly buried near the circuit as the ghost of Sebring.
Year: 1966
Driver(s): Bob McLean
Category: Sports cars
Series: World Sportscar Championship
Vehicle: Ford GT40 #1000
Country: United States
Circut: Sebring
Event: 12 Hours of Sebring
Fatal: Yes
Photo Credit: Dave Friedman; Harry Kennison; Bill Stowe; sportscardigest.com; Sports Illustrated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObRIh8-rO4
Don Wester & Michael Andretti, FATAL + X OFFLINE
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Dave Friedman collection; sportscardigest.com;
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Jack Slottag
Jack Slottag is the unlucky driver in the pic. During training he was wearing tennis shoes but they were getting too hot and slippery. So he switched to Gucci loafers. However they had a rather unusual high heel. Around the 5th hour it happened into the hairpin when Jack inadvertently hit both brake and accelerator.
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racingsportscars.com; sebringrace.com; velocetoday.com
Jo Bonnier/Phil Hill
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Description: The Chaparral 2D of Phil Hill/ Jo Bonnier had retired from an oil leak in the race. This damage is from practice.
Year: 1966
Driver(s): Jo Bonnier/Phil Hill
Category: Sports cars
Series: World Sportscar Championship
Vehicle: Chaparral 2D #2D001
Country: United States
Circut: Sebring
Event: 12 Hours of Sebring
Fatal: No
Photo Credit: Harry Kennison
Teodoro Zeccoli/Giacomo "Geki" Russo
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Support race
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Bill Campbell
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1967
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Jack Ryan
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Nigel Smuckatelli
Support race
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Norberto Mastandrea
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Howard Hanna & Robert Clark
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1968
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Dave Horchler
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camaros.org
Armando Capriles & Alfredo Atencio
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Louis Galanos
1969
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Vic Elford
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Blessing/Cummings/Stumes wreck in the 1969 Sebring 12 Hours:
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1970
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Mike Parkes/Chuck Parsons
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Ben Scott/Dave Houser/Lowell Lanier
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1971
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Gregg Young
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a2zracer.com
Chuck Parsons
Description: After only 19 laps into the race Chuck Parsons went straight into the sandbank at the hairpin. The hit destroyed the oil coolers and the NART-Ferrari was out. Co-driver David Weir never got a chance to drive the car
Year: 1971
Driver(s): Chuck Parsons
Category: Sports cars
Series: World Sportscar Championship
Vehicle: Ferrari 512S #1028
Country: United States
Circut: Sebring
Event: 12 Hours of Sebring
Fatal: No
Photo Credit: Associated Press
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1972
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Regazzoni/Redman fire
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Roger McCaig
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1973
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Michael Keyser/Milt Minter
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Nigel Smuckatelli
1980
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Marty Hinze
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Manuel Quintana FATAL
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1981
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Pierre Honegger's Mazda RX-7 burns down rather spectacularly during the 1981 12 Hours of Sebring
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1988
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Jim Rothbarth/Bernard Jourdain
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Chip Mead
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Bob Copeman FATAL
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1990
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Henri Pescarolo
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Autosport
1997
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Tim Banks/Henri-Louis Maunoir/Don Arpin
Dorsey Schroeder/Peter Cunningham/John Green
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1998
Wayne Taylor in the 1998 Sebring Fall Classic:
" [...] Rich was fifth or sixth in line behind Wayne Taylor in his Ferrari 333 SP and a pack of GT3 BMWs. Taylor went to the right side of the front straight to pass the BMWs and found trouble. The first I saw was a Ferrari hugging the inside of the front straight wall starting to go side ways. Taylor hit the water on the right side, over corrected, and his car went across the track to the opposite side. Rich, coming out of the spray and on the left side of the track staying out of everyone’s way, found a Ferrari parked rear first into the wall and in his way. Afterwards Rich joked saying, “When I saw Taylor’s car in front of me all I could think of was, ‘well, I’ve never hit a Ferrari before’!”. Rich slid right just narrowly missing the front of Taylor’s car. He didn’t even loose the auxiliary airfoils that stick out at the front of the car. I thought for sure those bits were goners! The track immediately went yellow. Taylor was out on the spot. [...] "
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2000
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Tom Kristensen in qualifications for the 2000 12 Hours of Sebring:
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2002
John Gorsline
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gorsline.com
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2004
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2004
Jean-Philippe Belloc/Tom Weickardt/Kevin Allen
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Jan Hettler
Will Haney
Panoz Racing Series (no results available)
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2008
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Ben Devlin
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Ben Devlin had a big accident during qualifying for the 2008 Sebring 12 Hours. The car did not make the race.