I love watching archival footage like this, it's like a window back in time.
(Until the time machine is working, anyway.)
Love the diversity of cars on track!
Sebring is my favorite track I've raced on so it's really neat to see what it was like 60 years prior. Obviously I notice the difference in safety and runoffs, but also now there's more vegetation in the area which surprises me. I wonder if 17/17a was more or less bumpy back then?
In reply to buzzboy :
I know the layout has definitely changed a lot over the years.
When was the last time they've paved Sebring?
Diverse selections of cars!! Thanx.
That #37 is sexy! I had to go look it up. It was a Cunningham C-6R; wait, scratch that, it was >the< C-6R, as in the only one ever made. It retired about halfway with gearbox failure.
In reply to J.A. Ackley :
In the case of the concrete straightaways.....1941.....which is what makes Sebring awesome 
(and bumpy)
About 6 years ago at the Austin Record Convention, I spotted and bought two vinyl gems: "Sounds of Sebring 1957" and "Sounds of Sebring 1960."
The vendor also had some top fuel drag racing albums from the 1960’s and 70’s, but I got that “look” from my wife that indicated I’d better only pick my favorites, so sports car racing won.
The albums feature the sounds of the cars in the pits and at speed on track. You can even hear the sound of the footsteps as the drivers sprint to their cars at the start. There are interviews during practices and the race with many of the legends like Paul O’Shea, Peter Collins, Phil Hill, Marquis de Portago, Luigi Chinetti, Roy Salvadori, Carroll Shelby, Baron von Hanstein, Dave Ash, Colin Chapman, Juan Fangio, Count von Trips, Stirling Moss, Briggs Cunningham, Mike Hawthorn, and others of interest.
As luck would have it, you can listen to many of the interviews for free at the link below (click the link, scroll down a bit to the embedded YouTube video).
Just thought I’d share this with some fellow fans.
https://scottgrundfor.com/riverside-records-sounds-of-sebring-1957-audio/
Flynlow said:In reply to J.A. Ackley :
In the case of the concrete straightaways.....1941.....which is what makes Sebring awesome
Wow. They don't make concrete like that anymore. 
In reply to Coniglio Rampante :
My dad had one of those from one year in the fifty's. I remember the announcer going through the cars and getting a sound of the engines revving, I guess in the pits. The Ferraris, The D Jags, etc. Roar, Shriek and then the Porches sounding just like a VW Bug.
In reply to J.A. Ackley :
Going over the concrete squares on 17/17a is wild. I followed my friends' '64 Fairlane for a few laps in the rain and every time they hit a square I puckered as the old Ford rotated/bounced into the next square.
Respect the bumps.
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