Sounds like a good weekend. Weather was perfect. If I didn’t have an autocross that Saturday, I would have made the trip. (We need more weekends per year.)
By Colin Wood
Dec 4, 2023
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Classic Sebring 12 Hour
Photograph Courtesy HSR
Yes, there were plenty of winners at this past weekend’s HSR Classic Sebring 12 Hour, but when the vintage racing is this good, are there any true losers?
Celebrating the legendary 12 Hours of Sebring with–you guessed it–12 hours of vintage racing (9 consecutive hours on Saturday and 3 more hours on Sunday), the Classic 12 Hour saw a mix of new and repeat winners throughout the weekend.
Kyle Collins secured the Group B in the very Chevron B21 his grandfather, John Delane, drove to victory in the 2020 Classic 12 Hour. Most notably, Collins crossed the finish line some 2 minutes ahead of his closest competitor.
Group A saw the only repeat winner, with Toni Seiler nabbing both his third Classic 12 Hour group win as well as his fourth overall HSR Classics win in a 1969 Lola T156.
A long battle in Group C between Pierce Marshall and Eric Foss in a 2017 Cadillac DPi and Stuart Wiltshire in a Acura ARX-05 DPi ended up with the former securing the class victory–thanks in part to a 40-second lead established early in the opening race.
Group D saw a more unconventional entry take the win: Co-drivers Patrick Womack and NASCAR’s Joe Nemechek in a 2014 Toyota Camry Stock Car. The victory is also significant as it’s the first for a Stock Car in HSR Classics history.
Old-school racers weren’t the only machines celebrated over the weekend, as a 1945 Grumman TBM-3R Avenger flown by Job Savage won the award for Best Plane.
Sounds like a good weekend. Weather was perfect. If I didn’t have an autocross that Saturday, I would have made the trip. (We need more weekends per year.)
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