Pictures from 12hrs of Sebring, 914 INCLUDED Options

[Scott Carlberg]

I'm only passing these along, saw them over on 6speedonline.com

Nice of the guy to shoot and include the 914, which is on the 2nd page:

Sebring Pics

[maf914]

QUOTE (URY914 @ Mar 20 2006, 07:58 AM)

35 cars?(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/screwy.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif) Back in the Roarin' '80s there would be over 60 cars.

Yeah, 35 cars is pretty light, but it's been like that for the past few years. Later in the season when the sprint races come around the field will drop into the twenties. The cars are technically great but damned expensive for teams to run.

The last big field I remember at Sebring was 1999, with LMP1's from Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Panoz, Dyson R&S MkIII, (all with 2 cars) and several other Ferrari 333SP's and R&S's, plus the smaller prototypes and the GT classes. After that it was Audi domination and a decline in car count. (By the way, in 7 years of racing the Audi R8 did not have a single engine failure in a race.)

The starting field at the Daytona 24 Hrs this year was about 70, with about 30 Daytona Prototypes and 40 GT cars. It's a different type of racing though. The DP are restricted and to some extent remind me of a spec class racer, while the GT cars are even more restricted to make sure they can't beat a DP. But they are more affordable and it shows.