Hell of a race this year.

GTP cars battling to the end, door to door in that last 10 minutes after 11 hours plus.

I love that race. And $4 beers.

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I have a site on the property and got to watch some of the warm up runs. It's way better than watching circles.

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Nearby, in the scrub, there's some extraordinary local plants. The nearest local educational stop for scrub is Archbold Biological Station, south of Lake Placid.

It is an interesting anomaly, internationally known race track out in the middle of seemingly nowhere.

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“The United States now faces a different kind of violence, from people who will tell you that they are for ‘liberty’ and ‘freedom,’ but these are merely code words for personal grudges, racial and class resentments, and a generalized paranoia"

There's a maker of replica cars in England named Sebring. I saw one of their cars in Japan

Sorry, double post. I think Sebring got somewhere by being warm and even dry when much of the US wasn't, and it didn't hurt that it was something of a hideaway.

Edited: 03/19/2024 at 11:59 AM by ww

I have a friend who went to Sebring. I'll see him Thursday and he said he has photos.

Sebring was the site of Hendricks Army Airfield where they trained B-17 pilots during WWII. After the war a lot of the surplus airfields (runways) were popular with sports car racers, and it helped that Curtis LeMay was a fan.

http://speedtour.net/articles/...-force-saved-sebring/



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It's also one of the largest swaths of urban sprawl in the know world. Miles and miles of junk town, all brought to a near halt by retirees plugging along 10 under the speed limit.

It is the absolute opposite of a raceway. The perfect juxtaposition, and par for the course in this bizarro state.

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Edited: 03/23/2024 at 11:26 AM by Cole