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Sebring Hour Grand Prix &#; Race Profile
Sebring Hour Grand Prix Race Profile &#; “El Chueco” Rides A Hot Seat
Story by Louis Galanos
In Sebring was holding only its sixth installment of the hour race. With the growing popularity of sports car racing in post World War II America, the event was finally coming into its own since its creation by impresario Alec Ulmann in
To many sports car fans in America at that time the Sebring race was second only to the Hours of Le Mans. The fact that it was the only event in North America that qualified for points toward the Federation Internationale de l’automobile (FIA) World Sportscar Championship (WSC) didn’t hurt. As a result, Sebring became the premier sports car event in the U.S. and a must-attend if you were an aficionado of sports car racing.
Always on the look out to help promote Florida, and tourism, the then governor of Florida, Leroy Collins, proclaimed March , as International Sports Car Race Week thus gaining additional medi
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The Motor Museum in Miniature
MMIM ingångsrum of Fame
Alfred 'Friedl' Neubauer.
Ever heard of the athlete Emil Zatopek or the painter Zdenek Burian? The founder of genetics Johann Gregor Mendel maybe? Surely you have heard of Sigmund Freud, the psychoanalyst. Well never mind they don't have much to do with motor cars anyway.
Nový Jičín, or Neutitschein, however, does. All the aforementioned names are connected to what is now the Czech Republic; and the Czech Republic has a lot to do with cars. Everyone has heard of Ferdinand Porsche, the world-renowned designer and constructor of ground breaking automobiles. He was Czech and so was another innovator who has had an equally huge impact on the motor racing world. If it makes you feel any better even the locals of Nový Jičín themselves were surprised when the news of this long lost son being born there was revealed by local museum historian Radek Polach.
The legendary Alfred Neubauer;
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