60th Anniversary 12 Hours of Sebring

Definately not a good way to get a new series championship
started but at least Audi is coming with some numbers.

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Cool videos.

1960s
http://www.americanlemans.com/m/index_news.php?sName=16503.xml

1950s
http://www.americanlemans.com/primary1.php?cat=news|16483

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The only recent news on the Deltawing project was they
named Marino Franchitti as lead driver.

Michelin had reported that they'd delivered special tires
to the team which would allow them to begin windtunnell
testing but nothing after that.

Since there hasn't been so much as an official test and the
car wasn't at the Winter Test, it's not likely it will be racing
at Sebring as one thing you don't want to do is enter the
12 Hours with no testing completed.

A good guess is that if/when the car does break cover
that the end product will look a good bit different than
the original designs.

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Perhaps ALMS and Sebring were hoping the Deltawing
would be at the 12 Hours as it sure was part of their
PR package but that dosent seem to be the case any
more.

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From Fiona Miller:

RISI COMPETIZIONE ELECT NOT TO ENTER 2012 SEBRING 12 HOURS
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Houston, Texas, February 24, 2012.** Risi Competizione has elected not to enter the 60th Anniversary Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, the first round of the 2012 American Le Mans Series.
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Team Principal, Giuseppe Risi, spoke of the difficult decision:* “Unfortunately the current economic climate has not allowed us to approach the 2012 season as we would have wished.* None of us want to go into an event such as Sebring feeling less than 100% ready and prepared, and we aren’t at that point.*
*
“Risi Competizione, racing with Ferrari, has been a stalwart of the Series for the last decade and we fully recognize the extremely high level of competition it supports.* To race a Ferrari is to enter into a partnership with history and legend.* The standards are so high that commitment must be total and complete.* Risi Competizione knows better than many what it takes to win the 12 Hours of Sebring, and I feel that, right now, we wouldn’t be representative of our best.”
*
The Houston-based Ferrari GT team has not confirmed a program for the remainder of 2012 and options are still being considered.* These do not preclude entry to later rounds of the American Le Mans Series or other North American endurance races.
*
To date, the team has won two ALMS championships, taken three class victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, achieved 20 outright American Le Mans Series class wins and a 30 plus further podium finishes. *It has won the Twelve Hours of Sebring three times including the closest finish in the race’s history in 2007.

 

On Sportscar Digest.

http://www.sportscardigest.com/celebration-of-the-12-hours-of-sebring-photo-gallery/?awt_l=MaWBA&awt_m=JjLfhuKA4us.C0

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1970s.

http://m.alms.com/articles/sebring-through-decades-1970s

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