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By Ron Menck
We left Melbourne at 7a.m. on a very rainy
Friday morning with some expectation that
when we arrived at Sebring it would be dry
enough to experience the best of Historic
Sports Car Racing, as the Sebring event
is HSR’s seasonal finale. The drive down
wasn’t the customary December day we’d
hoped for--you know, with the sun glaring
and shadows of the trees blinking across
the windshield as we headed south on US
441. Nope, instead it was eyes focused
on the wake of mist from the car in front,
windshield wipers working to the rhythm of
Eddie Rabbit’s “Drivin My Life Away” and
an attentive attitude to watch for pools of
standing water in the road.
Four of us (Curt Guy, Steve Hoffman, Ralph
Fritsche and I) stopped in Fort Drum for
breakfast and discussed our plan for the
day. As we left, the sky had cleared and
road was dryer and we were able to open
the cars up and let them run as we enjoyed
a more spirited drive the rest of the way to
Historic Races
Sebring. The weather was good as we arrived
at Midway road where we dismounted
and began to circle the in-field on foot. Our
first stop was at the Klub Sports Racing, one
of the West Palm Beach race shops we had
visited in October. Klub Sports hold a race
within a race at the HSR with their vintage
Porsches and it’s a big draw for we Porsche
fans. I quickly learned that following region
president Ralph Fritsche from paddock to
paddock is like having your own personal
tour guide and curator, as Ralph seemed
to be steeped in the knowledge and history
of every racing Porsche we saw. Throughout
the morning, Curt snapped pictures,
Steve looked for car parts, and I wandered
behind Ralph. By the end of the day, we had
enjoyed several hours of racing, viewing and
shopping for t-shirts before it began to rain
again and brought our fun to a close.
I highly recommend that you plan to attend
an HSR event in 2010. Events will be held
in both Daytona and Sebring, and you’ll
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experience first-hand vintage cars from
the ’50, through the ‘90s of all makes and
models racing in three different series with
about a dozen different sub groups over a
period of 4 days. In the infield you can talk
with the drivers, watch the preparations
up close and of course watch the races for
spots on the podium. Best of all, it’s quite
inexpensive a nice drive there in your
Porsche and totally cool!
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