Sports
Chip Robinson shattered his own qualifying record by more than seven seconds to earn the pole for Saturday’s 12 Hours of Sebring sports car race at Sebring, Fla.
March 18, 1988
Autos
The Sebring 12-Hours International Motor Sports Assn.
March 21, 1987
Bobby Rahal and Jochen Mass, sharing a 962 prototype, took the lead with less than two hours remaining in the Sebring 12-Hours IMSA Camel GT race and went on Saturday to give Porsche its 12th consecutive victory in America’s oldest sports car endurance event.
March 22, 1987
A team headed by West German endurance specialist Hans Stuck scorched the 12 Hours of Sebring with a record average speed of 115.852 m.p.h. in a Porsche 962 Saturday to win the the grueling endurance test by eight laps.
March 23, 1986
Klaus Ludwig and Hans Stuck set a brutal pace during Saturday’s 12 Hours of Sebring at Sebring, Fla., that exhausted the field and led them to a nine-lap victory Saturday.
March 20, 1988
Three-time defending IMSA prototype champion Geoff Brabham won the pole for the 12 Hours of Sebring, running a Nissan NPT-90 sports car at a fast lap of 121.355 m.p.h.
March 15, 1991
Juan Fangio II and Andy Wallace became the first co-drivers in the 41-year history of the 12 Hours of Sebring road endurance race to win two years in a row, driving their Toyota Eagle MKIII to victory.
March 21, 1993
Bob Copeman, part-time race driver, was killed when his car slammed into a wall at more than 100 m.p.h. during a qualifying run at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Fla.
March 19, 1988
Your Dec. 5 piece on (Stirling) Moss, (Innes) Ireland, (Phil) Hill and (Dan) Gurney at Palm Springs was one of the finest pieces on racing I’ve ever read.
Dec. 12, 1985
Juan Manuel Fangio II of Argentina and England’s Andy Wallace drove one of Dan Gurney’s Toyota Eagles to victory in the 12 Hours of Sebring in Florida.
March 23, 1992