Sebring Raceway is a road course auto racing facility located in Sebring, Florida. It occupies a portion of Hendricks Field- currently an active airport for private and commercial traffic, but formerly an Army Air Force training base from 1941 to 1946 where pilots learned to fly the B-17 Flying Fortress.
Sebring Raceway is one of the oldest continuously operating race tracks in the United States, its first race being run in 1950. Many consider Sebring to be one of the classic race tracks in North Americansports car racing.
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[Official site (http://www.sebringraceway.com/|The)]
[narrative describing the first race (http://www.ggw.org/~cac/Sebring/Sebring.html|A)]
[drivers description of the various track configurations (http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/Sebring.php|A)]
SebringRaceway is one of the oldest continuously-operating race tracks in the United States, its first race being run in 1950.
Many consider Sebring to be one of the classic race tracks in North American sports car racing, and the 12 Hours of Sebring, 24 Hours of Daytona, and 24 Hours of Le Mans to be the trifecta of sports car racing.
Sebring is most notable for hosting the 12 Hours of Sebring, sanctioned at various times by the FIA, IMSA, and now, the American Le Mans Series, known as ALMS.