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The 12 Hours of Sebring is one of the three most iconic sports car endurance races in the world, along with the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The Sebring event has been held uninterrupted since 1952 but its future wasn't always assured. The 1972 race looked to be the last - until a trio of heroes stepped in to save it.

IMRRC featured in monthly MG club Magazine - featuring MGs on display at the IMRRC

The 1989 Camel GT season was hotly contested between the TWR Jaguars and the powerful Nissan GTP ZX-Turbos run by the highly successful Electramotive team. Nissan had won the six races leading up the Portland round in August that year. And they would have won that race as well, if not for highly unusual circumstances at the end of the race.

"Celebrating the 75th" Appearing in SportsCar January 2019 by Jeff Jacobs

Martin Raffauf recounts a few of the highlights of the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1981 when he was a crew member on the winning Bob Garretson Porsche 935.

A.J. Foyt was drafted into Preston Henn's Porsche 935 in the wee hours of Sunday morning during the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1983. He didn't tell the co-drivers. Find out what happened next in this account excerpted from the book: “IMSA 1969-1989: The Inside Story of How John Bishop Built the World’s Greatest Sports Car Racing Series,” authored by Mitch Bishop and Mark Raffauf, available now from Octane Press and wherever books are sold.

The 1976 24 Hours of Daytona was a race plagued by unusual and unforeseen circumstances that stalled much of the 72 car field and brought the race to a grinding halt for the better part of three hours. The following account of the race is excerpted from the book: “IMSA 1969-1989: The Inside Story of How John Bishop Built the World’s Greatest Sports Car Racing Series,” authored by Mitch Bishop and Mark Raffauf, scheduled for publication in January 2019 from Octane Press.

This is part two of world-renowned motorsports writer Doug Nye's account of an interview he had with Mario Andretti during the U.S. Grand Prix weekend in October 1974 at Watkins Glen.

World-renowned motorsports writer Doug Nye had the good fortune to sit down with Mario Andretti during the U.S. Grand Prix weekend in October 1974 at Watkins Glen. This is part one of Doug's account of the interview that covered the early part of Mario's amazing career.

Governing Council member Mitch Bishop called into Dave Stall's radio show, "Racer Radio" on AM 1170 in San Diego, to talk about our new blog, "Stopwatch."