Results 1957 Sebring 12 hours of Endurance Thanks to Darren Galpin

1957 SEBRING By '57 Sebring is hitting its stride.  Tens of thousands camp and celebrate the rites of Spring and truly great racing.  The factories were back and the star was Fangio & the 450S monster Maserati V8 with lots of Maserati backup Return to BARC Home    55 Seb  56 Seb  58Seb  59 Seb  60 Seb  61Seb  62 Seb  65 Seb  Sebring Home Photo credits: Mister Mort,  Etceterini.com,  ProgramCoversProject, Eaton collection, Brett Johnson

The Lotus team cars.  #59 won Sport 1100 with Colin Chapman, Joe Shephard and Dick Dungan	Porsche brings its new 550RS and finishes 8th & 9th OA and win sports 1500.	Ol' Tex Carroll Shelby and the first lady of Sebring, Mrs. Alec Ulmann	Bernard Cahier (red shirt) with Fangio and an admirer before the race start
A rare 250S Maserati sits in its pit stall.  Driven by Shelby and Roy Salvadori was dnf	Jim Kimberley's 2.0S early on Saturday morning would only last 58 laps	The Maserati from the side with the Reventlow 2.0S #27 in US racing colors alongside	The #42 550RS Porsche of Norm Scott  & Frank Bott went well but was not running at the finish
57 Sebring article from Etceterini.com
	500TR Ferrari #31 was second 2 liter car and 14th overall.  Arents-deVroom-Cunningham	Corvette #3 of Jim Jeffords, Dale Duncan and Big John Kilborn ran strong to 15th OA	Doc Wylie pushes his Lotus XI LeMans. The car was DQ'd for outside assistance.
Dave Ash moves to the side for the Wyllie, Charles Moran.  MGA #51 has been a BARC car since 1959	MG was proud that all 3 cars finished the 12 hours two years straight and told everyone.	Never shy, Ash made sure his #51 got all the photo coverage with him at the wheel.	#49 MGA won GT 1600. but where it is now? Only the #51 exists today.