Ferrari in Sebring have much in common. The Italian icon and the American race have been interwoven from the very beginning — in fact Scuderia Ferrari is the winningest team in the race they call ‘Once Around the Clock’ — factory Ferraris have won the race eight times since that race on a track that has evolved out of the Hendricks army World War II army airfield first happened as a six-hour on New Year’s eve 1950. That first race was, however, run on handicap, rather than absolute speed, which is why Ralph Deshon and Fritz Koster’s little 750cc Crosley Hot Shot surprisingly appears in the results ahead of Jim Kimberly and Marshall Lewis’ 2-litre V12 Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta....
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