{"id":497614,"date":"2018-06-11T11:17:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=59954"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T00:47:24","slug":"the-sebring-4-hours-march-24-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-sebring-4-hours-march-24-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorsport Moment &#8211; The Sebring 4 Hours, March 24, 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The 1961 Sebring 4 Hours<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Where: <\/strong>Sebring<strong>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Date: <\/strong>March 24, 1961<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Sebring 4 Hours, March 24, 1961. This is the works Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite, which was driven by Bruce McLaren, being refueled and went on to fourth place in this warm-up for the 12 Hour race for cars one liter and under. Donald Healey had entered four Sebring Sprites and tuner John Sprinzel had entered two more. However, they were all beaten by a pair of Fiat Abarths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/61CR1B-6-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-637047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/61CR1B-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/61CR1B-6-1.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/61CR1B-6-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/61CR1B-6-1-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/61CR1B-6-1-293x194.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Photo courtesy of: <\/strong>THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION<\/li>\n<li><strong>Address: <\/strong>PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tel: <\/strong>(203) 461-9804<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fax: <\/strong>(203) 968-2970<\/li>\n<li><strong>E-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:info@klemcoll.com\" data-uw-styling-context=\"true\">info@klemcoll.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Web site: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.klemcoll.com\" data-uw-styling-context=\"true\">www.klemcoll.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Blog:<\/strong> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/klemcoll.wordpress.com\/\" data-uw-styling-context=\"true\">klemcoll.wordpress.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1961 Sebring 4 Hours Where: Sebring\u00a0\/\u00a0Date: March 24, 1961 The Sebring 4 Hours, March 24, 1961. This is the works Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite, which was driven by Bruce McLaren, being refueled and went on to fourth place in this warm-up for the 12 Hour race for cars one liter and under. Donald Healey had entered four Sebring Sprites and tuner John Sprinzel had entered two more. However, they were all beaten by a pair of Fiat Abarths. Details: Photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":637047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6120,74,261,12314,8907],"tags":[21450,1433,20123,20276,13683,548,17167,2827,22929,592],"class_list":["post-497614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cooper","category-mclaren","category-motorsport-racing","category-fast-exposure","category-pictures-videos","tag-austin-healey-featured","tag-cooper","tag-mclaren-featured","tag-mclaren-race-cars-featured","tag-fast-exposure","tag-motorsport","tag-motorsport-moments","tag-bruce-mclaren","tag-race-cars-featured","tag-sebring"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Motorsport Moment - The Sebring 4 Hours, March 24, 1961<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-sebring-4-hours-march-24-1961\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Motorsport Moment - The Sebring 4 Hours, March 24, 1961\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 1961 Sebring 4 Hours Where: Sebring\u00a0\/\u00a0Date: March 24, 1961 The Sebring 4 Hours, March 24, 1961. 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