Circuit info
Sebring International Raceway
We don't have our own real GPS-telemetry-based 3D model for this circuit (typically a pre-2023 or discontinued venue). The outline below is a freely usable, hand-drawn circuit diagram.This layout was in use during: 1959.Circuit diagram: ROY Jules (julesr0y) (CC BY 4.0). source & licenseOther known layouts at this circuit: 1959Interesting facts
Sebring International Raceway was laid out over the concrete runways and service roads of Hendricks Army Airfield, a WWII base that trained B-17 bomber pilots between 1941 and 1946. On 28 March 1959 it hosted the only Formula 1 race ever run there, the United States Grand Prix; Maurice Trintignant set the fastest lap in a Cooper T51. Parts of the track still run over the original wartime concrete slabs, whose rough, seamed surface made the circuit notoriously harder on cars and drivers than even Le Mans. Poor attendance and high running costs meant Formula 1 never returned, and the following year's United States Grand Prix moved to Riverside, California. The 12 Hours of Sebring was first run on 15 March 1952 and grew into an endurance classic spoken of in the same breath as the 24 Hours of Le Mans. At the 1959 race, 22-year-old Bruce McLaren became the youngest Grand Prix winner in history, a record that stood for more than four decades, while Jack Brabham clinched his first World Championship after running out of fuel on the final lap and pushing his car over the line in fourth place. The circuit is located in Florida, United States. Only one Formula 1 race has been held here so far, in 1959, won by Bruce McLaren.
Circuit history
The only Formula 1 race held here (1959) was won by Bruce McLaren.