In October of 2000, Dale Earnhardt Sr. has scored the final win of his career in this race. Tragically, Sr. died on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 and NASCAR was still adjusting to life without Dale Earnhardt.

Today I'm working on my 1985 12 Hours of Sebring photos and it strikes me that this was an era American sports car racing when some of the coolest race cars ever to speed around American race tracks were streaking past our cameras.

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While I’ve never been one to glamorize the old days or go on about how much more difficult photography was in the era of film, I do feel there were some challenges we faced back then that today’s young shooters can tend to take for granted.

At some point during the race, my editor caught me completely off guard. He handed me a 500mm lens—no small piece of glass in the film era—and casually instructed me to head up into the blimp to photograph the race-leading Porsche 935, driven by A.J. Foyt, Bob Wollek, and Derek Bell. Just like that, my perspective on Sebring was about to change—literally.

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In the years I spent covering NASA's shuttle launches, this particular one always stand out in my memory as one of those times when everything came together perfectly.