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.

The '98 500 was one of the most most memorable Daytona 500's I ever photographed and reinforced my impression of Dale Earnhardt as a near mythical figure in the history of stock car racing.