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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Motorsport photographer Brian Cleary captures his final assignment at the 2025 Indianapolis 8 Hours, closing a remarkable racing career.

The story behind my photo of air Force One departing the 2004 Daytona 500 with President George Bush on board as race winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. passes by on the race track

In February of 1983, A.J. Foyt had teamed with Bob Wollek, Claude Ballot-Lena and Preston Henn to win that year's 24 Hours of Daytona in Henn's Swap Shop Porsche 935.

When covering event for media outlets like these you were pretty much at the mercy of your employer as far as what film you were shooting to