1970 Sebring 12 Hours

The 1970 12 Hours of Sebring was an endurance race held at the 5.2 mile (8.3 km) Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, Florida, United States on March 21, 1970. It was the twentieth running of the endurance classic and the second round of the 1970 World Sportscar Championship season.

The 1970 running is considered by many to be the best 12 Hours of Sebring ever. This was the first 12 Hours of Sebring where the cars used a rolling start, a procedure similar to the start which is used at the Indianapolis 500, and has been used at every Sebring 12 Hours to this day. Before 1970, the drivers did a traditional Le Mans start, but the events of the 1969 Le Mans race in which English driver John Woolfe was killed driving his Porsche 917 after a crash in which he did not have his seatbelts fastened led the governing body to ban Le Mans starts on grounds of safety.

To accommodate the large grid, this race preset uses the old Le Mans type start. This grid requires extra attention, because it might be one of the few where a Porsche 917 was in the same race as a Volvo Amazon. Slower traffic plays an important role in navigating around. Unfortunately not a lot of liveries were available for this race.

Note: This is a big grid with about 60 cars.

Track

https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/sebring-1966.53663/

https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/sebring-1966-start-extension.62773/ 1966 grid start and extension to handle more cars

Gridfiles

Car set preset with paid mods

Car set preset without paid mods

Cars

Single download of cars and liveries without the paid mods

Paid mods link (Alfa Romeo T33/3 Spider, Porsche 908/03, Chevron B16, Porsche 908 Flunder, Matra-Simca MS650)

To use the grid preset with the paid mods, you actually need to have those mods installed. They do not come with the large download file.

Liveries

Limited liveries exist for the 1970 race and maybe the community will step up recreating these for this iconic race.