Festivals of Speed St Petersburg

Here's a gallery of photos from Festivals of Speed held at St. Petersburg, FL on March 24th.  Perfect day for a car show as the weather continues to please us Floridians.

There's something for everyone here:  All kinds and all colors!

What A Pretty Picture!   Lambo In Yellow

Delmas Greene With His 1960 Alfa Romeo Vignale

Previous Amelia Island Winner!

Florida Alfa Club Member Delmas Greene Receiving His Trophy

1960 Alfa Romeo Vignale

1960's Silver Cloud Rolls Royce

The Flying Lady

Alfa Romeo Quadrifoglio Above And Below

Competizione Red!

1967 Corvette- A Classic

Convertible - Bentley Style

Bruce Brock's Alfa Romeo 4C Launch Edition

Red, White And Blue Ferrari Line Up

John Picot's 1973 2000GT Veloce

Alfa Club Members Gather Around The Vignale

The New Alfa Romeo Giulia Ti Sport  - Future Classic?

Here Comes Da Judge 

Not Sure About That Green On A BMW

                                             Don Ondrejcak's GT3 Cup 2007 Porsche

                                                   
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Sebring 2018 Review

Another perfect Florida race week for the fans attending the Mobil One 12 Hours of Sebring presented by Advanced Auto Parts. The results were much different than at the season opening race at Daytona with the ESM Prototype Nissan #22 taking top honors driven by Pipo Derani, Nicolas Lapierre and Johannes van Overbeek.

At the Daytona Rolex 24 hour race a Cadillac powered  #5 Mustang Sampling Racing entry took top honors followed by another Cadillac powered Prototype; the #31 Whelen Engineering entry. Not this time!  The GT LeMans class also was shaken up by Porsche as the Ford GT's and the Corvette C7.R cars were not in front at the finish.

GT LeMans  class was taken by the Porsche GT Team #911 car driven by Nick Tandy, Patrick Pilet and Frederic Makowiecki while GT Daytona was won by #48Paul Miller Racing in a Lamborghini Huracan GT3.

The race, held on St. Patrick's day saw the usual fun and frivolity provided by a perennial fan base that entertains around the track.  Some evidence is shown below.  Take a look and enjoy this gallery of pictures I brought back for you:

St. Patrick's Day!

Pre Race Show

Hi Flying Acts

And The Cows Were Back!

Dawn's Early Light

Getting Down To Business- Roger Penske Inspects!

Early Morning Detail- #22

Race Team Introductions- Konica Minolta Team

Eventual Winners- Tequila Patron ESM Team

Stars- Ricky Taylor, Helio Castroneves and Graham Rahal

for Penske Racing

Jordan Taylor Talks With A Fan

Ever Smiling Helio Castroneves - Team Penske Acura

Crowded Lap #1

GT Daytona Entry- 3GT Racing 

One Of The Crowd Favorites- Corvette Racing's C7.R

                         M Power - Turner Motorsport

GTLM Winner - Porsche GT Team

JDC Miller Motorsports Oreca Dwarfed by BMW M6 GT3

Grid Walk Before Race - Park Place Motorsports Porsche GT3 R

                           Two BMW M8's Lead The Way - Beginning Laps

WeatherTech Ferrari 488 GT3

Audi R8 LMS GT3

Crowd Favorite Jordan Taylor - Cadillac Power

The Winner - Tequila Patron #22Nissan DPi

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Indycar Season Opener at St. Petersburg

Fly Over Prior To Race

It was another wonderful and wild weekend in St. Petersburg for the opening race for the Indycar season. Wonderful as in weather and wild as in lots of caution flags flying!  With the new aero package on the cars with less downforce drivers were sawing the steering wheel more than in the past as they learned the dynamics of driving the new machines with less downforce.

It was also a melancholic feeling this weekend as Helio Castroneves was in the house but not behind the wheel. As a tribute, his former team members even sported 'Helio' on their helmets. But fans were treated to an inspiring Q&A session with the personable Helio at the Mahaffey Theater on Friday and then the fans got to attend a special autograph signing session with him on Saturday. What a treat!

Helio Castroneves at the Q&A Session Friday

  I have so much respect for this driver and will miss him.  However if you are a fan of IMSA racing, go to see him at Sebring this coming weekend and in future IMSA racing events with the Penske racing team.

So now for some photos- I had a blast taking pictures in the cool air and mostly sunny skies.  Here's a collection of what I saw in my lens:


Click Here To Hear Helio Thank YOU- The fans!

Winner, Sebastien Bourdais 

                            Ed Jones- Chip Ganassi Racing

Max Chilton and Graham Rahal

Graham Rahal Doing Leg Stretch

Gabby Chaves

                                                  Coming At You - Ryan Hunter-Reay

Jack Harvey- Michael Shank Racing

Sebastian Bourdais Signing Autographs

On The Grid

Ready To Roll

Zach Veach & Alex Rossi Signing Autographs

Takuma Sato Signing Fan's Helmet Bag

Alex Rossi's Car Staying Cool

Zach Veach Staying Cool

Max Chilton Chilling Out

Tony Kanaan Closing in on Takuma Sato

Ryan Hunter-Reay Passing Jack Harvey

Victory Lap - Congratulations To Sebastien Bourdais!

Hope you enjoyed the photos- more to come in future posts. On to Sebring March 17th!

By Paul Ziegler, Publisher of Carcamerastory.com