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For those who receive the Porsche Club of America’s national magazine, Panorama, a rare treat is coming your way. The November 2025 issue will feature my photos and story on the 1973 12 Hours of Sebring race winning Porsche 911 RSR.

This exclusive feature is one of the highest honors I have received in my automotive photojournalism career. Hope you like it.

The story begins the day after Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood of Brumos Racing won the 24 Hours of Daytona in a white Porsche M491 Carrera 911. That’s when they went looking for another 2.8L Carrera they could campaign at the 12 Hours of Sebring, which was only six weeks away.

What they found a few days before the race was one of the 49 customer cars in Light Yellow, owned by Dr. David Helmick, a radiologist and friend of Gregg’s.

After qualifying fourth, the team of Gregg, Haywood and Helmick were ready to compete on the 5.2-mile circuit alongside three other GTO class M491 Porsches in Light Yellow wearing race numbers 1, 27, and 81. The crumbling Sebring track resulted in many of the cars having to replace their windshields during the race due to rocks being kicked up by competitors. “We were lucky, but also incredibly prepared, to win this event”, Haywood remembered.