Road racing at night is one of the neatest things in motorsports, at least in my mind. As cool as it is to be at the drags and gawk at header flames, there’s something really neat about seeing guys haul ass through the darkness, their headlights cutting the blackness as they roar by. The video you are about to see was taken at the Sebing Classic 12 Hours and it features a front row seat in the McLaren M1B driven by Nigel Greensall who is in the process of reeling in the field after making a pit stop early in he race.

Sebring is one of the coolest race tracks in America if only for its history. The thing is rough and it beats up drivers and cars but it is a location responsible for so many amazing moments and it is one of the places where sports car racing in the USA really became a “thing”. Happily the competition continues to roll there these days and it is no just the vintage racers that use the facility. Modern sports car racing happens there with regularity as well.

This M1B is light, it is beautiful, and it is hairy, with a big ol’ V8 in the back. Can Am cars were kind of like glorified go-karts back in the day with monstrous power to weight ratios that tested the skills of the greatest drivers in the world. Can Am events, at their height were like global all-star races with shoes from series that ranged in scope from NASCAR to F1 would climb in to do battle.

While the drivers many not have the star power of their counterparts that date back nearly half a century, the car still look, sound, and drive the same. That’s the kind of time travel we like and we’re sure you’ll love it too.