It's now almost 50 years since American endurance hero Hurley Haywood won back-to-back Daytona 24 Hours events. Now considered the US's top sports car driver, he looks recalls an incredible career in today's Great Read
Statistics are never the whole story. But they are often a good place to start, so here's a man who won the Le Mans 24 Hours at his first attempt and went on to be victorious there in three different decades. He also won the Daytona 24 Hours five times, and the Sebring 12 Hours twice. During a racing career lasting a remarkable 43 years – the majority of it in Porsches – he scored more than 40 wins in major sports car races.
In his homeland, Hurley Haywood is renowned as the greatest endurance racer America has ever produced. Elsewhere this quiet, self-contained man is less well known. So when we both found ourselves as judges at the recent Amelia Island concours d'élégance, that was an excellent opportunity for me to fly out to Florida a day early and persuade him to sit down to lunch...
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