Brumos birdstrike at 50: How Porsche beat adversity to win 1973 Daytona 24 Hours

To focus on the result – a 22-lap victory for Hurley Haywood and Peter Gregg with Brumos Racing – doesn’t tell half the story. And while team owner/driver Gregg is sadly no longer around to tell the tale, Haywood, who just a few years earlier had been in the Vietnam War, takes up the story… 
“Roger Penske got a car, and Peter got a car,” Haywood, now 74, says of the …Keep reading