Brabham Sees Enough to View Checkered Flag

On a day when nearly everyone else had serious problems, Geoff Brabham’s biggest obstacle was an oily windshield.

The four-time defending IMSA Camel GTP champion, driving a Nissan NPT-92 prototype, could see well enough Sunday to win his fourth Miami Grand Prix.

It was easy at the end, but that nearly opaque windshield almost cost Brabham midway through the two-hour timed race when he overshot his pit.

“I could only see vague shapes of bodies and I couldn’t see colors or anything,” Brabham said. “I came in real slow and tried to pick out the red uniforms of my crew, but when I stopped, I looked out and saw a sign that said ‘Bud’ (Jones’ sponsor), and I knew I was in the wrong place and had to go ‘round again.”

Brabham won his 26th IMSA race by averaging a race-record 92.040 m.p.h., breaking the mark of 84.470 set by Raul Boesel last year. Brabham covered 99 laps and 185.427 miles, two laps and 1 minute 6.201 seconds more than the Chevrolet GTP of Wayne Taylor.