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Around Rouen with Graham Hill
With a first row start and fastest lap in the race, the 1962 French Grand Prix really should have belonged to Graham Hill. But a minor bump with a privateer and later engine problems forced Graham to finish 10 laps off the pace. This race was made famous, of course, by Gurney’s win in a Porsche — the first Formula 1 win for both. Let’s take a spin around the forests of Normandy with Graham Hill at the wheel of his unlucky BRM, shall we?
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1963 Road America 500 Final Installment
It all comes down to this, in the closing laps of the RA 500, will it be Elva-Porsche? or Cobra?
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More 1963 Road America 500
I’m always struck, when seeing vintage footage of Road America, by how little the track itself has changed over the years. Yes, the old buildings and start/finish complex is noticeably different, but the track itself is much the same as when Gurney, Hill, and Gregory gritted their teeth through the Carousel.
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1963 Road America 500 part 1
I’ll be traveling to the happiest place on Earth, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, this weekend for the VSCDA Fall Vintage Race. While I’m gone, let me share a bit of Road America with you in the form of this three part video of the 1963 SCCA Road Racing Championship Road America 500 race.
It’s Porsche-Elva vs. Cobra. Reliability vs. brute force. Maneuverability vs. top speed. It’s Road America. What more do you want?
Parts 2 and 3 will follow through the weekend.
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1951 Bridgehampton Road Race Film
Our love for the Bridgehampton road race is well known. We even love the later purpose-built race course that has since suffered the ultimate humility—becoming a golf course.
But now is not the time to dwell on these tragedies, for some lovely footage of the 1951 Road Race has surfaced. Not seen in over 25 years, this fantastic film provided by Walter McCarthy and the Long Island Old Car Club showcases such competitors as Briggs Cunningham and John Fitch pushing their mighty Ferrari and Jaguar through a field of Cad-Allards, Healeys, Cisitalias, and MGs on city streets and county roads. This is absolutely marvelous!
More video is finding its way online in the days following the Monterey Historics. Here’s a lovely example: the starting grid for Group 7 rolling out. A field that includes Porsche 917s, 910s, 906, and others. Hallelujah!
Here’s another for the Porschephiles among us. Let’s take a walk among the amazing machines that Porsche brought from their collection. Everything from the LeMans winning Herrmann/Attwood 917 (wow), to a pair of Porsche 804 Formula 1 cars (wow!), to the Redman/Siffert Targa Florio 908/3 (wow!!). Amazing.
Here’s what a few hundred million dollars worth of Ferrari GTOs looks like.