Skip Hudson: Porsche
550 -- Start: Santa Barbara Airport, May 19, 1957
It took some unraveling to straighten
this one out. Richie
Ginther drove the #88 Porsche to victory in the Under 1500cc. race.
He then moved up to an Aston
Martin DB3S for the over 1500cc. main event and finished 6th and 2nd
in Class "D" Modified. Hudson stepped
into #88 when the car was allowed to run the larger-engined event.
Hudson DNF'd when "the engine stopped".
Car #11 is John von Neumann in Ferrari
625TRC #0672 MDTR.
Von Neumann won the "Semi-Main" over Bob Drake's in Joe Lubin's 1500cc.
"Bobtail Cooper" and finished 2nd in the "Main Event" to Eric Hauser in
Old Yeller I. (Here's a look at von Neumann's "0672"
TODAY.)
This looks like the "tail end" of the
field, with the leaders long gone. Von Neumann was a DNF on Saturday
so he was gridded at the rear. Hudson in #88 and J.P. Kunstle in
#118 were "Under 1500cc. Cars" bumped up into the main event, and would
also have been added to the rear of the starting grid.
#59 is Bob Oker in his white-looking
(but actually turquoise)
Morgan (see NEXT PAGE);
#38 is Jack Bates in his Mercedes-Benz 300SL "Gullwing Coupe" and #124
is Jim Firestone in his Frazer-Nash. None of these three drivers/cars
were contenders for an overall win.
(Info from "MotoRacing" Volume 2 #16)
(9-23-09) From Mike Savin:
"The Morgan being driven by Oker -- it
isn't "our" #59. The white colored car is a cream colored Morgan;
it was loaned to Bob for that weekend by it's owner, Bob Bondurant.
Dad's Morgan was laid up for that weekend." |
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Oker: A.C. Bristol -- Santa Barbara, September 1-2, 1956
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Lovely: Cooper-Porsche -- Pebble Beach, April 22, 1956
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