"The shot of the tail-finned #98 Ferrari is Jack McAfee driving John Edgar's 857 Sport s/n 0588 M.  Pete Woods in the white #700 D-Type led into the first turn, then Shelby in the #185 410 Speciale passed Woods on the long straight and held the lead of the 35-lap race the rest of the way to win.  Woods DNF'd when his D-Type's shocks failed on Lap-14.  Jack McAfee finished second in the #98 Edgar-entered 857 Sport.  Bill Murphy was third in his Kurtis-Buick. 

This Palm Springs race date was February 26, 1956.  McAfee had been highly touted to win in the #98 car that the press was calling a "Mystery Ferrari" but Shelby stole the show.  Pete Vanlaw was there that day and Pete probably has some further comments to make about the race.  This was the first race for the Edgar 857 S in the U.S. after being air freighted from Italy. 

The car had previously been refurbished at the factory after Olivier Gendebien crashed it in practice five months earlier at the RAC Tourist Trophy on Northern Ireland's TT circuit at Dundrod, when Gendebien was a rookie third string works driver for Enzo.  Gendebien received a concussion, while the 857 S was badly damaged and sent back to Maranello for a re-do, then sold to my father, who had thought he was going to get an 860 Monza instead. The history of 857 S Monza s/n 0588 M is told in my 7-page article "Sexy Beast" published in the June 2004 issue of FORZA magazine."