| This photo copied from the "Car
Movie Database" website. It was hard to find over there so your
webmaster "lifted" it for use here (contrary to his usually high ethical
standards).
Historian Ron Cummings remembers this moment:
"I was standing right in the path of the Scarab, on the spectator
side of the fence for this one. It was at the second race weekend at Riverside.
The SCCA ran their event about a month after the CalClub, in the fall of
1957.
As I remember it, Reventlow pulled out a lead of the entire straight
between Turns Six and Seven during the first lap! On the second lap
going into Turn Seven a half-shaft broke sending the car into a terrific
slide. When the car stopped all was well. Bob Oker's underpowered
Aston-Martin DBR2 took over first and never gave it up." |
