| There was a National Race July 9-10,
1955. They were races that "went very badly" as R?T magazine later wrote,
as crowd control was poor and a lady killed herself when she hit the Eucalyptus
tree on the outside of turn 1. Pete Lovely told me he also crashed at that
weekend's races, at the turn 4-5 sweeper that came after the downhill stretch
from "Ocean Corner." Drivers were hooking their wheels on the inside
dip of the turn and were pulled around. Evidently if you missed getting
your tires into the dip the car wouldn't make it around the turns. This
is where Ken Miles flipped one of Von Neumann's Porsches and also where
Lovely turned over his Pooper.
These cars had no roll bars and Lovely said he was inside the car, upside
down, yelling for the workers to "Get his thing off me". He fixed
the car good enough to win (I think) the under 1500cc event the following
day.
There was also a race on October 22-23,
1955, and the final days of Torrey Pines took place over the weekend of
January 14-15, 1956."
Torrey
Pines 2 -- More of Bob Engberg's photos ? memories!
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