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LATE NEV\IS
First, you may notice that your CP is a couple days late. It's
later in one way, but much earlier in another since the 2-day delay
made it possible to include HENRY MANNEY'S full report on the
British GP. CP will do this from now on whenever a major inter­
national event takes place the weekend before the regular printing
date. Okay?
As CP does to press,lit appears definite that MICKEY THOMP·
SON will not get to make his attempt on the Land Speed Record.
The first three miles of the 12-mi stretch was simply too rough for
the unsprung Challenger I to make the try. Not wasting time,
though, since he's announced that he will retire from active par­
ticipation this weekend, Mickey hopped into a specially-tuned Pon­
tiac and racked up a total of 28 new stock car records ••• every­
thing from 1 km to 10 mi for both the standing and flying start.
The next day, Mickey and LLOYD COX took a 421-cu-in Pon­
tiac out on the 10-ml circle to go after all the records up to the
24-hr mark. A broken rocker stud halted the attempte after 770
mi but they broke all the stock car records up to that point. Big­
gest one to fall was the 500-mi mark at 140.62 mph.
BRITISH GP
TO JIM CLARK
Dan Wins
French GP
In Porsche
ROUEN, France-Making a tri­
umphant return to racing after
their abortive showing at Zand­
voort and Monaco earlier this year,
Porsche outlasted the more fra­
gile English equipment to win the
French Grand Prix on the hilly
Rouen circuit at 103.229 mph. It
was the first-ever Grande Epreuve
victory for both Porsche and Dan
Gurney.
Second and the only other dri­
ver not to make a pit stop was
Cooper's Tony Maggs, while Richie
Ginther (BRM) finished 3rd after
having been delayed at the start.
Fastest lap (2:16.9) was by Gra­
ham Hill's BRM (106.900 mph)
who led most of the distance.
The Ferrari team wasn't on hand,
a metalworker's strike in Italy
having tied up the factory. Phil
Hill was there as a spectator and
the only good thing about it, from
his point of view, was that Graham
Hill didn't win any points either
so their standings in the champion­
ship race remain the same.
It was plain at Reims the week
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French GP
Results
Driver, Car
Behind
1. Dan Gurney, Porsche ........._.._......Won
2. Tony Maggs Cooper............._._ l lap
1
3. Richie Gintner,
BRM............_ 2 laps
4. Bruce McLaren, Cooper........._.. 3 laps
5. John Surtees, Lola...,....-.. ----·- 3 laps
6. Carel de Beaufort Porsche ...... 3 laps
7. M. Trintlgnant, Lotus.................. 4 laps
8. Trevor Taylor, Lotus·----··---- 6 laps
9. Graham Hill, BRM.................... _.10 laps
10. Jo Bonnier, Porsche............. -.. 12 laps
Av Spll-103.229 mph, New Record. (Old
recorll-100.02 mph, Fangio, Maseratl,
1957)
fastest LIP-106.900 mph, Graham HII�
BRM, New Record. (Old record-102.7i;
mph, Musso, Ferrari, 195n
=
al
By HENRY N. MANNEY
FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP win for Porsche and for Dan Gurney came at the French GP at Rouen.
(Photo Henry Manney)
Gurney is 2nd American to win a World Championship event.
CLUBS MERGE
IN SO CALIF
LOS ANGELES-Southern Cali­
fornia's two warring sports car
clubs have signed an "intent to
merge" which, when completed,
will result in the California Sports
Car Club Region of SCCA and the
United States Sports Car Club, a
USAC affiliate, becoming one club.
The news, announced here on
July 12, caught drivers and of­
ficials alike by complete surprise.
The first result of the "intent to
merge" was to p e r m i t SCCA
members to participate in USSCC's
Pomona road races on July 21-22.
It appears that the mechanics of
the merger will require six weeks
to two months to complete. Until
that time the two clubs will "co­
operate" in race presentation and
other affairs without prejudice on
either side.
Thl:ee representatives from each
group were selected to serve as
an "interim board" pending com­
pletion of the merger. These were
Lindley Bothwell, Dr Chet Bur­
graff and Denny Shutes from
USSCC and Lew Spencer, Joe
Weissman and Otto Zipper of the
Cal Club.
D. D. Michelmore and Jim
Peterson, presidents of the two
clubs, agreed that the cause of
"peace" would be better served if
neither was on the "interim
board."
The official announcement to Cal
Club members said that the
$150,000 USSCC lawsuit against
the Cal Club had been dissolved.
The announcement also said that
a new ll-man Board of Directors
for the · "new" club would be
elected by the combined member­
ship of the two groups and that the
name of the new club would be
decided in the same way.
Though not included in the an­
nouncement, it is understood that
the "merged" club will seek af­
filiation with both SCCA and
USAC.
USAC president Tom Binford,
(Continued on Page 2)
CP Editorial
MIDWEST SAYS NO TO FIA
There's been some interesting double-shuffling going on lately.
As commented on in CP some time ago ("& from the Midwest,"
June 30, 1962), there was concern over the Road America 500 at
Elkhart Lake on Sept. 9 because it was not only an SCCA Na­
tional but also listed on the FIA international calendar as a Manu­
facturers' Championship event for GT classes II and ill.
After much cogitation, the FIA listing was dropped. The de­
cision was not surprising. High SCCA officials took the rap for
it ("Because of the size and prominence the '500' has obtained as
a National event, the SCCA will not sanction an FIA Grand Tour­
ing Car Manufacturers' Championship race originally planned to be
tun concurrently . . .") but there's a bit more to the story than
that, quite a bit more.
Admittedly, there were complications-two sets of rules, two
sets of classes, and so on. There was also pressure from, strange
to say, the drivers themselves.• Their attitude appeared to be,
"We've supported Elkhart Lake with our efforts for all these
years and now they're going to bring in Ew·opean stars and fac­
tories . ..and even pay them money!"
Also affecting the decision was the peculiar situation that has
prevailed this year wherever GT cars and sports/racing cars have
run together. Whether or not you like GT racing, it has not been a
rousing success under these conditions and the "Challenge Mon­
dial " or "Prototype" cars have stolen the limelight wherever the
two ' types of cars have run together. Therefore, it was reasoned, it
would not be a good idea to introduce a large segment of the coun­
try to international racing under this handicap.
Perhaps, however, these things a1·e only convenient excuses
and there's another and even more alarming reason for shucking
off the international aspect of the Road America �00. 'I'.he�'s !10
doubt that Road America has a very good fmancial thing m its
present "two Nationals annually" setup and so does SCCA. The
reasoning therefore goes like this: Why go to the expense of at­
tracting Ew·ope � stars �d facto�·y entries when the crowd� �eep
growing, the entries remain huge, and the money from adm1Ss10ns
(and sanction fees) keeps rolling in?
AINTREE, Eng.-After all the
alarums and excursions of pre­
vious races, the 15th RAC Grand
Prix, run on the 3-mile Aintree
circuit in glorious old-world Liver­
pool, was comparatively unevent­
ful as Jim Clark (Lotus 25 Cli­
max) led from start to finish to
win at 92.25 mph, almost 10 mph
faster than von Trips' average in
1961 and 3 mph faster than the
old 2.5-liter record of Brabham's
Cooper in 1959.
Second home, and doing the best
job for Lola so far this year, was
John Surtees while McLaren
(Cooper), G. Hill (BRM) and
Brabham (Lotus) filled the next
three places. Porsche placed no­
where after their Solitude and
Rouen showing, the only Ferrari
present (for Phil Hill) failed to go
fast or finish, and thus it would
seem quite likely that an English­
man will be the new World Cham­
pion with three definite races to
go.
After a few showers and a
rather rowdy saloon car race
which was won by Jack Sears
(Jaguar 3.8) at 77.81 mph, the
sun came out and so did jillions of
Midlanders to watch practically
everyone who owns an F-1 car in
England line up on the grid.
A Ferrari for Phil
Generally speaking, the teams
were constituted as they have been
earlier this year, the only real
news being that Ferrari had finally
coughed up one car for reigning
(Continued on Page 5)
British GP
Results
Driver, Car
Behind
l. Jim Clark, Lotus................-........Won
2. John Surtees, Lora........-•.--...0:49.2
3. Bruce Mclaren, Cooper........-.......1:44.8
4. Graham HIii, BRM.......-........-.....1,56.8
5. Jack Brabham, Lotus....--··---1 lap
6. Tony Maggs, Cooper...................... 1 lap
7. Masten Gregory, Lotus_____l lap
8. Trevor Taylo!j Lotus.....-......-.... 1 lap
9. Dan Gurney, l'Orsche..........--·-·· 2 laps
10. Jack Lewis, Cooper........................ 3 laps
11. TonY Settember (Eme,yson /; 12. Ian
Burgess (Cooper); 13. Rich e Ginther
<BRM); Carel de Beaufort (Porsche); 15.
Jay Chamberlain (Lotus)! 1$. Innes Ire­
land (Lotus)
Av Spd-92.25 mph new record. (Old
record: 89.88 mpr\, Brabham, Cooper,
1959)
fastest Lap-93.91 mph, new record. (Old
record: 92.31 mp1!, Moss, BRM, & Mc·
Laren, Cooper, 1%9)
This philosophy, though perhaps it can be justfied in this par­
ticular instance, ignores the handwriting th�t is demo?strably _on
the pit wall regarding the advent of what is called (m the M1d­
west) "professionalism" and most of the rest of the world calls
"international racing."
One example not too far 1·emoved from Elkhart Lake shows
clearly that the handwriting IS on the pit waU. Otherwise, how do
you explain the position now enjoyed by Mosport Park?
(Continued on Page 2)
JIM CLARK set new lap and race
records as he won the British GP
In Lotus 25.
(Photo by Henry Manney)
Page 4
Gurney's French GP
(Continued from Page 1)
before that a good percentage of
the English cars were getting pr etty tired in bone and body, an ailment in many cases difficult to
cure as Coventry-Climax has issued an ukase that there were to
be no more important spares till
September.
If you blew up the V -8, in other
words it's back to the old 4-banger.
Gearb~xes as well are getting a
bit sloppy and the up-hill-anddown-dale 4.065 mi Rouen circuit with its bottom-cog hairpin is
almost as bad as Monaco.
In spite of this, though, a fast
downhill section mit curves effectively sorts out the men from the
boys and on the first day's practice no less than 12 runners got
below Musso's 1957 record of 2:
22.4, the best eventually being
Lotus' Jim Clark with 2 :14.8.
Next quickest were Graham
Hill (BRM ) and McLaren (Cooper) and so these three occupied
the' front row of the grid with
Brabham (Lotus) and Surtees
(Lola) right behind.
Gurney occupied the third row
with Gregory and Ireland's Lotuses the 8-cyl Porsche having underg~ne much cutting, shutting,
and stiffening since the last meeting as evinced by radius rods to
the front wishbones and wider-base
rear wheels.
Rotund Toto Roche, the organiser from Reims, was for some reason entrusted with the starting
flag here and although I don't suppose there could be much connection, the BRM of Ginther refused
to commence with the others and
in fact only got away after atten- .
tion at the pits.
Graham Hill Leads
His teammate Graham Hill,
(both BRMs were sporting twin
low exhausts) had jumped into the
lead, however, and was staying
ahead of Surtees, Clark, McLaren,
Brabham, and Gurney.
The fuel-injected BRM was appreciably faster around the sharp
Nouveau Monde hairpin, all the
Climaxes splutteripg and banging,
with Trevor Taylor in Clark's old
monococque Lotus and Trintignant in Walker's Lotus afflicted
worst of all.
In spite of this, the doughty
Surtees held grimly on to Hill's
BRM and the two of them pulled
out a slight lead from Clark and
McLaren, who in turn were separated by a sizeable gap from Brabham and Gurney.
On the 10th lap, though, the
Porsche suddenly picked up two
places as Brabham aand then Mc-
Laren trickled slowly into the pits;
the retaining ring holding the
right rear coil sprin g ha d br oken
on the Brabham Lotus and L'il
Brucie had made an excursion into
the grass and bent something vital. After a bit of fiddling, he got
going again but not with his former elan.
Pace Begins to Tell
The rot had already well started,
as Ireland's Lotus had vanished
with a flat tire from kerb-klipping and both Gregory and Siffert's L otus-BRM's fiended the
clutch. Most of the backmarkers
were in and out of the pit s like
rabbits in a, hut ch and Taylor
st ruggled in working the thr ottle
linkage over his shoulder.
Bonnier r an over somet hing hard
and 10st low gear, most em barrassing out of the hairpin, and Maggs
in the second Cooper was gradually working his way up after
being 8th in the early stages.
As t he laps reeled off it seemed
t hat Graham was running as well
as ever but he could not relax as
Surtees and Clark were on his
trail. The Lola began to slow with
an elusive misfire, though, that
would afflict it one lap and not
the next, and soon Surtees was
forced to call at his pit.
Clark thus attained 2nd and set
out after the BRM with a vengeance, turning some 2:18.4 as he
did so, but his brand-new 25 was
not strictly au point and the leader 's 20 sec cushion remained the
same.
Hill's BRM Shunted
The Lotus driver received help
from an unexpected quarter, however, when Jack Lewis lost control of his Cooper while being lapped and shunted Graham's BRM
up the back, causing the leader to
spin off and lose time getting
started again.
Clark thus assumed first on the
30th tour, almost half distance, but
his joy was short, as three laps
later, with Hill looming up in his
mirror, a ball joint housing broke
in the Lotus front suspension and
he was out.
This let Hill's BRM up in the
lead again, with a gap of 26 secs
between himself and the 2nd-place
Gurney. The next cars up were
Surtees (on the point of being
lapped), Maggs, Ginther, de Beaufort's Porsche, Bonnier's 8-cyl ditto, McLaren, Trintignant, and Taylor.
The drama wasn't over yet, however,as eight laps later the unlucky
Hill coasted to a st op at the hairpin, his throttle linkage broken.
While he did get going again, the
BRM would barely creep and it
JACK BRABHAM's Lotus goes bouncing through the air during practice
for the French GP. Jack had just made a brake pad change, failed to get
stopped and leaped over the traffic island. (Photo by Henry Manney)
DAN GURNEY, heading for his first grand epreuve win, passes B,arbham's Lotus at French GP. Gurney's
flat-8 Porsche outlasted the opposition to win by almost a full lap from Tony Maggs.
(Photo Manney)
would seem that the linkage failure was due to something jammed in the injector system.
Gurney Takes Lead
One man's meat, etc., etc., and
a surprised Gurney sailed through
into the ,f irst position with a solid
lap's lead and only 12 to go. Almost simultaneously Surtees abandoned his 2nd place with a visit to
his I pit to see if any more gears
could be found and let Maggs and
Ginther in ahead of him while
McLaren speeded up a bit and
passed into 4th only a few tours
from the end.
Everyone else was driving to
finish, especially Dan, and as the
remaining time ticked off the
usual lines of gendarmes formed
along the front of the grandstand
and also on the line in front of
the pits lest someone else than a
French photographer get a shot of
the finish.
The end of the 54th lap came up
and to copious applause, Dan Gurney r ushed across the line, arm
upraised to win the 1962 French
GP for Porsche. Almost immediately the German and U.S. national anthems were played while
everyone stood at attention.
Accident After Race
McLaren motored through and
then Surtees, going very slowly
and looking for a way to get into
his pit as the car was very tired
indeed. But he was prevented from
doing so by a thick line of coppers.
As Surtees got to the end of the
pit counter, Trintignant arrived
going fairly slowly and also wishing to enter his pit. Trint was
forced out to get around Surtees
so he could continue.
Just then Trevor Taylor arrived
at speed to take the checker and,
finding his way blocked, went
straight up the back of Trintignant.
There was the most God-awful
noise, bits of tin and fiberglass
flew in the air, and then all we
heard were fire sirens and the
noise of the cops (who had caused
the whole mess ) keeping the pit
crews from seeing if their drivers
were all right.
Fortunately the drivers were all
right, but two cars were written
off and if the accident had happened 50 yards further up the road
Le Mans '55 would have seemed
like a picnic.
Great Win for Dan
GURNEY AVERAGES 102.7 MPH FOR
FIRST AT FRENCH GP--ON DUNLOP
ROUEN, FRANCE, 8th July, 1962-The 219.5 mile French Grand
Prix was a one, two, three affair this year for Dan Gurney in a
Porsche, Tony Maggs in a Cooper and Richie Ginther in a B.R.M.
All three drove on Dunlop, continuing this tire's string of Grand
Prix victories-longest in the annals of International Racing.
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All this hoo hah rather overshadowed Gurney's meritorious win
and a pity it is too. Porsche have
put in a lot of hard develpment
work and even if the car's performance in the early stages shows
that it needs more, this victory
comes just at the time when it
may persuade the dissension-ridden Porsche works to continue
racing.
Gurney himself, as the hardest
working driver around, has had
this win coming to him for some
time. Perhaps it is significant that
his racing number ... 30 ... came
before Bonnier's?
At any rate, there have been
four GPs now and four different
makes have scored. With a new
Lola frame for Aintree and perhaps a new Ferrari, perhaps we
'can stretch this interesting situation further!
See you there.
FERRARI WINS IN AUVERGNE
BUT LOTUS 23 STEALS SHOW
By HENRY N. MANNEY
PARIS- Down in the Massif
Central of France near ClermontFerrand there is a sporting if
rather dangerous circuit much beloved of t he French even if no
Grande Epreuve has ever been run
there. On the same date as the
Solitude meeting, though, there
was a sports/GT meeting which
counted at least in GT for the
World Manufacturers' Championship.
Naturally there were scads of
Ferraris driven by such luminaries
as Guichet, Abate, Orieiller, and
Vaccarella with only Maggs'
Aston to stop them; realizing,
though, that nobody is going to
come far to see an exclusively GT
race, the organizers also included
a catch-all class for sports/prototypes which drew several AbarthSimcas and three Lotus 23s.
Regardless of the fact that the
Lotuses had been turned down at
Le Mans, no trouble was experienced here and so two 1500s
(twin cam) appeared for Arundell
and Rees while a similar 1000
was entrusted to rally driver B.
Consten.
The usual Lotus luck held in
spite of record practice times as
first Arundell took his Junior off
into the shrubbery in the Jr race,
using up the car and putting himself temporarily in too much of a
swivet to drive in the sports go
two hours later.
Australian Paul Hawkins then
took over the 1500 but, finding it
all too easy after his usual Sprites
and things, touched the valves on
the first lap and thereafter went
very' slowly. Alan Rees, No. 2
Junior driver, had spun a couple
of times in the Jr affair and
deemed it sufficient to take his
class, sports first, and over-all
2nd instead of pressing winner
Abate's 2-min margin.
Consten, in his first sports drive,
took 9th overall, beating not only
Vaccarella's Ferrari "wagon" but
the fastest Abarth-Simca (Bianchi), the fastest Porsche (Barth)
and the fastest Alfa (Foitek).
Abate himself tempered his usual
speed with caution and moved
busily up through the field from a
bad start, passing Simon, Rees,
Vaccarella, Oreiller, and Guichet
by the 5th lap.
At the end, Abate averaged 73.7
mph and had a comfortable lead
OF
over Rees, Simon (Ferrari GT),
Guichet (GTO) , Oreiller (GT),
Noblet (GT), Maggs (Aston GTwho nevertheless won the over 3liter), de Langeneste (GT) , and
Consten.
Laureau and Spychiger were
2nd and 3rd in their class with
two Bonnets of Renault derivation,
bea ting several Porsches and
Alfas. Good show for a French car.
In the Junior race, run in two
heats, the two Team Lotus entries
of Arundell and Rees handicapped
themselves as already noted and
so it became a straight fight between Maggs (Cooper-BMC) and
France's Jo Schlesser (BrabhamFord.)
Inasmuch as the BMC-engined
Coopers are appreciably down on
power to the Fords, it is certainly
a compliment to both Maggs' skill
and Cooper's good judgement that
the young South African came out
on top by winning the first heat
with a good margin.
Schlesser copped 2nd on the line
by a rather hairy maneuver but
even so he shows himself the most
enterprising of the French "comingmen." It is a change to see a
blue car someplace but at the
back even if the machinery is
made in England. Third was another Frenchman, Grandsire
(Lotus), who headed Rees and a
long string of other Hornsey products.
Auvergne Mtn
Results
1. Carlo Abate, Ferrari GTO................Won
2. Alan Rees, dohc Lotus 23 P............ 1:48
3. Andre Simon, Ferrari GL .............. 2:30
4. Jean GUichet, Ferrari GTO ................ 2:41
5. Henri Oreiller, Ferrari GL ..............3:56
6. Pierre Noblet, Ferrari GL .......... 1 lap
7. Tony Maggs, Aston Zagato GL ....1 lap
8. Roger de lageneste, Ferrari GT 2 laps
9. Bernard Consten, dohc Lotus 23 P. 2 laps
10. Lucien Bianchi, Simca-Abarth P. 2 laps
11. Nino Vaccarella (Ferrari P), 12. Gerard Laureau (Bonnet P), 13. Tony Spychiger (Simca-Abarth), 14. Edgar Barth
(Porsche Carrera GT), 15. Hans Herrmann
(Simca-Abarth P), 16. Jean Vinatier (Bonnet P), 17. Robert Buchet (PorscheAbarth GT), 18. Paul Armagnac (Bonnet P),
19. Carl Foitek (Alta GT), 20. Claude
Bobowski (Fiat Abarth P), 21. Jimmy
Blumer (Austin Cooper P), 22. Paul Hawkins (Lotus 23 P).
AV SPD-73.7 mph
FASTEST LAP-Vaccarella (3.0 Ferrari
P), 75.94 mph
GT CHAMPIONSHIP PO I NTS-GT-III (Over
2 liters), Ferrari, 9; Aston Martin, 1; GT" (1-2 liters), Porsche, 9; Alta, 4.
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July 28, 1962
IT'S DAN AGAIN AT SOLITUDE
DAN GURNEY led every lap of Solitude GP.Here he leads Jim Clark's
Lotus and the rest of the pack on the opening lap. Win, coupled with his
French GP win, gave Dan two wins in two weeks.
(Photo Sloniger)
WHAT A DIFFERENCE a year makes. Last year's British GP was all Ferrari.This year British cars took 1st
through 8th. Here winner Jim Clark has just lapped Phil Hill's Ferrari.
(Photo by Henry Manney)
Clark All the Way at Aintree
(Continued from Page 1)
Champion Phil Hill. In spite of
various rumors, this machine was
not all-new but the 1962 car with
gearbox in front of the diff, the
normal V-6 engine was used.
Spotlighting the advance in de­
sign since Trips' win last year, Phil
found himself back in the 5th row
of the grid this year while Clark,
Surtees, and Innes Ireland (UDT
Lotus) held down the front ahead
of McLa1·en and G. Hill.
Gurney (Porsche) and Ginther
( B R M ) sandwiched B on n i e r ' s
Porsche i n the 3rd while a t the
back yet two more American driv­
ers competed in the shape of Tony
Settember (Emeryson) and Jay
Chamberlain (Lotus), there being
21 starters in all.
Traditio1111] Fluffed Start
At practically every race this
season there has been some sort of
gefuffle on the starting line and
Ainu·ee was no exception; on the
reconnaissance lap Ireland dis­
covered the loss of first and second
in his Lotus' gearbox and thus,
while everyone swept away, sat
immobile on the grid.
Afte1· a short pit stop Ireland
got going, but the field headed by
Clark, Surtees, Gurney, McLaren,
Brabham and Graham Hill was al­
ready a long ways away on the
first of the 75 laps.
The good Jim knows Aintree
well and, although grimly dogged
by Fearless John, opened out a
gap between them and the next
four runners.
Gurney, as befits the victor of
Rouen, was giving the Porsche a
good ride in 3rd and looked like
staying there until the 13th lap
when it started showing signs of
clutch slip and dropped back
gradually through the field.
G. Hill's BRM in 5th
Graham Hill's BRM, with four
pipes each side collected tidily
down below, had gotten by Brab­
ham's Lotus already into 5th but
couldn't get closer than smelling
distance to McLaren's Cooper who
.....--""...
-� �--
JOHN SURTEES, driving the latest Lola for Bowmaker-Yeoman, finish­
ed 2nd at British GP behind Lotus 25 of Jim Clark. (Photo Manney)
in turn was waiting for the
hitherto fragile Lotus and Lola to
break.
Nothing much happened up
front except for Clark rocketing
around in the lead but there were
some jolly old dices going on in
back. Cooper second man Maggs
was involved in a scrap with Bon­
nier (Porsche) who eventually got
by only to retire later with a
broken ring and pinion. Masten
Gergory in the second of the UDT
Loti, Climax-engined this time as
the BRM has been whipped out,
was passed by those two and then
got involved with Salvadori in
the second Lola, who eventually
got ahead a bit until he too retired
with "ignition difficulties."
Next up was Phil and Ginther
(BRM), who as old teammates
swapped places energetically t?ut
politely for quite a few laps with
Phil taking to the grass on one
occasion at Melling Crossing.
Trouble for Ginther
Richie eventually got the better
of this duel as the Ferrari seemed
to be developing even less power
than it has showed so far this sea­
son; the BRM jinx must have
settled on Ginther personally,
though, as he stopped temporarily
out on the course on the 44th lap
1-2-3 AT BRITISH GP
ON DUNLOP
AINTREE, England-Jim Clark, John Surtees _and Br�ce �c­
Laren finished first, second and third this year at Amtree with Jrm
Clark averaging a record-breaking 92.25 mph in his Lotus. All
three drove on Dunlop, adding to this tire's string of victories ...
longest in Grand Prix racing.
Wins like this are just the beginning for a Dunlop tire concept.
Performance features that survive the track must be evolved to
serve equally well at high speeds on the highway. Such a tire is
the Dunlop Road Speed RS5--speedy kin and highway e9ual to the
Dunlop RS racing tire. The RS5 has stamina, road-staying power,
and tenacity in the turns even in the wet. Fast starts and stops are
the rule of the Road Speed RS5.
If you drive a high speed, high performance car, match it with
the Road Speed RS5. It's that kind of tire. Write for more infor­
mation.Dunlop Tire and Rubber Corporation, Buffalo 5, N.Y.
with a wire loose on the fuel
pump.
Phil didn't profit by this much,
however, as he lost bis 9th place
three laps later when a valve fe]]
in.
Of the others, Taylor (Lotus)
dropped a lap when be stopped
early on to secure a loose carbur­
etor bell, de Beaufort broke his
clutch hydraulic line about the
same time which cut his usual ex­
uberant progress somewhat, Set­
tember was slowed with odd hand­
ling later traced to a loose rear
wheel, Chamberlain found himself
unexplainably down on revs, Sei­
del retired his new Lotus-BRM
with general debilitation, and
Shelley's Lotus boiled.
By JERRY SLONIGER
STUTTGART,
Germany-This
business of winning Formula I
races appears habit-forming, at
least for Dan Gurney and his flat8 Porsche. Exactly a week after
posting his first championship win
Dan turned in another trophy per­
formance on Porsche's home
ground. He took the Solitude race
from a meagre but eager field by
leading every lap of the 25. Jo
Bonnier was 2nd with the other
team Porsche car.
Actually I think Gurney drove
harder and more beautifully at
Solitude than he did in Rouen
where it was a waiting game
against many faster cars. At Soli­
tude the American was clearly
slower in top speed than Jim
Clark's Lotus 25 but he refused to
admit it. Clark got the jump at
the start and led into the first fast
left-hand sweep but Gurney got
inside him up the hill, took the
wide line at the climbing hairpin
and refused to give ground though
Clark bad him beaten in theory.
Gurney wasn't interested in
theories. He had that exceedingly
grim "go-faster" face on all the
way. He and Clark exited from
European
Race Briefs
NURBURG RING-The 12-hr
race for touring sedans was won
by a 3.8 Jaguar driven by Peter
Lindner and Hans Walter.A Lan­
cia Flaminia ran 2nd with another
Jaguar 3rd. Class wins were
scored by Mini-Cooper,
Fiat
Abarth, Glas Isard, Volvo 122-S,
Volvo PV-544 as well as the Jag­
uar and Lancia.
Clark Sets Lap Record
BENELUX CUP RACE d
So about from the first quarter
of the race we bad Clark pulling Zandvoort for F-Jrs was won by
away easily, showing his mastery Belgian Robert Crevits in a Lotus.
of the car and cow'Se by the fast­ A Merlyn driven by Andre Pilette
est lap of 1:55 (93.91 mph), an­ took 2nd and a Lova with Tony
other new record, while Surtees Feanch was 3rd.
(Lola), McLa1·en (Cooper), G. Hill
TRENTO BEDONE hillclimb
(BRM), Brabham (Lotus) and was won by Ludovico Scarfiotti in
Maggs (Cooper) trailed behind at a 2-liter V-6 Ferrari. Heini Walter,
varying distances waiting for the driving Porsche's flat-8 2-liter,
others to disappear. They didn't, took 2nd.
and in fact G. Hill narrowly es­
CASTLE COMBE meet in Eng­
caped being lapped as the end of
land saw Chris Summer's Chev­
the race rolled around.
powered Cooper set a new lap
After the high percentage of record as he won the 10-lap
retirements earlier this season, it Formula Libre race.
was refreshing to see that only
MONT BLANC RALLY was
five cars dropped out although it won by a French team, Trautmann
was a pity that Phil Hill was one and Laurent, driving a Mini­
even if the Ferrari wasn't really Cooper. The Meunier/Brifford Jag­
competitive. Perhaps something uar took 2nd and the Spinedi/
will turn up for the German GP. Spinedi team was 3rd in a Ferrari.
At any rate, Clark pulls himself
BUENOS AIRES 6-hr sedan
back into contention for the cham­ race at the Autodrome was won
pionship with 18 points, second by an Alfa TI Giulietta.Ten laps
only to Graham Hill who still leads back in 2nd and 3rd was a BMW
with 19. Since McLaren has 16, 700 and a Panhard.
Phil 14, and Surtees 13, with the
PHOENIX PARK, Ireland, 15nearest Porsche tied with the lap Gold Flake race was won by
steady Maggs at 9, you can see S. J. Taylor's Lotus Elite. Mike
that the race is still very open in­ Templeton won the F-Jr race in a
deed and not by any means sewed Lotus.
up.
SNETTERTON, Eng., Scott­
With additional stiffening in the Brown Memorial Trophy race was
chassis, the Lolas are now more won by Graham Hill driving
competitive, there should be an­ UDT's 2.5-liter Lotus 19. Mike
other 25 for Taylor at the Nurburg Parkes was 2nd, John Surtees 3rd,
Ring, Maggs is getting better all both
in Ferrari Berlinettas. Hill,
the time . . . so don't take any driving a 3.8 Jaguar, also won the
bets!
saloon car race ahead of P. G.
Sachs' Corvette-engined Chevy II.
See you in Germany.
the Hedersbach hairpin side by
side with Clark a hair down on
torque.From there it was Gurney
on skill, using all the road, includ­
ing the white lines that separated
the pavement from hay bales every
lap until the Lotus challenge
faded in the late rounds.
Clark, to give him his due, was
bothered in the early going by a
fluffy motor that cost those prec­
ious tenths in the tough corners,
while the flat-8 with air con­
ditioning ran flawlessly right
through the dry-wet-dry afternoon.
When the rains came at lap 20
Gurney demonstrated a perfect
throttle foot, picking a wide line
for the corners and then accelerat­
ing gently without having to lift
off to control the power. Clark
was less careful and exited into a
fence. He limped into his pits but
was unable to continue. His Lotus
teammate, Trevor Taylor, also
visited the scenery but continued
the race Without losing a place.
The team Lotus duo were the
only competitors Porsche had to
fear on home ground since all
other works entries were declined
or withdrawn for a F-1 event fall­
ing only seven days after Rouen
and six before Aintree. Clark did
his best with a new record lap in
training but it wasn't enough on
Sunday when Dan undercut the
mark, leaving the track standard
at 3:55.6 or 108.4 rnph. The record
he broke was his own from 1961.
Behind this 8-cyl event the Soli­
tude run featured what amounted
to a second race for four-cylinder
F-I cars, led an the way by Ian
Burgess in the Anglo-American
Equipe more-or-less Cooper/Cli­
max. Ian was outdoing himself
with a very steady effort that left
even de Beaufort's ex-works
Porsche behind. Carel was plagued
by shock absorber bothers, how­
ever.
The run ended with Dan lapping
everybody but teammate Bonnier's
flat-8 Porsche (balked at the start
by photogs) and Taylor, with
Burgess 4th and de Beaufort 5th.
SOLITUDE GP-1. Oan Gurney (Porsche 8),
2. Jo Bonnier (Porsche 8), 3. Trevor Taylor
(Lotus 8), 4. la11 Burgess (Cooper 4), 5. ca rel
.
de Beal/fort (Porsche 4), 6. Gerhard Mitter (Lo­
tus 4li 7. Heinz Schllfer (Porsche 4), 8. Ber­
nard i;ollomb (Cooper 4). Av spcl-100.72 mph.
Fastest faP-Gurney, 108.4 mph (new record).
Italian GP
Postponed
PARTS-Just in passing, I hear
that extensive works are going on
at Monza to improve it from the
spectator safety point of view . . .
a clear case of locking the stable
very late.
The significant thing is that
these works won't be done in time
for the scheduled Sept. 2 Italian
GP. The organizers have an­
nounced that it will be held on
Sept.16-the date of the now-can­
celled Spanish GP.
Haven't heard anything from
FIA on this postponement but
they'll probably allow it.
Why not move it to Pescara?
Better course anyway.
-Henry Manney
July 28, 1962
COMPETITION PRESS
Page 6
Die Van der Feen from the MIDWEST
HAPPY MID-OHIO
It's now clear that the new Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is a major,
happy factor-and it couldn't happen to a more deserving area. The inaugural event, a July 6-7-8 Drivers' School sponsored by NE Ohio Region, was a stunner. Sixty students attended, shepherded by some of the
top .national license holders and
officials in the Midwest as instruc- small grille of the 2600 are copied,
tors. Hard to believe, but all came but smaller. Fenders, greenhouse
away singing the circuit's praises. and sides have been boxed out in
Sentiment was summed up by the Berlina model in the habit of
the drear y "new Italian school" of
Jesse Coleman, Area 4 chief steward and well-know starter: "This square streamlining. Announced
course has everything it needs to horsepower of 106 at 6000 rpm is
SAE type hor ses. The DIN rating
make it a success."
is 92. Thus, t his is a "Standard,"
It was clear to everyone that not
"Veloce" version of the new enthe owners of Mid-Ohio really
No word if a hot variation is
care. President Les Griebling and gine.
forthcoming. Weight of the Spider
manager Chuck Akins received and
is up about 55 pounds
compliments practically unheard over Sprint
the Giulietta models.
of in this sport : "Wonderful
they are doing everything we ask
Wheel Speil
... they do things right and thorBig SCCA National at Meadowoughly."
dale in prospect, Aug 4-5, with
Driver amenities, including the new management doing its
showers, are dazzling. There are darndest to put it over large. Mid18 communications stations con- America Auto Racing under Ralph
nected by underground cables. Ab- Banghart is trying hard and imsolutely an all-out effort in safety- proving everything they can lay
consciousness is evident. Spectator their hands on for drivers and
facilities were not pushed for the spectators. Social note on the
crowd-less School. They will be event: THE place to go, The Brass
brought up to the other stan~ards Fox restaurant, St. Charles, Ill., is
for the first race meet, a RegIOnal, no longer owned by Allan Ross
Aug. 18-19.
and Jim Dryden. New owners are
The School saw 60 entrants, 50 not "race crowd."
of whom passed the rigid tech inThe Rand-Porsche Corp. of Chispection. Compliments on the qual- cago is adding a Honda franchise
ity of the School poured in. All to the premises. Frank Rand has
students were required to acc~u­ sold his RS-60 and is taking delate at least five hours of drlvmg liver y of an Elva VI into which
to get their permits. Chuck Diet- will be tucked a Porsche Super 90
rich, chief instructor, conducted
engine. Oh my ... Bob Schroeder
much of the lecture work. Chuck of Dallas is taking delivery of a
Stoddard, chief steward, led the 1500cc de Tomaso sports car to go
on-course instruction. Instructors with his Formula Senior item of
drove students' cars and rode as the same breed . .. B,ud Seaverns
passengers before let tin g their is chairman of the Road America
charges go off on their ?wn. Even 500 weekend. George Lamberson,
a written test was reqUIred of as- Chief Steward. Interesting group
pirants.
of Stewards of the Meeting inWeekend climax was a 10-lap cludes Fr.ank Falkner, Jim Kimstudent race. It came just after a berly, Tracy Bird, and Cameron
shower, giving valuable experience Argetsinger .. . SCCA Competition
of driving on a wet surface. No Committee will give top priority to
incidents, no hitches for the week- establishing a corps of licensed
end; and the schedule was adhered technical inspectors. Much like the
successful Chief Steward Program.
to throughout.
Rumors of a newly-scheduled
It looks as if the Mid-Ohio circuit near Lexington, Ohio, will SCCA National at IRP this fall
have a lot of business Aug. 18-19 are ill-founded. Indianapolis Reand many more weekends in the gion has requested October dates
future. It's the first private road for a National, all right-but Occourse in a state that has long had tober, 1963.
a more-than-proportionate amount
Though it's just catching on in
of sports car interest, sports car the East, clubs belonging to Midclubs, sports car sales, an~ c0Il!- west Sports Car Council have long
petition license holders. MId-OhIO charged for pit and paddock passes.
is big news of the best kind. Wel- "Driver plus one free pass" is the
come.
rule with various member clubs
More on the Giulia
charging and rating workers difThe newly announced 1570cc ferently. But the general policy
Alfa Romeo Giulia, from pictures holds at all MWCSCC events and
just received of the sedan version, has pr evented the pass-abuse synis almost a complete body re-de- drome from raising its pernicious
.
sign. The quad - headlights and head.
Buick Hybrid Wins Again atThompson
THOMPSON, Conn.-In points,
a hybrid powered by a Buick
aluminum V -8 seems to be the top
performer at the Thompson circuit
since Bob Colombo sian repeated
his May victory on July 15th iIi his
Buick Mustang.
But the factory-builts weren't
out of it, either, Dave Schiff
demonstrating that as he worked
his Porsche RS-60 past six CM
cars and threatened the Mustang
itstlf toward the end.
Third at the end of the 40-mi
modified race was John Meyer in
his Meyer Spl.
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Another demonstration of the
wonderful age of F -Jr was made
by Bill Smith in a Cooper Jr.
Running with the Unrestricteds,
the race started with Jack Walsh
way out front in Stutz Plaisted's
1500cc Cooper Climax.
But Smith wasn't content with
3rd place. On lap 3, he got past
Phil Cade's old Maserati monoposto and then, picking up 1-2
secs a lap, caught and passed
Walsh on the 9th time around.
In doing the chore, Smith turned
the fastest time of the day, 69.95
mph.
The two closest races of the
day were in classes A and D Prod.
In the former, both in Corvettes,
Bob Brown held off Mike Gammino for nearly half the race, then
overcooked things and went over
the sand bank at turn one in his
Corvette.
The D race, Frank Gorman
(Healey), Ralph Troiano (Alfa) ,
William Takas (Porsche S) and
Ralph De Ciantis (Alfa) had at it
in wondrous fashion and you
couldn't have gotten a bet on anybody until the final flag fell with
De Ciantis in front, Takas 2nd and
Troiano in 3rd.
-Ken Parker
Tweedale Lola
Wins Handicap
VINELAND, N. J.- Art Tweedale, Lola 1100, won the 35-lap,
52.5-mi handicap feature at Vineland on July 8.
All the modifieds ran in one
event with the HM boys sent off
first, 35 secs ahead of the GM
contingent, a bit more than a lap
over the FM cars and so on to
more than 3 laps advantage over
the CM gang.
Getting into 2nd on the 33rd (of
35) laps was W. S . Shamlein's
Elva V. Third, showing that the
handicappers didn't miss all that
far, was John Holmes in the exOllie Schmidt 750cc Lola-Osca.
Ken Butler finished 4th after holding the lead for the first nine laps
in his 750cc Osca.
The bigger machinery was additionally handicapped by a slippery track resulting from 95-degree heat and much spilled oil. Ed
Lowther tore around ferociously
in his Lister-Chev but went out
after 18 laps. Best of the big stuff
at the finish of the handicap was
G. Carlson's Healey-Chev in 9th
place.
In the. production car feature,
Charlie Hayes made a successful
return to Vineland in his Berlinetta but had to trail DuBois' Corvette for the first 6 laps and wait
for the Detroitster to spin at the
end of the back straight.
-John W. Bornholdt
SCHROEDER'S F·SR
WINS AT HAMMOND
HAMMOND, LA.-Neither rain,
nor heat, nor the threat of being
squashed by a field of monster
modifieds could ' prevent Bo b
Schroeder from winning at Hammond on July 15 in his Alfa-powered de Tomaso F-Sr.
Schroeder got off the grid in
4th behind three Corvette-powered
specials, quickly passed Mason
O'Keiff's Kurtis-Chev, then took
out after Bob Riley's Linx.
For the next several miles it was
the Linx on the straight and the de
Tomaso in the corners but with
the de Tomaso eventually taking
2nd.
Then came the r un .for the Ingram cup, Schroeder trailing Bill
Moore's Devin-Corvette by about
50 yds. Finally, pushed by the de
Tomaso, the Devin packed up and
Schroeder romped home free at
an average speed of 88.13 mph.
O'Keiff motored in to finish 2nd
and Tom Charles' Ferrari Mondial
was 3rd.
In case you were wondering
what happened to the two standbys of Louisiana racing, Bill Fuller
and Harry Washburn, they were
watching from the pits. Fuller
blew the D-J ag' s engine in practice and Washburn's CooperMaser, recently purchased from
Hap Sharp, pumped the oil pressure clean through a couple of
rings and the head gasket while
trying to win the modified prelim.
Schroeder won that one too,
after Washburn dropped out. Big
day for the driver who was once
the "poor boy" of the Texas Raiders but who's now established as a
respectable threat in any race.
I
-D. J. Cipnic
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The biggest sensation in class G modified racing since the advent
of the Lola is the de Tomaso driven by Jim Scott-an "unknown"
car with an "unknown" driver who has won GM in three straight
SCCA Nationals.
First. a little background. The car is owned by Ollie Schmidt,
Winnetka, III., himself a pretty fair country driver as attested to
by his SCCA National Championships with a Lola-Osca in 1960-61.
Jim Scott, the driver, a partner in a VW-Porsche agency in Libertyville, III., drove his first novice race just over a year ago, campaigned a Porsche last year', then, after teething trouble with the
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Higher and longer (but lighter) than most of its opponents, the
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and a lot of de Tomaso everywhere. The transmission/differential
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they don't even look like gears. There are small triangular fittings
on the side and meshing is not done on the tops of the teeth but
from the side. Operation is so good that the clutch is not used
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Sco~t and Schmi~t ca~e? Not likely, they're going after the SCCA
National championship aand. the way things are going, they're
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DE TOMASO SP,ECIFICATIONS
Wheelbase, in ............................................. 87
Track, F & R, in .........................................52
Overall length ............................................ 162
Overall width ................................................ 56
Height (top of screen)..............................29
Weight, approx, dry, Ibs ......................... 735
Whee ls, front....Amadori magnesium 13 x 5
Wheels, rear ..Amadori magnesium 13 x 6lh
Tire Size, front.. ............................450 x 13
Tire Size, rear ................................550 x 13
Brakes: Amadori l1·in discs, single·caliper
Steering lock·to·lock ..........................2 turns
Suspension, Front: Independent, unequal
length A·arms, coil springs & anti·roll
bar.
Susp~n.sion,
Rear: Independent, parallel
upper
trailing arms,
lower A·arm
strut, anti·roll bar.
'
Chassis: Triangular space type round mild
steel tubing
,
Body.............................................. Aluminum
Engine Location ........................................Rear
Engine Details: 4·cyl Osca, dohe, 70 x 70.8
mm bore x stroke, 1093 cc, 116 hp at
7750 rpm, two Weber 38DCOEA carbs,
coil ignition
Gearbox: de Tomaso/Citroen 5-speed close
ratio
Fuel capacity.................... 10 plus 12.4 gals
Price, FOB Chicago..............................$7500
Betts Scores Again at CDR
CASTLE ROCK, ColO.-Bob
Betts continued his domination of
Continental Divide Raceways at
the "Castle Rock Challenges" by
winning both features in his tired
old Cooper Jr. He also managed
to take another chunk out of the
course record, turning 2:10.4, a
time bettered only by Carroll
Shelby with the Scarab back in the
old days at 2 :09.
It was a small and rather
strange modified field that he defeated, with major competition removed Saturday when Chuck Hall
flipped his Elva Jr in practice.
Hall was uninjured in the accident,
which brought about a reversal of
the planned wrong-way running of
the event to give out-of-towners a
square go.
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finale was Hank Candler, who
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To add interest t o the program,
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various pairs of closely matched
cars in "grudge" races. In each
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and the spectator s watched and
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or what it meant if they did. Or
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