Vanderbilt Cup Race, Roosevelt Raceway, Long Island 1960

An attempt was made to bring back the Vanderbilt Cup Races to Long Island in 1960. The 75-mile race featured Formula Junior cars and was held in the parking lot of Roosevelt Raceway, a trotter track in Westbury, N.Y.
,on June 19, 1960. The winner of the race was Harry Carter in a Stanguellini. The accompanying sports racing class was won by Walt Hansgen in a Birdcage Maserati.  While cleaning out my attic, I discovered some 35mm black and white negatives of that meeting that I had taken.   Any comments and identification would be welcome.  Some of the other notable drivers in the race included; Pedro and Ricardo Rodriquez, Roger Ward, Jim Rathman, Jim Hall, Carroll Shelby, Lorenzo Bandini, Charlie Kolb and others. I have been told the second and third from left in the above photograph are Roger Ward and Chris Economaki.

Rest and Be Thankful

Rest and be thankful hill climb was run from 1949 to 1969
as competition to the British Hill Climb Championship.
  Jackie Stewart raced a Ford 105E engined Marcos here in 1961.
He said: "it's a special place for me, the cradle of my life in
motor racing. I must say as a young American,
I was fascinated by the array of cars,
in particular the Cooper-Japs and Cooper-Norton.
these are some pictures from the June 1964 event.
The first is a Maserati Special driven by Lord Doune
of the Doune Motor Museum, note duel rear wheels.
The next is Mrs. Agnes Mickel in a Cooper.

Maserati Special

Agnes Mickel

Maserati Special

Chaparral Cannonball

Cooper - Monaco?

Mason Mk.1 special

Funny thing happened on the way to Monaco

Another note concerning my friend Duncan Cameron.  In either 1963 or 64 one of the Birell brothers of Glasgow motor sports fame asked Duncan for a favor.  That was to paint a helmet for Jackie Stewart for his F-3 Monaco race.  He wanted his family tartan which Duncan did. The day before leaving we discovered that he had not painted the detachable white visor which covered some of the tartan.  In order to have it dry in time we put it in his grill of his stove.  After a few EcEwan's, sniff, sniff, what was that? It was the melted visor.  Luckily there was a black visor with the helmet.  The attached picture, may or may not be that helmet, I didn't take it, but I do have a nice autograph from Jackie and Graham.

I found a picture online of this helmet.

And the Scots have a history in Motor Sports

 

Charterhall was the major circuit in Scotland in 1the early 1960's.  Ecurie Ecosse dominated sports car racing in the 50's with a "semi" work Jaguar team which won Le Mans two times with a D-Type Jag.  These are a few pictures of their Tojeiro and Transporter at Charterhall in 1963.  The person painting the number was my friend Duncan Cameron , artist/signpainter.  I believe Jimmy Stewart, Jackie's brother, was driving this car.

Aintree 1964

Jim Clark

Aintree International 200 Meeting

18^th April 1964

The feature race the “200” was won by Jack Brabham driving his Brabham Climax, second was Graham Hill in a BRM and third Peter Arundel in a Lotus.  Although Jim Clark crashed, he did set fastest lap of 96.26 mph in his lotus.  Brabham team mate was Dan Gurney and Graham Hill was teamed with Richie Ginther.  Other well known names were Bruce McLaren and Phil Hill in Cooper Climax’s, Innes Irelend and Trevor Taylor in BRP/BRMs.  Reg Parnell entered Lotus BRMs for Chris Amon and Mike Hailwood. Other drivers of note were Giancarlo Baghetti, Teddy Pilette, Jo Bonnier, Denny Hulme, and David Hobbs to name a few.  Jackie Stewart was driving a f-3 Cooper for Tyrrell Racing.  Prize money was ₤200 for the first finisher irrespective of class, the Aintree 200 trophy and the Daily Mirror Trophy, class wins ranged from ₤150 for first to ₤25 for sixth.  Bruce McLaren won the sports car race in a Cooper Climax and a prize of  ₤30.  The F-3 race was won by Jackie Stewart with a prize of  ₤50 and Jack Sears in a Ford Galaxie won the Saloon Car race and ₤15, Jim Clark was third for ₤5. When Jack Brabham mounted the podium, he tossed his helmet to his son Geoff,saying to go throw it in the car. There was no real separation between fans and drivers then as you can see from my picture of Jack.  I obtained my first autograph on the program from him, which was the start of a small collection of F-1 driver autographs.