Thursday, March 10, 2011

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.