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.


4 comments:

  1. Ohhhhhh,THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    When I was 12, we went to this even with Newt Davis and the Lime Rock collection of reprobates!!! Ward posed for a picture with me....

    wow

    limerockecodger

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  2. Yes, appears to be Roger Ward and Chris E. in photo #1. No idea on the others. Walt Hansgen in photo #3, I think.

    "Knobbly" Lister, with an American V-8 transplant (carb hatch) in #2 and several others (the flat black car). If Hansgen was in a Birdcage, maybe it's #50 in photo #13. A surprise he wasn't in a Cunningham car (white/blue stripes). You probably know the rest of the cars?

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