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Clubs Legitimize Big Rangers With Canadian-American Series By Charles Fox News Editor

NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 15 -The SCCA, in conjunction with the Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs (CASC) today announced a five race series to be held in the two countries in the Fall) and named the Canadian~ American Challenge Cup.

by the CSI, emphasized that it would in no way affect the Canadian-American Cup.

"There are still problems to be worked out by the CSI" said one spokesman, "and in all likelihood no definite decision will be made until April.

big sports car championship is going to emerge in the American-Canadian Challenge. "

The proposed CSI series recognizes just that as emphasized by its proposed driver pOints system which would only count in North American races. .

The series will dangle a dazzling $165,000 cash pot in front of a list of entries that is bound to include top flight international drivers from every nation involved in the sport.

"So far as we're concerned, we've got a major league, going operation, and while the two or three additional overseas . races would be interesting to add, the real significance of any

The remainder of the CSI plan calls for pOints in the same· manner as the CanAm Series, but according to marque, and in this way provides '.for a "manufacturer's" championship.

Jim Clark (2.5 Lotus 39-Climax) checks 'lap times during Saturday's practice for the Warwick Farm 100, Feb. 13, his first major win in the Tasman Series. (N. A. Conlon photo)

The 1966 series includes: . . • Sept. 11- Players Quebec, Mt.

Tremblant, St. Jovite. • Sept. 24-Canadian Grand Prix,

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• Oct. 16 - Monterey Grand Prix, Laguna Seca.

• Oct. 30 - Times Grand Prix, Riverside.

• Nov. 13 -Stardust Grand Prix, . AU T'OWEEK'~) "

Las Vegas. A possible addition to the series

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~ Fnncieco. Calif. March 5, 1966 All races will be run under aSingle

set of rules for ex-group 9, now Group 7, two seater unrestricted sports cars, and will each be about 200 mi. long.

Brutal Winds Hold Petty to 175.165 Record All five events. are sanctioned by

the FIA as international, and competition will be on an overall, one class basis to produce a driver champion.

By Bob Glendy Contributing Editor

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.,Feb. 15 -Richard Petty has served notice that Chrysler products will be hard to handle in the 500 mi. classic here Feb. 27 despite a year's layoff.

The 28-year-oldRandleman,N.C. driver set a new qualifying record for the Daytona 500 of 175.165mph in a 1966 Plymouth to earn the pole pOSition.

The grand national point champion in 1964 posted practice speeds of

close to 178mph earlier this week, but drivers were hampered by gusting winds which reached 29 mph across the 2.5-mi. high banked oVal.

Dick Hutcherson placed his 1966 Ford on the outside pole with a speed of 174.317.

Both Petty and Hutcherson posted lap speeds over 177mph in earlier practice sessions last week. Hutcherson's best time was 177.409 while Petty posted one lap of 177.609.

Petty's record eclipsed Paul Goldsmith's standard of 174.910 set

in 1964 in a Plymouth. Nine other drivers took aim at the top spots but fell short.

Fred Lorenzen, last year's winner of the rain shortened event, had third fastest time, but the surprises came in the showing of a Dodge Charger and a Chevrolet.

A championship award fund has been established by promotors from the five tracks involved, guaranteeing a minimum of $25,000 to bedistributed among the top 10 drivers at the end of the series. At the present time, additional funds are being solicited and the purse has been established with a view to encovraging and rewarding individual driver partiCipation in the series as a whole.

Championship points will be awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basiS, and the split has been set at 35% of the total fund to the first place driver, 19% to the second, 12% to the third, and so on down the line.

Rodriguez Tops , Titus _ in Mustang Duel as Starkey Wins Polar Prix

Lee Roy Yarbrough put his independent Charger into the fourth spot with Bunky Blackburn causing a mild uproar with his sixth best time of the day in Smokey Yunick's 1965 Chevrolet. Darel Dieringer surprised no one with his strong showing in Bud Moore's 1964 Mercury.

The nine drivers who failed to qualify Feb. 13 will get up-front spots in the two 100-mi. races to be held Feb. 25 to determine starting pOSitions for 3 through 34 on the 27th.

The minimum total prize money for 1966 exceeds last year's total of $106,000 by almost $60,000.

SCCA-CASC offiCials, commenting on the proposed Atlantic Challenge, an international series for these same 'cars now being debated

By Mary Ann Chapman Area Editor

SMITHFIELD, Tex., Feb. 13 - Joe Starkey led from start to finish in the big bore featureoftheSCCA regional races here at Green Valley Raceway, but he went almost unnoticed.

A wild dice between Pedro Rodriguez and Jerry Titus driving iden-

LATE NEWS • Pontiac is reportedly testing a Mustang-Pantherlike inexpensive two and four place sports type car to be powered by their sohc six • . • Cal Club Region will pay appearance money to attract name drivers to regional events for publicity purposes. Payment will be made on a sliding scale according to importance of car and driver. Ronnie Bucknum is probably the first to benefit, and will appear in his new Lola at Willow Springs. • Lee Petty, three time NASCAR grand national champ, has been elected to the North Carolina sports hall of fame. ' • Henry Banks, 83-year-old father of USAC's director of competitions, Henry Banks Jr., died in Indianapolis Feb. 13. • Daytona Continental race average went down to 107.5176 mph as a result of calculations which indicated race was 10 miles longer, 2,580.62 mi.,than originally reported. • Ford Canada won the Canadian Winter Rally with driver Paul MacLennon and naVigator John Wilson repeating their 1965 win. • All reports have the F /1 Matra making its debut at the French GP at Reims, July 3. • As of this moment Ferrari will show at Sebring with three or four

.330P3s driven by Scarfiotti, Bandini, VacareUa, GUichet, Bondurant and Mike Parkes. Two of the new Dino 206S 2-liters also will be run by Biscaldi and Cassoni plus two unnamed drivers. • The 3-liter F /1 ~ars open the European season at the non championship Syracuse GP, April 28. • In early qualifying and practice at Daytona, Rit;hard Petty is much, much quicker than the factory Mopars. The Nichels and Cotton Owens cars are being extensively re-prepared. Petty's only challenger thus far is Dick· Hutcherson. • Tim Flock, suspended with CurtiS Turner from NASCAR four years ago, has been reinstated and may drive a Chevrolet in the Daytona 500.

tical Shelby American GT350s completely stole the limelight.

Titus won Bp in the preliminary and took the. lead in the early laps of the feature, but the dashing young Mexican with wings on his heels was soon breathing down his neck, and to add to the confUSion, Al Goldman in a 289 Cobra joined the duel with gusto.

Petty will have the pole in one of the 100 milers, with Hutcherson getting the top spot in the other.

Petty's blue Plymouth was set up by his father, Lee, winner of the inaugural Daytona 500 in 1959. "I

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Fire Loss Prompts McLaren BMW Pilot To Sue for $21,150

In the ensuing battle, Rodriguez Slipped into the fore but Goldman and Titus hung on. Goldman finally chickened out, finding· the . pace a little warm and dropping back to watch the sparks fly. Rodriguez and Titus continued nose to tail, but Titus never managed to regain the lead.

Dave Morgan took his Zerex spl. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12 - Ralph to second overall, fOllowed 'by Le- Wood, 23-year-old 1964 Em ARRC roy Melcher Jr. in the first outing winner from Orinda, Calif., has in his Lola T70, and Gus Hutchison filed a $21,150 suit in the San Frandriving David Bland's Fm Merlyn. cisco Superior Court against Calif~ The Ep and sedan preliminary ornia Sports Car Club Region SCCA featured a four way tussle to the wire and Willow Springs Raceway. for second overall between Hugh Wood alleges that both parties are ' Grammar .and Pedro Rodriguez (both guilty of negligence and breach of in Overseas Motor Minis), Jimmy contract in failing to have adequate Johnson's Healey, and Willy Mc- fire fighting facilities and trained Kemie in an Elva Courier, with firefighters on hand at the SCCA Grammar coming out on top. National held on the Willow Springs

Dale Wood had an easy overall win course, July 24 last year. in his Mustang, but was strongly During a preliminary race his ch3.Ilenged in the second race by brand new McLaren Elva-BMW deMcKemie's Courier. ' veloped a minor engine fire, forc-

Rodriguez retired from the second ing Wood to abandon the car after race in a cloud of smoke while run- bringing it to a halt. There was no ning third overall, leaving the class fire truck in attendance and as a win to Grammar. result, Wood claims, the car burned

Buzz Rowell took the C&D prod and to the ground. . G&H mod event by a large margin in Cal Club RE Chic Vandagriff his Gm Elva 7, and though Jerry claimed no knowledge of the Suit, Thompson worked very hard to make and SCCA officials in Westport, the Yenko Stinger go, he was fairly Conn. refused comment. beaten by the TR4s ofVick Campbell Wood is suing for $11,150damages

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Clark Wins 1st Aussie Tasman Go By Peter Bakalor

WARWICK FARM, Sydney, Australia, Feb. 13 - Round five of the 1966 Tasman championship gave Team Lotus its first win since signing for Firestone.

Jim Clark's fiery Lotus 39, powered by a 2.5 liter Coventry Climax four cylinder ' engine, proved too much for Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart's Dunlop shod 2 liter V8 BRMs, and Frank Gardner's 2.5 liter Brabham-Climax, the fastest Goodyear equipped car in the race. . Clark led from flag fall to flag

fall, apart from a few yards on lap 1 when Hill sneaked ahead.

Frank Gardner, driving a brakeless car for 42 of the 45 laps, did well to hold third position, and he finished well clear of Tasman point score leader Jackie Stewart, the wee Scot spoi ling his chances by clouting a fence on lap 2 and damaging a rear wheel.

Australian driver Spencer Martin, and New Zealander Jim Palmer, finished fifth and sixth to add to their Tas man series points, and all six point scorers finished on the same lap.

On Friday the track was open for 2-1/ 2 hours for untimed practice., hand timing giving Clark's Lotus 39 fastest at 1:33.4, 86.73 mph. This was 0.3 quicker than the official record, set by Clark in last year's race, but it was still well down on Frank Matich's 1:32.7, set in his Brabham during the 1965 Friday session.

Graham Hill managed to get down to 1:34.4, and Jackie. Stewart 1:34.6, but the BRMs and Warwick Farm did not seem to get on too. "\..w.~ll, for Hill had done a 1 :33.4 in the Scuderia Veloce Brabham in 1965.

Jim Palmer, driving the ex-Clark 2 .. 5 liter Lotus 32, put in a 1:36.6


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Kent Drops Plans' For CanAm Sked, But Will Hold GP By Dee Norton

SEATTLE, March 30-The 1966 edition of the Northwest Grand Prix, Oct. 8-9, will not be a part of the Canadian-Amer ican Challenge Cup series. _ In rn a kin g the announcement , Larry McCue, manager of Pacific Raceways, explained that the NWGP will go on as scheduled regardless

- of the series, and that: "We are tryi ng to move at our

own pace, not s omeone else 's."

But at the moment, the $5000 was not in hand and would have had to come eventually from the appearance money account.

"The tracks with wealthier sponsors can afford that and the gamble that many good cars and drivers, from a crowd-drawing standpoint, will come regardless," McCuesaid. ''We might be able to do so, but right now it is a gamble we are not willing to take."

This year's NWGP will have a $15,000 purse, judged suffi ciept, on last year 's experience, to attract a strong field without the appeal of the challenge cup series.

The 1965 ap pea ran c e money brought Phil Hill and Bruce McLaren's personal car, the Chaparrals, and David Hobbs and Hugh Dibley from London, and almost Jim Clark. His new Lotus 40 was demolished before shipment here and no last-minute replacement could be found.

The FIA approved and sanctioned date still belongs to the track itself. With another year or two of successful growth at his own pace, McCue says Pacific Raceways may then be able to join the larger budget tracks, such as Riverside and Stardust, in the challenge cup series.

His decis ion was made after more than a month of worry and thought, and not easily. Also, it disturbed a number of local fans and members of the Northwest Region, SCCA, which staffs the event.

In a nutshell, McCue said the problem and the decision was based on the bugaboo of all tracks - the long gr een folding stuff.

CP&A Management Realignments First off, $5,000 had to be de

posited with SCCA headquarters in Westport, Conn. PacifiC Raceways is not Poverty Pocket Raceways. In fact, it is furthe r than ever from that dubious nickname of other circuits.

NASCAR ,Rebel 400 NEW YORK, April 4 - The Rebel

400 NASCAR race to be run April 30 at Darlington, S.C. has received full international sanctioningby ACCUS, opening the doors to all drivers under FIA sanction.

. The special ruling was aquired after the South Carolina legislature refused to allow the race to be run on the original date, Sunday, May 1.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 7 - T h r e e management personnel changes have been announced by Competition Press & Autoweek.Duke Manor has been appOinted national advertis ing director, Ken Shaffgeneral manager and financial comptroller, and Alan W. Holmes promotion director.

Manor, whose interest in motorsports began with racing a '40 Ford coupe on 1/5-mile ovals in the midwest, has been a publisher in his own right, Western editor ofCP&A, and more recently had been handling promotion. In line with the publication's growth, Manor will now concentrate on working with the paper's advertisers. Shaff has been affiliated with CP&A

-in an accounting capacity since the publication changed hands in the latter part of 1963. He has served

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on the board of directors of several S an Francisco corporations, until recently operating his own public accountant practice.

Shaff built and campaigned his own H mod car during 1958-61, and at the present time is serving as treasurer of the SCCA's San Francisco Region.

Alan Holmes comes to CP&A after three and one-half years with Standard-Triumph Motor Co. at their New York offices, where he served in a number of public relations functions.

He headed up the l4,000-strong U.S. wing of the Triumph Sports Owners Assn., produced the assoCiation's monthly newsletter, and handled the New York end of Triumph's successful competition department.

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The 1.9-liter Matra-BRM of Jo Schlesser surprised many observers during the Le Mans test day by averaging 1 25 mph around the 8.35-mi. track. -Schlesser is seen here negotiating the Whitehouse hairpin at the end of the Mulsanne straight, followed by a Ford GT40.

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Hansgen Hurt at Tests (Continued .from page 1) on its righthand side. This threw the Ford up into the air and cannoned it into the lefthand shoulder banking.

The impact accordioned the cockpit, and when rescuers arrived,

jiansgen was found trapped and unconscious in the wreckage.

With track equipment at a minimum, and that available far from the best, emergency crews went to work with such devices as spark-showering power saws! When the efforts of the first aid men looked to be failing, the Ford team came to the rescue with their own eqUipment, and a long 20-min. after the accident pulled Hansgen free and sent him on his way to the hospital. -

Though listed as critical with broken legs and ribs and fractures of skull and pelvis, Hansgen was making a courageous fight by mid-

Anglo American F /1 Headquarters Ready for Season By Bill Maloney

RYE, Eng., March 29 - Gurney's AAR English headquarters is firmly in business.

Anglo American Racers, the Gurney-Shelby F/l equipe, has firmly entrenched itself with fully-staffed facilities and manpower, just adjacent to Harry Westlake's engine development plant in th~ peaceful English fishing Village of Rye in Sussex.

They are a mere half mile from Elva cars where McLarens are being turned out. There is, however, no relationship between the two racing -firms. Here, AAR tea m manager Bill Dunne talked of plans for the coming season.

Two AAR F /1 body shells were dellvel cd to Dunne last week.

Tim Wall, with Jack Brabham for six years , will be AAR crew chief. Len Terry is chief designer, Mike Lowman, formerly with Brabham and Ecurie Ecosse, is a fabricator as is Jan Lambert. Coming over from San Francisco to assist Dunne will be Bruce Armstrong. When the F/l season gets underway, the total compliment of the AAR team should be 14 men.

The Eagle chassiS are being prepared at AAR in Santa Ana, Calif. Engine design incorporates Westlake's "secret" in design of pistons and valve angle combustion shapes. The V12 60 deg. 4-cam, 4-valve-per cylinder, 60x72.8 bore and stroke engine should be operable April l5-May 1. Magnesium is used extensively in engine parts and the Vl2 is expected to put out 450hp.

With both Gurney's and Jerry Grant's cars almost completed, and reservations and passages -booked, it has been confirmed that the tab is being picked up by a major oil company, a major tire company, Shelby and Gurney. With a special car transporter and an Englis h Ford parts truck, the complete s cuderia will include two drivers, four cars and nine engines.

week, and was said to be improving though still unconscious.

FERRARI STRATEGY Ferrari's absence was very likely

due to a strategiC decision to stay out of the public eye, and test his Le Mans challengers (which reputedly have coupe bodywork) at Monza during the week following the Le Mans trials.

One of the biggest surprises at the test weekend was the performance of the new 2-liter Matra-BRM which was 6.3 sec. faster than the best Porsche. And a 1300cc Alpine did a lap at an average of l25mph to show there might be some sub-

-stitute for cubic inches. The Fords were all under the

Shelby banner, including the J car . In common with the GT40s (Mk 1 and 2), the new car shares a 95-in. wheelbase, but there, apart -from minor details, the similarity ends.

The bodywork uses a unitized method of construction combining aluminum with fiberglass in a honeycomb principle. SuspenSion uses fully adjustable A-type wishbones in conjunction with the usual coilspring damper units. Power for the J car is provided by the 427CID engine, fed by a single 4-bbl carburetor.

Transmission is through a 2-speed Ford automatic unit.

PRIVATE ENTRIES Other Ford entries included one

289 Essex Wire car for Skip Scott, two aluminum Alan Mann cars, two more 289s from Scuderia Filipinetti for Herbert Muller and Willy Mairesse and two B r i tis h-reg1stered 289s for Ford-France.

Ferrari was represented, despite Sefac's absence, by Ecurie Francorchamps with a 4.4-liter P2 and a 1963 GTO. And Porsche had three new Carrera 6s for Peter Necker, Herbert Linge and Robert Buchat.

After the Hansgen inCident, the pace settled to a reasonably steady lapping until the track began to dry in the afternoon.

Sir John Whitmore set the pace in one of the Alan Mann Fords with .03:41.02 followed by Mairesse only about 3-sec. slower . A P2 Ferrari was third quickest and then came a whole parcel of Fords.

But it was on Sunday thatthe quick times were turned with the arrival of the number one drivers. The track was dry but cool, and everyone set Sights on the outright record.

Early on, Ken Miles, more intentionally than accidentally, overs hot Mulsanne corner, slowing down the es cape road and turning right around again. Following Hansgen's accident, this minpr sortie brought all kinds of wild reporting of a "second Ford accident at Le Mans."

Quickest time of the day and the weekend was t urn e d in the J car by Chris Amon at .03:34.4, with teammate McLaren l.4-sec slower.

Fifth fastest, in an ominous note to the Fords, was the elderly and privately entered P2 from Belgium at .03:41.6.

But it was in the under 2-liter category that the real surprise came with the Matra-BRM absolutely unhors ing the Porsches with Jo Schlesser driving.

It will be an interesting June.

Start at Snetterton in the sedan race. Fords, Fords, nothing but Fords. Brabham's Mustang won it. . (David Phipps photo)

Hulme Wins Lackluster Snetterton SNETTERTON, Eng., April a

With Oulton Park snowed out April 2, Snetterton on April a became the first international race meeting of 1966 in Great Britain.

The main event, for group 7 sports Richard Attwood finished thirdcars, was won most convincingly by albeit four laps behind - in a Ford Dennis Hulme in a 6-liter Lola- GT40. Roy Pike won a closely conChevrolet. Chris Amon was second tested F/3 race in a Lotus 41-Ford, in a 5-liter McLaren-Olds, and and Jack Brabham took the sedan car

Seen at the Show BMC sliced an MGB right down the middle and exposed the innards for all to see at the New York show. Display, typical of European exhibits at Salons, attracted almost as much attention as girls. More show photos page 10. (Duke Manor p'hoto)

LA'l'E NEWS • Jim Hall & Co. will not run USRRC events until mid-season. The European effort will take all their time until then. • Ford's J-car is very likely not to be at Le Mans. "Insufficient testing and development," says Ford brass. • Late lndy entry is Al Stein's twin 6-cyl. Porsche-powered Huffaker for Bill Cheesbourg. • ACCUS has given approval to Team Zem to represent the U.s. in the F /3 championship with their Le Grands. • Jack Brabham won the first F/2 race of the year at Easter Monday Goodwood: Full report in next issu'e of qP&A.

• A Peugeot 404 won the East Afraca Safari rally. Ford took the team prize. • Late word from Jacques Passino of Ford on NASCAR participation is peSSimistic. FoMoCo won't go with the Fairlanes, too expensive to build a whole new team of cars. USAC spokesman terms Ford's reaction Cldisgusti~g." . • Six cylinder MGBs and va Healeys seen recently in England are products of R&D programs and not projected production cars. • James Watt, ex Managing Director of Aston Martin and developer with Donald Healey of Healey 100, died at age 52. • New Indy Eagle gave some teething trouble to Gurney at Phoenix in early tests. • Luigi Chinetti has bought one of only two Ferrari P3s built. Car will run at Monza, hopefully with Rodriguez but not Andretti who will be at Trenton. Chinetti laughs at rumors of new American Ferrari distributor. • Bridgehampton CanAm race will be called Bridgehampton Grand Prix. • USRRC promoters have agreed to award $200 per race to the current USRRC champion for entry, appearance and promotional assistance at each event.

race in a Mustang. The entry for the Archie Scott

Brown Memorial Trophy was rathe sparse in the first place, and was reduced by non-starters to only 13 . Of these three were Ford GT40s, one a Ferrari P2 and one an old Lotus 30, so this left only a very few serious contenders.

HILL FASTEST Graham Hill was fastest in prac

tice in the 6-liter Team Surtees Lola-Chev, his time (1 :34.2) being a resounding 5.6 sec. inside the lap record and not far outside the record for the old circ'uit before the installation of a chicane at the be-

. ginning of the pit straight. Next, only one fifth of a second

behind, was Chris Amon's McLarenOlds, and third, a further fifth in arrears, was DenniS Hulme's LolaChevy. Then there was a gap of 2.4 sec. to Bruce McLaren's brandnew McLaren-Olds, with dry sump engine and 13-in. wheels (1:37.0). Fastest of the Ford GTs was Richard Attwood at 1:43.0.

The race, divided into two 25-I3.p heats, saw Hulme go straight into the lead at the start of the first part, and pull steadily away from all the opposition.

Hill and Amon had a good battle for second place before Hill dropped back to retire shortly thereafter with gearbox trouble, but this apart, there was very little of real interest. Amon certainly put up a good show and appeared to be trying a lot harder than Hulme, but by the end of the 25 laps he was exactly 25 secs. behind.

McLaren, whose rear brakes had been giving trouble, was almost a minute further behind, and everyone else had been lapped at least twice.

Redman's Lola-Chev was misfiring badly (and did not reappear for the second part), Dibley's LolaChevy had blown up, and the Lotus 30 had retired after only three laps because of a fuel leak.

Only eight cars came out for the second heat, and one or two ofthese didn't sound too healthy. This time both Amon and McLaren out-accelerated Hulme (who could afford to let them, anyway) but within two laps the white Lola was out in front and


Ford Fence~, NASCAR Bumbles, Mopar Wins By Bob Glendy Contributing Editor

DEARBORN, Mich., April 12~ From all indications, Ford's withdrawal from NASCAR stock car racing seems likely to continue for a while at least.

FoMoCo withdrew its factorysupported racing teams from competition (after NASCAR president Bill France and USAC competition director Henry Banks j 0 i n t 1 y announced major rules changes for the remainder of the 1966 season last Wednesday.

Ford officials were expected to meet late today to make a decision concerning Ford's future on NASCAR tracks.

However, Ford's promotion and public relations manager, Leo C. Beebe said today that the chances of Ford staying on the NASCAR racing circuit were "not good."

"We must be given some incentive to run. No final decision has been reaChed, but it doesn't look like we will run under the new rules," Beebe said.

"Frankly, I'm walking the thin edge," Beebe continued, "'I want to leave the door open for us (Ford) to return. But we haven't changed our opinion of the new rules."

·We don't want to injure the sport in any way, but from our standpOint there is no reason to race under the rules which were announced last week," Beebe said.

"There is no logic to the rules. It is ridiculous for us to give away a pound per cu. in. A weekend's study and evaluation hasn't given us any hope that we would be competitive under the weight handicap (which came with approval of the 427CID ohc engine)" he added.

"From all indications, we would be at an extreme dis advantage on the short tracks, although it wouldn't be as bad at the superspeedways," he said.

Beebe said Ford would campaign only one car and only one engine if it deCided to stay in racing. tRunning two cars (Galaxie and Fairlane) and two engines (soch and wedge) is out of the question."

What was expected to be a Simple approval of the sohc engine last week turned out to be a major revision of NASCAR rules for th(> rest of the 1966 season.

The rules announced last week granted approval to the Ford sohc engine. At the ,same time, the rules were changed to allow Chryslers,


David Pearson Makes it 4 Straight As FoMoCo ' Sits Out Winston-Salem By Bob Glendy Contributing ' Editor

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. April 11-The seemingly in v inc i b 1 e David Pearson made it four in a row here today as he established a track r ecord of 5L34mph driving a 1964 Dodge in the 200-lap NASCAR event over the one quarter mile paved BowmanGray stadium" track.

Pearson shot in front of Tiger Pistone on lap seven and was never headed again in the 62.5-mi. race. Pearson's win made it four straight

Johnson's Wax Kicks In $25,000: Appoints Moss

WESTPORT, Conn., April 14-The Johnson Wax Co. and its associate, C an ad ian Johnson, todayannounced their sponsorship of the trophy and championship fund for the Canadian American Challenge Cup Series of international road races in North America this fall.

Johnson is commissioning a permanent trophy for presentation to the champion and will contribute $25,000 to the championship fund.

At the same time, JohnM. Bishop, Executive director of the SCCA which administers the series, announced that a sixth race at Bridgehampton, L.I., N.Y. has been added to the Canadian-American.

Bishop also announced that Stirling Moss has been named Challenge Cup CommiSSioner for the two Canadian and four American races in the series.

Moss, who is serving as race consultant to Johnson's Wax, has continued to be active in road race affairs since his retirement as a driver.

Canadian races will be sanctioned by the CASCo

The total of awards for the series, including purses at each of the races, now exceeds $250,000. The Johnson Wax trophy will be worth $19,250 to the championship driver.

Four of the races will have guaranteed minimum purses of $30,000

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over an eight-day period and moved him still farther out in front in the Grand National pOints race.

Ford pilot Gale Yarborough placed sixth in a 1964 Ford (without factory backing), giving some hope to the idea that Ford would not remain out of NASCAR raCing for the remainder of the 1966 season. Yarborough stayed within striking distance of second place points man Paul Goldsmith, who did not run here.

Factory-backed Fords have been noticibly absent from the line-up for the last three races when Ford Motor Co. withdrew from racing after receiving approval of their Single overhead cam engine last week.

Pearson's performance eclipsed the old track record of 50.20mph set by Richard Petty last August. -

The track had been completely repaved for the first time in more than 10 years.

Pistone brought his 1964 Ford home second with Richard Petty third in a 1965 Plymouth.

A surprise entry in the Easter Monday clasSic was Bobby Allison of Hueytown, Ala. in a 1966 Ford. The former mod i fie d champion drives a Ford owned by Mrs. Betty Lilly of Valdosta, Ga. Allison has previously campaigned in races of 250-mi. or more. He finished fourth here.

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Hulme, Roy Pike, Jack Brabham Win (Continued from Page 1) pulling away again, setting up a new circuit record (1:33.8, 104.01mph) in the process.

Midway through the race McLaren caught and passed Arnon, only to retire soon afterwards with engine trouble, and this let Co u n die y's 4-1/2-1 i t e r McLaren-Olds up to t h i r d place. However, Attwood's Ford GT took third overall, with Coundley fourth and Piper's Ferrari fifth. But it takes more cars than this to make a motor race.

fairly evenly divided between Lotus and Brabham, but with no Chequered Flag (Le., works) Brabhams.

Nevertheless, the Brabham of Chris Williams was fastest in practice and alongside it on the front row' were John Fenning's Brabham and Brian Hart's Lotus 35. On the second row were Roy Pike's Lotus 41 and Peter Gethin's Brabham, and three more Brabhams .occupied the third row. All 24 cars had Ford engines, most of them built_ by Cosworth. .

As is to be expected in a race with

changing two or three times per lap. Those chiefly involved were Chris Williams, Peter Gethin, Brian Hart and Roy Pike, and for most of the race anyone of them could have won.

Then Pike and Williams touched going into the hairpin. Pike didn't lose any time, but Williams dropped back to .fourth, and that's how it stayed to the finish - with Gethin second and Hart third.

F /3 GO STRONGER so many almost identical cars, there

Piers Courage's Lotus was never in the running and dropped out with engine trouble, and John Fenning retired after an off-course excurs ion in the opening laps. There was a much larger field was a great deal of passing and re-

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I I The entry for the Group 5 car _ Walter E. Hansgen race ranged from a Galaxie to a

Fiat-Abarth. Jim Clark was on pole L _____________________________ ~ p~itioo ~ a L~~-CMtina with

in the D type and twice in a Lister- much revised suspension and F/l Walter B. Hansgen, the man who more than any other personified the tradition in U.s. road racing from early, awkward beginnings to crisp prof€ssionalism, died in an American military hospital in Orleans, France, April 7. -

He was 46. Hansgen suffered severe injuries

in the crash of his 7-liter Holman Moody Ford GT40 Mk.2 while testing in the rain at the 5.2-mi. Le Mans road course April 3 in preparation fOJ; the June 18-19 24-hr. classic.

Born on Oct. 28, 1919, Hansgendid not start his raCing career until 1951. In his last biographical outline, filed two months ago with theSCCA, the only occupation he listed was Firestone Racing Tire distributor. However, with his father, he had built the family bUSiness in Bedminster, N.J. into one of the leading Jaguar outlets on the east coast.

On July 6, 1953 Hansgen won his first major race, the featured Cumberland Cup at the inaugural Cumberland, Md. meeting, driving an XKI20 spl. He followed this on Sept. 9 by winning the feature event at Watkins Glen.

From the start, Hansgen was a big car driver.

In 1959 he was sponsored in a D type Jaguar by Hanson-McPhee Eng. from Boston, Mass. He ran this car for several seasons and started to make a name for himselfbybeating Briggs Cunningham's cars with regularity, whereupon he joined the Cunningham team.

He was SCCA Cm champion from 1956 to 1959, winning the title twice

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Jaguar. wheels, and alongside him were It was in 1959 too that he drove Jack Brabham's Mustang and Peter

his first Sebring 12-hr., co-driving Arundell's Lotus-Cortina. a 5.2-liter Corvette with John Fitch, In the second row were Australian the first official Chevrolet entry in Brian Muir (Willment Galaxie) and a road race. _ incredible as it may seem _ Chris

Two years later he drove with Craft in a 1220ccSuperspeed Anglia. Archie Scott-Brown in a Lister- The latter was 2.6 sees. fas.ter Jaguar at Sebring but dnf'd. than Sir Gawaine Baillie's super-

From 1960 until Cunningham dis- charged 4727cc Falcon and three solved his racing equipe in 1963, sees. faster than the best Mini Hansgen was regularly seen in col- Cooper S. ors. He handled Birdcages and Type Anglias also dominated the 1000cc 63 Maseratis during 1961 and the cia s s, with J 0 h n Fitzpatrick's following season scored a number Broadspeed car 4.2 secs. ahead of of major wins including the Bridge- the first Imp. Slowest of all was the hampton Double 500 in a Cunningham only 2-stroke in the race, a DKW Cooper-Buick. F12.

In 1964 he got his first ride at At the start, Brabham just man-Indianapolis in one of Kje11 Qvale's aged to outdrag Clark, and the Liquid Sus pen s ion Offy-powered World Champion was subsequently specials. He finished 14th. He also overwhelmed by both Muir and Saldrove for Team Lotus in the U.s. mon (Mustang). He fought his way GP at Watkins Glen that year and back past the Mustang, and kept on finished fifth. getting alongside the Galaxie under

In his final season he again ran braking but was never able to get to Indy for Qvale, finishing 14th and grips with Brabham who pulled away completing 117 laps. He scored the to win by what looked like a big marfirst major Win-fer Lola in the U.S. gin but was actually only 3.4 secs. when he held off Hap Sharp's Chapar- However, the Lotus-Cortinas should ral in a Mecom Lola T70 at the get more powerful engines in the Monterey GP in a breathtaking two- near future. heat battle. As always, the greatest eXCite--

In his final season he drove for ment was provided by the antics of Holman Moody, although he was the Minis, which had a real carve-up still officially team manager for for second place in their class. By John Mecom. He took a third at the end of the race, however, they Daytona -and a second at Sebring were no less than 59.6 secs. behind driving a Ford GT40 Mk.2. Craft (who finished sixth overall)

The family requ(;!sts that contri- behind Brabham, Muir, Clark, butions in lieu of flowers be made to Baillie and Arundell) and only two the Snell Foundation in Hansgen's secs. aheadoftheBroadspeedAnglia

which won the 1000cc class. name. Looks as if Group 5 racing is go

ing to be a real Ford benefit.

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Brian Muir's Galaxie leads Jimmy Clark in the sedan race at Snetterton. The race was a Ford parade. (David Phipps photo)

Roy Pike leads Peter Gethin on his way to a win in the F /3 race at Snetterton April 9. (David Phipps photo)

Dennis Hulme in the Lola-Chev won the ArchieScott-Brown Memorial Trophy at Snetterton April 9 from an undistinguished field. _

Moss CanAm Commissioner u.s. Burglar Alarm Sets Up Fire Team (Continued_ from Page 1)

each, and two events will h a v e $20,000 purses.

The top 10 drivers in the series will split the total challenge cup fund of$55,OOO which includes $5,000 already contributed by sponsors of each of the races.

In addition, more than $45,000 in awards by accessory firms has now been committed for the six races.

Bishop said "the sanctioning organizations and the race promoters are delighted to be aSSOCiated with Johnson's Wax and Stirling Moss in

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from their combined efforts." Johnson's entry into the racing

car field coincides with a major marketing effort with the company's J -W AX line of auto waxes, polishers and cleaners.

Stirling Moss will also serve as a spokesman for the J-WAX line in a series of national advertisements.

The Bridgehampton event, to be held Sept. 18, already is listed as an international race on the calendar of the FIA, world auto sports governing body.

Bishop explained, teach of these well-established races will be for the now deSignated group 7 cars that have risen to internationalpopularity in recent years-u sua 11 y powered by American V8 engines. The races, held under a single set of rules, will each be about 250 mi. in length."

Olds Chooses Buxton LANSING, Mich., April 12- Wil

liam J. Buxton, Oldsmobile's southwest regional manager Since 1963, has been apPOinted the division'S assistant general sales manager in charge of marketing.

The apPOintment is announced by Mack W. Worden, Oldsmobile general sales manager.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 8-Firefighting experts of the U.S. Burglar Alarm's Kidde Service Team will attend all SCCA national and selected regional races in the Southern Pacific Division this sea-son.

Following its appointment as distributor of Kidde fire extinguishers and fire protection equipment to the

automotive high performance industry, the U.s. Burglar Alarm Co. has established this team to attend races and advise on the use and installation methods of Kidde extinguishers in cars.

The company has also inaugurated an awards program and Purple K extinguishers will be presented to class winners selected by race stewards.

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Old World Diplomacy, The Boycott "Let's face it, gentlemen, your attendance depends

on the fame of t he entrants. You benefit from our appearance, not our performance."

system with almost $20,000 to the winner at the end. The sober fact that this CanAm group of races of

fers more than $300,000 in payout in its first year of competition makes it the richest sPorts car series in the world. Would the overseas competitors find it more sensible to run Anglias in Llenellitl1willy? When they're in North America anyway fortheU.S. and Mexican GPs?

Saltzman

"I know you're patriotic. But 'you only confuse the drivers when you wave an American flag." ,

That is Ted Mayer of Bruce McLaren Racing speaking to the promoters of the CanAm Series in a letter addressed to each demanding appearance money and threatening boycott as an alternative. Boycott by all the Europeans for aU the races.

"Appearance and not performance?" Well, tt's to the point but it makes as much sense from the noncompetitive Europeans as from a Galveston waterfront debutante.

B~evenwitho~ilieEuropeaMiliere~ah~pyso~- • tion.

Is it a draw the promoters want? Let them provide -From A broad first-rate equipment for Foyt and Andrettti and Canadian Billy Foster and Rich.ard Petty and David Pearson and Phi p p s Pic k s B ra b ham run a showdown series for the real Canadian-U.s.

With the exception of McLaren himself and Jimmy C lark and possibly John Surtees, the Mayer contention has to commend it that it is only lIappearance" the other drivers seem capable of in this country in group 7 cars.

driver champion of all divisions. F 1966 F/1 B B And bill it just that way and draw from the Cham- 0 res t e t

Certainly not performance.

All too often the Europeans have appeared at U.S. tracks- in disgraceful and shoddy equipment. And have gone as fast as the hay truck. And have lasted far longer at the cocktail parties than in the race following.

And there is little reason in the argument that a DNF can leave a European without reward -and 6,000 mi. from home. Not when the series has a poLlt total

CP Readers Say

pions hip Trail and NASCAR fans. There are more of fuose near BrWgehamp~n and R~ersWe ilian Left Bank Baronets who are satisfied with mere genteel appearance and second rate racing instead of competition.

Appearance money? Only if it applies to all. Of course appearance money would be worthwhile if

the promoters spent it to bring Carol Doda and Ralph Nader together in a head-on collision at 50 yards.

But for little Lord Fauntleroy? Forget it.

Read it'the First Time Around • It is sometimes amusing and other times downright disturbing to view public reaction to government proposals in a democracy.

Currently, I have seen all too much of the disturbing side in reading letters to the editors of various automotive journals in which statements of the public (in this case the enthusiast public) have voiced opinions on the PreSident's proposed safety legislation.

Automotive journalism has, for the most part, displayed a sane, rational approach to this question and has exhibited editorial responsibility which should offer the public an objective outlook on which it can base its re-

must go uncontested to IIwell, itis my opinion that Italians are, as a group, among the greatest racing drivers in the world." ASide from all conSiderations of usage, it is difficult to imagine using 19 words to say anything more obviouS, more universally accepted and henceinfinitely ' silly.

Item: Jean Guichet is indeed a wizard long-distance driver, but please, not even "probably the world's greatest." In the absence through retirement of O. Gendebien, that title must go to our own P. Hill.

STEPHEN LANCASTER Long Valley, N.J.

action. A M a tt-er of Record But even with a responsible press, there are those

who refuse to read what is in front of them. • As a matter of record, I thought perhaps you would be So w.hat's all this hysteria about Lyndon's banning interested in the ultimate results of an ad I ran in CP&A

Ferran and Jaguar? (Readers Say, CP&A May 21.) .. last Fall. · No such. pr~posal has been made, as you .m.entio~ed Last November I advertised my Genie-Ford for sale In your editonal response, nor has any admmistratIon in your claSSified section, the Cm car with which I won spokesman suggested that there should be a 50hp the '64 NeD' d t· I h ' h' limit (Readers Sa CP&A A ril 30.) Ivan na lOna c amplOns IpS. .

y, ~. ,A few days after the ad appeared came the fIrst reply I sug~est the government IS ap~lym.g pressure In an from a Kurt Speet of Holland, Mich. who immediately

appropnate area here, however mIsgUIded they may be bought the car Th e t d Sk' S tt f Ph'l d i h' in substance But this is bes 'de th 't I 'h ' . e n x ay IP co 0 I a e p Ia ,: I _ e pOl~. WIS pn- called and told me he had the Lang-Cooper complete, a manly. to POInt out the absurd level on WhICh safety has spare Cooper chassis and a 427 tT C b h been dIscussed by some of your readers. ,compe 1 1O~ 0 ra e

CP&A h d ·t 't th t' bl" wanted to sell, and dId I have any prospectIve buyers as one 1 s serVIce 0 e mo orIng pu IC m left over. providing objective news with responsible editorial com- Over the 11 ext se e I da s I ' ed I ment. . " v . ra y, receiV severa m.ore

It h ld t f I bl- d t t ·t af InqUIrieS on the Geme, referring all to Scott. Withm a . ,s ou no ee 0 Ige 0 was e I s energy re - week all of Scott's cars were sold.

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thf.e ftatc.ts for thodse who choose not to read the Eddie Eger of Eger Ford in McKeesport, Pa., seeing prm e Irs Ime aroun . the Geni~ ad in CP, called me about my plans for 1966.

WILLIAM WOODING He agreed to sponsor a 427 Cobra for me this season. Cambridge, Mass. The NEXT week, Charlie Hayes called me from

Frabjous Day

• Oh, Splendid! I have just finished the second installment of Al

Bochroch's guide to Europe. May you never again print an issue without him.

It's not just that he is a splendid fellow, nor that he is witty, urbane, educated, literate, traveled, wise and rich.

He is also right. I know this to be so because his comments agree with

my opinions. How do you manage to afford him? May we expect Bochroch to proceed on to the Levant? should very much appreCiate his judgment of the

Baltimore to ask if I had any left over buyers, and the last I heard one such party was negotiating for the purchase of Charlie's McLaren.

In all, between $30,000 and $40,000 worth of machinery changed hands because of one ad I ran in CP&A.

Needless to say if I ever have anything pertaining to sports cars to sell, I'll use your classifieds again.

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C. EDWARD LOWTHER McMurray, Pa.

• After fighting off Triumph TR4s for three years with a reasonable amount of success, my feelings were absolutely crushed to find myself being accused of winning the divisional race in a TR4! cous-cous as served at Ziad's in . Ba'albeck. Ziad's

cellar is a bit naive, but, th'en, the soil tends more to silica than chalk. Is it not?

For the record - I was driving a 15-year-old "prod ified" Jaguar XK120 prepared by Dale Burt of Houston,

T. C. BROWNE Tex. Oxn~rd, Calif.

Dead Horse Flogger

• Your Dennis Cipnic is a dead-horse-flogger of the first water and, moreover, a bore.

Item: Carroll Shelby is not enti-rely ignorant of the prevailing conditions abroad. At one time he was employed by an enigmatic gentleman of foreign extraction named David Brown and at another time aSSOCiated with a Mod nes e cavelieri name of Ferrari. It is idle to suppos e that experience has failed to impress upon him essential pOints of difference between Daytona, Sebring and th Targa and Le Mans.

Item: the year's grand prize for fatuous statements

Something to Shoot At

RUSS SIMON Houston, Tex.

• There are a couple of items about our Los Ocho Millas national race I'd like to bring to your attention.

First Bob Wenzel, who flipped his Alfa, is doing fine a lbeit moving a little slowly. His car is for sale.

Joe Starkey's average speed of 113.42mph for 56.7 mi. is a new national closed circuit road course record. His fastest lap was 114.76mph and he was clocked at just over 200mph on the long straight.

That should give the boys something to shoot at. GENE WILLBANKS, Race Chairman

Los Alamos, N.M.

By David Phipps The world championship series opens here May 22, and already most

of the pundits are predicting that 1966 will be a repeat of 1961, with Ferrari very much in the ascendant and most of the OPPOSition doing the best they can with out-of-date eqUipment.

The plain fact is that Ferrari has already won Syracuse, whereas most , of the OPPOSition is just not ready. BRM is in real trouble with its H16, which is a blow not only to BRM but to Team Lotus. The Gurney-Weslake V 12 has not even run yet, and until it is ready, Dan Gurney will probably fall back on an old 2.7-liter 4-cyl. Coventry Climax. Cooper's Maserati V 12 has not come up to expectations, and Cooper has also experienced

- chassis and suspension failures. Bruce McLaren'S shrunk 4-cam Ford is not giving the power it should, and Brabham has not even started building its 1966 cars - though they should be ready for Spa.

In face of all this, what is there to prevent a Ferrari walkover? It may be a long shot, but I have a sneaking feeling that the Brabham

Repco, with about 320bhp, 7mpg and a well-tried chassis (just like Andretti's Indy car, remember), will be the best all-around car for most of the season. The more powerful cars will be bigger and heavier and will use more fuel, and their peaky torque curves will make them more difficult to drive than the Brabham.

So much for the season as a whole. What of Monte Carlo, where the very nature of the circuit gives the

unde-rpowered cars a much better chance than at Spa and Reims, the next two championship venues?

Jim Clark will have a choice of 2-liter V8 Coventry Climax and 3-liter H 16 BRM engines for his Lotus, and will probably use the former; even with only 245bhp it could well keep him ahead of the Ferraris. Teammate Peter Arundell may not be at Monaco because he faces a three-month prison sentence following a road accident in France last January. .

If Dan Gurney is there, he will have a 223bhp 2.7 -liter Coventry Climax engine in his Eagle, and even that will probably be too much for the Hewland HD5 transmission. (Hewland DG300 gearboxes will be used at subsequent races.) The Gurney Weslake Vl2 will not be complete for some time yet, but when it is fully developed it will undoubtedly be a very fine engine.

BRM will have one H16 and two 2-liter V8s - and the odds are that it will use the latter. Graham Hill has won the race for the past three years, and could do it again in spite of the I-liter handicap. However, chief en;" gineer Tony Rudd -is determined that the H16 will at least make an appearance during practice.

Bruce McLaren will definitely have one car for himself, and hopes to have one for Chris Amon as well. There will be Cooper-Maseratis for Richie Ginther, Jochen Rindt, Jo Bonnier, JoSiffert and Guy Ligier, and Ferrari will probably have a V12 for Surtees and a V6 for Bandini. Mike Spence will have a 2-liter Lotus-BRM, Paul Hawkins a 2.7-liter Lotus Climax and Bob Anderson a 2.7 Brabham-Climax. But I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Jack Brabham beat the lot of them in his BrabhamRepco, and Denny Hulme should be well up in his 2.7 Brabham-Climax.

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(Rich Clee photo)

Bruce Doubles With Mosport (Continued from page 1) Amon was in the fifth row for the rocketed off the track in the down- rolling start of the second heat. hill lefthand turn 2A. With flag mar- Still, by the fifth tour, he had worked shall Gord Harrison looming in his his · way up past Chuck Parsons, who path Grant swerved to a crash that was showing the first signs of the demolished the car and sent Grant to blown head gasket that would soon the hospital in a state of shock, where sideline him, iIito fourth behind he remained at CP's deadline. Har- John Cannon who promptly blew his rison, running to avoid the car, sud- gearbox to give Amon third. Howdenly reversed direction into its ever McLaren, with Motschenbacher path and was struck. He died before shadowing him at a respectful disthe stretcher could be loaded aboard tance, had pulled out a long lead the ambulance. running at higher speeds through the

On the track McLaren continued to thinning field. extend his lead, while Amon worried Amon set out to close the gap. It at Hayes until the Marylander blew took him 30 laps and five tours from his engine and was Sidelined on lap the end he had Motschenbacher clear 27. Just behind, Motschenbacher in his Sights. But America's tall harried John Cannon's Vinegaroon Teuton was timing things beautifully; Genie-Chev, getting past just after almost imperceptibly he turned on the halfway mark when Cannon began the tap. Amon replied with the misfiring badly. fastest lap of the race, a 1.25 (104.15

Thus at lap 34 when Amon had to mph) on lap 38. It was not quite pit to replace a flat rear tire worn enough; Motschenbacher held his out on the bat tIe with Hayes, edge and led the charging Amon over Motschenbacher was able to inherit the line by 1.5 sec., some 8 secs. second place, 19 secs. behind the back of Bruce McLaren. leader but 26 secs. up on Cannon, A lap back Canada's Ludwig Heimthe only other driver to complete rath had recovered from a first-heat the full 40 2.5-mi. laps. A lap back battery failure to snag fourth in his Chuck Parsons had nursed his Genie Mk 2 McLaren, holding off the chalChev to fourth, unpressed by Earl _ lenge of Rick Muther's McLaren Jones who had run tidily despite despite the handicap of only the small some car problems to fifth. No 289 Ford engine, though Muther had others were within a lap of the cause for caution too after DNF-ing leader, Amon losing two in the pits. the first heat with no oil pressure.

Meanwhile, in the other classes, Mak Kronn's pair of sixth places,

with 38 laps in each heat for his McKee-Chev, thus combined to give him fourth overall just ahead of John Cordts in Dave BHles' McLarenChev Mk 1 who also profited from consistency. Eppie Wletzes took the GT class money for Ford with sixth overall, while Joe Buzzetta, though behind Patrick in the second heat, led on the combined totalfor seventh and under-2-liter honors. A total of 18 cars were finally classed as finishers. PLAYER 'S 200, MOSPORT, JUNE 4.

FINISHERS: 1 - Bruce McLaren, McLarenOlds, 80 laps, 1.59:16.9; 2 - Lothar Motschenbacher, McLaren-Olds ; 3 - Chris Amon, McLaren-Olds; 4 - MakKronn,McKee-Chev; 5 - John Cordts, McLaren; 6 - EppieWietzes, Ford GT40; 7 - Joe Buzzetta, Porsche Carrera 6; 8 - Scooter Patrick, Porsche Carrera 6; 9 - George Wintersteen, Corvette GS; 10 - Tom Payne, Cobra; 11 - Eitel Mayer, Lotus 23B; 12 - Bill Wunder, Ford GT40 13 - Harold Brown, Lotus 23B; 14 -Nat Adams, Cooper-Ford; 15 - LudWig Heimrath, McLaren-Ford; 16 - Earl Jone~, GenieFord; 17 - Rick Muther, McLaren; 18 - Phil Seitz, Lotus 23B.

DNF: Skip Barber, BrabhamBT8; EdHamill, Hamill SR3; Chuck Parsons, Genie-Chev; George Fejer, Chinook; George MacDonald, Astur-Climax; Bud Morley, McLaren; John Cannon, Vinegaroon 2; Joe Grimaldi, ElvaBMW; Jerry Hansen, Wolverine; Dave Greenblatt, Ferrari GT250; Rudy Bartling, Porsche RS61; Don Kindree, Lotus 19-Climax; M. R. J. Wylie, Bobsy SR3; Jackie Stewart, LolaFord; Jerry Grant, Lola-Gurney Weslake; Mark Donahue, Lola-Chev; Bob Nagel, ElvaBMW; Charlie Hayes,NickeyMcLaren-Chev; Bob Montana, McKee-Plymouth.

a spiritied battle developed between local driver Eppie Wietzes in the Comstock Team Ford GT40 and the p air e d Porsche Carrera 6 proto Canada Races Show CanAm Trend types of Scooter Patrick and Joe ' By F. David Stone Buzzetta. Despite a determined as- TORONTO Canada June 5 - The sault by the Porsche pair the Can- Player's 200 'at Mospo~t was in many adian driver was able to hold out, ways a dry run for this fall's CanAm aided in the final la?s ,by a bro~en Challenge Cup, in that the series gas pedal on PatrIck s machme. will see the best in North America Just to prove the point he pulled a take on the best international stars repeat performance in the second from Europe.

its two trailer-born crashes, and, although Hayes raced the previous weekend at St. Jovite, the car wasn't fully race-r e ad y until Mosport. Complaining of insufficient power, Grant was using a stock 289 Cobra engine, having blown up the last Gurney-Weslake engine several wee ks before. Motschenbacher's McLaren was newly rebuilt from a starting grid hassle the previous weekend at St. Jovite.

heat. • So far the best in North America Because of his 10th-place finish have done battle four times in the

frQm the two-lap tire change, ChriS USRRC series and in most cases

Gordon Harrison TORONTO, Canada, June 4-

Gordon Harrison, 37, of Toronto was killed when a competing car left the track at the Player's 200 today and struck him at his flag marshalling post. Death came almost instantly.

Originally English, Harrison carried his enthUSiasms with him when he came to Canada. An ardent fan of wheeled sports, he cut down on his activities with the Canadian Wheelmen Assn. on cycles to become a leading figure in mot a r s po r t. Exceptionally safety-minded, he was a pioneer member and in 1964 vice-president of the Canadian Race Communications Assn. His contributions to CRCA included both instruction and innovation, and he helped originate the special oneman blue-flag s tations ofthe type he was operating when he was killed.

He was also active at club levels, serving the British Empire Motor Club as membership chairman and, in 1964 and 1965, speed chairman, a duty he left to become competition chairman this year for the OntariO Region of the CASCo

both cars and drivers are known quantities. The international drivers and their machinery are so far unknown~

For Mosport six of the top nine in the USRRC pOints . standings were on hand: Parsons, Cannon, Grant, Hayes, Motschenbacher, Patrick and Goth, while the contingent from Europe (should read New Zealand and Scotland) was three strong with Bruce McLaren, Chris Amon and Jackie Stewart.

Behind these fast five who qualified on the first day, were John Can non, Vinegaroon Genie-Olds, 1:27.8; Ludwig-Heimrath,McLarenFord, 1:28.0 and Chuck Parsons, Genie-Chev, 1:29.5. Filling out the 33-car grid for the rolling Indy-type start was a large assortment of Genies, McKees, McLarens and Lolas plus several questionable and a few well-built specials.

Fresh from Indy's disappointment was Scotland's Jackie Stewart with

Last year at Mosport Jim Hall'S. a matched brace of John Mecom's Chaparral left the lap record at Lola T70s. One was powered by a 1:24.9 after a closely-fought 100-lap 289 Ford with four downdraft Webduel with Bruce McLaren. McLaren ers, while the other had two Webers was back for the Player'S 200 with mounted atop a Paxton superchargpretty much the same car as he er. raced then. With his Mk 2 McLaren Neither car was properly set up powered by a 5-liter Traco Olds, he and the best Stewart could qualify unofficially broke the track record was 11th on the grid. Lola designer when he qualified at 1:24.6. Eric Broadley was on hand to super-

McLaren's teammate ChriS Amon vise, but there was not enough time in a similar Mk 2 powered by a 4.5- to solve the many problems. Stewart liter Olds was second best qualifier ended up driving the supercharged at 1:26.0. car .

Completing a McLaren sweep ·of In the race McLaren streaked to the first three qualifiers was Char- eas y victory in both heats. In heat lie Hayes in his Nickey McLaren- l one Hayes made a brief threat but Chev at 1:26.7 followed by Jerry blew his Traco Chevy, and Stewart Grant inAllAmericanRacers' Lola- seized the Lola's gearbox. Mark Ford with 1:26.8 and Lothar Mot- Donohue in the second race for s chenbacher's Mk 2 McLaren-Olds Roger Penske's 427 Chevy-powered at 1:26.9. Lola T70 started to move through

Hayes' car had been rebuilt from the field before the engine went.

John Cordts in the ex-Wintersteen Mk l McLaren-Chev is crowded by Bruce McLaren lapping him through the turn. Cordts was the first Canadian finisher, Eppie Wietzes brings his Comstock Ford GT40 up

. to watch. (Rich Clee photo)

Charlie Parsons retires his USRRC points leading Genie-Chevat Mosport with a blown head gasket. (Rich Clee photo)

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"You can't make money selling 20 cars ayear," says Bruce McLaren, "so I have to make my living by racing. And if I can't be sure of a reasonable amount of money for a race, I can't afford to go there.

"I can't just hope I'll finish highly enough to make money every time I run."

And that is the young New Zealander's reason for demanding appearance money for running in the CanAm Challenge Cup s eries. Appearance money which, it seems, he will not be getting.

McLaren says his break-even point is about $3000. Anything less than that on a given appearance and he's losing money and reaching into his pocket to pay the "20 blokes" working for him at the factory, where the fantastically successful sports/racing cars and the less successful F/l cars that bear his name are made.

Racing is a chancy bus.iness McLaren says, and he pointed out what happened to the two cars. he entered in the last two races in Canada (at St. Jovite and Mosport).

"We brought two identical cars over for the races. Both with the same engines prepared exactly the same way. One of them won both races and provided a lot of money. The other one had some bad luck and lost a lot of money.

"David Hobbs is an example of what happens when you go without a guaranteed income," McLaren continued, "he lost so 'much money last year racing in Canada and the U.s. he had to quit and sell the car.

"Then look at your smaller manufacturers, Colin Chapman for example. These people are able to continue racing by virtue of a guaranteed income. Over the course of a season, the total of appearance money will just about equal what a backer or sponsor might be giving them," he went on.

What about the other drivers from Europe, the big names like Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart and so forth? McLaren predicted that they will do as he does. "None of them will come unless they get appearance money," McLaren said flatly.

While the battle of appearance money is being fought, McLaren is struggling to field a team of F/I cars and so far not doing terribly well.

"We're down to two engines," he said, "a Serenissima, which is really scraping the bottom of the barrel, and a Ford, which hasn't had anything like the proper amount of development time yet.

"Neither of the engines is up to the power being put out by the really hot machines on the circuit, and the Serenissima is fragile to boot.

clf we'd had just a bit more experience yvith the Ford, McLaren said, tlwe would have been in much better shape by now. Anyone with a really reliable engine could have been third at both Monaco and Spa. But we ran into bearing problems as you know. We've got them solved now, but it would have been nice to have had them sorted earlier."

Asked whether he had conSidered buying any other type of engine for the GP cars, the Gurney-Weslake or the highly-touted long-awaited and so far not notably successful H16, McLar.en said that he didn't think that it would be wise.

So the outlook is for more development work on the Ford engine actually two engines, one destroked and one sleeved. "I think we're getting somewhere with it now. We'll be running Reims with the Ford," he concluded. ERIC PELKIE

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Having touted JOE LANE's Sebring lap chart book as the only document of its kind in the world, it seems reasonable to be contradicted immediately and by no less an authority than CAMERON ARGETSINGER who encloses a copy of his Watkins Glen official timing and scoring report for the U.S. GP.

I'm pleased to report it's not only entertaining but racy. Not far from The Glen as the serum flies, the Oil Slick Sentinel of

the Alaska Sports Car Club asks whatever happened to BUSTER PALMQUIST, and, in the same frosty breath, reports that SUE KESTERKIE is dead last in club standings - powder-puffwise.

Meanwhile, the SCCA's JIM KASER, proud as a ladies' club chairman introducing Liberace, writes that the members of DR. FRANK F ALKNER's 1966 board of governors are, with one exception, competition license holders as are the seven SCCA executive stewards. All but one of the club's competition board members has a current national ticket; likewise for the car classification committee and the exception on that board held a license until this year.

LEW HENCHMAN, coutourier to the best names in USAC, has turned his needle and thread in the direction of the sports car types and is offering a dazzling collection for the summer.

One of his potential customers is the sensational BUZZ MARCUS, a notoriously unheralded (no pun intended) Triumph driver from GlenSide, Pa. who is giving king-pin BOB TULLIUS a run for the divisional Dp championship. Marcus has qualified for the pole position and turned the fastest race lap at every national he has run so far this year. He now leads the division's Dp ranks by 11.5 points.

In the world of mediCine, DR. C. O. CHICHESTER, NASA food research chief, will run his WSM ' in the San FranciSCO Region'S Snell Foundation benefit race marking that splendid activity's 10th anniversary July 9-10 at Cotati Raceways, Cotati, Calif. His mechanic? DR. GEORGE SNIVELY, Snell Foundation Commander-in-Chief.

MICHAEL PARKER, head of the Motor Racing Circuit Advisory Office, designers of Oregon International Raceway, has been seen near Cotati,.bY the way, and Cotati's a terrible place for a vacation.

But a prominent motorsports type who is likely to vacation on the West Coast is Australia's sports car champion FRANK MATICH, due in the U.s. for the CanAm series in his Elfin-Olds.

And JOHN MONROE, West Coast USAC insurance rep and insurer of all U.s. GP drivers, proved the worth of knowing the proper people when he got SKIP HUDSON on his way to the Glen for the USRRC with a brand-new truck less than 12 hours after Hudson's crew chief had flipped the old one near Effingham, Ill. towing the Lancer-Lola.

International * JULY 13-17 - German rally (European c' ship). * JULY. 16 - BRITISH GRAND PRIX.Brands Hatch . * JULY 17-Rouen GP. France(F/2,F/3). * JULY 17 - Circuit of Mugello, Italy (S). • JULY 17-USAC 150, Trenton, N.J. • JULY 17-NASCAR 150, Watkins Glen, N.Y. • JULY 22-24 - Circuit of rascais, Port. (F/3, GT, T). • JULY 23-24-24-hrs. of Francorchamps, Belg. (T). • JULY 24-Cesana-Sestriere hillcl1mb, Italy. • JULY 24 - USAC Hoosier GP, Indianapolis (F/L). • JULY 24 - DUTCH GRAND PRIX, Zandvoort. * JULY 24 - NASCAR Volunteer 500, Bristol, Tenn. • JULY 30 -Silverstone, Eng. (SR, ST, S, F/3).

East JULY 13 - NASCAR, ISlip, N.Y.

• JULY 14 -NASCAR 100, Fonda, N.Y. • JULY 16 -SCCA regional, Marlboro, Md. • JULY 16 -SCCA hillclimb, Mt. Equinox, Manchester, Vt. • JULY 17-SCCA div'l rally, Western N.Y. region. • JULY 23 -SCCA nat i on aI, Connellville, Pa. * JULY 23 -SCCA regional, Thompson, Conn. • JULY 24 -SCCA div'l rally, Philadelphia, Pa. • JULY 30 -SCCA Giants Despairhillclimb, Wilkesbarre, Pa.

JULY 30-ICNSCC, Lime Rock, Conn. • JULY 31 - TransAm Sedan Champ., VIR, Danville, Va.

South • JULY 16 -SCCA driver'S school, Osceola, Fla. • JULY 16 -SCCA regional, ManSfield, La.

JULY 23 -SCCA regional, Savannah-Effingham, Ga. • JULY 23 -SCCA national BatonRouge,La. • . JUL Y 24 - NASCAR 250, Bristol, Tenn. • JULY 27 - NASCAR 100, Maryville, Tenn. • JULY 30 - NASCAR 200 , Nashville, Tenn.

M idwest • JULY 16 -SCCA national, Mid-OhiO, CinCinnati, Ohio.

JULY 16-17-SCCA div'l rally, Arkansas region. • JULY 23 -SCCA regional, Wilmot Hills, Wisc. • JULY 23-SCCA regional, driver's school, Warbonnet Pk., New Manford, Okla. • JULY 24-USAC Hoosier GP,Indianapolis.

JUL Y 30 - SCCA reg ion a I, Oskaloosa, Iowa CANCELLED. • JULY 30 -SCCA regional, Waterford, NE-Michigan. .

JUL Y 30 -SCCA regional, IRP, Ind. CANCELLED . • JULY 30-31-SCCA national, Independence, Kansas. • JULY 31-SCCA national rally, Andiamo, Northwestern Ohio. • AUG. 6-SCCA national, Lynndale Farms, Milwaukee, Wisc.

West JULY 16-17-18-hr. race, Oregon Inter

national Raceways, Eugene, Ore. JUL Y 16-17 - PSCC races, Pacific Inter-

. national Raceways, Kent, Wash. * JULY 23 - SCCA national, RiverSide, Cal. * JULY 23 -SCCA driver's school, West Jordan, utah. * JULY 23-24 - For m u 1 a races, Juarez, Mexico. • JULY 30-USRRC, Pacific raceway, Kent, Wash. • JULY 30 -SCCA regional, Kent, Wash.

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Birmingham International Raceway cancelled its annual 100-mi. Grand National NASCAR race scheduled for June 5 after BIR President Tom Gloor learned it would cost almost double the purse in "appearance" money to stage the event.

Gloor explained that the withdrawal of Ford Motor Co. from the GN circuit.left ,Plymouths, Dodges, independent Fords, Chevies and Chrysler products to fill out the field.

He said that if he had been able to get Richard Petty, David Pearson, Paul Goldsmith and Curtis Turner he would have staged the race anyway.

. But Gloor learned what other small track promoters have had to face along with dwindling gate receipts, that name drivers demand large "appearance" fees or "deals." .

The going prices for the Macon, Ga. race a few days before the Birmingham date had been $700 for Darel Dieringer in a 1966 Comet, $500 for Richard Petty and $500 for David Pearson, according to reliable reports.

"Deals," "appearance fees," "crying money" and "hard' luck" money, represent money guaranteed a driver over and above anything he might win in the purse.

Gloor said the name drivers on the GN circuit have the promoters over a barrel and can demand large sums of money just to show up since the name Ford drivers are not available.

"It is a ridiculous situation when you post a purse and still have to bribe the drivers to get them to come and race," Gloor said. "They are taking the racing out of racing and letting money get in the way," he added.

With the purse set at $5,330, standard for the NASCAR 100-milers, Gloor estimated he would have more than $11,000 tied up in the race.

"We're fed up with the whole thing as far as Grand Nationals are concerned," Gloor said.

In a telegram to Bill France, president of NASCAR,' Gloor said, "I sincerely hope NASCAR can arrive at a method for getting driver entries without haggling over money."

¢The present setup, to our thinking, is distasteful," he added. Gloor is not the only promoter suffering from "deal" money woes.

"Deals" have become so prevalent that reliable sources report that Charlotte Motor Speedway was forced to pay $1,000 in deal money to three car owners for the appearance of the machines for a race with posted awards of more than $112,000.

One dirt track promoter is known to have paid $2,600 in deal money for a 100-miler that didn't even include anyof the big name drivers. Even the poorest independents are demanding and getting deals which range from $50 to $250 depending on the value they place on themselves as a drawing card.

The average deal runs about $100, plus whatever the driver wins in the purse. A 100-mt. NASCAR race pays 22 places but only the top four - $1,000, $600, $400 and $300 - are worth the effort, according to most drivers.

The 14th through 22nd place drivers collect $100 each for their efforts. This isn't enough to pay towing and motel expenses, if a driver has to travel any distance at all.

Is the answer in larger purses? Many promoters feel that posted purses should be enough to attract any driver worth his salt.

But let's look at it from the car owner's standpOint. He makes a $150 deal. He burns up a rear end in qualifying and practice because one of his mechaniCS forgot to add grease before leaving the garage. Scratch $97.50. A new rear end goes under the car so it can compete for the purse'. A mechaniC fails to tig~ten the oil cooler line. Some 20 laps into the race, the line comes loose and within five laps another $97.50 is shot.

The driver finished 19th, winning $100 making his total for the night $250. Subtract $195 from $250 and you go home with $55. This is not much of a return on an $8,000 investment when you conSider that as many as five people may depend fully on that race car for a living.

The $55 has to go for gas, tires, two men who brought the car to the track and did the repair work, pay overhead on a garage at home and take care of any incidental repairs which might be required before the car will be ready to make the next race. It spreads out mighty thin, just ask any car owner.

Larger purses would help but this would be no guarantee that the demands for deal money would cease. Competition is the best answer but this must be tempered with more money in the purses.

On the Cover Jack Brabham, surrounded by Les Gendarmerie, grasps a tiger mascot and drink shortly after becoming the first constructor ever to drive his own ~ar to a GP win, at Reims. (David Phipps photo via Pan American).

Championship Standings

NASCAR Grand Nationals THROUGH JULY 4: 1 - David Pearson, 22,554; 2 - James Hylton, 18,910; 3 - Paw 'Goldsmlth, 16,594; 4 - Henley Gray, 13,116; 5 - Richard Petty, 13,036; 6 - Wendell Scott, 12,914; 7 - Nlel Castles, 12,544; 8 -J. T. Putney, 12,354; 9 - Ned Jarrett, 11,994; 10 - Elm? Langley, 11,986.

USAC Late Model Stocks THROUGH JULY 2: 1 - Norm Nelson, 1,200; 2 - Billy Foster, 770; 3 -Bay Darnell, 470; 4 - J. C. Clotz, 430; 5 - Don White, 370; 6 - Gary NorriS and Jim Hurtubise, 300; 8 - Gary Bettenhausen, 290; 9 - Sal Tovella, 270; 10 - Bob Waywack, 250.

USAC Championship Trail THROUGH JULY 4: 1 - Gordon Johncock, 1380; 2 - Jim McElreath, 1370; 3 - Mario Andretti, 1180; 4 - Chuck Hulse, 680; 5 - B1l1y Foster, 610; 6 -Mel Ke nyon, 560; 7 - Rodger Ward, 540; 8 - Joe Leonard, 480; 9 - Don Branson, 405; 10 - Bobby Unser, 350.

Competition Press & Autoweek Competition Press & Autoweek allows its columnists the fullest latitude in expressing opin ions on controversial 'sub;ects so our readers will be better informed. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the newspaper.

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More Rule Bending • NASCAR City The ultimate absurdity in NASCAR's current rules

was underlined last week at Daytona whenSam McQuagg won the Firecracker 400 in a Charger that wouldn't handle without a spoiler, a device tbat was heretofore illegal in NASCARland.

tt has long been an axiom in late model stock car racing that if a car won't handle you don't play with the suspension, you bend the rules. Dodge, therefore, with a straight face, announced that · it had made enormous numbers of spoilers available to the public through its dealers and so - 10, and behold - it became perfectly legal to fit one to the ill-behaving Charger.

The rest is history of the same kirid that William Marcy Tweed wrote, but just to be sure, CP&A called around the country trying to find a dealer willing to fit a spoi ler to a Charger.

"We've been carrying them in stock," said a West Coast dealer, "but now we've got real stain-resistant

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interiors and so we don't have any need to sell them any more."

And a Midwest agency service manager, asked about a spoiler, was indignant, ·what, and ruin a good car like that?" .

"Well I don't know that I've ever heard of whatever that is you're asking about," said another dealer, "but there's sure to be a bulletin."

So much for the contention on the part of Bill France that only items ' offer.ed in quantity by the dealer are acceptable in NASCAR. Like the Ford overhead cammer. And the Dodge spoiler.

What really counts is the set of 1967 rules about to pop forth from the magic cauldrons of the dream castle at Daytona Beach.

Is it too much to ask that the new rules profit from the shambles of 1966?

Would you believe FIA group five?

Down With the Ford Detractors • I applaud your favorable comments about the Ford victory for America at Le Mans but frankly would like to kick most everyone else who has written of this great win straight up the nearest wall.

For example, let me quote a few phrases from some of your own Le Mans reporters: "well, they did it. After three years and the expenditure of something in the region of $3 million, Ford has won Le Mans ... "; "He (Henry Ford) almost dropped the flag when it was first handed to him, but otherwise performed his task in exemplary fashion ... "; "And when the Gurney/Grant car was pushed away at 9:40, there were only three Fords left-albeit in the first three places ... "; "Somehow the applause for the winners seemed to be much more subdued than in recent years - but perhaps it was because of the weather."

Although these remarks are no more snide than a great deal of the other comment from Le Mans, particularly what the foreign experts had to say, it all adds up to a negative approach to a wonderful achievement which I feel is the most unfair dose of medicine I've ever seen the motor racing press hand out.

The point that I take pride in, and which so many reporters find it convenient to overlOOk, is that this was an American victory won the American way. To me, it is a sign of ignorance to p.Oint out the ·huge 7-liter engines" in the Fords which were run against poor Ferrari's 4-liters. From all the unbiased information I've been able to gather it appears to me that the essence of an engine comparison is that Ford used a Simple-basic production-line American engine which necessarily had to be a large one to compete against a highly specia:liz~ Ferrari engine that probably 'cost four time~ as much. To me, that's a stunning tribute to the American technological approach to the automotive industry.

What does the rest of the world think American engineers might come up with if they REALLY used the "Detroit money" the way they could and brought out a 4-cam, multi-cylinder, handmade one-of-a-kind super special engine like the Europeans race with?

I'd also like to know where guys like your David Phipps, who sounds like a European to me, get off

when Bob Montana almost lost his McKee-Plymouth on the downhi 11 left-hander.

Tom Payne came around shortly afterwards and could clearly be seen pOinting vigorously to a spot on the track. It was obvious ' to many spectators at that point that there was oil on the track, and despite several other cars fishtailing at the spot, no oil flag was shown.

On the sixth 'lap, Jerry Grant came around by himself. He had previously been in company with Jackie Stewart, Chuck Parsons and John Cannon and had used a different line. This time however he was able to take his own line, ran into the patch Payne had been pointing to and spun into Harrison.

There was nothing that Grant could have done and, after the accident of course, the oil flag was produced.

Accidents will happen in our sport, but this one could have been avoided.

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TOM TISENTH Rochester, N.Y.

• It has recently come to our attention that you indicated that our firm has underwritten a $30,000,000 bond issue to finance the Ontario Motor Speedway. (CP&A June 11.)

It should be stated at this time that your above report is inaccurate to the extent that the underwriting is not an accomplished fact to date. Although. we are presently planning to underwrite an issue of apprOXimately that size, we have not drawn together the documents necessary to. effect the underwriting.

We do appreciate your interest in this project and hope that we will be able to provide a faCility for your continuous reporting in the near future.

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Tribute to Hartman

talking about Ford spending $3 million. I'm sure no one • Although the issue of CP has not' yet been mailed who knows - no one at Ford ever named such a figure. covering the June Sprints at Elkhart Lake, I am certain And even if that were somehwere close, I'll bet it com- that you will mention Jim Hartman's tragic death during pares to an interesting degree with what Ferrari has practice on Sunday morning. spent over the last three years also. Sure, that's a small However, unless you had known him personally, you company compared to Ford, but when you throw in gov- could not know what a truly great loss this was to the ernment backing and financing like they have had, I find spOrt as well as to all who knew him. Jim was one of it impossible to generate any sympathy for a nationally- the most dedicated automotive sportsmen I have ever' backed outfit that has been ·steamrollered"byaprivate . known, but more important, he was one of those rare American company. conSiderate, warm and thoughtful human beings who

I just wish to hell we could have had a good jazz band just enjoyed being with people. There was no preover there blasting out the Star Spangled Banner and a tension in any of his behavior or actions, only an excouple thousand flags waving in their faces ·when the tremely nice and thoughtful person, the kind very few U.s.A. came rolling home. of us are, but the kind we are forever a little better

I'm delighted that Ford blasted 'em to bits. I'm also for as a result of having known. glad they spent every dollar they spent. The Europeans STANFORD L. McDONALD sure don't hesitate to get their best hold, including Chicago, Ill. sometimes on the rule book, so why shouldn't we? If the heat is too much they can always get out of the kitchen.

Playe~'s 200

ALFREOO BAGIANCI Orange, California

• I have just read your report on the Play~rs 200, and having been fortunate enough to see the race and unfortunate enough to see the fatal accident involving Jerry Grant and turn marshal Gordon Harrison, I would like to add something in the hope that it might somehow contribute to the prevention of any occurrence of a Similar tragedy.

The race had been in progress for only a lap or so

About That '$30 Million • May I enter a slight demurrer at the late news item (CP&A July 9) about the Chuck Stoddard movie?

It is inaccurate to say that "Alfa officials wouldn't even watch it" at the New York showing. Fact is, Don Black of Alfa saw it and loved it. And while I may not qualify as an «Alfa official," I also watched it with great pleasure. (It was only chance that brought me to the lunch - nobody told me the movie was to be shown.) Mr. Reitz was unable .to make It. Chuck and his associates turned out a great job, and I hope you have the chance to see it.

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After our terrible showing at Elkhart, Ed Shafer, our crew chief, and I had a long discussion about the condition of our car and program in general.

It was a hard pill to swallow, but the decision had to be made to postpone our racing schedule until Kent, July 31. The big problem, of course, is the damage to our car from the two road accidents . A brief list of problems that appeared after we put the car back together showed: the frame is twisted an eighth-in., making ·it impossible to obtain proper ride height or weight adjustment, springs collapsed, gearbox warped, body too heavy be'cause of the emergency repairs made while trying to meet a race schedule, and several others.

Of course, all of these problems are complicated by the lack of spares (the Utah/Nebraska landscape is now dotted with Wiggins quick release flUid couplings, Lamson and SeSSions hardware, Hewland gearbo x parts and about half of our stocks), and no time to inventory or sort our remaining stock.

Added to this, several of our alternate roll bars are warped, making it impossible to sort the chassis.

Worst of all is the fact that we have not had the time to magnaflux the suspension components. We die-checked everything, but this is only an emergency, in-the-field method and it's really unfair toour competitors, endangering them every time we go onto the starting grid. (USAC requires magnaflux papers after every crash - a GOOD idea).

It addition we've not had time to do any development work. As it stands now we're four weeks behind in our schedule of modifications to make the car faster and more reliable.

While we feel badly about this decision, in that it is a disappointment to John Ross at St. Jovite, Cam Argetsinger at the Glen and our supporters, we feel that they deserve more than a miserable showing by a half-prepared car.

Equally unfair would be the injustice to Nickey Chevrolet, our primary sponsor and K&B Models, who are releasing a slot car model of our car with a huge promotion program, not to mention Goodyear, Valvoline, E. B. Wiggins, Aeroquip, Lamson and SeSSions, Airheart, Sperex and Traco. These people have put a lot of money and services into the car (some have worked as pit crews) and to appear in a non-competitive car with their name on it is the greatest sort of injustice.

Needless to say, this will likely cost us all chances of the USRRC, but we will use the time to completely rebuild for the CanAm series.

While the USRRC is important, we feel that a good showing in the CanAm is more important to our sponsors and supporters because of the tougher competition and, to us, because the larger purses could help offset our earlier losses. Also we should be in a better mental and physical shape in that we will be able to work a more sensible eight-to-12-hour day.

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Player's Race Set Again; CanAm Opener By Lionel Birnbom Area Editor

MONTREAL, Que., July 29 - The Player's Quebec will open the fall CanAm series as originally planned thanks to the Imperial Tobacco co. which sponsors all the Player's events across Canada.

Aft"er a special meeting held between the Mont Tremblant track owners, Imperial and the Montreal Motor Racing Club, agreement was reached to run the Sept. 11 event, on the brink of being cancelled after an MMRC financial loss in the July 10 Pepsi Cola event.

Imperial Tobacco inSisted they would deal only with the MMRC to organize the event.

Previously the track turned down a long-term contract offer from

. the sponsors, saying they would not allow the MMRC to organize the event. The track management had decided to get the FIA permit them-

. selves, hire a well-known American race director and then use manpower from smaller sports car clubs.

The contract is a *one-shot" deal covering the Player's Quebec event only for this year. By its terms, the tobacco company will underwrite the race budget (expected to be near $100,000) entirely, and will pay the MMRC a straight organizing fee.

However, this does not resolve the wide differences that have developed between the club and the track. The previous contract was broken when the club announced they could not pay the remaining rent of $45,000 for this year. The track in turn threatened a lawsuit if they were not paid.

J ett' s Lotus Holds Off International Set at Baton Rouge

BATON ROUGE, La., July 24-Paul Jett from San Antonio, Tex., in a Lotus 23B, outlasted Bill Fuller in the Rebel spl. (Merlyn-Chev) to win the feature event in the SCCA nationals here today.

Jett -won from Joe Hutchison in a Merlyn Mk 6 and Freddy Van Bueren of Mexico City, driving a GT350, after Fuller dropped out of the lead with mechanical troubles.

The national was held on the 1.5-mi., nine-turn, Ryan airport course. Roger West came through to win the Dp race in his MGB after a very poor showing from the TR4 and Stinger contingent, which may well have been scared offby the extremely rough track surface.

Dale Wood took the sedan and Ep race in his Mustang from Charlie Barnes' Lotus Cortina although Vernon Shade's Porsche was very much in evidence until its transmission went out. Hugh Grammar won the s mall sedan affair in an Austin Cooper S.

Bob Samm won the formula race in an A utodynamics.

The thin field of 78 cars forced some competitors to sit out their r ace s altogether, including Paul Wood who showed up with his 289 Cobra but couldn't find a soul to go against.

Roy Hopkins in a Spitfire took the small production race followed in by Hp winner Martin Dunn in a Sprite.

NASCAR drivers suffered severely at Danville, as exemplified by Richard Petty, who sits squarely in a bog after getting off-course in his Team Starfish Barracuda at VIR. (Bill Lowry photo)

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Car Types ·Clash Head-On at VIR By Donald Frye

DANVILLE, Va., July 31-If the overall appearance of the VIR 400 TransAm sedan event here is indicative of anything, the promoters may have stumbled on a successful formula.

The track, workshops, and related weekencf activities, were a strange mixture of' rebel flags, sports car types with handlebar mustaches and safari shirts, -NASCAR stickers, pie a san t cocktail parties, barn dances, British accents, big thundering Detroit products and higherpitched European machinery that all added up to a most interesting race weekend.

Most of the local race spectators came to watch familiar names like Petty, Turner, Pearson and Scott show up such unfamiliar names as Thompson, Johnson, Jennings, Brown and Tullius, while the purists

expected the NASCAR group to all exit on the first right-hand turn. It didn't happen.

The event turned into a naiJ-biting, two-way contest as the NASCAR boys, especially Petty, charged like gangbusters for the lead. Petty immediately wedged himself into second place and had the NASCAR fans screaming while the sports car types jumped up and down on their car roofs, cheering for Feistmann and Johnson.

When Petty went out the first time (ironically both times on the same left-hand turn) the NASCAR fans almost threw a fence down trying to get out and rescue him from the mud.

Even after Petty, Pearson and Scott were out, they stood in the soggy mud and watched the Johnson/ Feistmann duel and rooted for Curtis Turner who had fallen hopelessly back due to two flat tires and gearbox troubles.

Team Triumph Duo Takes Andiamo Rally FINDLEY, OhiO, July 31 - Lee

Hendrick and Bill Henderson from Williamsville, N.Y. drove a factoryentered Triumph 2000 to victory in the SCCA Andiamo national rally here.

The pair scooped the 62-car rally with a low total of 125 penalty points for the two-day, 580-mi. time and distance ·event.

Runners-up were Jerry Bloom and Harry Ward with 400 pOints, driving a Plymouth Valiant, with Pete Schmieler and Ken Motykiewicz from IllinoiS third in a Mustang, with 425 points.

Riverside Eyes Second F /1 Race

LOS ANGELES, July 30 - Approval will be asked for a second F/l race in the U.s. when ACCUS suLmits its proposed international calendar to the CSI (FIA competition committee) in Milan in October.

The date, Nov. 25, 1967, at RiverSide Raceway will not count for the World Driving Championship.

The Riverside date is one of 61 international dates to be requested at Milan. Final approval of all FIA dates will come in November at a Paris meeting.

The other U.S. F /1 date is the championship USGP at Watkins Glen in October.

While most of the ACCUS meeting here went smoothly, the F/l listing for RiverSide caused conSiderable debate with USAC opposing the move.

Informed sources said that USAC 'is working closely with a proposed course at nearby OntariO, CaUf. and speculation had them trying to res erve the Thanksgiving date for that course.

The event started and ended at . Findley, Ohio and followed a route through the central and western areas of the state. There were no special stages or sections.

Competitors came from as far away as Las Cruces, N.M. and Vermont to take part in the Marathon Oil-sponsored rally.

Current leaders in the SCCA national rally championship are Sally and Den n i s Koelmel, Huntingdon Valley, Pa., who could have taken the championship this weekend had they won this event. However, they placed eighth in their factory-backed Plymouth Barracuda.

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Buck Pushes Hard, But Petty Blasts to Nashville 400-Win By Bob Glendy

NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 30-Richard Petty put his 1966 Plymouth on the pole, took the lead on the first lap, and went ·on to win his third consecutive Nashville 400 over the A-mi. dirt speedway, beating

Brown Leads Tight Canada Title Race

TORONTO, Canada, July 30 - Hal Brown recaptured the lead for the Canadian sports car driving championship by picking up five points in the William Cleland Memorial races at Mosport, July 24.

In the see-saw battle for the title and the . Player'S challenge trophy, B row n leads Winnipeg l.a w ye r George Chapman by one pornt, 52 to 51. Chapman raced Saturday but car problems kept him from picking up pOints in the overall standings.

John Cordts of NortQ Bay, Ont., maintained third place in the standings. He added nine points to his total and now has 37 pts., seven more than fourth-place Rudy Bartling of Toronto.

Cordts wrestled the over-~-liter c I ass lead from Toronta's Nat Adams, leader for the first half of the raCing schedule. The North Bay driver has 37 pts. with Adams and George Eaton of Toronto tied for second with 30.

In the under-2-11ter category, Brown has 73 pts., 11 more than Chapman. Bartling is third with 49. CANADIAN DRIVERS' CHAMPIONSHIP

OVERALL THROUGH JULY 24: 1 - Hal Brown, Lotus 23B, 52 points; 2 - George Chapman, Lotus 23B, 51; 3 - John Cordts, McLaren-C hev, 37; 4 - Rudy Bartling, Porsche RS61, 30; 5 - George Eaton, Cobra 427, 25; 6 - Eppie Wietzes, Mustang GT, 23; 7 - LudWig Heimrath, MCLaren-Ford, 21 ; 8 -Laurie Craig, Sting Ray, 20; 9 - Nat Adams, Veedol spl., 11; 10 -AI Justanson, ElvaMk 6, 10.

OVER 2-LITER TOP FIVE: 1 - Cordts, 37; 2 - Adams/Eaton, 30; 4 - Weitzes, 25; 5 - Heimrath, 24.

UNDER 2-LITER TOP FIVE: 1 - Brown, 73; 2 - Chapman, 62; 3 - Bartling, 49; 4 -Justanson, 20; 5 - Ron Evans, 17.

Buck Baker by more than six laps. Petty broke his own qualifying

record for the 200-mi. event at 82.49mph. He was able to build up such a commanding lead that he didn't even lose it when he pitted.

Baker pushed his '66 Olds hard, but was no match for Petty's determined tactics. Grand national point leader David Pearson bypassed the event to compete in the TransAm series event at Virginia International Raceway, only to blow the engine in his Dart GT during practice runs.

The Nashville race was almost wreCk-free, the caution flag was out only on the first lap when Darel Dieringer slammed his '66 Comet into the wall. He was not injured, but his car was out.

Petty has done well on the superspeedways·, but hasn't had much success on short tracks this year.

Bobby Allison continued his strong showing by finishing close behind Baker in a 1966 Chevelle powered by the 327CIO engine. He amazed many stock car observers when he won two of his first five starts in the supposedly underpowered class 2 machine.

Oscar Fastest Up Giant Hill

WILKES-BARRE, Penn., July 31-Os car Koveleski made four runs at" the I-mi. Giant Despair hillclimb today and lowered the course record on each occasion.

The Scranton, Penn. driver was at the wheel of an A WRA CooperChevy for the 50th running of the SCCA event which also counts towards the Pennsylvania Hillclimb championship.

Koveleski made two practice runs and two official runs, and on the fourth run left the mark at 50.336 secs , 1.5 secs below the old mark set by Hal Keck's Cobra last year. Keck, who was winner of the Bud Faust Memorial Trophy in both '64 and '65 was unable to catch Koveleski and was forced to settle for second.

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Jett Jets To T exas Feature By Mary Ann Chapman Area Editor

AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 7 - Paul Jett collected his second feature win in about as many weeks when he took home the Mayor's Trophy for the big modified race at the new Austin Raceway Park here today.

The former round track driver was challenged briefly by the LolaFord of Leroy Melcher Jr., but just ran away with the event in his Lotus 23 after Melcher bobbled and was passed by Gus Hutchison's Merlyn.

Aside from these herOiCS, Melcher also led the formula car race in his Cooper-Climax for a time, but retired, leaving the win to Jack Saunders' Lotus-Chev 2. Bob Samm (Autodynamics) won the Flv section in a race that was hard-fought right down to seventh place.

Fred Van Beuren Jr. came up from Mexico City to take his 11th consecutive win in 60 days in his GT350. He was followed across the line by two very fast MGBs driven by Gary Rodriguez and John McComb. McComb barely nosed out Willie McKemie, who had started

from the back of the grid after a shunt on Saturday.

Elouise NorriS, Datsun, beat a rapid contingent of Spitfires to take the small production event, while Dale Wood, Mustang, and Vernon Shade, Porsche, took their races by Wide margins. SCCA NATIONALS, AUSTIN RACEWAY PARK, AUSTIN, TEX., AUG. 6-7.

ALL ':ORMULA: 1 - Jack Saunders, LotusChev; 2 - Bob Samm, Autodynamlcs; 3 - Brad Dunn, Autodynamics. CLASS: F I A -Saunders; FIB - D. Stroffollno, de Tomaso; F Iv -Samm.

A-B-C-D PROD: 1 - Fred Van Beuren, Jr., GT350; 2 - Gary Rodriguez, MGB; 3 - John McComb, MGB. CLASS: Ap - Rod Lambeth, 427 Cobra; Bp - Van Beuren; Cp - Wlllie McKemie, Elva-Courier; Dp - Rodriguez.

E-F PROD: 1 - Vernon Shade, Porsche; 2 - Tommy Allen, Porsche; 3 - Bobby Burger, Austin Healey. CLASS: Ep - Shade; FpJim Travis, Alfa.

SEDANS, H MOD: 1 - Dale Wood, Mustang; . 2 - Charlie Barnes, Lotus Cortina; 3 - Floyd

Lambert, Lambert spl. CLASS: Hm - Lambert; sl A - Wood; SiB - Barnes; sic -Richard McDaniel, Austin Cooper S.

G-H PROD: 1 - Elouise Norris, Datsun; 2-Bob Eschauvier, Spitfire; 3 - Jim Ferrell, Sprite. CLASS: Gp - Norris; Hp - Ferrell.

C-D-E-F-G MOD: 1 - Paul Jett, Lotus 23B; 2 - Gus Hutchison, Merlyn; 3 - Leroy Melcher Jr., Lola T70. CLASS: Cm - Melcher; Fm - Jett; Gm - Joe McClughan, Merlyn.

Strong Field Set for 12·Hr By Dave Roethel

UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Aug. 8 - The most impressive field in its six-year history is set to take the flag for the Marlboro 12-Hour race August 14.

Heading the field in domestic cars for the fifth in the TransAmerican Sedan Championship series are such nimes as Dick Thompson and Ed Lowther (Mustang), Bob Tullius (Dodge Dart), Bruce Jennings, Scott Harvey, and Les Netherton (Barracudas) and GM engineer Don Eichstaedt in a Stingerized Corvair.

But Marlboro, notorious for its favoritism towards smalJ. cars, will also be graced with the presence of the English Alan Mann Racing Team which plans to field three Lotus Cortinas. The Fords, extensively reworked since the VIR 400, will be in the hands of Sir John Whitmore, Frank Gardner, German ace Hubert Hahne, the young Belgian Jacques Ickx, and Bryar winner Alan Moffat. Cortina is anxious to continue its string of successes in the gruelling endurathon. It won in 1963-64, and

placed second last year. The new favorites of the under-

2-liter crowd, Alfa Romeo GTAs, also will be present in good number. As of press time, four had been

I entered headed by the 1965-winning duo of Monty Winkler and Pete Van der Vate. Another strong contender looked to be the Paul Richards/ George Alderman Alfa.

The rest of the class B field is made up of three Volvos and a VW 1600 to be driven by Bill Bencker and Don Spaulding, Pompano Beach, Fla. _

For the first time in its history, the Marlboro 12-Hour has an overflow field. A week before clOSing, 44 cars had signed in and more were still expected. Hence, some furious practice sessions were fpreseen in attempts to set times quick enough to make the 36 starting berths. Most likely to be bumped were the class D cars, although the VW drivers in class C will be watching the time postings nervously as well.

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Keek Captures Bryar Benefit By Cameron Dewar Area Editor

LOUDEN, N.H., Aug. 7 -Hal Keck of Hellertown, Pa., led the way for 50 laps to win the feature Jimmy Funds special at the New England Region's national meet at Bryar Motorsport Park.

The 50-lapper on the lo6-mi. course had originally been billed as a 100-mt. event to aid the children's cancer division o~ Boston's famed Children'S hospital, but someone discovered that 100 mi., or 63 laps, would mean refuelling for many of the entries and the race waS -forthwith cut to 50 laps.

Don Yenko chos e to run in a Sting Ray and finished second overall and first in Bp. He left the Yenko Stinger in the hands of Dr. Dick Thompson, who followed in third spot and first in Dp.

After the wild 30-car start, the pattern was all too -well traced on the Bryar course with its 90 per cent visibility. There was the odd tussle in the turns but mostly the cars ran like scheduled buses. Mark Donahue driving a GT350 tangled with Bob Colombosian in the Clubhouse turn with Don ahue ' spiiming madly and the former's Lotus Elan continuing with only a Slight dent.

ponahue continued but ceased to be any threat; Colombosian, who had been running a strong second in Bp behind Yenko, dropped back in the closing stages.

Action was high in the C-E and Fm race with)3ob Brown and veteran Bob Bucher (both from New York and both in Lolas) shaking up the s i z a b I e crowd with their duel. Bucher spun at Clubhouse which gave Brown first and left Bucher second.

Old-timer Stewart Rutherford in his venerable Chev spl. was third.

Skip Barber ran behind him in a Brabham to take Em and Joe Grimaldi won Fm in-his Elva.

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Sam Feinstein charged home first in a Lotus S 7 to win the E and Cp segment, but it was Ralph De Ziantis of Rhode Island who staged the star performance of the day by beating all the Porsches to take third. He was appropriately awarded the $50 for the day's most spirited showing.

Bob Viegel, of Boston, a driver who has been knocking at the door with his MGA, went on to win Fp after some daring dicing which put Mike Hiss' TR3 into the countryside.

George Oulton won over the C sedans in his Mini Cooper after he lost a battle with the Fp boys.

In the A-B and C formula race Don Morin, record holder at the three New England tracks, spun badly, and apparently decided not to extend himself thereafter. Victory went to a nameless masked marvel in a Winkelmann-Brabham, reportedly a veteran and former record holder.

Don Ward blew his engine in his Sprite's debut, and Jeff Millstein of, New York went on to win. Sam Posey took the first F /V race in a close finish over Richard Borden in a Barr.

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CLASS WINNERS: Ap - Hal Keck, Cobra; Cp - Sam Feinstein, Lotus ' S7; Dp - Dick Thompson, Stinger; Ep - Ralph Veclantis, Lotus 7; Fp - Bob Viegel, MGA; Hp - Jeff Millstein, Sprite; SIA - Bob TUllius, Dart; SiB - DaVid Ammen, GTA; sic - George Oulton, Mini Cooper; SiD - Al Cosentino, Fiat Abarth; Cslr - Bob Brown, Lola T70 Mk 2-Chev; Eslr - Skip Barber, Brabham; Fslr - Joe Grimaldi, Elva; FIB - Bob Fuller, Winkelmann Brabham; Flc - Phil Groggins, Brabham.

ACCUS-FIA Sets Dates for NHRA Major '67 1 Meets

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 8-Dates for three major 1967 NHRA championship drag racing events were given approval here by the ACCUS -FIA last week at a meeting of the ACCUS board of directors. The dates will be submitted to the FIA in Paris for listings on the offi cial motor sports calendar .

The Win~ernationals, in Califor-

I nia, are s lated for Feb. 2-3-4, 1967; the Springnationals , in Tennessee,

I are scheduled for June 9-10-11, and NHRA's 13th annual Nationals, biggest of all drag racing events, will again take place during the Lab 0 r Day weekend, August 31 through Sept. 4, 1967.

Hansen Tops Top Flight SIR Covey By Gary Shellman

PEW A UKEE, Wisc., Aug. 7 - Jerry Hansen continued his domination , of the SCCA national scene in this part of the world as he swept to victory in the modified race to share main honors of the meet with big prod race winner Dave Heinz.

Hansen drove his very successful W olverine-Chev to a walkaway, setting a new course record of 1:52.2 (80.21mph), while Heinz came from behind to take the win in the 100-mi. prod race for sports cars and sedans.

The mod race saw the best sports/ racing field ever to assemble on the Lynndale Farms 2.5-mi. course. The Minneapolis stockbroker outbraked Ralph Salyer into the first turn at the start of the feature and then proceeded to lap everyone but the third-place car, winning from Salyer by a 25-sec. margin.

Salyer also had a breeze-in for second as third-place finisher Richard Brown had his footful in earning that spot in his McLaren Mk 2 after Bud Clusserath (McKee-aIds) and Mak Kronn (McKee-Chev) had fought over third until lap 16. Cluss erath retired on lap 16 and Kronn spun on the final turn before the finish, giving Brown the spot.

Doc Wyllie comfortably took Em in his Bobsy-BMW after Ray Van Zelst's Lotus 23 dropped out on lap 10. Kay Hier nipped Ron Courtney's Lotus for Gm honors.

A pit stop on lap seven appeared to put Heinz out of contention in the prod race while Gene Cormany's Cobra 427 was leaving ev~ryon.e. But Heinz came charging back and then Cormany's engine turned sour and a series of water-stops by a bevy of thirsty Mustangs opened the way for Heinz's Sting Ray.

Paul Sonda in a Bp Sting Ray held off a determined challenge from Dudley Davis' deadly Elan to take the class and second overall.

Mopar's 0 n 1 y venture for the weekend, Scott Harvey's well-tuned Barracuda, went through the pack with Davis early in the race, but finally settled for a comfortable fourth taking S/ A.

Course-owne r Jerry Hirsch's usual run of bad luck continued as rain fell on Sunday morning during the first race. Through the downpour, however, Ron McConkey's venerable XK140 passed up all the C -D and Ep machinery, taking Dave Clark's Lotus S7 on lap five when the latter bobbled. McConkey was one of the few drivers to stay on course during the rain, which helped.

Best of Saturday's races was the F /V event where Jim Clarke (Bobsy) and Dan Fowler went at it with the nod finally going to Fowler's Gladiator.

G-H PROD: 1 - Bob Clemens, Spitfire, 64.8mph; 2 - Gerry Hinkle, MG Midget ; 3 - Fred Baker, Datsun. CLASS: Gp - Clemens; Hp - Dwight Knupp, Sprite.

F/v: 1 - Jim Clarke, Bobsy, 65.02; 2 -Dan Fowler. Gladiator; 3 - Chet Freeman, Bobsy.

F IB-C: I-C. L. Phillips, Lotus 27, 72.44; 2 - Larry Skeels, Cooper; 3 - David Dours, Elva-Ford. CLASS: FIB - Phillips ; Flc - Alan Trauhast, Cooper.

F PROD, SEDANS, H MOD:l - Richard Jacobs, Jackal-Saab, 68.20; 2 - Bill Mitchell, Bobsy-Imp; 3 - John Wetherbee, JabroSaab. CLASS: Fp - Alan Costner; Hm -Jacobs; Si C - Jerry Moerwald, AUstin Cooper ; SiD - Bill Schley, F iat Abarth.

E PROD: 1 - Don McIntosh, Porsche, 66.1 2; 2 - Dick Brackenridge, Porsche; 3 -Ray Thompson, Pors che.

C-D PROD: 1 - Ron McConkey, XK140, 56.06 ; 2 - Logan Blackburn, MGB ; 3 - D. Milani, Stinger. CLASS: Cp - Bruce Clark, Lotus 7; Dp - McConkey.

C- G MOD: 1 - Jerry Hansen, WolverineChev, 78. 29; 2 - Ralph Salyer , McKee CroSal-Olds; 3 - Richard Brown, McLaren Mk 2. CLASS: Cm - Hansen, Em - M.R.J. Wyllie; Fm - F r ank Cipelle, Clark spl.; Gm - Kay Hier, Bobsy.

A-B PROD, A-B SEDA NS : 1 - Dave Heinz, Sting Ray, 67.80; 2 - Paul Sonda, Corvette; 3 - Dudley Davis, Elan. CLASS: Ap - Heinz; Bp - Sonda; SI A - Scott Harvey, Barracuda; SiB - Gene Henderson, Lotus Cortina.

LATE 'NEWS • RAC may review its refusal to stage any more group 7 races after the Guards International at the end of the month. Until now races have been dull, and Britons' noses are out of jOint that all races of consequence are in North America. But with the overwhelming entry at Brands Hatch, RAC may be unable to refuse to schedule more races. • Ted Mayer, negotiating for Bruce McLaren and John Surtees for ap

,pearance money for CanAm, has evidently agreed to go to races paying no one: Bridgehampton, St. Jovite and Laguna, as well as to the rest of the events. • Stewart will run four CanAms for Mecom, Follmer two and Parnelli Jones all six. Follmer totalled a T70 in practice at Riverside last week, but, happily, a new one was on the way. • Everyone denies the existence of the sports/racing Lotus 50. Everyone claims Clark will drive nothing but Lotus. Won't or can't (by contract). • John Cannon has left Team Blocker; Hoss has agreed to sponsor Lothar Motschenbacher. • For 1967 the major championship in Britain will be for the new F/2 cars - those with 1600cc GT-derived engines. • Another rumor of F /1 car from Italy's great bike-builder MV (Agusta). Car is said to have a chassis of unusual design and a V12 3-liter engine. If it 'exists, car would be the product of Gioacchino Colombo, father of the early FerrariS and designer of the post-war Bugatti. • Pergusa F/l1ast week was called off; chance of postponement is small, it puts it too close to Aug. 21 Monza. • New Felday 4wd group 7 car will be offered for sale in U.S. Power is by 427 Holman-Moody Ford. Four-speed will be used for now, automatic follows. • New super-secret Lola type 72 will be TeamSurtees' mount in CanAm. • Old pro Pete Biro, perhaps the best raCing photog in U.S., has been appointed west coast correspondent for Car and Driver.

Craig Hill Confounds Experts, Wins Harewood By Rich Clee Area Editor

HAREWOOD, Ont., Aug. 13 - An unrecognized driver in a dubious car left the critics chewing their words in his wake as Craig Hill of London, Onto sprung his 289CID Lotus 30-Ford loose from the backing syndicate and lapped the entire field twice to win the 55-lap Hare-

' wood National at this 1.9-mi. airport circuit today. Pushing LudWig Heimrath's 7-liter McLaren-Ford till the latter's gearbox broke, Hill collected the $5.00 per lap leader's money from lap 12 on in an uncontested breeze to the finish.

A converted stock car racer, Hill first attracted fan noticemostly unfavorable - in a vicious, noisy XKE reportedly rebuilt from a wreck by Competition Motors of London four years ago. Some, however, were more impressed; Team Triumph signed Hill to pilot its TR4A when they re-entered Canadian racing last year, and BP included him the same year in its annual six Canadian "racing scholarships" to the Taruffi school in Italy. Meanwhile a London, Ont., syndicate last year bought him a Lotus 30, but the non-racing majority refused to allow the car to be run till a suitable sponsor had been found, so the machine, with no performance record to offer, sat un-

used ever since. Hence his most significant ride to date was his entry in the Sebring race in the TR4A this spring.


Nelson Tops USAC· Stocks By Gary Shellman Area Editor

MILWAUKEE, Wisc., Aug. 14-Norm Nelson added to his USAC late model stock car pOints lead with a win here today in the 150-lap USAC race, charging to the victory in his , 66 Plymouth.

Secqnd place went to Jack Bowsher who smoothly worked his '66 Ford up to a lap behind the highflying Plymouth of Nelson. The next four places were split between Dodge and Plymouth.

Nelson's Plymouth led for 99 of the 150 laps while his teammate Jim Hurtubise's car was on top for 44 and Don White's Charger held off the pack for 11 circuits.

Hurtubise and White were actually Nelson's only challengers in the race, but they provided the 21,000


ACCUS Lists 1967 Schedule WESTPORT, Conn., Aug. 4 - A

total of 24 SCCA events has been approved for the 1967 FIA calendar by ACC US, the FIA authority for the U.S.

The calendar listing reque?ts have now been forwarded to FIA's Paris headquarters for final approval. • FEBRUARY 1967 2/ 4-5 Daytona Contl., Daytona Bch, Fla.,

Sp·, S·, GT*j IC·. • MARCH 1967 3/31 Sebring 4-hr., SebrIng, Fla., T*jI*. • APRIL 1967 4/1 Sebring 12-hr., Sebring, Fla.,SP,S,

GTj IC. 4/16 USRRC, RiverSide, Calif.,SR·j

NO·. 4/30 USRRC, Las Vegas, Nev.,SRj NO. • MAY 1967 5/7 USRRC, Monterey, CaUf., SRj NO. 5/21 USRRC, Bridgehampton, N.Y., SR j

NO. • JUNE 1967 6/11 TransAmerlcan, Wentzville, Mo.,

Tj NO. 6/25 USRRC,Watklns Glen,N.Y.SRjNO. • JULY 1967 7/9 TransAmerican, Loudon, N,H., T j

NO. 7/ 0 TransAmerlcan, Danville, Va., T,

I NO.

7/30 USRRC, Kent, Wash., SR j NO. • AUGUST 1967 8/ 13 TransAmerican, Upper Marlboro,

Md., T j NO. 8/27 USRRC, Lexington, OhiO, SR j NO. • SEPTEMBER 1966 9/3-4 Road America 500, Elkhart Lk.,

Wise., SR, SP, S, GTj !. 9/10 TransAmerican, Smithfield, Tex.,

TjNO. 9/16-17 Double 500, Bridgehampton, N.Y.,

SP, S, GTj IC. 9/17 TransAmerlcan, RiverSide, Calif.,

Tj NO. • OCTOBER 1967 10/1 Grand Prix of the U.S., Watkins

Glen, F/1; IC. _ 10/6-8 Northwest GP, Kent, Wash., SRj I. 10/13-15 Monterey GP, Monterey, Calif.,

SRj!. 10/27-29 L.A. Times GP, RiverSide, CaUf.,

SRj I. • NOVEMBER 1967 11/10-12 Stardust GP, Las Vegas, Nev., SRj

I. 11/25-26 RiverSide, Calif., F/1, SR, F/SC

CAj!'

*CSP - sports/prototypej S - sports 50j GT -grand tourlngj SR - sports/racingj T - tourIngj F/1 - formula onej F/SCCA - formula SCCAj NO - national openj IC - international champlonshipj I - international.

Vol. 16, No. 35 EMend .. MCo.d cia .. mail at ' ~ Pnnci8CO. CaUf. Septem ber 3, 1966

Chrysler Feasts at Marlboro 12 Hour, Takes Top Four Positions By Dave Roethel Area Editor

UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Aug. 15 - Chrysler Corp's stake in the TransAmerican championships took a giant step forward today as the 1966 Dodge Dart of Bob Tullius and Tony Adamowicz won the Sixth Annual Marlboro 12-Hr. for compact sedans.

Second and third overall were the two Team Starfish Plymouth Barracudas of Charlie Rainville/ Scott H a r ve y/Bert Everett and Bruce Jennings/Les Netherton.

Adding to the feast was the fourthplace finish of the Broch Yatesentered Dart driven by Hal Keck and Chuck Krueger.

Tullius and Adamowicz turned in a flawless job of driving their handsome white Group 44 car.

During the 12-hr. they logged 405 laps around the 1.7-mi. course, thereby demolishing the prior rec-

ord of 381 laps established in 1963 by Jack Sears and Bob Olthoff in a Cortina GT.

In addition to taking home $500 for their overall win and $750 for an over-two-liter victory, they also received the coveted index award and eight other trophies. Important to the Dodge Division was the nine points earned by virtue of the overall win. And Chrysler's Plymouth earned six more points for the Team Starfish effort. Ford got two pOints from the fifth over-two-liter placing of the Bob Johnson/Don Sesslar/ Tom Yeager Mustang. This now gives the three manufacturers a 31-28-23 total respectively in the current standings.

STRETCHED For '66 the 12-Hr. was stretched

into a three-day event with sorting out day practice and compulsory

. night practice Friday. This pro-

Honda 3-Liter Honda's long-aWaited 3-liter F/l car made its appearance at the 3.75-mi. Suzuka circuit, Aug. 3 in the hands of number one team dri ver Ritchie Ginther.

The best lap time Ginther recorded was 2:14.0 (101.35mph) over the 17-turn circuit. This compares with a best 1.5-liter time of 2:17.0 (98.75mph).

Maximum power of the new machine is estimated at 440bhp at 11,000 rpm from a 48-valve, double overhead cam, 90-deg. V12. Transmission is said to be five-speed, developed by Honda. Goodyear tires were used on the car during tests.

Body dimenSions (estimated) are: oa. length - 163.5in.; oa. height -31.52in.; oa. width - 70.92; ground clearance - 3.15in.; wheelbase -98.5; front tread - 57.1; rear tread - 57.50; weight with oil and water - 1,234.81bs. (Motor Sport and Autosport in Japan photo)

duced no outstanding performances since it was obvious most entrants were saving their major efforts for the timed sessions all day Saturday.

One major incident Friday was a spinout in the bowl by the Pete Feistmann/Russ Norburn Mustang. While being driven by Peter Gregg the car got out of control, smacked the guardrail hard enough to bend it back 90-deg., and came to rest with a demolished front end.

Stakter Arch James suffered two broken legs as a result of being hit by the rail.

QUALIFYING CHALLENGE , On Saturday the bUSiness of rac

ing really got earnest as the American cars, the Alfa Romeo GT As and the Lotus Cortinas engaged in a multi-car struggle for front starting


Pike Pounds Six Hour Win By Ron Hickman

RIVERSIDE, Calif., Aug. 14 - The triumvirate of Don Pike, DickSmith and Chuck Cantwell roared to victory in Pike's notchback A/S Mustang by Shelby at the six-hr. enduro for production sports cars and sedans held at R i v e r sid e International Raceways by the Cal Club SCCA here today.

Pike was trailed to the checker (Continued on page 9)

CanAm Total Fund Grows

WESTPORT, Conn., Aug. 16-Player's Quebec, first event of the Canadian-American Challenge cup, has announced an additional $11,100 in prize money at the Sept. 11 race at the Mont Tremblant circuit at St. Jovite, Que.

The event had previously guaranteed $20,000 in prize money. The new awards bring the total for the

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TRIUMPH IN COMPETITION

Heading the list of TR-4A winners recently is Ray Pickering who tops the Midwest Division in D Production by 24 points, with his recent win at the Independence, Kansas, National ... Ray has four firsts in four starts.

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Bochroch to Serve As CanAm PH Man

WESTPORT, Conn., Aug. 4-AI Bochroch, long-time racing journalist and CP&A contributor, has been named publicity director for the fall CanAm Challenge Cupseries. Bochroch will serve from now through the conclUSion of the six-race series in mid-November at Stardust International Raceway.

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Top: Gord Brown's Valiant and Werner Gudzus ' supercharged Volvo struggle for the lead at Ontario's Harewood national races, Aug. 14. Gudzus won. Bottom: LudWig Heimrath, McLaren-Ford leads George Fejer's record-setting Chinook-Chev and eventual winner Craig Hill in a Lotus 30 during Harewood's feature. (Rich Clee photos)

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CanAm Draws $300,000 Pot (Continued from page 1)

203-mi. race to $31,100, and the six-race CanAm series now boasts total awards of $300,420.

Other races in the series are: Bridgehampton (Sept. 18); Mosport (Sept. 24); Laguna Seca (Oct. 16); Riverside (Oct. 30); and Las Vegas (Nov. 13).

Total six-race prize money is now $178,320, including recently added lap money for the Times and Stardust races.

It was also announced here that accessory manufacturers have posted a total of $67,100 in contingent awards. This is up from the previously announced total of $45,400. Autolite, Fram and STP are among the companies that have joined Champion, Goodyear, Firestone and Union Oil in supporting the CanAm. Other firms have made commitments that will not be announced until just before the first race al-

legedly due to business competition reasons.

Wit h a ~separate championship award fund 'of $55,000, sponsored by Johnsons Wax Co. a Ire ad y guaranteed, total CanAm Challenge Cup awards have now reached the predicted $300,000 level, by far the most ever for any such series, with further anno!lncements antiCipated.

An SCCA telephone/telegram survey of North American teams and drivers finds the CanAm series will include the following in all or most of six races; all in V8-powered sports/racing cars: Ritchie Ginther, Skip Scott, Peter Revson, Chuck Parsons, Parnelli Jones, J a c k i e Stewart, Ron Bucknum, John Cannon, Jim Adams, George Follmer, Mike Goth, Eppie Weitzes, Skip Hudson, Lothar Motschenbacher, Bob HarriS, Charlie Hayes, Jim Hall, Hap Sharp, Ken Miles, Buck Fulp, John Surtees, Chris Amon, DennyHulme, Bruce McLaren and Mark Donohue.

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Craig Wins in Lotus 30 (Continued from page 1)

Thus the Harewood race was a colossal, all-or-nothing gamble.

Hill could slipstream him pretty much at will. And the McLaren broke first, the gearbox giving up on lap 12. The racing members of the Hill

syndicate, his crew reports, realizing their share of the investment was in hazard from obsolescence and that only performance could secure backing, took the car without the knowledge ofthe majority backers. A good performance would give powerful arguments for continued racing; the price of fail-

From there it was all downhill. But Hill didn't let up. Despite a rough track, bright hot sun and traffic scrapping tooth and nail for nat ion a I point positions, he twice lapped the entire field to finish the 104.5 mi. in 1.06:02 for a blistering 95.13mph average.

ure could be exorbitantly high. And "P am' the Lotus 30 has a reputation as being a somewhat cranky, nasty- Wins

Enna Cup in handling car.

The opposition was tough and the course rough but the 10-lap preliminary heat gave glimmers of hop e. George Fe j e r of Toronto screamed his home-built ChinookChev to the front and, inspired by LudWig Heimrath's McLaren-Ford nearly impaled on his tailpipes, raised his speeds to a new lap r e cor d of 1:08.6, a 100.396mph average and the first "ton-up" Harewood lap. But the strain proved too much and Fejer spun off on the seventh tour, damaging his suspension badly enough to put him out for the day. But Heimrath couldn't relax as Hill had closed to within four secs. at the finish despite a race average, from a standing grid start, of 98.39mph. Only Nat Adams, (Cooper Ford) and John Cordt's rapid Sting Ray finished on the same lap despite the short distance, the Comstock Ford GT40 losing its timing drive as alternate driver Francois Favreau warmed up for next week's Sundown GP.

The question for the feature was: how close could Hill, with a Lot·us chassis against Mark 2 McLaren, 289 against 427 cu. in. of Ford, stay to t w ice-national-champion Heimrath? The answer was, at least at first, definitely behind; Heimrath at a best lap of 1.08.9 came within .3 sec. of Fejer's new record and should have been secure. In fact,

Ad Agency Asks Court to Declare Duesenberg Broke

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 16-Duesenberg's ad agency has asked the Marion County Superior court to place the builder of America's new $19,000 luxury car in bankruptcy.

The agency claims the manufacturer is not now able to meet its obligations and "is in imminent danger of insolvency."

Facilities for manufacture of the dream car have been projected but never built. However, Milo N. Record, vp of Dues enberg, said, "we expect to have the financing straightened out before the hearing date."

The new program of Duesenberg was s aid to be capitalized at well over $1 million.

Dino Ferrari By D. O. Cozzi

PERGUSA, Sicily, Aug. 7-"Pam," driving a Ferrari Dino, won the sixth Cup of the City of Enna, a race for sports and prototype cars, here today, and Jonathan Williams, DeSanctis-Cosworth, won the 15th GP of Pergusa for F/3s.

The Enna Cup was run over a distance of 70 laps (207 mi.) and for most of its duration saw a close bat tIe between Nino Vaccarella, Ferrari Dino, and Mario Casoni, last year's winner, Ford GT40.

After trading the lead countless times on the super-fast almost cir

,cular track built around the 2000-year-old lake of Pergusa, these two were both forced out of the race; Vaccarella by an engine fire and Casoni by overheating and a blown tire.

This left the road empty in front of the only other real competitor, "Pam," winner of the race in 1962 who played a waiting game from Ihis third overall position and drove on to an easy victory.

TZ DRIVER KILLED On the second lap of the race, the

Sicilian LoDico was fatally injured when his Alfa Romeo TZ left the road at the last turn before the finish straight. The driver died as he was being taken to the hospital.

In second behind ((Pam" came the Swiss Charles Vogele, Porsche C6, who, along with the winner, outdistanced the competing A bar t h 1300s and Alfa TZs by an enormous margin: six laps .

Fast lap was turned by Casoni before he retired at 1:17.4 or 138 mph. "Pam" averaged 122.76mph for his win.

F /3 GP of Pergusa With the sports car race over,

the 100-plus heat subSided in antiCipation of the F /3 event, and the single seaters took to the track for the first of two qualifying heats for the 15th GP of Pergusa.

Car 10 Facetti, Brabham-Cosworth, who had top time in practice both days, showed it was no fluke taking the first heat after a ' very

, close race with Frank Williams, Brabham-Cosworth, and Ernesto Brambilla, Similarly mounted. The finish was so close all three top placers were awarded the same official time. Fourth-place man Jonathan Williams was no more than two yards behind.

John Cardwell, driving a Ron Harris (official) Team Lotus 41, took the second heat; and second, again with the absolutely identical time as the leader, was DeAdamich, Brabham-Cosworth.

The finale saw the top placers of the heat r ace s engage in a drafting contest from flag to flag. At the end Jon at h an Williams crossed the line half a car's length in front of Brambilla, Facetti and Cardwell at an average of 120mph.

BIRTHDAY Mario Andretti was born Feb. 28,

, 1940, in Trieste, Italy.

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