Chaparral & Cobra Winning Ways Continued at Watkins Glen

Here is an interesting sequence of Hal Keck having a moment at Watkins Glen:

Good Race, Sad Weekend at Pacific Raceways in 1964

The 1964 USRRC Driver's race at Pacific Raceways (often mistakenly called "Kent") was a very good race between Jim Hall in his Chaparral 2 and Dave MacDonald in a Shelby King Cobra.  I won't spoil the story here, so you can read about it in the page photos.
Also, I'm moving this weekend and have updated my book order info page with our new address.  So, YES, there are still some copies of my book available.

Still Available - USRRC History

I still have a few copies of my book for sale:

Grids On The Honor System

Qualifying for the 1964 Laguna Seca USRRC race featured rain.  It got into the timing equipment and an MG ended up with the fastest time.  That obviously couldn't be right.  Even in rain a Chaparral or Shelby Cooper-Cobra would be faster than an MG.  So the officials had the drivers turn in the fastest lap their crew timed them at. Most of the drivers agreed that the grid looked like it should.

1964 Riverside USRRC - Skip Hudson benefits from Chaparral brake failure

Here is the story and results of the 1964 Riverside USRRC race.  This was the third race of the series and produced the third different winner.

My book includes 13 additional photos (on 4 pages) of Hall's Chaparral, Hudson's Cooper, Titus' Cheetah, MacDonald's Lang Cooper, Hulette in the Townsend Special, Miles' Cobra, Wester's Porsche 904, Arundell's Lotus Cortina, Leslie's Cobra leading Cordts' Falcon.

1964 Pensacola USRRC round 2, Chaparral and Cobra

 

 

1964 - Automatic Beginnings

Not shown here are the photo-only pages. They include 4 of Cobras, Riley's Volvo going over the banking, Chaparral at sped, Shelby Cobra on track, Charlie Hayes in Elva-Porsche, Cheetah in the garage and Elva-Porsche in the garage.