Monterey Historic Races (Picture Gallery)
 

Monterey Historic Races

I had the good fortune (armed with Press and Team Pass privileges) to attend the Practice Group runs and get close and personal with some of these spectacular vintage race cars.

The pictures are posted on the Rennlist Gallery web site

http://gallery.rennlist.com/gallery/albuo04


The first batch is from the Paddock and are mostly of what caught my camera fancy. The latter images are of the groups that I photographed from the starting gate (on Friday) as they lines-up for 'launch'



Practice Group 1B 1926-1952 Grand Prix Cars
Practice Group 2B 1947-1955 Sports Racing & GT Cars under 2000cc
Practice Group 3B 1957-1963 Formula Cars under (F-1, F-2, F-Jr.)

Practice Group 4B 1967-1983 Historic F-1 Cars (Historic Grand Prix)
Practice Group 5B 1956-1961 Sports Racing Race Cars under 2500cc
Practice Group 6B 1956-1962 Production/GT Cars
Practice Group 7B 1963-1966 Production/GT Cars over 2000cc

Did they run the Historic F1's on Friday? I was there on Saturday and didn't see them run. Some people told me they ran on Sunday but I was at Pebble Beach. By the way, that Lotus 49 is just perfect. If they hand those out upon entry to the pearly gates, I might have somethink to look forward to after old age.

I was there only for the Test Runs and did see few F-1's.

The full run was on Sunday and below are the results (1st: '58 Cooper T45/51 2nd: '62 Lotus


Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races 2003
Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca Track Length 2.238 Miles
Victory Margin 4.644
Race Length 22.380 Miles, Time of 17:35.136, Average MPH 76.358 3B
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POS # CLASS DRIVER, HOMETOWN SPONSOR REG. MAKE #LAPS
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1 11 3B Rod Jolley, Brockenhurst,ENG 1958 Cooper T45/51 F-1 2495cc 10
2 88 3B Tom Claridge, Fremont, CA 1962 Lotus 22 F-L 1480cc 10
3 91 3B Reg Howell, Corona Del Mar 1963 Brabham BT-6 F-Jr. 1098cc 10
4 59 3B Don Orosco, Monterey, CA 1959 Scarab F-1 3000cc 10
5 12 3B Rob Hall, Lincolnshire, UK 1959 Cooper T-51 GP 2495cc 10
6 52 3B Carl Moore, Alamo, CA 1961 Lotus 20 F-Jr. 1100cc 10
7 2 3B John Baird, Fresno, CA 1963 Lola Mk5A F-Jr. 1098cc 10
8 5 3B Don Schoeny, Princeton, MA 1960 Cooper T-53 F-1 2495cc 10
9 49 3B Jimmy Domingos, Carmel, CA 1960 Cooper T-52 F-Jr. 1096cc 10
10 3 3B Dick Buckingham, Mercer Island, WA 1961 Jolus F-Jr. 1100cc 10
11 27 3B Joel Finn, Roxbury, CT 1963 Lotus 27 F-Jr. 1100cc 10
12 1 3B Tupper Robinson, Gardnerville, NV 1961 Lotus 20 F-Jr. 1098cc 10
13 19 3B Marty Benck, Sebastopol, CA 1960 Lotus 18 F-Jr. 1098cc 10
14 7 3B Chris Locke, San Anselmo, CA 1963 Lotus 27 F-Jr 1100cc 10
15 20 3B Doug Scranton, Los Altos, CA 1961 Lotus 20 F-Jr. 1098cc 10
16 22 3B Art Logan, Fremont, CA 1962 Lotus 22 F-Jr. 1100cc 9
17 155 3B Jim Smith, Woodside, CA 1959 BMC F-Jr. 1098cc 9
18 9 3B Pablo Gonzalez, Garza Garcia,MEX 1959 Taraschi F-Jr. 1100cc 8
19 60 3B William Cotter, Seattle, WA 1959 Taraschi F-Jr. 1100cc 8
20 46 3B J.C. Kilburn, Fort Worth, TX 1959 Taraschi F-Jr. 1089cc 8
DNF 23 * 3B Rudolfo Junco, Mexico City,MEX 1960 Cooper T-53 F-1 2495cc 3
DNS 44 3B Larry Menser, Carmel, CA 1960 Meskowski Indy Rdst 4000cc
DNS 47 3B Tom Byrnes, Ross, CA 1963 Cooper T-62 F-1 2500cc
DNS 51 3B John Burnham, Beverly Hills, CA 1959 Cooper T-51 F-2 2000cc
DNS 77 3B Mark Griffiths, Cheshire,ENG 1961 Lotus 18 F-1 1476cc
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Anyway, The Historics are great. This time of year is the best for Monterey Co.
Oh, for the tourists; Pebble Beach is that way--->

Troy