I try not to do this (display my ineptitude) too often.



New camera, new lens, shutter lag. Ineptitude.


I've taken the liberty of adding car numbers:

1. Michael Gans, Germany, type 35B Car No. 1
2. Allan Rippon, UK, type 35B Car No. 30
3. Charles McCabe, US, type 59 Car No. 59
4. Hubert fabri, Belgium, type 35C Car No. 7
5. Mike Preston, UK, type 35B Car No. 31
6. Brian Brunkhorst, US, type 35C Car No. 17
Class wins:
Bart Rosman, NL, type 37 (13th overall) Car No. 14
John Hugenholtz, NL, type 43 (16th overall) Car No. 43

Photos are at Bugattis 2003


I agree the cars were driven fast. There was a fair amount of
opposite-lock stuff at the apex of Turn Three. I was just
never able to catch it. It was great fun watching.


Frank S

Thanks for the wonderful pictures! Can you give some information on the "dolphin75"?

Thank you for the kind words.

Yes, I can tell you something about the Dolphin America No. 75. The owner-driver is Phil Binks of San Diego, California. During Sunday warmup it stripped gears on the distributor/oil pump drive shaft and did not start the 5B race. That's most of what I know about that car.

Phil is the authority on his car, of course.

As to Dolphins in general, I've put up a photo of an information board that stood next to the 75 car in its paddock location. It's a large (135K) file and mostly legible.
Dolphin Story

What in particular would you like to know?


Frank S

I think the 4B · 1967-1983 Historic F-1 Cars (Historic GP)album is complete.

The photos of display board text are large files (more than 100K), and mostly legible.

Not that many photos of the race. I was making tiny digital camera movies, which I must learn how to process for display.


Frank S

Nicely done Frank.

Neil

Thank you, Neil.

Group 5A 1962-1965 Sports Racing Cars over 1000cc photos are up.
Just a dozen or so.
Accident of timing and scheduling.
Fate, maybe.


Frank S

(2003-09-03: it was 5A all along, not 5B)

This is going to sound odd, although people should be used to that from me by now, but there's something about seeing the Huffaker Genie that reminds me each year that it's Laguna Seca. It seems to be there every year and I love seeing it.

Another set of nice shots Frank.

Neil

Thanks again, Neil. I'll keep plugging away until the raw material is used up.

Do you know Bill Watkins? He certainly made that Huffaker Genie go fast. And vice versa. He also has an Arnolt Bristol in similar condition.

When I put up my Web site a couple of years ago I told a story about an MG TC racer at Santa Barbara: I watched him try to negotiate a turn while fighting a steering failure. Bill emailed me to say he was that TC driver. The race was in 1955 or 1956. Isn't the electronic information age wonderful?

Group 8B 1963-1968 Production/GT Cars under 2000cc is available.

Quite a few photos in this bunch.


Frank S

Group 1B, 1926-1952 Grand Prix Cars photos are up. They include the ERAs who put on a fine show racing for the win, two Kurtis Champ Cars and the Dreyer Special from 1939. There may be other, undiscovered pictures for this group.

Group 1A, Pre-1939 Sports & Touring Cars photos are up. The 1A album includes Old Fords, Chryslers, Austin 7 Specials, a Lagonda, a Frontenac-Ford, Ford Rajo, and numerous other delights.

This one will take you to the full list of Group Albums some of which are STILL EMPTY



Frank Sheffield
San Diego CA
USA

Group 3A · 1947-1955 Sports Racing & GT Cars O2L

and

Group 4A · 1955-1960 Sports Racing Cars over 2.5L

are now well-populated.

This one will take you to the full list of Group Albums some of which are STILL EMPTY

Saw the Monterey Historics on Speed last night -- great broadcast. They cut some of the races short, but spent lots of time of the Bug race (go DBW!), the Trans AM race, and the 2000cc race with Boris Said in a BMW 2002 and Alain de Cadenet in his Alfa -- which lost a wheel!

Great stuff! Try and catch it if you can!

I'm hoping my Speed-endowed offspring recorded it.


One last gasp in this thread: I've concluded my work on the FotoTime albums of pictures I made during that event. There may be a stray or two still to be rounded up. Can't have been very important if they've remained at large this long.

As always, I'll appreciate additions or corrections to the captions.

560 or maybe 561 photos from Monterey Historics 2003