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LIME ROCK PARK • THE EARLY YEARS 1955-1975
AUGUST 13, 1960
“When the Taraschi gave up in the Esses, Revson had to jump out and hand push it off the track.”
In a departure from the usual fare served up at Lime Rock, this meeting was aimed at primarily running Formula Junior cars, with a Formula Three race thrown in for good measure. Run by the Lime Rock Corporation and having a FIA sanction, the meeting attracted a healthy size crowd of some 5,000 on a cloudy day, with rain threatening to interrupt the proceedings. The meeting was first scheduled as a professional Formula Libre event sanctioned by USAC, but they withdrew, and no professional drivers turned up.
The format was simple, two fifteen-mile heats and a seventy-five mile final for Formula Juniors. The Formula Three race format was planned to be the same, however with only seven cars in attendance, there was no mention of heats taking place, but the fifteen-mile final was definitely run.
Sponsorship for the race came from Autolite Spark Plugs, Firestone Tire Company and Pepsi Cola, and the prize money, totaling $12,000, was awarded to the entrants, not the drivers, as the latter supposedly had amateur status.
In the first of the ten-lap Formula Junior heats, Charlie Kolb was an easy winner, with Constantine in his Wainer, some way behind in second spot. In the second heat, it was the turn of Jerry Truitt to dominate the race and score a convincing victory in his Stanguellini, well ahead of second place Newton Davis, also in a Stanguellini. Davis did not have a comfortable race as Joe Wolf and Howard Humphries were large in his mirrors for the whole ten laps.
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