Road America 500 Miles 1957 - Racing Sports Cars

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Event: Road America 500		Date: 8.9.1957
Track: Road America, Elkhart Lake (United States), 6.437 kms	Organiser: Chicago Region SCCA
Road America 500 Miles
SCCA National Sports Car Championship (round 9)

Weather:	unknown
Start time:	9:58
Grid:	unknown
Distance:	500 miles
Attendance:	30000

Entered:	68
Practiced:	unknown
Started:	52
Finished:	33
Classified:	33

Classes:	Start	Class
Class B - Sports	12	7
Class C - Sports	8	5
Class D - Sports	6	6
Class E - Sports	4	3
Class F - Sports	8	6
Class G - Sports	14	6

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Race notes:
Staggered start was used. In practise, class B cars started first, 20 seconds later the C and D class cars were released, 20 seconds later class F, and so on.

Winners:
Overall:	41	Ferrari 315 Sport	Phil Hill
Class B - Sports:	85	W.B. Special	Cook / Durbin
Class D - Sports:	8	Maserati 300S	Carroll Shelby
Class E - Sports:	6	Ferrari 500 TR	Lunken / Kimberly
Class F - Sports:	69	Porsche 550 RS Spyder	Ed Crawford
Class G - Sports:	2	Lotus Mark X	Wyllie / Wyllie
Leaders:
laps 1-5:	22	Jaguar C-type Special	Robert Louden
laps 6-7:	58	Excalibur - Jaguar	Hal Ullrich
laps 8-25:	8	Maserati 300S	Carroll Shelby
laps 26-125:	41	Ferrari 315 Sport	Phil Hill
Fastest Laps:
Overall:	8	Maserati 300S	Carroll Shelby (USA)	139.0473 km/h
Notes of interest:
Top makes by numbers:	Porsche (8), Ferrari (6), Lotus (6), Jaguar (4), Chevrolet (4), Elva (4)
Top engines by numbers:	Porsche (8), Ferrari (6), Jaguar (6), Chevrolet (5), Maserati (2), Climax (2), BMC (2), Bristol (2)
Top car types by numbers:	Porsche 550 (7), Lotus Eleven (5), Chevrolet Corvette (4)
Driver nationalities:	USA (88), CDN (2), PR (2)
Team nationalities:	USA (50)
Engine positions:	front-engined (83%), mid-engined (17%)
Oldest known drivers:	Briggs Cunningham (50), Jim Kimberly (50), George Constantine (39)
Youngest known drivers:	Howie Fairbanks (22), Augie Pabst (24), Ruth Levy (27)
Female drivers:	Ruth Levy, Denise McCluggage, Evelyn Mull, Margaret Wyllie

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