USAC Road Racing Championship Laguna Seca 1961 - Race Results - Racing Sports Cars

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Event: International Pacific Grand Prix Sports Car Races			Date: 22.10.1961
Track: Laguna Seca Raceway (United States), 3.058 kms		Organiser: San Francisco Region SCCA
USAC Road Racing Championship Laguna Seca
USAC Road Racing Championship (round 4) Pacific Coast Point Standings (round 23) Competition Press U.S. National Championship (round 18)

(Race Results)

Pos.	No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Laps	Time	Distance	Km/h	Reason	Pos.	Gr.
1^st	7	Stirling Moss	Lotus 19 Monte Carlo Climax	UDT-Laystall Racing Team	106	2:17:31.1000	329.5808 kms	146.6110		1^st	O2L
2^nd	96	Dan Gurney	Lotus 19 Monte Carlo Climax	Arciero Bros.	106	2:17:45.0000				2^nd	O2L
3^rd	4	Jack Brabham	Cooper Monaco T57 Climax	Brabham Racing Org. Ltd.	105	2:18:31.0000				3^rd	O2L
4^th	6	Bruce McLaren	Cooper Monaco T57 Climax	Peter Berry Racing Ltd.	104	2:18:01.0000				4^th	O2L
5^th	16	Roger Penske	Cooper Monaco T57 Climax	John Wyatt, III	104	2:18:53.0000				5^th	O2L
6^th	83	Peter Ryan	Lotus 19 Monte Carlo Climax	Autosport-Comstock	102	2:17:37.0000				6^th	O2L
7^th	110	Chuck Parsons	Maserati Tipo 61	Charles Parsons	102	2:18:56.0000				7^th	O2L
8^th	10	Olivier Gendebien	Lotus 19 Monte Carlo Climax	UDT-Laystall Racing Team	102	2:19:07.0000				1^st	U2L
9^th	50	Ken Miles	Porsche 718 RS 61	Otto Zipper	101	2:18:40.0000				2^nd	U2L
10^th	88	Jack McAfee	Porsche 718 RSK	Vaclav Polak	101	2:19:19.0000				3^rd	U2L
11^th	22	Harry Heuer	Scarab Mk II Chevrolet	Peter Hand Brewery Co.	100	2:18:52.0000				8^th	O2L
12^th	21	Chuck Sargent	Maserati Tipo 61	Chuck Sargent	100	2:18:58.0000				9^th	O2L
13^th	180	Bob Drake	Cooper Monaco	VonHousens Motors	97	2:18:17.0000				4^th	U2L
14^th	36	Bob Hurt	Ferrari 250 TR Fantuzzi Spyder 59	Robert Hurt	97	2:19:47.0000				10^th	O2L
15^th	63	Thompson	Maserati Tipo 60	Alfred Momo	82				1:Accident damage	5^th	U2L
	72		Adam-Mitchell Porsche Special	P.A.M. Foreign Car Serv.	32				1:DNF; 2:DNS		U2L

Did not finish:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Laps	Time	Distance	Km/h	Reason	Gr.
15	Chuck Daigh	Scarab Mk II Chevrolet	George Lehmann	69				1:Broken halfshaft	O2L
11	George Koehne	Maserati Tipo 61	Lois Koehne	59				2:DNF	O2L
66	Jim Hall	Chaparral 1 Chevrolet	Troutman-Barnes	54				2:Engine	O2L
204	Don Hulette	Jaguar Special Chevrolet		50	1:09:39.0000			2:DNF	O2L
8	Rodger Ward	Cooper Monaco - Buick	Del Webb Kern City Spec.	37				1:Overheating; 2:DNF	O2L
711	Bill Dixon	Maserati 300S Chevrolet	Bill Dixon	2				2:DNF	O2L
00	Dave MacDonald	Ol’Yaller Mark V Corvette Special	Jim Simpson-Bob Sorenson Chev.	1				1:Accident; 2:DNS	O2L
61	Augie Pabst	Maserati Tipo 63	Alfred Momo	0				1:Accident damage, oil leak; 2:DNS	O2L
146	Dave Ridenour	Lister Costin Jaguar	Charles Ridenour	0				1:Accident after start; 2:DNS	O2L
614	Bob Bondurant	Chevrolet Corvette	Washburn Chev.	0				1:Accident; 2:DNS	O2L
60	Walt Hansgen	Maserati Tipo 60	Alfred Momo	0				1:DNF; 2:DNS	U2L

Did not start:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Reason	Gr.
5	Alan Connell	Maserati Tipo 61 Longtail Ferrari	John Miller		O2L
44	John Barneson	Porsche Special	Lee Wachs		U2L
97	Rick Lewis	Road Runner Chevrolet Special	Jesse Tidwell		O2L

Did not qualify:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Reason	Gr.
102	Jack Nethercutt	Lotus 19 Climax	Jack Nethercutt		O2L

Entered cars that did not arrive:

No.	Drivers	Car	Entrant	Reason	Gr.
9	Ken Miles	Porsche 718 RS 61	Crandall Ind.		U2L
12	Harry Heuer	Chaparral 1 Chevrolet	Peter Hand Brewery Co.		O2L
19	Bob Donner	Porsche 718 RS 61	Rennod Race Cars, Inc.		U2L
49	George Constantine	Ferrari 250 TR Fantuzzi Spyder 59/60	John Bunch		O2L
53	Bill Krause	Maserati Tipo 61	Maserati Dist., Inc.		O2L
62	Dick Thompson	Maserati Tipo 61	Alfred Momo		O2L
75	Hugh Harn	Kurtis - Chevrolet	Hugh Harn		O2L
86	Ray Vermuth	Special Chevrolet	Bob Shirley		O2L
90	Skip Hudson	Ferrari 340	Harrah's		O2L
116	Bob Herda	Huffaker - Chevrolet	Bob Herda		O2L
127	Leon Robertson	Cooper Monaco	Leon Robertson		U2L
161	George Follmer	Porsche 550 RS	Trans Ocean Motor Co., Inc.		U2L
162	Steve Herrick	Porsche 718 RS 60	Tim O'Reilly		U2L
177	Dan Herman	Porsche 550 RS	Don VonHerman		U2L

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