FORMULA LIBRE 1959 The first F1 USGP was to be held at Sebring in December. This year the Glen's invitation to the best  brought a different kind of field than 1958 and cold, snowy weather photo credit: Dave Nicholas, John E. Kelley, Spankey Smith, Dave Zych	Results
Watkins Glen Home Page	The legendary Stirling Moss made the trip with a barf yellow and red 2.5 Cooper. The rest of the field consisted of a few midget racers and miscellaneous sports cars - but we had MOSS	1958 Formula Libre 1960 Formula Libre

Moss, head back, arms out in the classic Moss position	Moss laps Sy Kaback's Lotus 15.  Kayback said every time Moss would come by he gave him room	Moss our of the hairpin, you can see the sky darkening	How Cold was it? Tex Hopkins in a parka gives the checkered flag	Moss still gave us all a chance to cheer by taking a victory lap
Bob McLain follows Bill Randall. Randall came 7th, McLain 9th	All 4 midgets head up over the hill racing in the rain !!  No worries for guys who slide dirt ovals	Jiggs Peters brings his Offy powered midget to 6th	Kayback blew his motor at Lime Rock the day before but rebuilt it and drove 400 miles to the Glen	Ed Leavens in his outclassed Elva Formula Jr was 10th
Gus Andre with his usual #25 but this time on a 300S Maserati. Andre was 5th	Tom Greatorex's Elva Mk III was brilliantly driven to 4th	Bruce Boyle and Joe Grimaldi drove the D Type but as you can see - had problems	Brave spectators stand in the cold and drizzle and flurries to watch Harry Entwistles Lotus to 3rd
	Moss was chatted up by everyone, while mechanic looks on	Another handshake and good luck	Finally it's time to get to work and away from the posers.