The winning Ferrari 59/60 Testa Rosa #0766 early in the day with Chuck Daigh driving. The Hill - Gendebien sister car #8 failed and they took over this car and won the race.
Asleep for the night, the winning #7 Ferrari 59/60TR sits next to the #8 #0770TR that was a dnf for Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien.. Both these cars would end up a few years later racing in the US. Both are still alive and shown often at concours
No, the Ferrari #7 does not have a passenger. Look closely and you will see the driver of an OSCA is pointing for the faster Ferrari to pass.. The Lonnie Rix/Ed Rahal AC Bristol #23 follows
The 2nd place Ferrari 59TR #0768 here driven by Cliff Allison. He was partnered by Jean Behra. They were only 1 lap behind Hill & Gendebien.
Jean Behra sits in the #9 Ferrari. A mercurial personality, Behra was tough and fast in cars and on motorcycles. Behra was fearless and often crashed. He lost part of an ear and a bit of his nose in racing accidents, but never slowed. Sadly he wo
You can see the famous checkered motif on Frenchman Jean Behra’s helmet. He and Englishman Cliff Allison drove the #8 Ferrari to second place.
This is how refueling was done before the race. Drive your Fantuzzi Ferrari 59/60 testa rossa #0768 to the pumps and say fill her up”.. This car would return in 1960 with Jack Nethercutt and Pete Lovely driving it to 3rd overall and to a dnf at th
No the Ferrari does not have a passenger. Look closely and you will see Dan Gurney is being pointed to pass by and OSCA river. This was before the #8 car retired and Gurney and Chuck Daigh were in control of #7.
The handsome Swede Jo Bonnier in the #31 Porsche RSK 718-006 co drpve to 3rd overall with his pal Wolfgang von Trips. This was the first RSK with trailing arm and coil spring rear suspension rather than the earlier torsion bar.
Porsche RSK 718=014 was owned by Cyrus Fulton and driven by Don Sessler and Bob Holbert. They would finish 4th overall and first 1500cc car. Sessler would campaign the white spyder all season winning several times and becoming the SCCA FM national
Lance Reventlow and E.D. Martin drove this 58 Ferrari 250TR # 0730TR to a great 6th overall. Martin was from Georgia whose family owned over 125 movie theaters in the US. He bought the car new and raced it through 58 and 59.
Another pontoon fendered Ferrari 58TR # 0720TR was owned and raced by Jim Johnston. At Sebring he co-drove with Augie Pabst and Gus Andrey finishing 7th behind but on the same lap as Reventlow and Martin’s similar car/
For the race Johnston put white stripes on the inside fender to more easily identify the car. It is easy to see the small light on the fender pointing at the number for night identification.
The #35 Porsche RSK #718-013 was an Otto Zipper car driven by Ken Miles and Jack McAfee. At Sebring it finished 8th overall. Later, in the hands of Miles and racing with #50 the car dominated west coast racing.
The #19 Ferrari 500 TRC # 0600MDTR was owned and driven by Llyod “Lucky” Castner and Jim Hunt. They did well finishing 2nd in the 2 liter class and 13th overall. Castner became famous for his Camoradi race team.
Gorgeous long wheelbase California Spyder # 1085GT was bought new by Howard Hively from Cincinatti. He got Richie Ginther to co drive and they won GT and were 9th overall. Hively was a WWII pilot and Cadillac dealer who loved his Ferraris.
The Cussini and Cattini Fiat Abarth 750 follows the Ginther-Hively California in the rain soaked Sebring runways. No doubt the Italian duo were dryer than the Ferrari boys.
The first appearance of the Frank Costin bodied Lister-Jag. In this photo two time LeMans winner Ivor Bueb is driving. He and his more famous co-driver were DQ’d after refueling too early.
The #3 “knobbly” Lister Jag with Walt Hansgen at the wheel. The Jags were severely limited by the FIA’s ruling to limit displacement to 3 liters. Westfield Walt and Doc Thompson managed to bring this one home 12th.
The 3rd Lister-Jaguar was anothe knobbly driven by Briggs Cunningham, Lake Underwood and in this photo Russ Boss. They finished 15th.
The wonderful Aston Martin DBR 1-1 with Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori. Here a mechanic trundles through the mud paddock before the race. The car retired when the gearshift lever broke off in Shelby’s hands and could not be repaired.
The Big Aston started the race with Salvadori (pictured) at the wheel. Shelby was not in the car for long when the gearshift lever broke after 32 laps.
One of the prettiest little cars of the time was the fiberglass Lotus Elite. This car driven by an all-star lineup of Pete Lovely, Sam Weiss and Jay Chamberlain was 2nd in class and 7th overall GT car with only 1200cc pushing it.
A rare Lotus 15 #618-3 rolls down the pit lane without its front body panels. A Canadian entry for Harry Entwistle and Bob Hanna. The car ran most of the race but retired with electrical troubles. Was Lucas to blame? Or was it the huge rains?
A Lancia Appia Zagato. This one famous as broadcaster Walter Cronkite co-drove it. Peter Baumberger and Warren Rohlfs shared this car entered by Charlie Kreisler and imported by Max Hoffman. The finished the race in 40th.
Legendary race owner Carl Haas co drove this 1500cc OSCA with Frank Campbell and Jay Middleton. This car also failed with wet electronics due to the torrential rains.
This Cooper T49 from the French team Los Amigos was driven by Jean Lucas and Jean -Francois Mall. The Climax engine kept spilling oil and they retired after just 20 laps.
Stanguellini Sport Bialbero 750, #CS04084 did not finish. The car went out of control during the rainstorm in the 6th hour and hit a bridge support and literally broke in half. The drivers were Bob Roloson and Sandy MacArthur. Roloson was at the
The number 5 silver Maserati 300S #3060 sadly was destroyed during night practice when driver Ed Lawrence flipped over a sandbank and caught fire. Lawrence was killed. This is the same 300S Bob Bucher & Carroll Shelby drove in 1957.
Somebody put the #3 Lister Jag onto a sand bank during practice. Briggs (blue shirt) is trying to figure out how to dig the car out and get it back to the pits. Note the Fairchild Flying Boxcar in back.
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