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The BARCboys were tasked with transporting the BRM team from their garage in town to the track and back. Gordy Ruston finishes tying down the wood ramps while Dave Nicholas and BRM mechanic Pat Carveth look on. Carveth became a BARC member as well
A color shot probably taken after practice. Most trailers in those days were single axle. Almost unheard of today.
Steve Morgan (blue sweater) pushes while Nicholas steers Ritchie Ginther’s #5. Can you imagine Toto Wolf allowing a bunch of 20 year olds to take possession of his F1 cars?
Jerry Kenyon is tying down the car while Dave Zych supervises. We took a 3/8” wire cable with a loop around the knock off and a hook to attach to the trailer, then tighten with a simple turnbuckle. No fancy ratchet straps available.
Bob Poupards 55 Chevy 6 cyl stick shift leaves the Texaco station where the cars were prepared and heads up the hill to the track.
None of us remember this, but it is clear the boys are taking off one of the UDT Laystall Lotus’. Bob’s Chevy was a workhorse.
The hardest fought battle of the day was between Dan Gurney’s flat 8 Porsche and Bruce McLaren’s v8 Cooper. Gurney’s car was having problems and Bruce finally got by him near the end.
A fuzzy shot with McLAren closing in on Gurney. Note the stands are full despite the bad weather and the trees full of color.
A long view of the cloudy, cold day. It had rained hard on Saturday and the grounds were soaked and muddy. Jimmy Clark has lapped the blue Brabham and is about to put Joe Bonnier’s Porsche down another lap.
Into the last turn - called the hairpin - the Cooper is all over the Porsche. Note the pavement on the inside of the turn. This was the road into the pits. Today, parts of that road are still in tact inside what is now turn 1.
Jim Clarks Lotus 25 was clearly superior to everyone but Graham Hill. The two lapped every other car in the field. Hill got the lead early in the race for a few laps when Clark was caught out by a back marker who blocked him.
Early on Innes Ireland is challenging eventual 3rd place finisher Bruce McLaren as they brake for the hairpin. McLaren took an excellent 3rd on the day.
Jack Brabham in his very first F1 car the BT-3. In 1962 the cars were more of a blue than the later green and gold. Black Jack eased his way past Gurney late in the race to finish 4th.
The great Dan Gurney in the last of the Porsche F1 cars. Gurney gave Porsche its only F1 win earlier in the year in France. Gurney won in every kind of car from F1 to English saloons to NASCAR and Indy as well as F1. This day he was 4th.
The Kansas City Flash Masten Gregory in the UDT Lotus BRM. Gregory was very fast and finished 6th. Gregory is still a very underappreciated driver.
Innes Ireland, who won the USGP in 1961 was driving a UDT Laystall Lotus Climax. He contended mid pack with Brabham and the boys and finished 8th.
The Captain Roger Penske drove a UDT Lotus that was painted the colors of his sponsor Zerex Anti-Freeze. As usual Penske was very quick, finishing 9th.
Hap Sharp had a miserable weekend. He was in a year old Cooper with the 4 cyl and could do no better than 11th, 9 laps behind Clark.
Ginther, Gurney and Brabham accelerate out of the hairpin. Pit crews are taking out their pit boards to signal the drivers.
The green clad Lotus mechanic tells Clark he is 7 seconds ahead and his lap time was 1:15.9, Hill’s mechanic is telling Graham he is on lap 67 and 7 seconds behind. note: some teams would put laps remaining rather than laps completed.
Bonnier’s Porsche had problems during the race. Joe was having back problems all week. Here the Porsche boys are looking at the rear suspension.
Still working. What is neat is to see the very unusual flat 8 1.5 liter GP engine. Porsche installed a new design fan for Watkins Glen. Look at the roll hoop to see how little the rules worried about safety and that Bonnier does not have a should
Colin Chapman looks after his #2 driver, Trevor Taylor. Taylor took the place of Innes Ireland but was completely dominated by his teammate Jim Clark. But then, Clark did that to everyone.
My mentor and the man who built our racing BMW 2002, Jiri Nechleba, sits with Bonnier. Every year Porsche ran an F1 car they hired Jiri to be part of the team. THAT is how good he was.
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