Monterey Historic Automobile Races

Laguna Seca – Saturday & Sunday, August 18th & 19th

Situated in the desert between Salinas and Monterey, every year in August the Laguna Seca Raceway hosts one of the most important Historic Race meetings – the Monterey Historic Automobile Races organised by Steve Earle.
Back to the roots motorsport-action is promised and looking in the official programme one could dream away thinking of great battles between Ferrari and Maserati in the 50’s.

Being familiar with European Historic Race events such like the Oldtimer-Grand Prix Nuerburgring I expected the same driver’s paddock equipped with fences, barrages etc. to keep the visitors off the cars, but…not so in California ! As a visitor you can walk to every car and look under the bonnet if you want, talk to the proud owners which often tell you more background information to their cars you’d like to hear, and you can really feel how racing was initially in the 50’s, where all teams had their barbecue grille next to the race car and had a good time.

And the cars….where have you seen 4 Maserati Birdcages, 6 different Ferrari Testa Rossas plus a couple of Jaguar C- and D-Types racing together, when have you heard dozens of TransAm-Camaros roaring down the hills for the last time ?

A very attractive display showing important Ferraris ex-Formula One Champion Phil Hill drove in his career gave a perfect insight view in racing development by Ferrari and showed the difference to a 2001 Bentley Le Mans racer displayed next to them. In the afternoon break on Saturday Hill drove all his Ferraris around the track.

Ferraris & Maseratis at Laguna Seca 2001

Make

Type

s/n

Driver

Ferrari	250 MM Vignale Spider	0260MM	" ` \| ´ "
Ferrari	500 TRC	0680MDTR	Michael Callaham
Ferrari	250 TR	0718TR	Lawrence Stroll
Ferrari	250 TR	0722TR	Anthony Wang
Ferrari	250 TR	0754TR	David Love
Ferrari	250 TR	0756TR	Lou Selleyei
Ferrari	250 TR’59	0768TR	Bruce McCaw
Ferrari	250 TRI’61	0794	Peter Sachs
Ferrari	250 GT LWB TdF	0881GT	Nick Soprano
Ferrari	250 GT SWB	2291GT	Robert Bodin
Ferrari	250 GTO	3451GT	Lawrence Stroll
Ferrari	250 GTO	3909GT	John Mozart
Ferrari	250 GTO’64	5571GT	Bruce McCaw
Ferrari	196 SP	0806	Jimmy Dobbs III
Ferrari	250 LM	5907	Greg Whitten
Ferrari	250 LM	‘5899’	Fred della Noce
Ferrari	250 LM	5903	Rob Walton
Ferrari	F1 312	0007	Todd Morici
Ferrari	F1 312 T2	026	Chris MacAllister
Ferrari	F1 312 T5	046	Bud Moeller
Ferrari	512 M	1048	Tom Hollfelder
Ferrari	512 M	1040	Lawrence Stroll

Maserati	A GCS/53	2078	Tom Mittler
Maserati	200 SI	2416	Tom Price
Maserati	Birdcage Tipo 60	2465	Ben Walton
Maserati	Birdcage Tipo 61	2458	Jon Feiber
Maserati	Birdcage Tipo 61	2467	Tom Mittler
Maserati	Birdcage Tipo 61	2456	Dirk Layer
OSCA	MT4	1139	Dick Skipworth
OSCA	TN-1500	1183	Jerry Rosenstock

Bjoern Schmidt