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Poor Ascari he died the next week testing at Monza.

The Lancia soon to be the new Ferrari

Great video. Interesting to see that, according to the English captions, Spongebob was also participating!!

My friend's grandma had an intimate moment with Bing Crosby in the men's toilets at this EXACT Monaco GP!!! She never stopped talking about it. An old lady flexing 💪🏼 that she sucked down "Bing's big bing," as she'd say.

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Funny, my Dad and I took his new Lincoln to the dealership in Newport Beach for an oil change in 1959, when the Technician had completed the service, he drove it up to where my Dad and I were waiting with the Service Manager. He got out of the car and handed the keys to my Dad; the Service Manager said “this is Roger Ward, he won the Indy 500 this year.” What’s even funnier, is that in 1968, I would start working for Dan Gurney at All American Racers, Inc.

Towards the end of the race the guy's driving roadsters are envisioning themselves as being in horse-drawn chariots.

Thanks for the post. Never get enough of watching the cars I grew up with...having seen many of these at Trenton earlier that year. Take note of how expose Lloyd Ruby is in #75 ....sitting upright in a rear engine like he was in a front engine!

I had forgotten about Mid-America Raceway. Another lost to suburban sprawl.

Thanks for sharing this great footage .Lovely old memories .

A giant thank you for this video: the Mini at 21 seconds in is driven by my late father, Clarke Walser. I have been able to find only two small clips of him racing, and this is by far the clearer and the better of the two. I'm giddy having seen this.

Una joya este film increíble

The air brakes on the Mercedes Benz.Unreal.

Great video. Nice seeing the Cobra take the win. The 904 did a nice job of hanging close.

This gives me the heeby jeebies. Indy clone in socal

I was able to learn in one the originals at Sears Point.

When the track was built it was almost an exact duplicate of Indy. The only difference was that there was more banking in the turns. In fact, this was where the first 200 mph run in an Indy car happened.

no Granitelli cars?

compared to the other ABC broadcasts featuring Mr. Ward……ive never seen him so happy. I would have to agree with his insistance that these stars and cars put on a great show on road courses. The top points guys going balls out and switching rides was hooey, however…in my view

Why edit out the Bardahl promotional footage?

The shots of mostly ground were annoying. Was my ex operating the camera then?

Dude smoking a cigar 4 feet from his buddy fueling the car. th-cam.com/video/QgSxD_KoYkw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=L9cRyJCysgBDxjeq&t=876

Great video, but this is at MCAS Tustin, not Santa Ana Army Air Base. Giveaway is the blimp hangars.

I mean, did people have brains back in the day?? 😂🙈

All that talk about the 1952 race and the lay-down engine in Vuky's car, and they never even mentioned the Cummins Diesel Special, which had a lay-down diesel engine and qualified on the pole. It was also the first car to run at the speedway with a turbocharged engine.

7:53, What a cool shot. A lone race car with boats and blue water to the right.

My God-father paled about Augie Pabst back then.

Beautiful cars and legendary drivers!

Bruce was one of my racing heroes. Over many decades, he was always engaging and a true friend. I’ll miss his wonderful storytelling about the early Cal Club years and the personalities who championed motorsports. May Bruce’s memory always be a blessing. Lee Raskin, Porsche historian/ author.

The original 5.2 mile circuit was much more difficult, especially the long, rough airport straights, which were not used after 1982. (Finished 2nd overall in 1975 and 1st in 1977)

Great track glad that they are returning to Milwaukee in 2024

Remember when they put in 7A. Never did figure out a good exit on 6. I just followed the crowd.

Man the wind hitting those huge air brakes probably made the cars next to impossible to control in the corners

Crazy to think that Richard Petty, who had won this race a year before and was a recent 2-time 500 winner, didn't even finish top 5 in what was his most dominating year ever.

Fangio 💪!!

SMOG-FREE??? Nope, he means no visible smoke, but it pollutes as any engine does.

It is NOT a "turbo" car, it is a TURBINE engine.

Problem with Turbine cars is there is no compression-braking.

I saw the first Indy Car 200MPH average speed, at Ontario, by Jerry Grant, in 1972. They had like 1,100 HP 4-cylinder OFFY engines, but not the modern downforce and modern tires we have today. His straightaway speeds were OVER 240, turns 160 MPH, this puts a LOT of wear/heat on the brakes. You had to be a daredevil to drive like that. Offy engines have no cylinder head. Compression ratio? YES!

Crazy spectator behaviour . Rally spectator tragedies very similar . " bull fighter syndrome " maybe . Testosterone brain 🤔

This was the last of the 17 Sebrings I’ve been to and the only one I ever got a press pass for. Camel Lite competitor Essex Racing was in my town and I went down to cover it.

Even those days it was rather silly to have an F1 race in that city.

I was there.

Wish that the picture was digitalized. Quit blurry on a flat screen. Short but sweet. Thanks for posting.

wow all my childhood heros , gurney, hill jones hall mark the aussie and new zlanders Surtees and my favorite tarck in the USA, what a treat for an old guy. parnelli was a dirt tracker and like aj very skillful drives in anything

Three generations of Indy car in one race

Thank You to Alice Hanks for making this film available. My only comment about this film is it really down plays the magic of the win of Hanks and of George Salih. Hanks was reported to have decided to retire from driving and came to the Speedway without a ride. The Salih 'lay down' chassis was without a driver or a sponsor. Most of the experts on pit row gave the car little chance. It had been Salih's plan to sell the car but their was little interest and he borrowed money to enter and run it. Finally Hanks was set as driver and Belond came on as sponsor after it qualified. Everything came together and it was a 'story book' win. Sam Hanks retired a winner. Salih brought his car back the next year with Jimmy Bryant as driver and won it's second '500'. Many lay down designs were built after Salih's win but none matched it's success. Before the start of the 1958 500 Sam Hanks was on the pre-race broadcast and was asked who he thought had the best car in that race. ' Wouldn't want any seat other than the one that Jimmy Bryant is in. The one I won in last year!'

Ward was way loose at the end of that race. Seeing the roadsters on this track makes me wonder what AJ thought he was doing when he brought his dirt car and took the pole? Were the roadsters really as fast as people thought or were the lighter, and more rigid dirt cars really the better handling package? In August 1965 he qualified his upright Offy dirt car on the pole and for the 159 mile race after driving the same car at Springfield the day before. Foyt lead much of the race but had a smaller fuel tank and had to make i fuel stop that others didn't make and yet he finished second to Gordon Johncock.

Just a reminder: If Sam Hanks can win the Indy 500 after all that trying, you too can get a girlfriend.