Riverside, March 3-4, 1962:   One of the first public appearances of Carroll Shelby's Cobra.  The car did demo runs between races.  This begins one of the greatest eras in racing, well covered elsewhere.

Does anyone know who his passenger might be?

(Peter Brock, designer of the Cobra Daytona coupe, identified her as Joan Cole, Shelby's secretary.)

Can anyone identify the driver & passenger?

Charlie Vehle identified the passenger in this photo as:  "Alan Fordney,  the race announcer.  He was also in the movie "Grand Prix" playing the part of an announcer, of course."

Miles and Cobra teammate Dave MacDonald left the Corvette Stingrays in the dust at this event.

MacDonald won easily, while Miles stopped at the pits to let all the Stingrays go by, then returned to the course and repassed them all.  He finished second.

"After jumping into an early lead, Miles pitted for no reason. He let
the entire field go by before re-entering the race.  The crowd was
jumping up and down as he stunned the Chevrolet drivers by easily
passing the entire field to finish second behind MacDonald's other
team Cobra.  The Corvette people were completely demoralized."

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