| Ron Cumming's comments:
"That's Jerry Unser in
Mickey Thompson's 500x Kurtis-Cad at the first Los Angeles Times GP for
Sports Cars.
During Friday or Saturday's
practice sessions, Thompson spun out at turn 5 when his motor stopped running.
Ak Miller came along in his Millie
Miglia 500X Kurtis, called "El Caballo II", and broadsided Thompson.
Thompson was hurt badly
enough to go looking for another driver. I saw the whole thing. Ak
still talks about putting Mickey in the hospital with a bad knee.
Jerry drove the car in
the Sunday big race and later drove it at the Pomona Examiner GP, April
1959." |
