Campbell Special Crash!

Martin says he may have more photos of the sequence of events leading up to this cloud of dust, which he swears contains Bob Harris in the Campbell Special.  The race was the main event of the race weekend held at Goleta airport near Santa Barbara on Sept. 2-3, 1962.
 
 

Before landing in this cloud of dust, the mid-engined Special flew through the air spectac- ularly.  The event began when Harris half-spun in the high speed left hand Turn 1, barely visible in the center of the photo.

The car clipped a concrete culvert (amazing how unsafe racing was in those days!) and flew WAY HIGH in the air.  It came to rest in this cloud of dust.

Your webmaster saw this happen in person.  He was sitting in the grandstand at Turn 1, seen behind the shoulder of the spectator in the white shirt on the right of the photo.

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