| Bill Sturges from Gardnerville,
Nevada, won the main event in his rarely-seen Cooper Monaco-Climax.
Graham Hill had raced the car in the October, 1962 pro events at Riverside and Laguna Seca with little success. |
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| Riverside,
February 2-3 1963 -- 1
Another batch of old negatives recently surfaced. They provide a look at some of the interesting cars that raced in California in early 1963. |
| Bill Sturges from Gardnerville,
Nevada, won the main event in his rarely-seen Cooper Monaco-Climax.
Graham Hill had raced the car in the October, 1962 pro events at Riverside and Laguna Seca with little success. |
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| Don Wester leads Ken Miles, both in 1700cc. Porsche RS61s. Miles eventually finished 2nd to Sturges. Wester was 3rd. |
| Bob
Harris replaced
Bill Krause
in the Harry Finer-entered Maserati Type 61 "Birdcage" #2452.
The car appeared with new gold/black paint and Harris' familiar #17. |
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