| There was a National
Race July 9-10, 1955. They were races that "went very badly" as R?T magazine
later wrote, as crowd control was poor and a lady killed herself when she
hit the Eucalyptus tree on the outside of turn 1. Pete Lovely told me he
also crashed at that weekend's races, at the turn 4-5 sweeper that came
after the downhill stretch from "Ocean Corner." Drivers were hooking their
wheels on the inside dip of the turn and were pulled around. Evidently
if you missed getting your tires into the dip the car wouldn't make it
around the turns. This is where Ken Miles flipped one of Von Neumann's
Porsches and also where Lovely turned over his Pooper.
These cars had no roll bars and Lovely said he was inside the car, upside
down, yelling for the workers to "Get his thing off me". He fixed
the car good enough to win (I think) the under 1500cc event the following
day.
There was also a race
on October 22-23, 1955, and the final days of Torrey Pines took place over
the weekend of January 14-15, 1956."
Torrey
Pines 2 -- More of Bob Engberg's photos ? memories!
Added historical information
from Bob Norton's
priceless and essential
scans
of "MotoRacing" magazine
Volume
1, #2 and #8
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