DA10- Elkhart Lake 1952

Elkhart Lake, Sept 7th 1952, SCCA National Sports Car Championship round 11. This would be the last race on the public roads around Elkhart Lake because racing on public roads would be banned in the state, much like what the rest of the country was doing. I know of no fatalities at these races, although there were some injuries at this event and as we saw in the last Elkhart Lake (DA 11) film some at the 1951 event as well.
This 8mm color film came from a collection that used to belong aircraft enthusiasts. The end of this film has rare aerial shots of the beautiful six-and-a-half-mile course and if you look closely you can see what I think is one of the Cunninghams diving into a turn. I have to think that these races would have been the best to see in period because they consisted of the best drivers from the East and West, all of them in the best machinery in the country at the time and on an proper road course.
The film features Charles Hornburg’s XK120C driven By Phill Hill, Irving Robbins with his Cunningham C2R, JvN in the Porsche, Roger Barlow in his 1952 Simca Special, Marvin Mendelson, Bob Gillispe and Jack McAfee, Briggs Cunningham, John Fitch, Phil Walters Jim Kimberly, Bill Spear, Paul O’Shea, Brooks Stevens’ Excaliuber, Fred Wacker and Carrol Shelby.
This film only consists of the Sunday Races, but in the Saturday Race Phil Hill showed the way in the C type, beating out Phil Walters in a Ferrari 212 and the experienced George Weaver in the other of Hornburg’s C-types. Sunday’s under 1500cc race was won by Bill Spear. In the 200mnile main event, the 3 factory Cunninghams would sweep the top spots with Fitch leading the way. Phil Hill would have to settle for a 4th place after a hole in the exhaust gassed him out of the cockpit

[@PatrickTyrrell-jd5zy]

Outstanding video! Many thanks for taking us back to the days when it all started. Nice aerial views, as well.

[@tconti641]

So Cool. Thank You!

[@buckzx12r]

Great video!

[@do8717]

Thanks for posting!

[@marklangren3142]

Dad was their, doug of siebkens gave him a place to crash because he served his country in korea