1955.1

1955 Historical Photos

SCCA Seafair Trophy Race
Bremerton Airport Racetrack – Bremerton, WA

Intro slide

BREMERTON RACETRACK
-----------------------------------------------------------
1955 SCCA National – Seafair Cup, Bremerton , July 31
Biggest race yet in the Northwest saw Carroll Shelby, Phil Hill and Ken Miles – all in Ferraris –heading up the feature. For more photos and full race story see Long Straights and Hairpin Turns

Slide #1

Carroll Shelby tunes his Ferrari engine shortly before the start of the Seafair Cup final.

Slide #2

Ben Brown, Abarth-20th OA U-
1500cc mod

Slide #3

Pete Bunn, Guiar-11th OAS U-
1500cc mod

Slide #4

Marion Lowe, Fraser-Nash -8th O-1500 feature

Slide #5

Terry Hall, Porsche Speedster -1st U-5000cc prod

Slide #6

Pete Lovely, Pooper - 1st U-1500cc

Slide #7

John Von Neuman, Porsche 550 – 2nd under-1500cc mod

Slide #8

Ray Hansen, Hansen Spcl – DNF Seafair Trophy, but competitive with leading Ferraris

Slide #9

Riddle Gregory, VW – 3rd VW,
U-1500cc

Slide #10

John Porter, Porsche 550 3rd
U-1500cc

Slide #11

Phil Hill beat Carroll Shelby in the “shakedown” all classes race.

Slide #12

One of few Maseratis that raced in the area in the hands of RG Gillespie, 12th OA in the feature

Slide #13

Ken Miles, Ferrari 265. 3rd Seafair Cup feature

previous arrow
next arrow