LATE NEWS DAN GURNEY won the FRENCH GP last S,unday in a

PORSCH E 8. It was the first grande epreuve victory for both Gurney and Porsche. TONY MAGGS' Cooper was 2nd, RICH IE GINTHER'S BRM 3rd, and BRUCE McLAREN'S Cooper 4th. World Champion PH I L HILL did not drive-a metalworkers' strike in Italy preventing Ferrari's participation.

A number of drivers had gone quickly earlier in the race but the steering broke on JIM CLARK's Lotus, JOHN SURTEES' Lola broke its engine, the BRM of GRAHAM HILL also blew and McLAREN lost 4th gear as he was challenging Gurney for the lead.

Other Late News: ALAN CONN'ELL won the SCCA Natl at Garnett, Kansas, in his Maser-Ferrari hybr'id ahead of Harry Heuer's Chaparral. Lime Rock's LITTLE LE MANS 8-hr found Volvo in the winner's circle again-Rune Svensson/Art Tattersall taking 1st ahead of Cunningham/Walsh in another Volvo.

It's All Ferrari at · Le Mans!

CHEVROLET CORVETTE, driven by Californian Tony Settember, was first car off grid at Le Mans 24-hr race. Corvette was overtaken in first lap, sh,oved well down in the standings, later had gearbox trouble and was finally retired. Race was won by 4-liter prototype Ferrari driven by Hill/Gendebien. (Photo Henry Manney)

RYAN DIES OF INJURIES PARIS-Peter Ryan, 22, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Mt. Trem­

blant, Que., died on July 2 of injuries resulting from a collision at the F-Jr race preceding the Reims Grand Pirx.

Driving a Lotus F-Jr for the Ian Walker Racing Team, Ryan was dicing with Bill Moss in a Gemini on the fast Reims circuit when the accident occurred.

The two cars touched at the fast bend just past the pits in the first of two 10-lap heats for F-Jr cars. Ryan's Lotus went end-over­end and he was removed from the car with critical internal injuries.

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After emergency treatment at Reims, Ryan was flown to Paris in a U.S. Air Force ambulance plane but died in Paris about 24 hours later.

Bill Moss, also taken to Reims hospital, was shortly re­leased with minor injuries.

Though generally considered a Canadian, Ryan was born in Philadelphia and attended pri­vate schools in the Eastern U.S. His association with Canada came as a result of his mother's ski resort in Mt Tremblant, Que.

By listing his residence as Mt Tremblant, Ryan was able to participate in road racing in Canada when he was only 18 rather than the 21 years of age required for most U.S. road rac­ing.

As a driver, he had first at­tracted national attention driv­ing a Porsche RS-60. In 1961 his most outstanding victory came in a Lotus 19 at the Canadian Grand Prix.

To his mother, his relatives and his many close friends, the sincere sympathies of the road racing world are extended.

PENSKE WINS BIG AT LIME ROCK NAT'LS

By ERIKA RHONE LIME ROCK, Conn.-Roger

Penske went home to Gladwyne, Pa., on the evening of June 30 with gifts for his 2-day old son­a trophy and 10 additional cham­pionship points decisively earned in the feature modified race of this SCCA National event. Penske wheeled his familiar red Cooper­Monaco around the 1.5-mi black­top to the tune of an unofficial clocking at 1:03.4 (85.17 mph). The previous course record was held by George Constantine in an Aston-Martin at 1 :04.3 (83.98 mph) .

Penske lapped the entire field with consummate ease despite the fact that his DM "Telar Special" had been moved up into class C to provide greater competition!

It was obvious in the early laps that there would be absolutely no challenge to Penske's mastery of the field, for he had established a 10-sec lead over Bob Holbert's Porsche RSK by the 3rd lap and widened it by 3-5 sec per lap thereafter. By lap 23 (of 25), the red Cooper appeared life-sized in Holbert's mirror as the cars en­tered t.he straight. The Porsche edged over to one side and Penske waved cheerily to his close friend as he roared on by.

Holbert Settles for 2nd The veteran Holbert had to be

content with 2nd, one lap behind the victor, while 3rd went to the

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Hilll Gendebien 1st in 4-liter; GTs 2nd & 3rd

By HENRY N. MANNEY

LE MANS, France - Once again, yet once again, the highly pro­fessional team of Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

As expected it was a Ferrari walkover with the victors driving a 4-liter "prototype" roadster, NobletiGuichet and Beurlys/ Elde bringing their GTOs into 2nd and 3rd.

Best placed furriner was the Jaguar E-type of Cunningham/ Salva­dori in 4th. The Index of Performance was won by a Panhard (Gilhau­din/ Bertaut) , and the Hobbs/ Gardner Elite took home the Energetic Index, whatever that is.

Possibly because of the very hot and sunny weather, there were very ,few accidents but only 18 survived from 55 starters.

As heavy favorites, Ferrari came prepared and with a good selection of team cars, all in the so-called "prototype" classifica­tion. There were two V-12 front­engined cars of four liters, one spyder and one coupe, for Hill/ Gende bien and Parkes/ Bandini respectively, backed up by the Targa-und-Nurburg-winning 2.4 V-6 for the Rodrigui and that V-8 again for Baghetti/Scarfiotti. Pri­vate sporters included Ryan/ Fulp's twelve, Gurney/ Bonnier's ditto, and a Serenissima "station wagon" for Davis/ Abate.

Eight Ferrari GTs The Commendatore himself en­

tered no GTs but there were something like eight in private hands. Opposed to these Berlin­ettas were two Aston, Tony Set­tember's Corvette, three E Jags of which one was Cunningham/ Salvadori's, and all sorts of smal­ler GT stuff like Porsches (3), Alfas (2), Elites (2), Morgans (1), Abarth-Simcas (4) and Sun­beams (2), all of whom can give you trouble during a long, long race.

Lending interest to what would have been a very dull race in­deed, Aston Martin produced its ovvn 4-liter prototype (G. Hill/ Ginther) to battle the Ferraris, still a 6-cyl but certainly quicker

than the Zagatos they've been selling.

More serious was the Maserati challenge in the shape of three wild V -8 coupes; a French one was to be driven by Trintignantl L. Bianchi and two Cunningham entries were for Kimberly! Thompson and McLaren/Hansgen.

These are the most interesting things to come out of Italy in a long time; even with the all-in­dependent suspension their hand­ling pleased the drivers no end and, as one was clocked down the Mulsanne straight at 177 mph, when they get properly developed ... look out!

Practice was dry, for once, and proved little else but that P. Hill can lap at 3:55.1 (Hawthorn's old record is 3:57.7), quicker than anyone else.

Lotus 23s Refused The Auto Club de l'Ouest, who

organize the annual fiasco, proved to be not so sporting when they refused to let the two Lotus 23s run even after they had met the scrutineer's requirements. Alleg­edly, the 23s were "not in the spirit" of the prototype GT regu­lations and the fact that at least one French car started which was even more specialized and that Panhard was using Le Mans to publicize its new coupe (which just happened to win the Index), doesn't enter into the argument, I suppose.

First the 1961 Monte Carlo Rally fiddle and now this. Some coincidence.

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LE MANS 24-HR RESULTS Driver/Driver. Car Laps

1. Hill/Gendebien, 4.0 Ferrari P ................... 331 2. Noblet/Guichet, 3.0 Ferrari GL .......... .... 326 3. Elde/Beurlys, 3.0 Ferrari GT ........... L.. ... 326 4. Cunningham/Salvadori, 3.8 Jaguar GT .... 310 5. Sargent/Lumsden, 3.8 Jaguar GT .. .. ...... .. 310 6. Grossman/Roberts, 3.0 Ferrari GT .......... 298 7. Barth / Herrmann, 1.6 Porsche GT .. .......... 287 8. Hobbs / Gardner, 1.3 Lotus GT .................. 286 9. Hugus/Reed, 3.0 Ferrari GT .................... 281

10. Sala/de Luca, 1.3 Alta GL .......... ...... .... 281 11. Hunt/ Wyllie, 1.3 Lotus GT ............ ...... .... 278 12. Buchet/Schiller, 1.6 Porsche GL .......... 272 13. Lawrence/Shepherd, 2.0 Morgan GT .... .. 270 14. Dubois / Harris, 1.3 Abarth Simca P .... .... 268 15. Harper/Proctor, 1.6 Alpine GT ................ 268 16. Guilhaudin/Bertaut, 0.7 Panhard P ........ 255 17. Consten / Rosinsky, 0.7 Bonnet P ............ 255 18. Armagnac/Laureau, 0.7 Bonnet P .......... 253 Note: p-prototype. GT-grand touring Championship Points: GT III (over 2 Iiter)-

Ferrari, 9; Jaguar, 4. GT II (1-2 liter)­Porsche, 9; Lotus, 6; Alta, 4; Morgan, 1.

INDEX OF PERFORMANCE 1. Gilhaudin/Bertaud (Panhard) 2. Armagnac/Laureau (Bonnet) 3. Hobbs/Gardner (Elite) 4. Noblet/Guichet (Ferrari GT) 5. Hill / Gendebien (Ferrari P) 6. Hunt/ Wyllie (Elite)

THERMAL EFFICIENCY INDEX 1. Hobbs/Gardner (Elite) 2. Hunt/ Wyllie (Elite) 3. Guilhaudin/Bertaut (Panhard) 4. Sala / de Luca (Alta) 5. Barth/Herrmann (Porsche) 6. Sargent/ Lumsden (Jaguar) Av spd-115.239 mph (Record, 1961,

Hill/Gendebien, 3.0 Ferrari-1l5.92 mph)

Fastest lap-New Record: Phil Hill, 126.54 mph. (Old Record-Mike Haw­thorn, 4.1 Ferrari, 1957, 125.6 mph)

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FERRARI 1-2-3 AT LE MANS (Continued from Page 1)

Under a baking hot sun at 4 pm, 55 drivers took their places across the track to get ready for . . . guess what? . . . a Le Mans start. As M. Baumgartner dropped the flag, beating the competitors to it for once, there was a short hesitation and then came the pat­ter of little feet, shortly to be drowned out as 53 engines got going.

Corvette Off First Settember's Corvette was first

away, rousing a big cheer from the many GIs present, but was caught and eaten just befor~ tl?e Dunlop bridge by Graham HIll m the noisy Aston coupe.

The Ferraris all came next, pushing and shoving, with ~he Serenissima and N ART entrIes back in the middle of the busy pack. As they rounded Tertre Rouge everybody with horse­power'to spare put his foot down and blatted off down the Mul­sanne straight.

Mike Parkes in the 4-liter Ber­linetta shot past into the lead but, arriving at Mulsanne corner rather too fast, locked up all four and slid into the sandbank where he remained for seven laps.

Therefore as they all came streaming past the pits <?n th.e first lap, engines screammg, It was Graham Hill's green Aston coupe with Gendebien coming up fast from behind with a short gap before the other Ferraris and the Masera ti coupes.

Poor Settember, with the only stock car in the race, was already back to 8th.

Gendebien into Lead Gende bien was eager to put

Ferrari in its usual front-running position even though thei~ is no lap money such as one fmds ~t Indianapolis. He therefore put hIS clog delicately in the big 12-cyl and shot by Graham Hill on the next lap, pulling away till he had over a 2-min cushion by the end of the ,first hour.

Behind the Aston, though, things were getting rough with all three Maserati coupes making a fearful noise and ganging up on 3rd-place Pedro Rodriguez and eventually shoving him down to 6th.

There he was scarcely better off as the charging Gurney in the Serinissima V-12 was after him, having bested Baghetti's V-8 and the eight (!) other Ferraris be­hind him.

Dickson's rear-Climax-engined Ecurie Ecosse Tojiero was next, followed by Sargent's E Jag, while other significant novelties were Spychiger's Abarth-Simca leading the three Porsche Car­reras, plus practically everything else, but itself being out-paced by Olthoff/Whitmore's normal-look­ing Austin-Healey.

Stays in Front The refueling and driver

changes that started about 5:15 commenced to warp the order around but generally speaking you could say that the Gendebien/ Hill car made a point of staying out front.

Besides the Maseratis, like tad­poles- they had to worry about be­ing eaten by their own kind as the Rodriguez boys showed every sign of wanting to get their pic­ture taken in the winner's circle

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too and had worked the V -6 back up to 3rd, then to 2nd as the oppo­sition weakened or took a long pit stop.

As the long afternoon faded into dusk, though, the pressure became a little bit less at least as far as people from other teams were concerned.

Bonnier retired the Serenissima Ferrari with wobbly rear suspen­sion, Thompson smote the Esses in the 4-liter. Maser after a brake pad change, Parkes lost his water in the 4-liter Berlinetta, McLaren was much delayed by throwing a rear tread on his 4-liter Maser that wiped out his clearance lights, Graham Hill made a long stop to repair the generator on the Aston Prototype and then, missing a shift on the gateless Aston box, touched a valve, and Trintignant's Maser commenced to drop back as tire wear became abnormal.

GT Cars Move Up With each one of these defec­

tions, Noblet's GTO and its at­tendant crowd of mixed Ferraris would creep closer toward the top, making life more difficult for the proper sports cars still running.

WINNING FERRARI of Olivier GendebienjPhil Hill had "flying bridge" behind driver, 4-liter prototype en­gine. Winners ran 1st and 2nd in first half of race, then were never out of 1st after departure of Rodriguez' brothers 2.4 V-6 Ferrari after 12 hrs. Victory was 3rd for Hill, 4th for Gendebien. (Photo Henry Manney)

Both NART entries, for ex- iously withal, taking over the ample, were running down in the lead from time to time after pit middle of the pack in spite of stops but always being closely spirited driving by Messrs Ryan/ supervised by the team leaders. Fulp, Grossman/Roberts and Co., various electrical troubles con- This onus, however, was re-

moved just before five ayem tributing at least partly to their when, after refueling, the starter position. . f th

Indeed, generators of all sorts dog refused to dIsengage rom e objected violently to the heat and flywheel of the V -6. In spite of the even the few hours of darkness. fact that there was no real cause

for hurry, the car was sent off Both Elites had to do repair jobs, a2'ain with it still engaged and Ireland's UDT Ferrari succumbed ~ from 7th, two remaining Abarth- making the most shocking noise.

Sure enough, the Rodriguez Fer­Simcas were delayed additionally rari didn't come around again, from breaking their engine mounts, and the pits were full of abandoned with a broken gear-tinkering and hammering. box.

Lumsden and Cunningham's Baghetti thus succeeded to 2nd Jags moved up from around 10th in the V-8, Noblett's GTO to 3rd, as the remaining GT Astons van- then Tavano and Eldes Berlin­ished with blown head gasket and ettas, Lumsden and Cunningham's burned piston respectively. Set- Jags, Grossman and Vaccarella's tember's Corvette, after running Berlinettas, and the Austin for ages with only top and first, Healey. lost the use of its gearbox en- Promenade at Dawn tirely, the Tojiero siezed up, and At 6 am the race had become a finally, in dawn's early light, the promenade and 28 survivors Maserati challenge vanished com- looked hopefully at a cloudless pletely as first Trint's red coupe dawn. was retired with a bent chassis in It was too hot, and went on for the rear and then McLaren's too long. Poor Peter Ryan put his charging coupe, back up to the Ferrari in the sandbank at Mul-5th slot, blew a piston. sanne and dug for ages before

Hill Sets Record giving up, the other NART car At the front, Jellybean or P. had starter trouble, the Morgan

Hill had been circulating with had no gears or clutch but cir­promptitude and dispatch, P. Hill culated anyway and a Sunbeam turning a new record lap of 3:57.3 got one run bearing fixed but (126.897 mph) just to let every- fried it again. Vaccarella's GT body know who was boss. broke its prop shaft, Baghetti's

The Rodrigui, traditionally ob- V-8 commenced jumping out of tuse on this point, motored fur- gear and broke the engine, No. 56

Abarth (leader on index since Rodriguez dropped out) disap­peared in a cloud of smoke, the valiant Austin-Healey lost a cyl­inder, ran on five, and carried on until another one let go, and Cun­ningham's sick .Jag slowly put on steam to catch an even sicker Jag of Lumsden.

The Index-leading Panhard pot­tered around, everyone else tip­toed gently, and P. Hill almost was oiling the plugs as he lapped in about 5 min with a suspect clutch. .

Spectators Return Everybody heartily wished it

was over except the thousands of washed and rested spectators who crowded in droves to fill the ter­races.

Finally four o'clock came and Jacques Loste greeted the '18 re­maining competitors with the checkered flag . . . overjoyed and red-eyed mechanics leaped on the fenders and flowers were thrown at the gasping Belgian Abarth­Simca.

Finally Phil rolled in to a hail of applause and the old ice-cream cartons, thus possibly provoking

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Gendebien to remark that having won four times, HE wasn't com­ing again. What Phil said, keep­ing in mind his three wins, is not recorded. Thank the Lord it's over for this year.

Ferrari therefore marches briskly off with the Coupe Mon­dial for prototypes and by virtue of Noblet actually winning (if you classify the race as GT), the Con­structor's Championship as well.

Porsche comes second as the lone Alfa didn't win its class, and maybe by next year the CSI will see fit to clear up this prototype/ sports/GT business.

Formula One is so uncompli­cated!

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LE MANS HOUR BY HOUR CHART Final Standings Hour by Ho .. r Positions

Drivers, Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1. P. Hill/Gendebien, 4.0 Ferrari P .................... 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2. Noblet/Guichet, Ferrari GT ............................ .10 9 9 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3. Elde/Bevrlys, Ferrari GT ................................. 16 15 13 13 9 10 10 8 8 7 8 8 8 6 6 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 4. Cunningham/Salvadori, Jaguar GT ................. 22 21 18 18 15 16 14 13 13 10 11 11 10 8 8 7 7 6 6 6 6 5 5 4 5. Sargent/Lumsden, Jaguar GT .......................... 18 13 14 12 12 11 11 14 14 11 10 10 9 7 7 6 6 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 6. Grossman/Roberts, Ferrari GT ....................... 14 14 15 10 8 7 6 6 6 6 6 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 4 6 6 6 7. Barth/Herrmann, 1.5 Porsche GT .................... 27 24 20 21 21 19 19 23 22 22 19 19 15 14 12 11 11 9 9 8 9 9 7 7 8. Hobbs/Gardner, 1.3. Lotus GT.. ...................... 33 30 25 23 22 21 18 18 18 16 15 15 13 12 11 10 10 8 8 9 8 8 8 8 9. Hugus/Reed, Ferrari GT ................................... 21 20 17 17 16 14 15 15 15 12 13 12 11 9 9 9 9 7 7 7 7 7 9 9

10. Sala/de Luca, 1.3 Alfa GT ............................... 36 34 26 25 25 24 22 21 21 20 18 18 14 15 13 12 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 11. Hunt/ Wyllie, 1.3 Lotus GT .............................. 35 29 27 24 33 36 31 31 31 28 28 25 20 16 14 13 13 12 11 11 11 11 11 11 12. Buchet/Schiller, 1.6 Porsche GT .................... 28 26 22 22 24 22 21 20 20 19 17 16 24 22 19 18 17 16 14 13 12 12 12 12 13. Lawrence/Shepherd, Morgan ........................... 43 38 37 32 30 30 26 28 27 25 26 22 21 17 15 14 14 13 12 12 13 13 13 13 14. Dubois/Harris, Abarth·Simca ......................... _28 23 23 26 23 20 20 19 19 18 16 26 27 24 21 19 19 18 17 16 16 15 15 14 15. Harper/Proctor, 1.6 Alpine GT ....................... .45 42 36 34 32 29 27 27 28 27 27 24 24 23 18 16 15 15 14 13 !5 14 14 15 16. Guilhaudin/Bertaut, Panhard ......................... .48 45 50 39 38 35 36 33 33 32 32 30 29 27 23 22 20 19 19 18 19 16 16 16 17. Consten/Rosinski, Bonnet. .............................. 39 36 30 2B 27 26 29 29 29 29 30 28 26 21 18 21 21 20 18 19 18 17 17 17 18. Armagnac/Laureau, Bonnet. ............................ 54 51 48 44 42 41 39 38 36 34 34 32 30 28 25 24 23 21 20 20 20 18 18 18

Other Cars in First 10 Standings but Did Not Finish Hour-by-Hour Position-CReason for Retirement)

Drivers, Car 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Olthoff/Whitmore, A-H ..................................... 24 23 19 20 19 18 17 17 17 15 14 14 12 11 10 8 8 10 - (Broken piston) Baghetti/Scarfiotta, 2.6 Ferrari P ................. 8 6 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 - (Transmission) I reland/Gregory, Ferrari GT ........ ; .................. 13 12 11 8 7 8 7 7 12 17 21 17 16 13 - (Generator) Tavano/Simon, Ferrari GT ............................... 11 10 10 7 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 7 6 5 5 - (Overheating) Vaccarella/Scarlatti, 3.0 Ferrari P ................ .12 11 8 11 10 9 9 10 10 9 9 9 7 10 - (Drive shaft) Rodriguez/Rodriguez, 2.4 Ferrari P ..............• 6 3 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 - (Transmission) Hansgen/McLaren, 4.0 Maser P .................... 5 5 2 9 11 13 12 11 9 8 7 5 - (Broken piston) Trintignant/Bianchi, 4.0 Maser P ..............•... 4 8 7 5 5 6 8 9 7 - (Broken rear suspension Thompson/Kimberly, 4.0 Maser P .... .............. 3 2 6 3 17 - (Crashed) G. Hill/Ginther, Aston P .................................. 2 4 4 14 14 15 - (Broken oil line) Bonnier /Gurney, 3.0 Ferrari P ........................ 7 31 44 - (Rear suspension) Abate/Davsl, 3.0 Ferrari P .............................. 9 7 43 - (Transmission)

Note: P-prototype. GT-Grand Touring.