6 replies to this topic

[Udo K.]

Apart from the SCCA rounds at Marlboro raceway, Maryland, there were 6 Hour races for sportscars. One was on June 8th 1958.
Question: How many 6 Hours races have been held? Does somebody have the complete results of these races? Thanks very much for the effort to maybe post them here.

[Ray Bell]

The Marlboro race was still rating a mention when I was eagerly devouring SCGs and C & Ds in the sixties, but was there a 12-hour that got my attention?

[David M. Kane]

Actually it is Upper Marlboro and it is the tabacco center of Maryland. Maryland tabacco is the tabacco used in a cigarette to insure that it burns smoothly and evenly. That auction site has now been closed and all of the
tabacco farmers bought out by the government.

Six or twelve hours around that track must have been pretty tough as it is
a fairly short circuit. I attended my first race there and the Formula Junior race was won by Tim Mayer in a Cooper and the feature, The President's Cup (because it was the home course for the Washington, D.C.
Region) was won by Roger Penske in a Porsche RS-60.

I vague remember the six hour, but I have no particulars, you might check
the archives of the SCCA, Washington, D.C. Region.

[Rupertlt1]

Actually it is Upper Marlboro and it is the tabacco center of Maryland. Maryland tabacco is the tabacco used in a cigarette to insure that it burns smoothly and evenly. That auction site has now been closed and all of the
tabacco farmers bought out by the government.

Six or twelve hours around that track must have been pretty tough as it is
a fairly short circuit. I attended my first race there and the Formula Junior race was won by Tim Mayer in a Cooper and the feature, The President's Cup (because it was the home course for the Washington, D.C.
Region) was won by Roger Penske in a Porsche RS-60.

I vague remember the six hour, but I have no particulars, you might check
the archives of the SCCA, Washington, D.C. Region.

On June 21, 1959, Arthur Tweedale and Bob Davis won the Marlboro Six Hour Endurance Race in Maryland driving the #37 Elva Mk IV. Arthur Tweedale repeated the win in the Marlboro Six Hours in 1960. Teamed with Ed Costley he covered 337.75 miles in an Elva Mk V sports car. This was the final iteration of the Elva front-engined sports racing car.

[RA Historian]

I attended my first race there and the Formula Junior race was won by Tim Mayer in a Cooper and the feature, The President's Cup (because it was the home course for the Washington, D.C.
Region) was won by Roger Penske in a Porsche RS-60.

The President's Cup was created c1954 and presented at the Andrews AFB races by Pres. Eisenhower. The Cup moved around over the years and was awarded at Marlboro, VIR, and in 1965 Road America. That, IIRC, was the last time it was awarded to a race winner. It continues today as an annual award by the SCCA. It was not an award of the Washington DC Region.

The race in question above was held in April, 1962. Tim Mayer won the F-Jr race in a Cooper T-59. The feature was won by Roger Penske, but in a Cooper Monaco T-57, not a Porsche.
Tom

Edited by RA Historian, 30 December 2010 - 23:04.

[David McKinney]

I assumed that, in most cases, the cup honoured the president of the organising club...

[RA Historian]

Nope.

To quote the SCCA:

"The President's Cup is SCCA's most prestigious Club Racing award. It is presented on behalf of the United States President and has, on occasion, been awarded by the President. Originally the award was presented to the winner of a particular race, designated as the President's Cup Race, held near Washington, D.C. For a brief period it was rotated to other major events around the country, until in 1966 it became part of the National Championship Runoffs, where it is presented to the driver who demonstrates the most outstanding performance of the event."

Tom