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Cameron Argetsinger
1/3/1921 - 22/4/2008
Cameron Argetsinger was a Sports car enthusiast, Lawyer and Auto racing Executive best known for creating the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Track and making it the home of the Formula One United States Grand Prix from 1961 through 1980.
Cameron Argetsinger died 12 years ago, he was 87 , He would have been 99.
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One of the earliest members of SCCA, Cameron Argetsinger was the moving force behind the creation of SCCA's first road races at Watkins Glen, N.Y. in 1948. In the early years of SCCA's professional racing program, he served as Director of Professional Racing and followed that with an appointment as SCCA's Executive Director (President). He inherited a love of fast cars from his father and in 1947 bought a sports car so he could become a member of the nascent Sports Car Club of America. Argetsinger proceeded to race everything from MGs to Jaguars at Watkins Glen and Sebring.
Argetsinger was a positive representative of SCCA and the sport of road racing for decades and served on the Board of the Watkins Glen Motor Racing Research Library.
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Eddie Hearne 1887 - 1955 -
Harlan Fengler 1903 - 1981 -
Arthur Mallock 1918 - 1993 -
Leroy Warriner 1919 - 2003 -
Christabel Carlisle 1939
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Lloyd Ruby 1928 - 2009
Often reffered to as the best driver never to have won the Indy 500, he led the 500 in five occasions. A works driver for Ford in sportscars he had better luck winning the Daytona 24 Hour race twice. He took partin two Grand Prix, once at the Indy 500 when it counted as a round of the World Championship and in the 1961 US Grand Prix. -
Bruce Kessler 1926
Kessler was an American driver who shared a car in the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix with a certain B.Ecclestone! He went on to be involved in the trawler and television industries, even acting as a TV director for such notable shows as Knight Rider, The A Team and I Dream of Jeannie. -
Bob Drake 1919 - 1990
Bob Drake was a privateer driver from Los Angeles who raced in the 1950s and early 1960s. -
Richie Ginther 1930 - 1989
In F1 he was conscientious, reliable and an extremely fine test driver. After racing Ginther dropped out of the rat race to live in a camper in the desert. He died of a heart attack in 1989. -
Phil Hill 1927 - 2008
The only American-born driver to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (Mario Andretti, an Italian American driver, won the World Drivers' Championship in 1978, but was not born in the United States). He also scored three wins at each of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring sports car races.