Events on November 16th
Interesting and notable events from the history of motor sport.
1901
A. C. Bostwick became the first American racer to exceed the speed of a mile a minute on the Ocean Parkway racetrack in Brooklyn, New York.
1919
Dario Resta in a Peugeot won the last Vanderbilt Cup race.
Dario Resta, drove a Peugeot and won the last Vanderbilt Cup race, held in Santa Monica, California. In the same year, Resta also won the sixth Indianapolis 500 race.
1919
Dario Resta won the last Vanderbilt Cup race, winning the event in Santa Monica on 11/16/19.
The race did make a brief return before WW2 at the Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island, being won by Nuvolari and Rosemeyer in '36 and '37 respectively. Incidentally the Cup, won by Nuvolari, was in the window of a watch makers shop in Geneva last year (2006).
More recently the Vanderbilt Cup has become the name of the trophy given to the Champ Car World Series champion.
1969
Pete Hamilton drove his Chevrolet Camaro to victory in the 100 mile NASCAR Grand Touring
Hampton, Virginia, USA. Pete Hamilton drove his Chevrolet Camaro to victory in the 100 mile NASCAR Grand Touring race on the .4 mile Langley Field Speedway. Randy Hutchinson finished 2nd and T.C. Hunt 3rd, both also in Camaros. The win was the 12th of the season for the Massachussets driver.
1980
Alan Jones drove a Williams FW07 to victory in the non-championship, Australian Grand Prix.
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