1955 Le Mans race

[thebear]

  O.K., why didn't the Moretti entries compete?  

[jpchenet]

They gridded too late!!

(At least that's what my Internet search told me!!  )

[thebear]

They gridded too late!!

(At least that's what my Internet search told me!!  )

;DAnd it was right!
(sound of more pages turning furiosly)

[thebear]

 8)What can be said about Brigs Cunningham's enine in the #22?

[hgb]

The car was the self build C-6R with an Offenhauser engine. It didn't finish, though. Why was 1955 the last year that Briggs Cunningham competed in Europe ?  

[Steve Pyro]

The car was the self build C-6R with an Offenhauser engine. It didn't finish, though. Why was 1955 the last year that Briggs Cunningham competed in Europe ?  

1955 was final year for Cunningham cars due to the US Internal Revenue Service only allowing 5 years before classifying such a business as a non-deductible hobby and, therefore, the factory closed its doors at the end of the year.

[hgb]

Right you are.   Interesting, quitting racing just to avoid the tax.

[thebear]

Right you are.   Interesting, quitting racing just to avoid the tax.

  Not exactly avoiding the tax but loosing the deduction for the expenses.   B.C. was also the first to show up at a racetrack with his cars in a large enclosed trailer with car ramps and an integral machine shop.  

  No new `teasers' for a while as I am preparing to go to Long Beach California where I will be a marshal at the OWRS (nee CART) race.   That will be followed the next weekend by a Porsche Reunion at Daytona, and the following weekend also at Daytona for an SCCA National club race.   I will be running the radio net at Race Control at Daytona.