Thread: 427 Cobra vs. 250LM vs. Corvette Grand Sport
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Old 08-16-2009, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by ZOERA-SC7XX View Post
Looking back at page 124-131 in "Corvette Grand Sport" by Dave Friedman & Lowell Paddock, at Nassau Speed Week in December 1964, the Ken Miles 390 Cobra and the Grand Sport's of Jack Saunders and Roger Penske spanked the 250 LM's of Walt Hansgen and Bob Grossman pretty soundly. Spanked the GT 40's too. Miles took a solid lead before breaking, giving the overall victory to Roger Penske's GS.
From what I remember reading, that was a great story. Miles dogged it intentionally in qualifying, to start between the 2 GS vettes. There is a great picture, at the end of the first lap, of Miles way ahead of the 2 GS vettes and the rest of the pack, him about 30-40 car lengths ahead of everybody else. You see him up close, and looking down the straight, at the beginning of the straight you see the vettes and the reat of the pack all clumped together. Amazing difference in performance/driving . From what I've read about Miles, typical.
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"After jumping into an early lead, Miles pitted for no reason. He let the entire field go by before re-entering the race. The crowd was jumping up and down as he stunned the Chevrolet drivers by easily passing the entire field to finish second behind MacDonald's other team Cobra. The Corvette people were completely demoralized."
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