1950 APBA Gold Cup

Statistics

July 22 3 Mile Course
Detroit River 30 Mile Heats
Detroit, Michigan 90 Mile Race

 

  No. Entry Owner Qual. Comp. Lap Race
1 U-1 Such Crust I Jack Schafer 85.000 78.21
2 U-11 Such Crust II Jack Schafer 69.589 69.511
3 U-3 My Sweetie (1) Horace Dodge 89.108 86.2
4 U-10 Delphine X Horace Dodge
5 U-4 Miss Great Lakes Al Fallon
6 U-6 Fickle Eye IV Bob Harvey
7 U-9 Astraea II Cameron Peck
8 U-16 My Darling Andy Marcy
9 U-27 Slo-mo-shun IV Stan Sayres 87.42 83.52 78.074
10 U-50 Gale Joe Schoenith
11 U-99 Miss Pepsi (2) Walter Dossin
12 G-3 Miss Kay Jim Webster
13 G-5 Chaz (1) Charles Klein 65 54.438
14 G-12 Etta (1) George Sarant 67
15 G-13 Tempo VI Guy Lombardo 71.05 75.334 70.693
16 G-66 Dee Jay V Daniel Murphy 75.5 78.029
17 F-8 Blitz III Bob Bogie 68.58

 

  Heat One Driver Points Speed
1 Slo-mo-shun IV Ted Jones 400 80.151
2 My Sweetie Bill Cantrell 300 71.78
3 Tempo VI Guy Lombardo 225 68.227
4 Blitz III Bob Bogie 169 57.27
5 Such Crust II Dan Arena DNF
6 Chaz Charles Klein DNF
7 Dee Jay V Norm Lauterbach DNF
8 Such Crust I Danny Foster DNF
  Heat Two Driver Points Speed
1 Slo-mo-shun IV Ted Jones 400 80.897
2 Tempo VI Guy Lombardo 300 72.056
3 My Sweetie Lou Fageol DNF
4 Dee Jay V Norm Lauterbach DNF
  Heat Three Driver Points Speed
1 Slo-mo-shun IV Ted Jones 400 73.602
2 Tempo VI Guy Lombardo 300 71.391
3 Chaz Charles Klein DNF

 

  Recapitulation Heat 1 Heat 2 Cum. Heat 3 Bonus Total
1 Slo-mo-shun IV 400 400 800 400 800 2000
2 Tempo VI 225 300 525 300 0 825
3 My Sweetie 300 DNF 300 DNS 0 300
4 Blitz III 169 DNS 169 DNS 0 169
5 Such Crust II DNF DNS 0 DNS 0 0
6 Chaz DNF DNS 0 DNF 0 0
7 Dee Jay V DNF DNS 0 DNS 0 0
8 Such Crust DNF DNS 0 DNS 0 0

 

Lap - My Sweetie 86.261


Slo-mo-shun IV
did not win the Gold Cup in devastating style contrary to legend, but afterward no contending entries were built that were not of the three point prop riding design. Previous to the Slo-mo, Hurricane IV in 1948 and Such Crust II in 1949 were of this design, but were not successful

[Statistics and comment from Greene, V.1]