1954 APBA Gold Cup

Statistics

by W. Melvin Crook

07-Aug 3¾ Mile Course
Lake Washington 30 Mile Heats
Seattle, Washington 90 Mile Race

 

  No. Entry Owner Comp. Lap Qual. Race
1 U-2 Miss U.S. George Simon 96.947 90.075
2 U-14 Dora My Sweetie Horace Dodge 98.829
3 U-17 John Francis My Sweetie Horace Dodge
4 U-22 Breathless Phil Murphy 96.102
5 U-23 Wha Hoppen Too Chuck Doran 87.738
6 U-27 Slo-mo-shun IV Stan Sayres 103.106
7 U-37 Slo-mo-shun V Stan Sayres 104.773 111.632 99.101
8 U-45 Miss Cadillac Bud Saile 88.429
9 U-54 Gale IV Joe Schoenith 103.74
10 U-55 Gale V Joe Schoenith 99.901 93.053
11 G-2 Hurricane IV Bill Stead 84.9

 

  Heat One Driver Points Speed
1 Slo-mo-shun V Lou Fageol 400 98.08
2 Miss U.S. George Simon 300 88.767
3 Gale V Lee Schoenith *225 83.964
4 Miss Cadillac Bud Saile 169 81.899
5 Slo-mo-shun IV Joe Taggart *DNF
6 Gale IV Bill Cantrell DNF
7 Wha Hoppen Too Marv Henrich DNF
8 Dora My Sweetie Jack Bartlow DNF
  Heat Two Driver Points Speed
1 Slo-mo-shun V Lou Fageol 400 99.459
2 Miss U.S. George Simon 300 98.804
3 Slo-mo-shun IV Joe Taggart 225 98.711
4 Gale V Lee Schoenith 169 97.31
5 Miss Cadillac Bud Saile DNF
6 Breathless Jay Murphy DNF
7 Wha Hoppen Too Marv Henrich DNF
  Heat Three Driver Points Speed
1 Slo-mo-shun V Lou Fageol 400 99.784
2 Gale V Lee Schoenith 300 99.452
3 Slo-mo-shun IV Joe Taggart 225 97.755
4 Miss U.S. George Simon 169 83.857
5 Wha Hoppen Too Marv Henrich DSQ

 

  Recapitulation Heat 1 Heat 2 Cum. Heat 3 Bonus Total
1 Slo-mo-shun V 400 400 800 400 800 2000
2 Miss U.S. 300 300 600 169 0 769
3 Gale V 225 169 394 300 0 694
4 Slo-mo-shun IV DNF 225 225 225 0 450
5 Miss Cadillac 169 DNF 169 DNS 0 169
6 Wha Hoppen Too DNF DNF 0 DSQ 0 0
7 Gale IV DNF DNS 0 DNS 0 0
8 Breathless DNS DNF 0 DNS 0 0
9 Dora My Sweetie DNF DNS 0 DNS 0 0

 

(Both Slo-mo-shun IV and Gale V jumped the gun in heat one. If Gale V had not been required to run an extra lap her speed would be 94.456.)

[Statistics and comment from Greene, V.1]