1955 Presidents Cup

Statistics

September 17-18 3 Mile Course
Potomac River 15 Mile Heats
Washington, D.C. 45 Mile Race

 

  No. Entry Owner Comp. Lap Race
1 U-2 Miss U.S. (1) George Simon 95.915 90.19
2 U-14 Dora My Sweetie Horace Dodge 93.913
3 U-22 Breathless Phil Murphy 82.695
4 U-45 Miss Cadillac Bud Saile 90.15
5 U-54 Gale IV Joe Schoenith 95.238
6 U-55 Gale V (1) Joe Schoenith 98.004 91.613
7 U-60 Miss Thriftway (1) Willard Rhodes 97.649 92.323
8 U-99 Miss Pepsi (2) Roy Dossin 99.539 95.567
9 G-13 Tempo VII Guy Lombardo 103.647 89.414

 

  Heat One A Driver Points Speed
1 Tempo VII Danny Foster 400 100.092
2 Miss Thriftway Bill Muncey 300 95.71
3 Gale V Lee Schoenith 225 93.441
4 Miss Cadillac John Ban 169 85.524
5 Breathless Jay Murphy 127 78.283
  Heat One B Driver Points Speed
1 Miss Pepsi Chuck Thompson 400 95.642
2 Miss U.S. George Simon 300 90.604
3 Dora My Sweetie Don Wilson 225 88.801
4 Gale IV Bill Cantrell DNF
  Heat Two A Driver Points Speed
1 Miss Pepsi Chuck Thompson 400 99.209
2 Gale IV Bill Cantrell 300 92.624
3 Miss U.S. George Simon 225 90.316
4 Dora My Sweetie Don Wilson 169 61.679
5 Breathless Jay Murphy DNF
  Heat Two B Driver Points Speed
1 Gale V Lee Schoenith 400 97.174
2 Miss Thriftway Bill Muncey 300 93.847
3 Miss Cadillac John Ban 225 85.483
4 Tempo VII Danny Foster 169 80.935
  Heat Three Driver Points Speed
1 Miss Pepsi Chuck Thompson DSQ* 94.953
2 Miss U.S. George Simon DSQ* 89.656
3 Tempo VII Danny Foster 400 89.241
4 Miss Thriftway Bill Muncey 300 87.79
5 Gale V Lee Schoenith 225 85.079
6 Miss Cadillac John Ban DNF

*(Disqualifications were for jumping the gun at the start.)

  Recapitulation Heat 1 Heat 2 Cum. Heat 3 Total
1 Tempo VII 400 169 569 400 969
2 Miss Thriftway 300 300 600 300 900
3 Gale V 225 400 625 225 850
4 Miss Pepsi 400 400 800 DSQ 800
5 Miss U.S. 300 225 525 DSQ 525
6 Miss Cadillac 169 225 394 DNF 394
7 Dora My Sweetie 225 169 394 DNS 394
8 Gale IV DNF 300 300 DNS 300
9 Breathless 127 DNF 127 DNS 127

 

[Statistics from Greene, V.1]