At 04:16 PM 6/30/00 -0400, michael l. cook wrote:
>According to the TSOA Newsletter of September, 1963 and my Spitfire book, the
>first Spitfire to win an SCCA National did so at Watkins Glen in August
>'63. It
>was driven by Erwin Lorincz of Philadelphia. I don't seem to have a photo but
>memory says the car was either white or powder blue. No idea of numbers or
>anything like that. I have no records of Lorincz although I did meet him -
>he was
>also an import with a European accent.
Well, apparently Erwin Lorincz won another race in '63 at VIR:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~nick/vir/63-oct/63-oct-res.html
and he was still racing a GP Spitfire in '67:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~nick/vir/67-apr/67-apr-res.html
Hope that helps,
John Lye
rjl6n@Virginia.edu
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