1951 Imperial Gold Cup
Ohio River, New Martinsville, West Virginia, September 30, 1951


Statistics

September 30

2½ Mile Course

Ohio River

10 Mile Heats

New Martinsville, W.Va.

20 Mile Race

 

No.

Entry

Owner

Race

1.

U-3

My Sweetie (2)

Horace Dodge

71.556

2.

U-50

Gale I

Joe Schoenith

—

3.

U-99

Miss Pepsi (2)

Walter Dossin

—

4.

G-31

Hornet

Horace Dodge

—

5.

H-8

Nuts & Bolts

Bill Stroh

—

6.

F-37

Pee Bee II

W.F. Prim

—

7.

F-77

Barracuda

Lou Butler

—

8.

A-140

Rivets

Delbert Kreger

—

 

Heat One

Driver

Points

Speed

1.

My Sweetie

Bill Cantrell

400

76.922

2.

Gale I

Al D’Eath

DNF

—

3.

Hornet

Danny Foster

DNF

—

 

Heat Two

Driver

Points

Speed

1.

My Sweetie

Bill Cantrell

400

66.890

2.

Barracuda

Gib Bradfield

300

—

3.

Rivets

Delbert Kreger

225

—

4.

Nuts & Bolts

Bill Stroh

169

—

5.

Pee Bee II

W.F. Prim

DNF

—

 

Recapitulation

Heat 1

Heat 2

Total

1.

My Sweetie

400

400

800

2.

Barracuda

DNS

300

300

3.

Rivets

DNS

225

225

4.

Nuts & Bolts

DNS

169

169

5.

Gale I

DNF

DNS

000

6.

Hornet

DNF

DNS

000

7.

Pee Bee II

DNS

DNF

000

For the second straight year the Miss Pepsi entry failed to complete a heat. This year the Dossin entry burned out a gear bearing warming up for the race and did not start. In 1950 the Pepsi missed another golden opportunity to win by flipping in the first turn of the initial heat. Two years ago the original Miss Pepsi was dropped by a crane while being lifted into the water which prevented her from starting the final heat.

After both Gale I and Hornet fouled out in the first heat a number of limited hydroplanes were invited to give My Sweetie competition in heat two.

[Statistics and comments from Greene, V.1]


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