I was looking at the photos of Donner Summit posted by RE on May 12 (I'm a little behind on the Hog). It reminded me of an event I worked on there in August 1967. In that time frame, I was working on the timing crew at Northern California sports car races, both amateur and professional. There was a hill climb up about the last 2 1/2 miles of the Donner Pass highway. They blocked off the highway and sent cars up individually, using automated timing to see who was fastest. I worked as a flagman at the event, sitting on a large rock above the highway with my flags in case there was a problem on the course. The cars returned to the starting line using I-80. I'm sure a lot of drivers on I-80 were surprised to see racing cars (especially the open wheel type) on the highway. It was a great way to spend a nice summer day.

Here are some photos, most from my flag station. Note that there are chicanes made with hay bales to keep the speeds down somewhat. The photos aren't very good quality, but I think many of you will find them interesting. I took them as color slides with a fixed lens rangefinder Minolta and scanned them as JPEGs with no post processing. I'll have to dig them out, re-scan at higher quality and then post process them at some point when my life slows down some. Comments are welcome.

I was looking at the photos of Donner Summit posted by RE on May 12 (I'm a little behind on the Hog). It reminded me of an event I worked on there in August 1967. In that time frame, I was working on the timing crew at Northern California sports car races, both amateur and professional. There was a hill climb up about the last 2 1/2 miles of the Donner Pass highway. They blocked off the highway and sent cars up individually, using automated timing to see who was fastest. I worked as a flagman at the event, sitting on a large rock above the highway with my flags in case there was a problem on the course. The cars returned to the starting line using I-80. I'm sure a lot of drivers on I-80 were surprised to see racing cars (especially the open wheel type) on the highway. It was a great way to spend a nice summer day.

Here are some photos, most from my flag station. Note that there are chicanes made with hay bales to keep the speeds down somewhat. The photos aren't very good quality, but I think many of you will find them interesting. I took them as color slides with a fixed lens rangefinder Minolta and scanned them as JPEGs with no post processing. I'll have to dig them out, re-scan at higher quality and then post process them at some point when my life slows down some. Comments are welcome.