Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Larry T and Sarti...

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

Stardust - 1968.  Was there too Stephen - Bubba got us photo passes.   I 
had, for years the front of Bruce Mclarens car, well, the right fender..  I 
got that from his crew after they changed the front end.  Caused when the 
green flag dropped and 5 cars went through turn 1 where two could go.  Off 
goes Bruce, and the Ferrari and the Honker Ford with Andretti I think. 
Bubba and I protected the PROVA license plate from the Ferrari.  Re Mr. 
Hall - Lother Motschbacher's left rear hub broke going around turn one and 
he went from full on to nearly stop - Jim was right behind him - by about 50 
yards into this blind right turn - BLAM - up in the air.  I had my back to 
the cars crash, shooting pictures down the front straight, but when he 
landed, it sounded like a huge hard boiled egg - a very big soft blumph.  I 
turned to see what happened and saw lots and lots of dust and water - water? 
NO fuel.  The car had broken in half, Halls legs, just below the knees, were 
at right angles.  There was about a 1/4 inch of fuel on the desert floor, 
very ungreenly seeping into the environ.  I backed out of area as meds were 
there almost before Jim hit the turf.  Nearly saved his body panel with 66 
on it - well, the top 2/3s.  THE last Stardust race.  Boy, did it get cold 
as soon as the sun set.
DOUG
That McLaren fender was the thickness of a credit card - made of three 
layers - a ultra thin under coat painted black - air - held apart by ultra 
thin strips of 1/2" wide foam, and the top layer solid orange.  That half 
fender weighed nuthing.  I could even lift it.