Firsts and Lasts in Motorsports

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Regarding non-championship races-Roger Ward, in his 1.7 liter Kurtis-Offenhauser midget, beat Chuck Daigh, driving a 2.5 liter Maserati 250F Formula 1 car, (and everyone else) in the 1959 Lime Rock open race.

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I didn't realize that 1959 was such a banner year for Ward. He won at Indy, the Lime rock F Libre race and appeared at the USGP all in the same year. Such a shame he didn't have access to a proper Cooper or something similar for Sebring, he would have acquitted himself well. His only other F1 outing wasn't till 1963 at Watkins Glen in a Lotus-BRM. By then he was 42 and the car wasn't that competitive, he qualified 17th and was a DNF.