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January 07, 2011 at
06:13:32 PM by Racing From The Past
Taken from Midwest Racing Archives:
In 1958 Omaha sports car enthusiast Loyal Katskee entered his 4.4 liter 1957 Ferrari Monza in several IMCA Internationals. The first of these events was the Kansas International held on July 6, 1958 before a crowd of 6,500 fans at the Kansas Free Fairgrounds in Topeka. In that event, Katskee recorded a time trial lap of 30.25 seconds, third to fast qualifier Bob Burdick, also of Omaha in his dad Roy’s Ford, and Don White of Keokuk, Iowa also in a Ford.
At the end of the day, Bob Burdick came out on top in the grueling 200 lap feature in a time of 1 hour 51 minutes 3.06 seconds and picked up the $500 first prize. White would hang on for second. But the surprise of the afternoon was that Katskee backed up his fine third place qualifying effort with a third place finish in the Feature.
Read the rest of the Ferrari Monza story at http://midwestracingarchives.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html
Warren Vincent
Cans 4 Kansas Heroes
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