An essential part of the early sports car scene was the race photographer. He was the guy with three cameras strapped around his neck – probably Leicas, Hasselblads or Nikons. He knelt by the side of the track as the cars whizzed by at 140 miles an hour only a couple of feet away. He chronicled the races at venues from Watkins Glen to Bridgehampton to Elkhart Lake, Put-in-Bay and Brynfan Tyddyn. His work went into magazines like Speed Age,…
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