Classic Car Week: Ferraris cruise Pebble Beach Road Race - Monterey County Herald
The Barnyard Ferrari Event: 4-7 p. m. , Barnyard Shopping Village, Carmel. Concorso Italiano: 9 a. m. -5 p. m. , Black Horse Golf Course, Seaside. Concours d’Elegance: 10:30 a. m. -5 p. m. , Pebble Beach Golf Links. PEBBLE BEACH >> Just hours before he was admitted to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, where he died two weeks later in August 2008, Formula One racing legend Phil Hill insisted on taking a nostalgic tour of a race course that held a... The 81-year-old Hill, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, had attended a ceremony at Quail Lodge honoring his friend, fellow driver Dan Gurney, earlier in the day. “He was very with it that day, asking a lot of questions, extremely interested in everything, but toward the afternoon I could tell he was starting to falter,” remembered Alma Hill, his widow. The track Hill wanted to see wasn’t there anymore, but he knew where it had been. The serpentining course had hosted the Pebble Beach Road Race from 1950, when Hill took first place in a Jaguar XK 120, to 1956, when Carroll Shelby’s victory was marred by the crash that killed Ernie McAfee. Alma Hill waved the green flag Friday for a half-dozen historic, bright-red Ferraris that navigated three laps around a circuit that simulated the old course — a re-enactment of the Pebble Beach Road Races — and admitted afterward that her. Source: www.montereyherald.com
