1956 Ferrari Mondial Bob Goldich 1st Place Car Racing Trophy Award Cup Race
This is a prestigious original trophy awarded to, Bob Goldich, the winner of the M. Race ran on July 4th 1956, Bob Goldich drove a 1956 Ferrari Mondial to first place. Bob Goldich wasa well known driver isThe trophy is a symbol of excellence in car racing and is highly sought after by collectors. It was made in the United States and is a rare item in the category of Other Automobilia, Automobilia, Transportation, and Collectibles.
The trophy is a perfect addition to any car racing enthusiast's collection and a great conversation starter. Tropht is very heavy and 9 inches tall, base is 4in by 3in.
Below is the Bob Goldich's driving history. The below information shows the race that Bob won this trophy, in 1956, at the Milwaukee event. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World Sports Car Championship. 12-Hour Florida International Grand Prix of Endurance for The Amoco Trophy. The accident that claimed the life of Bob Goldich, 33-year-old Chicago race driver, occurred on Saturday, 23 March 1957, during the 12 Hours of Sebring, second round of the 1957 Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World Sportscar Championship. This was the first fatality at the Florida endurance race since its first edition, held in 1952. He had his accident either on the out lap or one lap later.Goldich's car went off the track at the Esses, hit an oil drum and flipped several times. Goldich was crushed by it on the ground. Gravely injured he was picked up by an ambulance and taken to a hospital in Sebring, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, victim of a broken neck and skull fracture. His co-driver and team boss Stanley H.
Never drove the car in the race. It is believed that Bob Goldich's death might have prevented by a roll bar that at the time was not required by the FIA, although SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) had made roll bars mandatory beginning on 01 January 1957. Different sources erroneously indicated that Bob Goldich's car sported the race number 37, instead of 39 on its doors. Photographs from newspaper articles about the accident clearly show the car to be number 39.The other two Arnolt entries used 37 and 38. It is possible that the drivers switched cars before the event. A fourth Arnolt-Bristol in the race, entered by Jim Cook, carried the number 71.
Shortly after the accident, Arnolt withdrew the other two works entries from the race as a mark of respect. The fourth Arnolt Bristol of Jim Cook who shared the car with Ralph Durbin and Leonard Karber, continued to the end of the event finishing 5th in class, 30th place overall.
A well known Chicago industrialist, Arnolt began importing foreign cars to the United States in the early 1950s. His company, located in Warsaw, Indiana, manufactured the front-engined Arnolt Bolide, a special lightweight sportscar, fitted with a 1971 cm.
Six-cylinder engine built by Britain's Bristol. Arnolt first entered a team of three cars in the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1955. As a talented amateur racer, he shared one of them with his friend Bob Goldich. At their first attempt, the Arnolt-Bristols were 1st, 2nd and 4th in class, Goldich-Arnolt finishing in second position, 25th place overall, behind team mates John Panks-Ernie Erickson, 18th.The third Arnolt-Bristol driven by French veteran René Dreyfus. And Robert Grier was classified 29th. The following year Goldich-Arnolt did not finish the race, while the Arnolt-Bristol cars finished 2nd in class with Bob Ballenger-Phil Stewart and 3rd with Jim Peterson-Ted Boynton. A talented racer, Bob Goldich started his career as a midget driver in the late 1940s, before moving to sportscar racing.
He competed at the wheel of European cars, such as Austin-Healey, Jaguar, Simca and Frazer Nash. In 1954 he drove Brooks Stevens' Excalibur J sportscar, then he joined the Arnolt-Bristol team, soon becoming its leading driver and team captain. The Arnolt and Goldich families became close friends on a social level as well as on the race tracks. Arnolt became much less involved in racing after the death of his #1 driver.
Driving a privately-entered Ferrari 500 Mondial, in 1956 Goldich scored his first overall win at Milwaukee, and later in the same year he finished fourth in the Ferrari Race during the International Bahamas Speed Week, at Nassau. Bob Goldich was survived by his parents, David E.