Europeans vs Americans (F1 vs Indy) in the Monza Oval. It sounds so good, doesn´t it?
This amazing event had everything to be a success but it wasn´t because most of the European drivers did not race and the track proved to be a car wrecker. This race was repeated the following year but, then, this event was not repeated as the European drivers refused to drive in the Monza Oval and it was abandoned - as it is until today.
I mentioned this event in my video Monza F1 Circuit History, Crashes and Onboard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBmogpW2T9U
More info about this:
Soon after the high-speed banked track was completed on the Monza Autodrome in August, 1955, the suggestion was made that an out-and-out track race should he held. The principal idea behind the suggestion was to invite a selection of Indianapolis teams over, as they were the acknowledged experts at high-speed track racing, and it was hoped that European drivers and manufacturers would join in the event. After some preliminary suggestions in 1956 it was felt that time was too short for people to prepare cars, so the race on June 29th, 1957, was planned almost one year ago. Barely one month before the event the European Grand Prix stars got together and refused point-blank to have anything to do with racing on the banked oval, without even taking the trouble to go to Monza and make any experiments specifically for track racing. Added to this, certain famous drivers, and some not-so-famous organisations made deliberate attempts to sabotage the event and undermine the morale of all those connected with it or interested in track racing.
In spite of all these attacks by such well-known people as Chiron, Moss, Schell, Collins and others, the Automobile Club of Italy went ahead with their plans and put on an event that was unique in the history of European motor-racing.
In the past various Indianapolis drivers and cars have visited Europe and made rather amateur-like attempts to join in European motor-racing, but this was the first occasion ever that a complete set of the cream of Indianapolis racers came over en bloc and showed their paces on a European track. Not since 1937 has anyone had the opportunity of witnessing such a demonstration of high-speed motoring, and the lap-record for the track proved to be the highest ever made in the world of racing; sufficient justification in itself for going to Monza to see these racing-men in action.
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