1951 Season Summary

Statistics

	Date	Event	Location
1.	June 2	Steel Cup	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2.	June 30	Maple Leaf Trophy	Windsor, Ontario
	July 7-8	Detroit Memorial [1st running - cancelled]	Detroit Michigan
3.	August 4	Cambridge Gold Cup	Cambridge, Maryland
4.	August 4	A.P.B.A. Gold Cup	Seattle, Washington
5.	August 5	Calvert Trophy	Louisville, Kentucky
6.	August 12	Seafair Trophy	Seattle, Washington
7.	August 12	National Sweepstakes	Red Bank, New Jersey
8.	August 12	Red Bank Gold Cup	Red Bank, New Jersey
9.	August 12	Lake Tahoe Championship	Tahoe City, California
	August 18-19	??	Buffalo, New York
10.	September 1	Detroit Memorial [2nd running]	Detroit, Michigan
11.	September 3	O.J. Mulford Silver Cup	Detroit, Michigan
11A.	September 9	Harwood Trophy Race	New York City
12.	September 23	President's Cup	Washington, D.C.
13.	September 23	American Speedboat Championship	Washington, D.C.
14.	September 30	Imperial Gold Cup	New Martinsville, West Virginia
15.	October 14	Indiana Governor's Cup	Madison, Indiana

	Date	Winner	Driver
1.	June 2	Miss Pepsi (2)	Chuck Thompson
2.	June 30	Miss Pepsi (2)	Chuck Thompson
3.	August 4	Betty V	Vince Swing
4.	August 4	Slo-Mo-Shun V	Lou Fageol
5.	August 5	You All	Bob Rowland
6.	August 11	Slo-Mo-Shun V	Ted Jones
7.	August 12	Tempo VI	Guy Lombardo
8.	August 12	You All	Bob Rowland
9.	August 12	Fleur Du Lac	Max Collins
10.	September 1	Miss Pepsi (2)	Chuck Thompson
11.	September 3	Miss Pepsi (2)	Chuck Thompson
11A.	September 9	Davy Jones	Jack Kraemer
12.	September 23	Miss Pepsi (2)	Chuck Thompson
13.	September 23	Gale II	Lee Schoenith
14.	September 30	My Sweetie (2)	Bill Cantrell
15.	October 14	Hornet	Marion Cooper

Driver High Points

1.

Chuck Thompson

666

2.

Lee Schoenith

537

3.

Lou Fageol

520

4.

Ted Jones

410

5.

Bill Cantrell

384

6.

Danny Foster

258

7.

Walt Kade

219

8.

Morlan Visel

150

9.

Stan Dollar

120

10.

Orth Mathiot

120

11.

Roy Duby

120

12.

Horace Dodge

90

13.

Al D'Eath

66

14.

Guy Lombardo

60

15.

George Davis

35

16.

Lyle Ritchie

30

17.

Joe Van Blerck

20

18.

Andy Marcy

000

19.

Max Collins

000

20.

Bob Dawson

000

21.

Roland Flanagan

000

Built

Boat High Points

Team Points

1.

1950

Miss Pepsi (2)

1035

2.

1951

Gale II

954

3.

1951

Hornet (3)

795

Why Worry (4)

(15-00)

4.

1951

Slo-Mo-Shun V

600

5.

1950

Slo-Mo-Shun IV

450

6.

1949

Delphine X

438

7.

1948

Hurricane IV

360

(8)

8.

1948

My Sweetie (1)

240

(7-390)

9.

1948

Such Crust

201

10.

1951

Quicksilver

180

11.

1951

My Sweetie (2)

150

12.

1949

Gold'n Crust

135

(11)

13.

1940

Gale I

112

(12)

14.

1938

Tempo VI

80

(13)

15.

1939

It's A Wonder

35

(14)

16.

1951

Guided Missile

000

17.

1950

Dee Jay V

000

18.

1948

Fleur Du Lac

000

19.

1950

My Darling

000

20.

1951

Chesapeake Cat

000

21.

1938

Fury

000

Former Names

12.

Such Crust II

13.

Notre Dame (3), Miss Frostie

14.

My Sin

15.

Hermes IV

21.

Miss Golden Gate (2), U-1

[Statistics from Greene, V.1, except for Harwood Trophy]

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