Sports Illustrated Covers

Great mag covers.

I only remember the swimsuit edition covers over the decades :(

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Probably because when SI actually covered racing and put cars on the cover, you were totally engrossed in avoiding cooties? :p

Love the images, particularly Jim Kimberly's Air Force pilots helmet, weight lifting belt and red coveralls which likely were dipped in borax. Safety is relative. It's amazing to see the magazine went through at least six masthead re-designs in just a decade! Also interesting that the Daytona photo shows the cars going around the banking clockwise... :confused:

Love the images, particularly Jim Kimberly's Air Force pilots helmet, weight lifting belt and red coveralls which likely were dipped in borax. Safety is relative. It's amazing to see the magazine went through at least six masthead re-designs in just a decade! Also interesting that the Daytona photo shows the cars going around the banking clockwise

Isn't that jsut a pic taken from high vantage point and the pit wall behind ?

So when was the last time motorsport featured on cover page of SI ?
Even earlier than cooties, Russ, I was in nappies for some of those :) :)

That's just it... the track runs counter-clockwise. The photo shows them on the high banks running opposite track direction.
As far as I know the 24 hour race has always run counter clockwise. The pits are infield.

And yes, I was in nappies for those '50s covers too.

Some great Poster stuff right there!

ahh back when people actually cared about real racing

Found it... they DID race clockwise for the 6 hour International Sportscar Championship. Here's the results... the Ferrari on the SI cover is probably the Gonzales/Hudson car, followed by the Casner/Lilly TR and one of the Porsches. An interesting lineup of machinery to say the least. Even a few of the NASCAR drivers in the group.

Round 2
Daytona 6 Hours
Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Florida
5 April 1959

Distance: Six hours, 147 laps of 3.81-mile road circuit for 560.07 miles; originally scheduled for 1,000 kilometers but shortened to six hours

Results
1st Robert Mieres & Antonio von Dory
No. 86 Porsche RSK
147 laps, 93.345 mph

2nd Bob Said & Art Bunker
Porsche RSK
146 laps

3rd Paul O’Shea & Augie Pabst
Jaguar D Type
146 laps

4th Loyal Katskee
Ferrari 121 LM (4.4-litre)
(Chassis 0532LM)
142 laps

5th Fireball Roberts & Ralph Moody & Dick Rathmann & Chuck Daigh
Ford Thunderbird
138 laps

6th Santiago Gonzales & Skip Hudson
Ferrari Berlinetta
138 laps

7th Lucky Casner & Lee Lilly
Ferrari Testa Rosa 250 TR
137 laps

8th Jim Kaperonis & Marshall Sargeant
Astari Special
127 laps

9th Remo Cattini
Team Roosevelt Fiat Abarth
121 laps

10th Al Thiele
Team Roosevelt Fiat Abarth
120 laps

11th Alonzo Cussini
Team Roosevelt Fiat Abarth
119 laps

12th Alfonso Gomez-Mena & Raimoro Montalvo
Ferrari 250 GT
(Chassis 1035GT)
116 laps

13th Lloyd Ruby & Bill Krause
E.B. Rose Maserati 450S
110 laps

14th Phil Stiles & Don Findley
Austin Healey Sprite
110 laps

15th Fred Pfisterer
Lotus
98 laps

16th Carroll Shelby
No. 46 Micro Lube Special Maserati – Corvette
98 laps, retired

17th Fred Windridge & Bob Holbert
Kelso Autodynamics Lister – Corvette
96 laps, retired

18th A.J. Foyt
No. 212 Lister – Corvette
93 laps, retired

19th Ray Saidel & Paul Mansen
Jomar
88 laps

20th William Love & Len Sutton
AC Bristol
86 laps, retired

21st Ralph Moody & Jim Rathmann
Ford Thunderbird
40 laps, retired

22nd Ricardo Rodriguez
No. 38 Rees Makin OSCA
30 laps, retired

23rd Sherman Utsman & Jerry Unser
Williams Buick Special
22 laps, retired

24th Bill Krause
Jaguar D Type
13 laps, retired

25th Jim Rathmann & Chuck Daigh
No. 68 John Edgar Maserati 450S – Pontiac
(chassis 4506)
11 laps, retired

26th Chuck Daigh
No. 88 John Edgar Ferrari 410 S
(chassis 0598CM)
7 laps, retired

27th Paul Goldsmith
Kurtis – Corvette
7 laps, retired

28th George Constantine
No. 49 Elisha Walker Aston Martin DBR2
(chassis DBR2/1 [Lagonda DP166/1])
1 lap, retired

Notes:
Race run clockwise on the circuit rather than the usual counter-clockwise direction of the course.

Wow, automobile racing is a sport? ;)

[quote=NSXType-R;961775]Wow, automobile racing is a sport? ;)[/quote]
This amazes me too. I'm only used to see Soccer/Football in the sports magazines. ;)

Pretty impressive stuff from a mainstream sports magazine. Even if it was over 50 years ago.