Happy United States Grand Prix Day from Dave's Car ID Service! Every year eleven Formula 1 racing teams, and a couple hundred thousand of their fans from around the world, drop by for a visit to the Circuit of the Americas right here in little ol' Austin Texas. It's quite the spectacle, even if the cars and the racing action have tamed down considerably since the glory days of insanely loud and high winding V8s and V10s. Grumble grumble. Apologies for shaking my fist at the sky there. Still, it's pretty cool to have such a bigtime glamorpuss racing event just across town, and I'm happy to have attended several times. I also attended the US Grand Prix a couple times at its previous location, the Indy Motor Speedway, when I lived in Chicago. Back when them cars sounded like a 125 dB 20,000 RPM swarm of angry bees. There I go nostalging again! But I guess that's kinda what Dave's Car ID Service is about. And in that spirit, today I'm featuring a few photos from the very first United States Grand Prix - December 12, 1959 at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring Florida. These photos are via the Revs Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to preserving automotive history, and are from the Tom Burnside and Jerry McDermott Photograph Collections. Give Revs institute a follow on Instagram, and consider them for your annual tax exempt giving. Anyway, to the victor goes the spoils! In the case of the inagural 1959 US Grand Prix, the victor was the legendary Kiwi Bruce McLaren. It was his first F1 win and, at age 22 years 3 months, he became the youngest driver ever to win an F1 race. That record would stand for more than 40 years. In #1 he's in the pits wearing laurels with his trophy and his victorious Cooper-Climax T51. In #2, with the trophy girl and her wary chaperone. Note the laurels include some Florida citrus.